Badili, a Kenya-based smartphone re-commerce startup, has raised $2.1 million pre-seed funding to scale its operations within Africa; one of the fastest-growing mobile phone market in the world. The Venture Catalysts, V&R Africa, Grenfell holdings, and SOSV, participated in the round, as did family offices and angel investors from Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and India….
Monthly Archives: December 2022
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried talked from an undisclosed location in the Bahamas today with reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin for a DealBook event, a discussion that his legal team “very much” did not approve of, he told Sorkin with a boyish grin. Having caught the live-streamed interview, what we’re still wondering is whether he’s credible. Throughout…
Major spoilers follow for Willow’s Disney Plus series. Willow actor Ellie Bamber has spoken of the “pressure” of being cast as a vitally important character with a big secret in the Disney Plus fantasy series. Bamber – who starts the series playing Dove the kitchen maid – is eventually unmasked by Willow (Warwick Davis) as…
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on November 5, 2022. Win McNamee/Getty Images Former RNC chairman Michael Steele says GOP leadership can’t move on so easily from Trump. He said the GOP would much rather focus on the “bright, shiny” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Trump left a deep stain on…
YouTube has revealed its top videos and creators of 2022. At the top of the US trending video list is the final video from Technoblade, a Minecraft creator who died after a battle with cancer. Technoblade wrote a farewell message to fans that his father read in the video, which has more than 87.6 million views….
Introduction The Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S2, Px8, and Px8 007 Edition draw upon generations of studio expertise to deliver music to your ears, precisely as the artists intended. The ability to hear and experience music as the recording artist and sound engineers truly intended is at the heart of Bowers & Wilkins’ approach to…
Is Spotify Wrapped 2022 not showing up or working for you? Spotify Wrapped allows you to see a list of your most-listened songs. It’s where you can get a deep dive into your most memorable listening moments of the year. It showcases your top artists, songs, genres, and minutes listened to. You can share a…
Rare protests broke out in China last weekend as citizens hit back against Chinas strict Covid-zero measures. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Vice Premier Sun Chunlan said China’s pandemic is at a “new stage” that comes with new tasks. Sun’s words carry weight as she’s the face of China’s hardline Covid-zero approach. Hong Kong and Chinese stocks…
LastPass CEO Karim Toubba has revealed that the password manager has been breached again. Toubba said the company detected an unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service that it shares with its parent company GoTo, which was formerly known as LogMeIn. To investigate the incident, LastPass has teamed up with security firm Mandiant. Together,…
Huel, the European provider of nutritional products, has sold more than 270 million meals across the globe since Julian Hearn started the company in 2015. Now with $24 million in fresh capital, it plans to do even more. It’s been a while since we covered Huel, which originally launched in the United Kingdom in 2017…