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African fintech OPay is reportedly raising $400M at over $1.5B valuation

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Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech platform OPay is in talks to raise up to $400 million, The Information reported today. In 2018, Opera, popularly known for its internet search engine and browser, launched the OPay mobile money platform in Lagos. Opera’s Africa fintech startup OPay gains $120M from Chinese investors.

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New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape

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A new report from Endeavor Nigeria reveals that Africa’s digital economy and tech ecosystem is set to experience exponential growth periods. The report is dubbed “The Inflection Point: Africa’s Digital Economy is Poised to Take Off.”. The organization’s report intends to shed more light on Africa’s market dynamics.

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Delhivery falls to all-time low after muted growth report

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The company counts SoftBank, Tiger Global, Times Internet, The Carlyle Group, Steadview Capital and Addition among its backers. Delhivery falls to all-time low after muted growth report by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch. The tumble has pushed the market cap of Delhivery to below $3.4 Image Credits: Yahoo Finance.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

Throughout 2024, China-nexus adversaries demonstrated increasingly bold targeting, stealthier tactics, and more specialized operations, CrowdStrike stated in its 2025 Global Threat Report. In addition to telecom operators, the group has also targeted professional services firms.

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Recovering from a Cyber Attack

Speaker: Mike Cramer, Director of HIPAA & Data Security at The Word & Brown Companies

If your organization stores data and is connected to the Internet, it is not a matter of “if” a cyber-security incident will happen, but “when.” IBM reported that the total damage from data breaches in 2021 was 4.24M USD (up from 3.86M USD in 2020), easily the highest aggregated amount on record.

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Daily Crunch: Sources say Times Internet plans to sell Indian streaming platform MX Player to Amazon 

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Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Game on : Amazon is in talks to acquire Indian video streaming giant MX Player from Times Internet, Manish reports. Here’s a few of the stories worth taking a closer look at, though: Ka-ching : Catherine reports that Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia backs cross-border payments startup Tazapay.

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Gcore Radar report reveals 56% year-on-year increase in DDoS attacks

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Gcore , the global edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, today announced the findings of its Q3-Q4 2024 Radar report into DDoS attack trends. The report reveals a significant escalation in the total number of DDoS attacks and their magnitude, measured in terabits per second (Tbps).

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