Partech has doubled its Africa VC fund to $143 million and opened a Nairobi office to complement its Dakar practice. The Partech Africa Fund plans to make 20 to 25 investments across roughly 10 countries over the next several years, according to General Partner Tidjane Deme. The fund has added Ceasar Nyagha as …

Two groups of archaic humans — Neanderthals and their enigmatic cousins, Denisovans — occupied Denisova Cave in the Altai region of Siberia almost continuously through relatively warm and cold periods over the past 200,000 years, according to two new studies published in the January 31, 2019 issue of the journal …

There are two types of people:  people who go with the flow and do things on the fly, and people who are totally anal rigid and need to plan things. I’m the planning type.  Like, I need to schedule things or know of something in advance.  If it’s not on my …

SAN JOSE — Bing announced at SMX West Thursday that they are now allowing webmasters to submit up to 10,000 URLs per day through Bing Webmaster Tools. Previously you were able to submit up to 10 URLs per day and maximum of 50 URLs per month. Bing increased these limits by 1000x …

This is the first part of an in-depth series exploring the new Google Search Console interface and all of the functionality to be found therein. We’ll start with an overview and will proceed by exploring all of the sections of the tool. Once we’re done, we’ll update the resource regularly …

  Foxconn’s original deal with Wisconsin to build a manufacturing plant in exchange for mammoth subsidies was controversial from the outset. Originally, the Wisconsin facility was to serve as a major hub for Foxconn in the United States, building high-end TV panels. Now, the firm has announced it will drastically …

  AMD announced its Q4 2018 results earlier this week, and the data was fairly positive for the company. Revenue was up 6 percent, quarter-on-quarter, to $1.42B. For the year, AMD recorded revenue of $6.48B, up 23 percent from the same period a year ago. Client CPU shipments grew more …

  Intel’s early efforts at marketing its 28-core desktop Xeon processor didn’t get off to a great start. The company was dragged for demonstrating a 5GHz CPU at Computex without immediately disclosing that the CPU in question was being cooled with a 1.7kW water chiller. The final product to come …

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe successfully completed its first orbit of the Sun on January 19. Illustration of NASA’s Parker Solar Probe approaching the Sun. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Steve Gribben. “It’s been an illuminating and fascinating first orbit,” said Dr. Andy Driesman, Parker …

Nine years after launching its online magazine, and three years after diversifying into the subscription box business, FabFitFun has raised $80 million in a growth round of funding led by Kleiner Perkins with participation from its previous investors Upfront Ventures and NEA. The Los Angeles-based company has steadily expanded its …