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BukuKas, one of several startups helping SMEs go onlinehas raised a $10 million Series A led by Sequoia Capital India. BukuKas was founded by chief executive officer Krishnan Menon and chief operating officer Lorenzo Peracchione, who met eight years ago while working at Lazada Indonesia. It was launched in December 2019 as
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A number of high profile artists have been selling off their catalogs in recent months. The most high-profile sale was Bob Dylan’s massive deal with Universal Music, who purchased his catalog for over $300 million. Another high-profile sale came from The Killers, who sold off their pre-2020 catalog to Eldridge for an undisclosed
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The lead vocalist of pop outfit One Republic who has worked with a number of prominent artists such as Beyoncé, U2, Paul McCartney, Adele, Stevie Wonder and Lady Gaga, KKR has bough a majority stake in the music catalog of Ryan Tedder. Their new deal covers over 500 songs, including
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Congratulation to Marks and Spencer as the company has bought upmarket fashion brand Jaeger out of administration in a £5m deal. The High Street giant is taking on the Jaeger brand and stock which it will sell in M&S stores and online. Jaeger was founded in 1884 – the same year as
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This lipstick pod was designed to help users create a custom lipstick shade in the color that they want. This is done by combining three different lipstick color pods that will squirt out the solution at the top, which when combined should result in the color that you’ve chosen. The
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in an announcement on Monday warned that investing in crypto assets meant consumers were “unlikely to have access” to the various protection bodies such as the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) or the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), which protects customer’s monetary deposits if a financial services firm
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Shares of Twitter and Facebook falling and rival platform Parler forced offline by Amazon as companies tried to contain a mounting backlash against their social media sites. Many people believe the moves to expunge US president Donald Trump from the social networks and take down an app popular with his supporters
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NNPC is reportedly in negotiation with oil traders to source $1 billion in advance for crude oil payment to revamp its largest but ailing refinery in Port Harcourt. The funding will help NNPC conduct a long-standing overhaul of the asset and scale down Nigeria’s heavy dependency on imported fuel. Meaning the country will be
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The Head of Governance and Stability at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office, Sam Waldock, disclosed at a retreat of the Joint Technical Committee on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2020, held in Abuja that the United Kingdom (UK) has spent over £50million to support electoral processes in Nigeria
Read MoreABS-CBN The World Bank says global economy is expected to grow by 4 per cent in 2021, assuming an initial COVID-19 vaccine rollout becomes widespread throughout the year. It said this in a statement issued in Washington D.C. on Tuesday at the presentation of the January 2021 Global Economic Prospects. It added that
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