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Impressions from Pocket Gamer Connects in London

VC Cafe

With the increasing competition in the mobile gaming market, developers are recognising the need to keep players engaged and invested in their games for longer periods of time in order to drive monetisation and retention. What events sparked the major revolutions in business models and distribution? /1

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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Quantstamp

Austin Startup

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 20, 2020 Quantstamp is a Y Combinator-backed company building the standard in blockchain cybersecurity. One of 50 finalists for SXSW Pitch 2020 , see the Quantstamp pitch in the category of Blockchain Technology (12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Sunday, March 15) before a live audience and a panel of expert judges.

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SXSW Startups: Fantag

Austin Startup

They focus on helping content creators and app developers create, identify, package and distribute those meaningful video highlights in ways that help them reach more customers and generate more revenue. Fantag began as a free, stand-alone mobile app. COO Cheryl Beninga shared more about the company. What is your competitive advantage?

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Urban Technology: The Business of Smart Cities

The Startup Magazine

They hope to “solve tangled and wicked problems inherited in the rapid urbanization,” according to research from the Center for Technology in Government at the State University of New York at Albany. The smart city industry is projected to be a $400 billion market by 2020, with 600 cities worldwide, TechRepublic reports.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. billion people use a mobile phone today, equating to 66.6% billion actively use the internet worldwide – 59.5% of the global population.

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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good. Tell us a little bit about how the company was founded and what you thought you were going to spend 2020 working on. Fred Turner : Yeah.