WhatsApp New Feature Allows Chat To Disappear By Default
Popular instant messaging service, WhatsApp has added a new feature that gives users better control over their messages and how…
Year: 2021
You Tube Music Partners Briteswan And IManage Africa Entertainment Limited
YouTube Music has said it has partnered with two Nigerian organisations, Briteswan and iManage Africa Entertainment Limited. The partnership involves…
Microsoft Introduces Hybrid Workspace
Microsoft has said there is a need to redefine work processes as around 40 per cent of the global workforce…
Beneficiaries Of Tony Elumelu Foundation Get Insurance Plan From HIL And HLA
Heirs Insurance Limited (HIL) and Heirs Life Assurance (HLA) have extended simple insurance plans to the beneficiaries of the Tony…
SEC Director-General Advocates On The Use Of Technology
At the 2021 workshop of Capital Market Correspondents Association of Nigeria(CAMCAN) in Lagos, the Director-General of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Mr…
Self-Driving Car Unit “Mobileye” To Go Public In U.S
According to Reuters “Intel Corp said on Monday it plans to take self-driving-car unit public in the United States in…
Chinese Startup SenseTime To Raise $767 Million In Hong Kong IPO
Chinese artificial intelligence startup SenseTime Group is looking to raise up to $767 million in its Hong Kong initial public…
European Investors Back Kenyan Fintech “ Asilimia” with Equity And Debt
Kenyan fintech Asilimia raised $2 million in pre-seed funding ($1 million equity and $1 million debt), the funding came from various…
South Africa Mobiz Raise $4 Million In Pre-Series A Round
South Africa Mobile marketing startup Mobiz has raised a total of $4 million for its pre-Series A round from a…
Algeria’s Yassir Lands A Healthy Series A From Multiple Investors
Yassir, an Algerian startup founded in 2017 provides on-demand services such as ride-hailing and last-mile delivery, has raised a $30…
Old Mutual Private Equity Signals Proposal To Buy Long4Life
Shares in Long4Life, the company owned by entrepreneur Bidvest founder Brian Joffe, soared in trade on Friday (3 December), on…
Tech Giants Lose Billions As Tech Stocks Tumble
Tumbling tech stocks on Friday wiped out tens of billions of dollars from the net worth of some of the…
Nigeria Stock Exchange Record N589 Billion Loss
The Nigerian stock market declined by N598bn at the end of last week as some large-cap stocks recorded price losses.…
Europe Plan Production Of Green Hydrogen
Spanish power company Iberdrola and Sweden’s H2 Green Steel are to partner and develop a major facility that will produce…
There’s No Reason Why Ford Shouldn’t Break Above $20, Trader Says
Ford’s fate looks rosy to Inside Edge Capital Management founder Todd Gordon. Ford’s stock was just above $20 a share…
Powerful Nigerians Frustrating AMCON’s Recovery Of N4.4trn Debts — Senate Panel
The Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and other Financial Institutions has lamented that highly-placed Nigerians were frustrating the effort of…
Nigeria Makes List Of Countries Implementing International Public Sector Accounting Standards
A Director in the office of the Accountant General of the Federation, Alhaji Salau Zubairu, has said Nigeria and Tanzania…
Dolidol Acquires Mouka Foam For $60 Million
Dolidol an international firm has acquired Mouka Foam in a $60 million (N24.9 billion) deal to create pan-African bedding and…
Buhari Transmits Finance Bill To NASS For 2022 Budget
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has transmitted the Finance Bill 2021 to the National Assembly for consideration and…
NGO: World Leaders Must Go Beyond Grand Gestures
World leaders must go beyond “grand gestures” to feed the 45 million people around the world who are on the…
Elon Musk Continue With Sale Of Tesla Shares
Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk has sold another 934,091 shares of the electric vehicle maker worth $1.01 billion to…
SoftBank Shares Drop By 3 Per cent
Shares in Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp dropped over 3% on Friday after the giant tech investor was hit with…
Nigerian Mining Sector Get $2Bln Investment Pledge From UAE Investors
Investors from the United Arab Emirates have pledged $2bn worth of investments into the Nigerian mining sector as the…
NCC Qualifies MTN, Airtel, New Firm For 5G Auction
Globacom and Emerging Markets Telecommunication Service Limited are set to miss out on the deployment of Fifth Generation network for…
CBN Frowns At Commercial Banks Over E-Naira
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has frowned at the commercial banks for not doing much to educate Nigerians about…
Effective Mechanisms To Insulate E-Naira From Hackers And Fraudsters Is In Place : CBN
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has assured that it has put in place effective mechanisms to insulate the e-Naira…
Central Bank Of Nigeria Sold $867.68 Million Forex To SMEs
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has raised the volume of foreign exchange sales to the Small and Medium Enterprises…
Transnational Corporation Of Nigeria Record N13.467 Billion Profit After Tax In Q3
Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (Transcorp Plc) has posted a N13.467 billion Profit After Tax (PAT) for third-quarter ended September 2021.…
Qualcomm Introduce New Snapdragon G3x Microchip
Qualcomm introduced a new Snapdragon G3x microchip on Wednesday for handheld consoles in a sign of gaming’s rising importance for…