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(Innovation/Technology) Afriex raises $1.2M seed to scale its payments and remittances platform across Africa (TechCrunch)

Tage Kene-Okafor Sending money from the U.S. to Nigeria can be a painstaking process. For remittance platforms like Western Union, it will cost a transfer fee...

(Innovation/Technology) Crypto social network BitClout arrives with a bevy of high profile investors, and skeptics (TechCrunch)

Lucas Matney While much of the recent wave of relentless hype around NFTs — or non-fungible tokens — has been most visibly manifested in high-dollar...

(Innovation/Technology) China to ban apps from collecting excessive user data starting May (TechCrunch)

Rita Liao Starting May 1, apps in China can no longer force users into providing excessive personal data, according to a document jointly released by...

(Innovation/Technology) Niantic announces partnership with Nintendo on new augmented reality ‘Pikmin’ title (TechCrunch)

Lucas Matney Nearly five years after the launch of Pokémon Go, Niantic announced Monday that they are partnering with Nintendo to co-develop a new title based on...

(Innovation/Technology) Tencent Music now has joint labels with all ‘big three’ record labels (TechCrunch)

Rita Liao The music streaming arm of Tencent is further tightening its ties with the “big three” record label companies, its major licensing partners. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/22/tencent-music-joint-labels-warner/

(Innovation/Technology) Indian beauty e-commerce Purplle raises $45 million (TechCrunch)

Manish Singh Purplle, an e-commerce platform for beauty products in India, said on Monday it has raised $45 million in a new financing round as...

(Climate Change) RED II: EU Commission can’t see the wood for the trees, analysts warn (Euractiv)

Sarantis Michalopoulos The revision of the Renewable Energy Directive II (RED II) as part of the new Green Deal should recalibrate the legislative initiatives which...

(Climate Change) How to decarbonise heavy industry: From quick wins to long-term solutions (Euractiv)

Frédéric Simon The steel industry is a major contributor to the overall CO2 emissions worldwide, and, therefore, a significant driver of climate change. The sector...

(Climate Change) Just 1% of businesses are taking strong action on deforestation: study (Euractiv)

Sarah George An analysis of the anti-deforestation work of 553 of the world’s largest businesses has found that just 1% are taking ‘best practice’ action....

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