Branch raises $ 70M Series B from Trinity Ventures, a16z, and others to expand its mobile lending platform that offers loans between $ 2 and $ 1000 in Africa You don’t hear of many $2 loans in the United States, where $2 won’t buy you more than a chocolate bar. But in cities like Lagos, … Read more
Reliance Jio has established a strategic partnership with MobiKwik to sell JioPhones via their mobile platform. The India-based popular mobile wallet company is the first in the country to sell JioPhone via its own mechanism. Commenting on the development, Bikram Bir Singh, Business Head at MobiKwik disclosed that they are happy to become the first … Read more
The NVIDIA CES 2018 Keynote is about to wrap up, but CEO Jensen Huang wasn’t done with his automotive announcements. After revealing Drive Xavier, the world’s first autonomous machine processor, and announcing the Uber Self-Driving Robot Taxi partnership, NVIDIA’s CEO had one more technology advancement to discuss. Tonight, NVIDIA has announced Drive AR for autonomous vehicles. The self-driving AR … Read more
Computex: AMD unveils 16-core Ryzen 9 1998X ‘Threadripper’ and X399 platform The Ryzen 9 1998X will form part of AMD’s high-end desktop … At the same event today, the company also announced 20 June as the launch date for its Epyc Zen-based server CPUs, which will see AMD renew its assault on the data centre … Read more
Red Hat Rolls Out OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 Red Hat just launched Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4. It’s based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, plus Kubernetes 1.4 and the Docker container runtime. The goal is to deploy container-based applications an microservices on a “a stable, reliable and … Read more on Virtualization Review