S.Korea’s Krafton, Maker Of Hit Game ‘PUBG’, Tumbles On Debut
Shares in Krafton Inc (259960.KS), the Tencent Holdings-backed (0700.HK) South Korean company behind blockbuster video game “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” (PUBG), fell as much as…
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Apple Says Photos In iCloud Will Be Checked By Child Abuse Detection System
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Monday said that iPhone users’ entire photo libraries will be checked for known child abuse images if they…
Deliveroo Shares Rise After German Rival Takes Stake In The Business
Shares of food delivery firm Deliveroo climbed over 10% Monday after the company announced larger German rival Delivery Hero has…
Southeast Asia’s Tech Start-Ups Could be valued at $1 trillion By 2025, VentuCapital Firm Predict
Southeast Asia’s technology start-ups had a combined valuation of $340 billion last year and that figure may jump more than…
TikTok Owner ByteDance Aims For Hong Kong IPO By Early 2022 – FT
ByteDance, the Chinese owner of short video platform TikTok, has revived its plan to go public with a listing in…
Cisco Denies Report Of Developing Private-Cloud Subscription Service
Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) said on Friday it was not planning to offer a solution to help companies shift to private data…
New EV Battery Designs Unlikely To Dampen Metals Demand, Miners Say
Mining companies say they do not fear a plan by China’s CATL (300750.SZ) to make an electric vehicle (EV) battery without lithium…
Apple To Roll Out Photo Checking System On Country-By-Country Basis
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) will roll out a system for checking photos for child abuse imagery on a country-by-country basis, depending on local…
NetEase Delays $1 bln Hong Kong Listing Of Music Streaming Firm – Sources
NetEase Inc (9999.HK) has delayed the $1 billion Hong Kong initial public offering of its music streaming service Cloud Village because of…
Flutterwave To Drive US Expansion As It Appoints Silicon Valley Veteran As Head Of US Growth
African payments startup, Flutterwave, has announced the appointment of Jimmy Ku as the Head of US Growth. With plans to…
Nigeria Can Generate Billions of Dollars From Cloud Computing Services To Unlock Growth Opportunities
The Director General/CEO, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi has stated that Nigeria can generate huge sums…
Huawei Chairman Says The ‘Aim Is To Survive’ As Revenue Slides 30%
The chairman of Huawei said the Chinese technology company’s “aim is to survive” as revenue fell almost 30% in the…
U.S. FTC Says Facebook Misused Privacy Decree To Shut Down Ad Research
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission criticized Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Thursday for making “misleading claims” to explain why it had disabled the…
Qualcomm Tops Magna’s Bid With $4.6 Billion Offer For Veoneer
Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) said on Thursday it had offered to buy Swedish auto parts maker Veoneer Inc (VNE.N) for $4.6 billion, an 18.4%…
Tech’s Pandemic Boom Is Coming To An End
The Covid boom times are coming to an end for tech companies. After reporting eye-popping growth throughout 2020 as more…
Huawei Cloud Ranked World’s 5th Largest LaaS Provider
Huawei Cloud IaaS revenue surged by 202.8 per cent, placing it in the top five list of cloud IaaS providers…
Google’s New Policy Allows Crypto Ads To Be Run Again
Following the enforcement of Google’s new policy set out in its financial products and services section on Aug. 3, the company…
Koo, India’s Microblogging Platform Begins Move To Register In Nigeria
Indian microblogging app, Koo, has disclosed plan to formally register in Nigeria. The app became popular in June when the…
Twitter ban: Nigerians Lose N150.46bn In Two Months
Nigeria businesses may have lost N150.46bn ($366.88m) since the Federal Government’s ban on Twitter took effect in the country on…
U.S. Crime App Citizen Rolls Out First Paid Tool, Connecting Users To Safety Agents
U.S. crime alert app Citizen is launching its first paid feature, offering subscribers access to a live safety agent when…
Brazil Retailers Hunt For M&A Deals To Compete For E-Commerce Dominance
In March last year, Oziel da Silva Santos needed a new TV but with stores closed due to COVID-19 restrictions…
New York Times Digital Subscription Growth Slows To Lowest In Three Years
The New York Times Co’s (NYT.N) quarterly digital subscription growth slowed to its lowest in three years as the news cycle cooled…
Ether Falls 1% Ahead Of Major Upgrade To Ethereum Network
Ether fell about 1% on Wednesday ahead of a technical adjustment to its underlying ethereum blockchain that would alter the…
Sony Posts Record Q1 Profit On Pandemic Demand For Devices And Content
Sony Corp (6758.T) raised its earnings outlook on Wednesday after a record first-quarter operating profit helped by pandemic stay-at-home demand for PlayStation…
Elon Musk’s Photos Show SpaceX Rolling Out Its Massive Rocket Booster For Starship
SpaceX on Tuesday rolled out the rocket booster that the company plans to use to launch the first Starship orbital…
Marvell Tech To Acquire Innovium For $1.1 Bln As It Courts More Cloud Customers
Marvell Technology Inc (MRVL.O) on Tuesday said it has agreed to acquire chip startup Innovium in a $1.1 billion all-stock deal aimed…
Amazon Warehouse Workers Overwhelmingly Rejected A Union. Now They May Vote Again
A U.S. labor board official has recommended a rerun of a landmark Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) union election in Alabama where employees had…
Bill Gates And Melinda French Gates Are Officially Divorced Following 27-Year Marriage
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates have gotten divorced after 27 years of marriage. A Monday filing with…
Nigerians Spend Over N100 Billion On Browsing In 2020
The Nigerian telecommunication industry recorded significant growth in the year 2020, as Nigerians consumed a total of 205,880.4 terabytes worth…
Zoom To Settle US Privacy Lawsuit For $85 Mn
Zoom, the video conferencing firm, has agreed to settle a class-action US privacy lawsuit for $85 million, it said Sunday.…