Twitter Barn It’s Trend Section In Ethiopia Temporarily
Social network Twitter Inc has temporarily disabled its Trends section in Africa’s conflict-hit nation of Ethiopia over threats of physical…
Category: Technology
Apple Employs Former Tesla Engineer To Boost Car Development Effort
Apple has hired a former engineer from Tesla Inc to boost its car-development efforts, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing…
U.S. Senate Introduce Bill To Limit Big Tech Mergers
Two U.S. senators have introduced bipartisan legislation that seeks to make it harder for Amazon.com and other tech giants to…
Telecommunications Operators Request NCC To Reduce Price Set For 3.5GHz Spectrum Auction
Telecommunications operators have called on the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to reduce the $197.4 million (N75 billion) reserve price set…
Polish E-Commerce Group Agrees To Buy Czech Online Retail Store
Polish e-commerce group Allegro has agreed to buy Czech online retailer Mall Group for 881 million euros ($1.02 billion) to…
Blue Origin Lawsuit Against NASA Got Rejected By Federal Judge
A federal judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin against the U.S. government over…
Apple To End Mask Mandate In Some US Retail Stores
Apple will remove its mask mandate for customers at many U.S. retail stores from Friday as COVID-19 cases decline. More…
Chip Shortage Is Hitting Hardware Development: Nintendo
Japan’s Nintendo Co Ltd said on Friday that a global chip shortage which forced the firm to scale back expectations…
Facebook Test For Creator Of Facebook Group To Earn On Exclusive Access
Facebook is testing ways for creators to make money through Facebook Groups, such as users paying fees for exclusive access…
German Industrial Production Fall By 1.1 Percent Unexpectedly
German industrial production unexpectedly fell in September, official data showed on Friday, as supply bottlenecks for raw and preliminary materials…
Alphabet Invest $1 Billion In CME Group
Alphabet, Google has invested $1 billion in CME Group and has struck a separate deal to move the futures exchange operator’s…
FG To Safeguard Nigeria’s Digital Economy While Building Stakeholders Trust
The Federal Government has renewed its plans to safeguard Nigeria’s digital economy from cybercrimes while building more trust among strategic…
Spectrum Auction For 5G Services To Hold On 13 December
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says the upcoming spectrum auction for 5G services will hold December 13, 2021. Oluwatoyin Asaju,…
Qualcomm Diversification Effort For Chip Portfolio Pay Off
Qualcomm Inc on Wednesday forecast better-than-expected profits and revenue for its current quarter on soaring demand for chips used in phones,…
Square Shareholders Approves Issuance Of New Shares
Square Inc shareholders have approved the issuance of new shares for the U.S. company’s $29 billion purchase of Afterpay Ltd,…
Facebook Respond To Privacy Concern, To Shut Down Facial Recognition
Scandal-hit Facebook is shutting down its long-criticized facial recognition system and deleting scan data on a billion people, it said…
Microsoft Announces Mesh For Microsoft Teams
Microsoft is launching Mesh for Microsoft Teams , a service that combines the AR/VR capabilities of Microsoft Mesh which allows…
Mark Zuckerberg Commented As Jay-Z Joins Instagram For The First Time
American rapper and music executive, Shawn Corey Carter, known professionally as Jay-Z, has joined one of the popular social media…
Tencent Launch Three Own Made Chips
Tencent on Wednesday launched three chips it developed, marking the first time the Chinese internet giant has publicly spoken about…
U.S Tech Giant “Google” Amended Its Payment Policy For The First Time
Alphabet’s Google said on Thursday it plans to allow third-party payment systems in South Korea to comply with a new…
Indian Fintech “Paytm” Allocates $1.11 Billion Shares To Over 100 Investors
Ant Group-backed fintech firm Paytm said it has allocated shares worth 82.35 billion rupees ($1.11 billion) to more than 100…
Lenovo Report 65 Percent Profit in Q2
China’s Lenovo Group, the world’s biggest maker of personal computers, said that a global chip shortage remained a challenge even…
Nigerian Navy Sign Contract To Purchase Offshore Patrol Vessels
The Nigerian Navy yesterday signed a contract with a Turkish company, Messrs Dearsan Shipyard Limited for the purchase of 2…
NCC Engage Stakeholders On 5G Implementation In Nigeria
The Nigerian Communications Commission says it engage stakeholders this week on the Fifth Generation spectrum auction towards the implementation of…
China Government: 38 Apps To Rectify Excessive Collection Of Personal Information
China’s government on Wednesday ordered 38 apps from a number of companies including social media giant Tencent Corp to rectify what…
China Disagree With U.S. Revocation Of China Telecom Licence
China “resolutely opposes” Washington’s revocation of China Telecom Corp Inc’s. licence to operate in the United States, the information ministry said…
Alphabet Plans To Reopen Google News Service In Spain
Alphabet said on Wednesday it plans to reopen its Google News service in Spain ‘soon’ after the government passed new legislation…
Facebook Parent Meta Platforms Will Invest In New Zealand To Boost Digital Capabilities
Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. said on Thursday it would invest in New Zealand to promote up and coming news…
Tencent Holdings Progresses On Chip Production
Chinese technology giant Tencent Holdings, touted progress in semiconductor chip development and investment on Wednesday, offering a rare public glimpse…
62 Billion Yuan Spent Using China’s New Digital Currency
Some 140 million people had opened “wallets” for China’s new digital yuan as of October and used it for transactions…