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Kenya’s Ajua acquires WayaWaya to consolidate consumer experience play in African SMEs (TechCrunch)

Tage Kene-Okafor Kenyan consumer experience platform for businesses in Africa, Ajua today announced that it has acquired WayaWaya, a Kenya-based AI and ML messaging and payments company. https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/28/kenyas-ajua-acquires-wayawaya-to-consolidate-consumer-experience-play-in-africa-smes/

Arc opens its remote career platform to all software developers (TechCrunch)

Catherine Shu The COVID-19 pandemic threw remote work into the spotlight, but tech companies have hired in other locations for years to deal with talent...

Look out Amazon Go — A Lisbon startup plans to offer autonomous stores to other retailers (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher Look out Amazon Go. A Lisbon startup plans to offer the same autonomous store technology to other retailers. Lisbon-based Sensei, a computer vision startup...

Endeit Capital plans to boost European B-stage startups with its new €250M growth fund (TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher Dutch-German growth capital firm Endeit Capital has raised a 250 million euro fund to invest in B+ stage European startups. This is its...

Indian food delivery startup Zomato files for $1.1 billion IPO (TechCrunch)

Manish Singh Indian food delivery startup Zomato on Wednesday filed for an initial public offering, ushering a new era for tech unicorn startups in the...

Europe – Do citizens care about Europe? More than they used to (Bruegel)

 ENRICO BERGAMINI, EMMANUEL MOURLON-DRUOL, FRANCESCO PAPADIA AND GIUSEPPE PORCARO The level of interest of European citizens in the European Union is increasing, but still lags behind EU economic and...

Vaccine diplomacy: soft power lessons from China and Russia? (Bruegel)

 MICHAEL LEIGH The rocky start to the European Union’s vaccination rollout has allowed Moscow and Beijing to score political points in the Balkans and Central...

USA/Afghanistan – Biden Must Protect Women’s Rights After Afghanistan Withdrawal, Say Lawmakers (Defense One)

Jacqueline Feldscher U.S. envoy says diplomats can handle the issue. https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2021/04/biden-must-protect-womens-rights-after-afghanistan-withdrawal/173657/

No ICBMs? Big Problems (Defense One)

Matthew R. Costlow We must dispel the unfounded fears of false alarms, place the cost in context, and seriously consider the unpleasant consequences of eliminating...

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