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The rise in open banking and payment services like India’s UPI and Singapore’s PayNow means lower costs for businesses, as well as new payment options for hundreds of millions of customers in emerging markets who don’t own credit cards. Tazapay was created to combine both card and real-time payment methods as a full-stack service for […]

Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia backs cross-border payments startup Tazapay by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Fashion items are among the most — if not the most — sought after on many e-commerce platforms. In Africa, for instance, fashion has held the top spot in Jumia for the largest category of items sold over the years. This means there’s no shortage of demand for fashion items across the continent, and the […]

Jendaya raises funding to scale its Africa-focused luxury e-commerce platform by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Kenz founder Rim Daghmash calls the demand “pure bullying and harassment.”

Culture is the most important factor for startups. There are many priorities in a startup, but if your team isn’t aligned, your business will fail no matter what else you have going for you.

Airtable’s whopping $11 billion valuation attained in late 2021 has lured a raft of ambitious entrepreneurs into the low-code database space. They covet even just a small slice of the pie enjoyed by the decade-old American juggernaut. While SaaS has long been a proven business model in the U.S., in emerging markets, and even in […]

Low-code database APITable is another Airtable challenger by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

The fashion house and the Kering Foundation will partner with the nonprofit National Children’s Alliance.

Uber drivers who have an iPhone will soon be able to use the Uber app directly from their car’s dashboard while using Apple’s CarPlay, according to an email sent to drivers and viewed by TechCrunch. The integration has been rolling out to drivers across the U.S., and all drivers should have access to it by […]

Uber is integrating its driver app with Apple CarPlay by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Starting next week, the chicken chain will test its ‘plant-forward’ sandwich in three cities.

These lessons from a successful Ukrainian company amidst the war can help everyone guide their team — even through a crisis

NASA is planning a science mission to Mars that will ride up aboard a New Glenn — Blue Origin’s first big government contract for the as-yet-untested launch vehicle. New Glenn is the much, much larger sibling of the sub-orbital New Shepherd rocket that so many celebrities and rich folks have gone to the edge of […]

NASA will launch a Mars mission on Blue Origin’s New Glenn by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch