Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Adjust has recently announced that it has raised $227 million in latest funding. The company, founded in German, Berlin back in 2012, has created a variety of ad measurement and anti-fraud tools — CEO Christian Henschel said the goal is to “make marketing simpler, smarter and safer.” Adjust says it’s now being used…

This is some really good news for East African startups who ow have a new source for investment and mentorship. Sweden’s Norrsken Foundation—a coworking space and investment fund based in Stockholm—opened its tech fund and entrepreneurship hub in Rwanda today to support ventures across the region. Norrsken’s Kigali center is located…

Volkswagen And Silicon Valley Startup Aurora End Self-Driving Tech Alliance

TODAY Melbourne, the Australian city won a global competition to host the first international base for Uber flying cars. And Uber’s architecture and engineering partners have unveiled some really breathtaking skyport designs. To be clear, Skyports are the areas where people will be able to board and disembark from Uber Air…

Uber really has huge dreams for Uber Air, the flying taxi service it’s wanting to launch in 2023.  Speaking at the third annual Uber Elevate, head of Elevate Eric Allison said the company expects Uber Air to be cheaper than driving a car. It surely won’t be that way on…

In order to make Uber air a reality, Uber needs vehicle partners to actually develop these electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles. Yesterday at flying taxi conference Uber Elevate, Uber unveiled its newest partner, Jaunt Air Mobility. “Jaunt Air Mobility has assembled a highly talented team of experienced engineers with…

While demand for electric vehicles (EVs) continues to soar, investment in companies mining for the so-called battery metals is lagging far behind, which may trigger an upcoming global shortage of those minerals, hence Tesla might be forced to get into the business of mining minerals used in electric vehicle batteries if it…

The company unveils a cabin reference design for its planned ‘Uber Air’ service

Flying cars will zoom around Melbourne from next year. When Uber first announced Uber Air, it intended for Dubai to be its first international city. That changed last year when Uber put out an open call to interested cities to describe the clear need for aerial transit, the environmental conditions of the…

Company comes clean after a hacker put its data up for sale on the dark web in April.

Dropbox is evolving from a file storage system to an enterprise software portal where you can coordinate work with your team. Today the company launches a new version of Dropbox that allows you to launch apps with shortcuts fo G Suite and more plus use built-in Slack message-sending and Zoom video calls.…

Web blog hosting platform WordPress.com is currently facing a significant technical issue that has resulted in premium blogs going down under 503 error messages, or reverting back to using default themes. Impacted sites include major news outlets like BBC America, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Rolling Stone, DroneDJ, and Electrek; but…

TechCircle, a platform that organises meetups for tech startups in Nigeria, has, in partnership with FreakOut Holdings, a Japanese marketing technology company, announced a list of 10 startups to compete for N1 million in equity-free funding at the final of the Pitch2Win competition. The competition is a flagship event of…

Xbox recently showcased a blockbuster lineup of 60 anticipated games for both console and PC in its Xbox E3 Briefing and shared a glimpse of the future with Project Scarlett, which launches alongside Halo Infinite in 2020. Headlined by the biggest game of 2019, Gears 5, along with over 30 games premiering with…

Out of stealth, a new concept in last-mile delivery brings more than autonomous vehicles to the table.

Following November’s closure of Amazon’s restaurant delivery business in London, the company is now shutting down operations in the U.S. Unknowingly, Amazon Restaurants’ closure in London might have just been the beginning of the service’s complete shutdown. The service, which was launched back in fall 2015, was designed to give Prime members another perk — a…

Opera launches Opera GX, world’s first gaming browser. Opera GX released in early access; currently only available for Windows users. With over a billion PC gamers on the planet, it’s about time someone launched a gaming-friendly browser — and that’s exactly what Opera has done. The previously hinted at Opera GX goes into early access…

According to a media report, Google Maps is testing a new feature that would send users an alert if their taxi strays 500 meters off route. Google Maps is one of the most used transport applications around the globe. To keep its large mass of users, the Mountain View company…

Ubisoft announced it is launching a subscription gaming service on September 3 called Uplay+, hence, making this French video game giant with 16,000 employees the latest to try a game subscription service. Ubisoft can’t resist the temptation to join the game subscription bandwagon. The publisher is launching a Uplay+ service on PC that will…

On the heels of Google buying analytics startup Looker last week for $2.6 billion, Salesforce REC announced a huge piece of news in a bid to step up its own work in data visualization and (more generally) tools to help enterprises make sense of the sea of data that they use and amass:…