Goodwell West Africa invests $2.74m in Nigerian microfinance bank
Africa Asset Management Oct 18 Goodwell West Africa, a microfinance investment vehicle with €12.5m ($17.11m) committed capital, has provided a subordinated loan of €2m ($2.74m) to Nigerian microfinance bank Mainstreet Bank MFB. Read more…
OKpanda Lands $1.4M From 500 Startups, Mafia Wars & Tapjoy Founders
TechCrunch Oct 21 With the rise of the Mobile Era, a growing number of startups are trying to revolutionize the way we learn languages by giving us access to learning content and translation from anywhere, especially on the go. Like the popular Duolingo, many of these...
Prostor Capital invests $2 million in retail marketing solution Smart Checkout
East-West Digital News Open Retail, a subsidiary of marketing communications agency Open Group, has raised about $2 million from Prostor Capital to develop Smart Checkout, a hardware and software system that identifies customer preferences during checkout and produces...
Russia’s first Internet price index unveiled
East-West Digital News Russia’s first public index of the prices of goods sold online was launched in late September by Yandex.Market, a leading Russian online marketplace, the Higher School of Economics (HSE), a major Russian university, and information agency...