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PayPal And Japanese Credit Specialist Paidy In Talks
US online payment giant PayPal is set to buy the online Japanese credit specialist Paidy for $2.7 billion, the US…
Technology Startups And Others In Nigeria Raise $1.6bn Funding
Africa’s technology ecosystem has raised $1.6bn in 2021 so far, compared to $701.5m in 2020, according to a report…
Intel Invest €80 Billion In Boosting Europes Chip Capacity
Intel Corp on Tuesday said it could invest as much as 80 billion euros in Europe over the next decade to boost the…
Automated Checkout Introduced At Whole Foods Stores – Amazon
Amazon is introducing its automated checkout technology to two Whole Foods stores, the company announced on…
Ghana: SIM Card Registration To Resume In October
Ghana’s Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced that the delayed national…
Netherland Confirms Delay of 5G Auction
The Netherlands’ State Secretary for Economic Affairs Mona Keijzer has told the House of Representatives that the…
Outstanding ECA Loan Associated With 8 Eight Aircraft Repaid – Aviation PLC
It is pleasing that commercial bank aircraft lending appears to be reopening following the disruption caused by…
Civil Society Organisations Knock Nigeria’s Tax Authority Over Planned Social…
Civil Society Organisations on Monday condemned the Federal Inland Revenue Service over its decision to impose…
United Oil & Gas Signs Binding Deal To Sell North Sea Assets
United Oil & Gas PLC (AIM:UOG, FRA:1UO) is advancing its deal to sell its North Sea licences, signing a binding…
El Salvador Bought $21 Million Of Bitcoin As It Becomes First Country To Make It a…
El Salvador bought roughly $20.9 million worth of bitcoin, one day before it formally adopts the world’s most…
Journey Towards Nigeria’s Digital Currency
Central banks in more than 70 countries are presently studying or at advanced stages of developing their Central…
Telecos To Pay N200,000 For Failing To Verify NIN – NCC
The Nigerian Communications Commission has proposed a fine of N200,000 for mobile communications services providers…
How Amazon’s Cloud Business Generates Billions In Profit
Every year since at least 2014, more than half of Amazon’s operating profit has come from the online retailer’s…
Apple’s Strategy To Fight Off Antitrust Regulators: Fix The App Store One Rule At…
In the past few weeks, Apple has madeseveral changes to its App Store rules, allowing a larger number of companies…
Nigeria: Fintech Group Raises N2.2bn Series 1 Note
CapitalSage Technology Limited a Fin Tech company has raised a N2.2bn series 1 Private Company Notes issue, under…
Warren Buffett-Backed Electric Carmaker BYD Sees August Sales Surge More Than 300%
BYD sold 61,409 new energy vehicles in August, more than four times the amount sold a year ago, as demand for…
Didi Denies Reports That Beijing City Is Coordinating Companies To Invest In It
China's ride-hailing giant Didi Global Inc (DIDI.N) said on Saturday that media reports that the Beijing city…
Italy Says Bids For National Cloud Hub Expected This Month
Italy expects to receive bids by the end of September from companies interested in building a national cloud hub, a…
After Criticism, Apple Says It Will Delay Child Safety Updates
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Friday it would take more time to collect feedback and improve proposed child safety…
Flipkart Co-Founder Challenges Indian Enforcement Agency Probe
The future looked promising for Tinashe Mapuranga, an intern at a leading bank in Zimbabwe who appeared set to get…
Exclusive Amazon To Proactively Remove More Content That Violates Rules From Cloud…
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) plans to take a more proactive approach to determine what types of content violate its…
Tech Giants Seek Meeting With New Malaysian PM On Foreign Ship Cable Waiver
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Amazon are seeking to meet Malaysia's prime minister to ask that foreign vessels be…
Vodafone UK Refarms Block of 900MHz For 4G Use; Claims Breakthrough On Energy…
British mobile network operator (MNO) Vodafone UK has announced it is undertaking a project aimed at making…
Twitter Ban Remains, Says NCC As Nigerians Lose N220.36bn
The Twitter ban in Nigeria is still in effect according to the Director, Public Affairs, Nigerian Communications…
China’s Tech Giants Pour Billions Into Xi’s Vision Of ‘Common
Alibaba will invest 100 billion yuan ($15.5 billion) over the next few years into “common prosperity”…
WhatsApp faces $267M Fine For Breaching Europe’s GDPR
It’s been a long time coming but Facebook is finally feeling some heat from Europe’s much trumpeted data protection…
Nio And Xpeng Deliveries Fall in August As Chip Shortage Hits China’s Electric…
Nio and Xpeng deliveries dropped in August as the chip shortage and supply chain constraints hit the Chinese…
Apple Will Let Some Apps Guide Users To Websites To Make Payments, Bypassing…
Apple on Wednesday said that some apps will be allowed to provide a link to their websites to prompt users to sign…
Chinese Regulators Summon 11 Ride-Hailing Firms, Including Didi, Over ‘Illegal…
Chinese regulators have summoned and interviewed 11 ride-hailing firms asking them to rectify non-compliant…
Online Dating Company ParshipMeet Prepares For IPO In 2022
Rivals such as Bumble and Tinder-owner Match Grouping trade at about 50 times their expected core earnings. That…