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Jumia withdraws from South Africa and Tunisia to concentrate on markets with higher growth potential
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Jumia withdraws from South Africa and Tunisia to concentrate on markets with higher growth potential
Jumia Technologies AG, a prominent African eCommerce platform, has made a strategic decision to discontinue its operations in South Africa and Tunisia as part of a company-wide resource optimization initiative. The planned shutdown by the end of 2024 is aimed at redirecting the company’s focus towards regions with higher growth…
Google has forged a pivotal partnership with Kairos Power, embarking on a venture to harness nuclear energy for its AI data centers. The company is charting a course to energize its AI operations with compact nuclear reactors, with the inaugural reactor anticipated to become operational within the current decade, followed…
The Reunert Group in South Africa has successfully consolidated its subsidiaries, IQbusiness and +OneX, to form a new entity known as iqbusiness. This newly merged entity positions itself as a “digital integrator” in the business and technology services sector, boasting a Level 1 B-BBEE certification. This merger is a strategic…
Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform MaxAB has recently made a significant announcement regarding its leadership team. Mohamed Ben Halim, who co-founded the company and has been serving as the Chief Operating Officer (COO), is set to depart from MaxAB to pursue new ventures. This news arrives on the heels of MaxAB’s…
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