Monad Labs raises $19M to grow its smart contract platform and improve the Ethereum space

Monad Labs, the team supporting the Monad blockchain, has raised $19 million in seed funding led by Dragonfly Capital, it exclusively told TechCrunch. “Monad is an effort to fundamentally... Read more »

Microsoft ditches Yammer brand and goes all-in on Viva Engage

Microsoft has confirmed that it’s finally killing off Yammer, the enterprise social network it procured more than a decade ago for $1.2 billion. Yammer was initially created out of... Read more »

Vidar, nJRAT re-emerge as prominent malware threats in January

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Tiger Global and Ribbit invest another $100 million in PhonePe

PhonePe said it has raised another $100 million as part of an ongoing round, a deliberation that has so far pulled $450 million despite the market slump, as the... Read more »

UK authorities clamp down on illegal crypto ATMs

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Nigeria’s Curacel raises funding to power insurance offerings and expand into North Africa

As many as 2.8% of Africans are insured, which is less than half the global average of 6.3%, making it the least insured continent in the world. Despite the... Read more »

Kenya’s fintech Power set to scale after $3M seed round

After working in Africa’s microfinance space for seven years, including at Botswana’s Letshego, Brian Dempsey took a break in 2020 to build Power Financial Wellness, operating out of Kenya.... Read more »

Crypto makes you more attractive, according to a new Binance survey

In true Valentine’s Day fashion, we’re diving into the theme of love…and crypto? According to a new study by Binance, the world’s largest blockchain by trading volume, crypto could... Read more »

OSC&R framework to stop supply chain attacks in the wild

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Africa’s smartphone market shrunk by 18% last year

Africa’s smartphone market shrunk by 18% in 2022 compared to the previous year, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC). The slump was driven by a reduction in consumer... Read more »
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