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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. Founded by Jason Njoku and Bastian Gotter in 2011, IROKO boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content globally.

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Sequoia picks its horse in the consumer carbon offset market, leading a $2.5 million round for Joro

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The Princeton undergraduate saw the film in 2011, and it started her on the journey that would lead her to launch Joro , the Sequoia-backed startup that monitors consumer spending to offer tips on how to offset and reduce a user’s carbon footprint. . I wasn’t a technology person.

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iOS gains new emoji, Showtime joins a pricier Paramount+, and Instagram launches Channels

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If you’re wondering about Greg’s status, not to worry — he’s due to return from a well-deserved parental leave in a month and change. With those administrative bits out of the way, let’s get on with Week in Review. (If Is the tech jobs market as bad as it seems?

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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

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Films weren’t always widescreen. Originally they were more likely to be approximately the shape of a 35mm film frame, for obvious reasons. If you matted out the top and bottom, you could project a widescreen image, which people liked — but you were basically just zooming in on a part of the film, which you paid for in detail.

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Deepdub raises $20M for AI-powered dubbing that uses actors’ original voices

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Netflix’s Korean drama “Squid Game” was one of the most-watched dubbed series of all time, proving the massive potential for foreign-language programming to become a hit in overseas markets. They landed on what became Deepdub after having conversations with several people in the industry.

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As Yahoo leaves China, an accelerating stream of exits

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According to an official Yahoo statement, due to an “increasingly challenging business and legal environment in China, Yahoo’s suite of services will no longer be accessible from mainland China” as of the start of the month. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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Scopio aims to turn hematology into remote work with $50M C round

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Once samples are scanned in the lab, they could be reviewed by hematologists working from anywhere. For instance, some papers argue, the manual review of samples doesn’t often add much to doctors’ diagnostic dataset. You can zoom around in one of the images here. Image Credits: Scopio.