African fintech OPay valued at $2B in SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led $400M funding
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African fintech OPay valued at $2B in SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led $400M funding

ByTechTrends

African fintech OPay valued at $2B in SoftBank Vision Fund 2-led $400M funding Written by Tage Kene-Okafor Chinese-backed and Africa-focused fintech company OPay raised $400 million in new financing led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Bloomberg reported Monday, valuing the company at $2 billion. The round, which marks the fund’s first investment in an African startup, drew…

China Emerges the Fastest Growing Market for Wearables-IDC

China Emerges the Fastest Growing Market for Wearables-IDC

ByKenneth Omeruo

Image from FitBit A recent report from International Data Corporation (IDC ) has shown that China has quickly emerged as the fastest-growing wearables market, attracting companies eager to compete on price and feature sets .A quarter after Apple debuted as the number two wearables vendor worldwide, Chinese vendor Xiaomi finished the third quarter of 2015…