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Big news! SMS marketing platform, Mobiz has secured $1 million pre-series round. The South Africa-based platform secured the funding from Kalon Venture Partners.
Next, Uber has halted its services in Nigeria due to the lock down in the country. The e-hailing service company will no longer be in operation till the fourteen days lock down in Abuja and Lagos is over.
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Still on Nigeria, the country’s minster of labour and employment, Festus Keyamo has urged service providers in the country to offer free services to Nigerians in April. The minister appealed specially to Telcos and Pay-TV companies, as a means of relief to Nigerians in this pandemic.
Also, Abbot laboratories a Medical device company based in the US has produced a rapid test kit for COVID-19. The new kit can return positive results within five minutes.
Finally, Microsoft recorded 775% growth in Microsoft Azure cloud services. This excessive growth is due to the pandemic that scaled digital services.
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