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Overcoming the 6 barriers to IT modernization

CIO

Also communicating clearly how the debt impacts business strategy and goals in an executive-friendly fashion is key. Solution: Invest in continuous learning and development programs to upskill the existing workforce. Q: What do you get when you add new technology to bad processes? A: Expensive, bad processes.

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Pixyle AI wants to make visual search more intuitive for online retailers

TechCrunch

Pixyle AI’s neural networks train its visual AI algorithms to not only identify fashion items in an image, but also categorize them by attribute, like color or pattern, that match the keywords shoppers use when searching for an item. Pixyle AI’s team on a green mountain top. The reason for search results is usually bad data.

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Nestcoin raises $6.45M pre-seed to accelerate crypto and web3 adoption in Africa and frontier markets

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Africans and people in emerging markets missed out on the first set of opportunities that technological advancements brought to the world. Africa’s cryptocurrency market grew by 1,200% to $105.6 The NFT-based online video game developed by Sky Mavis has been a sensation since 2020 but is expensive to play.

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Nigeria’s IROKO plans to go public on the London Stock Exchange AIM in 2022

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IROKO , a Nigerian-based media company, could file to go public in the next 12 months on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) Alternative Investment Market. But amid pandemic-induced lockdown fears, consumer discretionary spending reduced in Nigeria and other African markets. Africa can list more gazelles at home than unicorn IPOs abroad.

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Locals share why Vilnius, Lithuania is becoming an international startup hub

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Lukas Inokaitis , business development, NFQ Technologies. What is it weak in? The Vilnius startup ecosystem is mainly dominated by startups developing business management systems (B2B, SaaS) and financial technologies. Lukas Inokaitis, business development, NFQ Technologies. What is it weak in? What is it weak in?

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli gets $10M led by Go Ventures

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). Its new funding will be used to expand KitaBeli’s operations in Java, growing its logistics network and developing its mobile app.

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Spain’s Glovo picks up $528M as Europe’s food delivery market continues to heat up

TechCrunch

To offset the thin (or even negative) margins that are typically associated with a lot of delivery startups, Glovo aims to become the market leader in the 20 markets in Europe where it is live today, in part by expanding its “q-commerce” service — the delivery of items to urban consumers in 30 minutes or less.

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