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Alibaba’s Jack Ma opens a startup hub in Kigali to support Afrikan innovation

Nov07
by on November 7, 2018 at 12:39 pm
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A new hub has been opened in Kigali, Rwanda which aims to assist the country’s small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as startups, to market and sell to Chinese consumers among many of its benefits. This comes after Rwanda became the first Afrikan country to be admitted to the Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP). The eWTP is the brainchild of Alibaba Group founder and executive chairman, Jack Ma. In 2016 Ma proposed the concept of eWTP in the Boao Asian Forum for the first time. Ma explained: I am delighted Rwanda is the first eWTP partner in Afrika, and I look forward to the…

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Hackers infect nearly 700,000 sites with Bitcoin-stealing malware

Nov07
by on November 7, 2018 at 11:16 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Cryptocurrency hackers have attacked one of the internet’s most used traffic analytics services, StatCounter, in order to siphon Bitcoin from users of online exchange desk Gate.io. In a targeted attack, hackers breached StatCounter to such an extent that over 688,000 websites were caught loading the malicious script, ZDNet reports. StatCounter is much akin to Google Analytics, in that it allows analysis of the internet traffic flowing through websites. Webmasters must add special StatCounter code to their sites in order to get the statistics, an aspect of its design that hackers appear to have leveraged to spread their malicious code as…

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China’s president wants to make the internet ‘fairer’ — for China

Nov07
by on November 7, 2018 at 11:11 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, world


China’s stranglehold on its citizens’ internet usage is notorious, and now the officials in charge of it are gathered at China’s main internet conference in Wuzhen. Today, President Xi Jinping called for greater global cooperation in making the internet fairer in a speech that was read on his behalf at the conference, Reuters reports. “There is an urgent need for us to speed up the internet economy and work for governance that is more fair and equitable,” Xi said. The word “fair” rings somewhat hollow coming from a man who’s so insecure about his likeness with Winnie the Pooh that…

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The great AirPod rip-off continues with Xiaomi’s dirt cheap $30 AirDots

Nov07
by on November 7, 2018 at 10:55 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


It seems like everyone wants to get on the AirPod bandwagon. Apple’s wireless earbuds have proven so popular that shedloads of companies are copying the format and releasing similar-looking versions of the audio gear. The latest in this line? The Xiaomi AirDots. The earbuds have many of the same features as the AirPods. First off, they’re true wireless, meaning there’s not a cable in sight on the headphones themselves. The Xiaomi AirDots also have touch controls on the side of the buds and come with the now standard charging case. Design-wise, they have a very Apple feel about them. Check…

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The rise of femtech funding clearly shows it’s not a ‘niche’

Nov07
by on November 7, 2018 at 10:54 am
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Five years ago, global funding for the femtech sector had barely reached $100 million total. But now? The femtech industry is set to see a huge increase to more than $400 million — the largest amount of funding the industry has ever received. This rise is long overdue. Historically, femtech hasn’t received much venture capital funding, since a staggering (but not surprising) 92 percent of partners at the biggest VC firms in America are men. The female-health sector was considered a niche market, which is pretty astonishing since women make up 49.5 percent of the world population and 83 percent of household healthcare spending is done by women. The…

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