Nigeria Quickteller Paypoint Recruits New Agents To Provide Financial Services
Quickteller Paypoint, a service under Interswitch Financial Inclusion Services (IFIS), has continued to live up to its commitment to empowering…
Category: Technology
Apple IPhone 13 Gets Over 2 Million Pre-Order From Chinese Consumer
More Chinese consumers are rushing to order Apple’s latest iPhone now than last year, according to a South China Morning…
Goggle Cloud Engineering Uint Get Reorganized
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian is shaking up the unit’s engineering organization in hopes of gaining market share more quickly.…
Former Amazon Executive And Fintech CEO Have Been Hired To Lead Day-To-Day Operations Of Investing And Savings App “Acorns”
Investing and savings app Acorns has hired a former Amazon executive and fintech CEO to lead day-to-day operations ahead of the start-up’s debut as…
Google Gives More Than $10 Billion For Consumer Advantages In S.Korea
Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday its presence in South Korea equates to nearly 12 trillion won ($10.16 billion) in…
Goldman Sachs Expand By Acquiring “Buy Now Pay Later Fintech” Greensky
Goldman Sachs is acquiring digital lender GreenSky for $2.24 billion as the investment bank pushes further into consumer finance. Greensky shares soared higher…
Singapore: Carousell An Online Marketplace Is Now Valued At $1.1 Billion
The Singapore-based Carousell said it is now valued at $1.1 billion — which makes it Southeast Asia’s latest unicorn, a start-up worth more than a billion dollars.
Nigeria Cryptocurrency Market Experience Over 1000% Growth In One Year
The cryptocurrency market in Nigeria and other African countries have grown by 1200 per cent in one year. This was…
Tinder’s Chief Executive Moves To Yahoo For Top Job
The appointment comes just days after Apollo Global Management In closed its $5 billion acquisition of Verizon Media, which owns Yahoo
Nigeria: MTN And Flutterwave In Mobile Money Partnership
MTN has announced a mobile money partnership with Africa’s leading payments technology company, Flutterwave. The partnership will allow businesses integrating Flutterwave in…
Nigeria: MTN Renews Unified Access Service Licence And Spectrum Licence
The Nigerian Communications Commission has renewed the Unified Access Service licence and spectrum licence for wireless local loop in the…
General Motor Doubles Chip Shortage Impact To 200,000 Vehicles In Second Half
General Motors’ vehicle sales and production will be hit harder by the global chip shortage during the second half of…
Amazon Hourly Employees Set To Enjoy 100% Tuition Fee
The e-commerce giant is following the lead of other large United state companies who are dangling perks like education benefits…
Chinese Electric Car Start Up Xpeng Aim For Robots And Flying Car
For the foreseeable future, Chinese electric car start-up XPeng is trying to boost its sales in the world’s largest auto…
Apple To Spend Over $500 Million On Advertising Apple TV
Apple Inc plans to spend more than $500 million on marketing its streaming service, Apple TV+, this year, The Information reported…
Chinese Firms In Partnership To Deliver Self Driving Cargo Vans
The strategic partnership between Chinese autonomous driving start-up WeRide, automaker Jiangling Motors (JMC) a top carmaker and delivery firm ZTO…
La Liga Offers NFTs To All It’s Players
Spainish soccer league, La Liga on Thursday stated that it will offer NFTs to all its players, marking the latest move into cryptocurrencies by a major sports organization.
Fear Over Gaming Restrictions Causes Loss Of Share Price
Shares of Tencent and Netease plunged on Thursday after Chinese regulators called them and other gaming companies for an interview,…
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 by…
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…
Automated Checkout Introduced At Whole Foods Stores – Amazon
Amazon is introducing its automated checkout technology to two Whole Foods stores, the company announced on Wednesday, marking the latest…
Ghana: SIM Card Registration To Resume In October
Ghana’s Minister of Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, has announced that the delayed national SIM card re-registration exercise will begin…
Netherland Confirms Delay of 5G Auction
The Netherlands’ State Secretary for Economic Affairs Mona Keijzer has told the House of Representatives that the planned auction for…
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 COVID-19,” said executive…
Civil Society Organisations Knock Nigeria’s Tax Authority Over Planned Social Media Tax
Civil Society Organisations on Monday condemned the Federal Inland Revenue Service over its decision to impose taxes on social media…
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 agreement…
El Salvador Bought $21 Million Of Bitcoin As It Becomes First Country To Make It a Legal Currency
El Salvador bought roughly $20.9 million worth of bitcoin, one day before it formally adopts the world’s most popular cryptocurrency…
Journey Towards Nigeria’s Digital Currency
Central banks in more than 70 countries are presently studying or at advanced stages of developing their Central Bank Digital…
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 that fail to verify and…