Friday, May 19, 2023

Sources: Lagos-based Sabi, which provides a marketplace, inventory management tools, and more to Africa's SMEs, raised a $38M Series B at a $300M valuation (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)

Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch:
Sources: Lagos-based Sabi, which provides a marketplace, inventory management tools, and more to Africa's SMEs, raised a $38M Series B at a $300M valuation  —  Sabi, a Lagos-based B2B e-commerce startup providing digital commerce infrastructure to Africa's informal economy …



A UK court throws out a case against Google concerning the transfer of 1.6M patients' data by an NHS trust to DeepMind in 2015 and its alleged misuse (Sam Tobin/Reuters)

Sam Tobin / Reuters:
A UK court throws out a case against Google concerning the transfer of 1.6M patients' data by an NHS trust to DeepMind in 2015 and its alleged misuse  —  Google on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the U.S. tech giant by a British hospital trust.



Take-Two hints GTA 6 may release in 2024: What to expect

Take-Two Interactive recently released its yearly earnings report. In this report, the company shared projections for the coming years. It included projections for fiscal years 2025 and 2026. For the uninitiated, the fiscal year 2025 will start in April of 2024. According to several publications, Take-Two Interactive may have teased the release window for its next titles along with the earnings report. These titles also include the publishers’ next entry in one of the biggest gaming franchises of all time. https://ift.tt/1Gkp7nO

Sources: media agency GroupM tells clients it no longer considers Twitter "high risk", a designation given in November, days after Linda Yaccarino's appointment (Financial Times)

Financial Times:
Sources: media agency GroupM tells clients it no longer considers Twitter “high risk”, a designation given in November, days after Linda Yaccarino's appointment  —  WPP-owned GroupM removed designation of platform after appointment of Linda Yaccarino



Krafton receives a "trial approval" for three months from Indian authorities to relaunch battle-royale game BGMI, a year after it was banned (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Krafton receives a “trial approval” for three months from Indian authorities to relaunch battle-royale game BGMI, a year after it was banned  —  The South Korean giant Krafton has secured the approval from the Indian authorities to resume operations of Battlegrounds Mobile India …



Restaurant chefs are increasingly designing food that plays well on video for influencers on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube (Ezra Marcus/Grub Street)

Ezra Marcus / Grub Street:
Restaurant chefs are increasingly designing food that plays well on video for influencers on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube  —  The most important social-media food genre of the past decade is photos of avocado toast, bright and colorful and clean.  But innovation is relentless …



China approves two cars from state-owned automakers with Level 3 autonomous capabilities, the first such approvals; the cars can drive in Chongqing and Beijing (Reuters)

Reuters : China approves two cars from state-owned automakers with Level 3 autonomous capabilities, the first such approvals; the cars can...