Ndubuisi Ekekwe had since resigned from Kobo360 board.

The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA) will need modern logistics to thrive. Kobo360 CEO, Obi Ozor, releases a short statement informing our customers – from Dangote Group to Flour Mills, from Unilever to Olam, and indeed from SMEs to the largest corporations in Africa – that Kobo360 will be ready.

As a Member of the Board of Directors coordinating Strategy, I join our CEO to assure our customers that Kobo360’s G-LOS (global logistics operating system) is already working to ensure we are ready on DAY 1 of ACFTA to power Africa.

We are growing, and bringing efficiency in the utilization of the factors of production through supply chain. Think Logistics. Think Kobo360.

Kobo360 is a tech-enabled digital logistics platform that aggregates end-to-end haulage operations to help cargo owners, truck owners and drivers, and cargo recipients to achieve an efficient supply chain framework. Through an all-in-one robust logistics ecosystem, Kobo uses big data and technology to reduce logistics frictions, empowering rural farmers to earn more by reducing farm wastages and helping manufacturers of all sizes to find new markets. Kobo enables unprecedented efficiency and cost reduction in the supply chain, providing 360-visibility while delivering products of all sizes safely, on time and in full. The Kobo mission is to build the Global Logistics Operating System that will power trade and commerce across Africa and Emerging Markets

Baidu, China’s leading search engine, and Intel are partnering to make AI chips: “Intel said it’s collaborating with Chinese search company Baidu to develop a specialized computer chip to speed the process of training deep-learning systems”, Fortune reports.

Today at the Baidu Create AI developer conference in Beijing, Intel Corporate Vice President Naveen Rao announced that Baidu* is collaborating with Intel on development of the new Intel® Nervana™ Neural Network Processor for Training (NNP-T). The collaboration involves the hardware and software designs of the new custom accelerator with one purpose – training deep learning models at lightning speed.

“The next few years will see an explosion in the complexity of AI models and the need for massive deep learning compute at scale. Intel and Baidu are focusing their decade-long collaboration on building radical new hardware, co-designed with enabling software, that will evolve with this new reality – something we call ‘AI 2.0.’”
–Naveen Rao, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of the AI Products Group

Few months ago, Intel also announced that it was working with  “Facebook to develop a computer chip to aid with A.I. inference, which happens when an A.I. system acts on the data it ingests”. A specific brand of electrical engineering called Neuromorphics is going mainstream right now with these AI chips.

Neuromorphic systems are inspired by the structure, function and plasticity of biological nervous systems. They are artificial neural systems that mimic algorithmic behavior of the biological animal systems through efficient adaptive and intelligent control techniques. They are designed to adapt, learn from their environments, and make decisions like biological systems and not to perform better than them. There are no efforts to eliminate deficiencies inherent in biological systems.

TAP continues to advance commerce: zero-revenue leakage era is here. Our applications cut through agriculture to revenue assurance, agency services to education, ticketing to events management, and more. Anywhere you collect cash and want to eliminate leakage, TAP is ready.  We do not need mobile networks and efficiently operate offline. Yet, if you want to check how the money is growing from your restaurant while away, we can push revenue balance and transaction flow every 5 minutes to your phone. TAP unifies digital and physical when it comes to payment.

Our goal is simple: zero revenue leakage even on cash-based transactions whether you are in your shop or not. You sell garri, we capture all payments digitally. You sell mama put, all payments are recorded. You have okada riders riding for you, you get revenue visibility. You own a bus, you know how much the conductor collected. You run a shop, all transactions are captured live.

This is unification of digital and physical in payment. If you want to stop revenue leakage, theft, pilfering, etc in your business – offline and online – email my team for a demo anywhere in Nigeria

This video gives you 100% visibility on bus ticketing.