September in Africa: Alibaba saves wildlife and Google Partners comes to Nigeria

2018-10-2 15:55

Pan-African ecommerce giant Jumia may be about to launch an initial public offering (IPO), if reports are to be believed, valuing the company at around $1 billion USD. According to Reuters, Jumia, which already claims to be Africa’s first “unicorn” based on how much investment it has received, is considering a possible New York listing early next year.

It’s all very exciting, but for now let’s get back to news that has actually happened. Like the fact that Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of China’s Alibaba Group, has partnered the Kenyan ministries of tourism and wildlife to deploy its…

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Alibaba’s Jack Ma: Blockchain will be useless if it doesn’t help the environment

Alibaba chief Jack Ma thinks blockchain tech is pretty meaningless – unless it helps us transform the manufacturing industry and protect the environment. In a keynote at World Artificial Intelligence Conference in China, the star entrepreneur shared his beliefs that budding technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) have yet to prove their utility to the world, local outlet cnBeta reports.

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