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Nigeria Broadband Penetration Experienced Significant Increase In August
Broadband penetration in Nigeria increased by 1.21 percent from July to August. Data from the Nigerian…
Anyone Below 18 Years Cannot Register And Own A Sim Card In Nigeria : NCC
The Nigerian Communications Commission has disqualified anyone below the age of 18 from registering and owning a…
Uber New Plan Allows Booking Of Ride In Advance
Uber is trying to make it less of a hassle to get a ride home from the airport after your plane lands.
The…
Telehealth: Study Shows Increasing Adoption By Patient in 2021
By all accounts, telehealth has transformed healthcare delivery over the past 18 months as droves of patients have…
Google Says It Will Invest And Back Africa Startups To Support Its Digital…
Google plans to invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years to ensure access to fast and cheaper internet…
Interstellar Partner With Interswitch Group To Develop Blockchain-Powered…
Interstellar Inc. has partnered with Interswitch Group to develop blockchain-powered infrastructure services and…
Nokia Unveil First Tablet “T20” With 15 Hour Long battery life
The company that makes Nokia-branded phones on Wednesday unveiled its first tablet, the Nokia T20, in a challenge…
U.S. Hedge Fund Coatue Management Is Planning To Set Up Office In Europe
U.S. hedge fund Coatue Management is planning to set up a new office in Europe as part of an effort to capitalize…
Brokerage Robinhood Introduces 24 Hours Phone Support After Communications…
Robinhood Markets Inc said on Tuesday it had introduced 24-hour customer phone support, seven days a week,…
Facebook Outage Shows Need For More Rivals, Says Margrethe Vestager
Facebook's six-hour outage the previous day shows the repercussions fn relying on just a few big players and…
Crypto Exchange “Yellow Card” Raises $15 Million In Series A Funding
Cryptocurrency exchange, Yellow Card, has announced a $15M Series A, the largest ever by an African cryptocurrency…
Africa Startup “Andela” Attains Unicorn Status
Andela, a startup that connects African software engineering talent to global companies has raised $200 million…
Russia Move To Make First Space Movie
In a historic first, Russia has launched an actor and a film director into space to make a feature film in orbit —…
Tesla To Pay Former Worker For Damages
A San Francisco federal court decided that Tesla must pay a former worker, Owen Diaz, around $137 million after he…
Facebook Lost Billions After Outage
The global economy lost billions of dollars as Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram went down at about 4.42pm on…
Evergrande Set To Sell Part Of Its property Services Unit Stake
Indebted developer Evergrande is set to sell part of its stake in its property services unit, the second asset sale…
Monzo Withdraws Application For U.S. Banking License
British financial technology firm Monzo has withdrawn its application for a U.S. banking license following…
Cloud Exchange Collaborate With Huawei
Cloud Exchange has launched Africa’s first uptime institute tier IV modular prefabricated data centre in…
5G is 100 Times Faster Than 4G
Up to 100 times faster than 4G, 5G, the fifth generation of cellular networks, is creating never-before-seen…
Nigeria Exchange Limited To Democratise finance In Nigeria Technology Sector
Capital market regulating bodies and other stakeholders have called on operators in the technology industry to…
Tesla Top Expectation In Q3
Tesla delivered 241,300 electric vehicles during the third quarter of 2021, the company reported Saturday.
The…
U.S Congress Unmask Facebook Whistleblower
A Facebook whistleblower who brought internal documents detailing the company’s research to The Wall Street Journal…
Google And DeepMind Are Facing Legal Action
Alphabet’s Google and sister firm DeepMind are facing legal action for the way in which they obtained and processed…
OYO To Issue New Shares Worth $1.16 Billion
Indian hotel chain Oyo is planning to raise about 84.3 billion rupees ($1.16 billion) in an initial public…
U.S. Fintech Start-up “Upgrade” Is Set To Join Buy Now Pay Later Market
U.S. fintech start-up Upgrade is set to enter the increasingly crowded buy now, pay later market.
Upgrade, which…
E-Naira Won’t Launch On Independence Day: CBN
The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday announced the postponement of the planned unveiling of the country’s…
Visa Set To Launch Universal Payment Channel
Visa has said it is working on an interoperability system that would work across different blockchain networks and…
U.S. Stock Index Futures Rose, Tech Stocks Dipped
U.S. stock index futures rose during early morning trading on Thursday, after tech stocks dipped again as investors…
Google Is Redesigning Dominant Search Engine
Google is redesigning its dominant search engine, and users may find that future results keep them on Google’s own…
YouTube Strengthen Its Policies On Misinformation Around Vaccines
Google-owned YouTube banned prominent anti-vaccine accounts in an effort to strengthen its policies on…