Foreign and African companies continue to make moves as the tech sector continues its growth on the continent. Read More
Alibaba has advanced its reach on mobile after it acquired one of China’s most prominent Android app stores, Wandoujia, in an undisclosed acquisition. Read More
Two weeks after Twitter acquired Magic Pony to advance its machine learning smarts in image recognition, Google is following suit. Today, the maker of Android and search giant announced that it has acquired Moodstocks, a startup based out of Paris that develops smartphone technology for image recognition. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and it’s not clear if Moodstocks had raised… Read More
Surprise! It looks like Pokémon Go, the much-anticipated augmented reality game backed by Nintendo, is coming to Android and iOS devices near you today. Read More
Tesla says it told regulators about the May 7th crash involving one of its electric cars in self-driving Autopilot mode nine days after the incident, adding that there was nothing unusual in either that delay or its decision to keep quiet about the incident before a federal investigation was publicly announced last Thursday. Tesla says the company itself was informed of the accident… Read More
Those hoping to snag some handmade July 4th cookies and home-made vegan sunblock might have woken up to an empty stomach and sunburn after a serious payment processing outage on e-commerce site Etsy. Over the last five days, a large number of Etsy transactions have been disrupted by “third party” payment processing outages. As of 6pm PST July 5th, over 4,000 messages of… Read More
