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81% Of Women Entrepreneurs In Middle East, Africa Own Digital Businesses
Despite the gender gap and social challenges, entrepreneurial women across the world and in the Middle East and…
Crypto Platform Poly Network Rewards Hacker With $500,000 ‘Bug Bounty’
Poly Network, the cryptocurrency platform which lost $610 million in a hack earlier this week, confirmed on Friday…
U.S. House Members Introduce Bill Targeting Apple And Google App Stores
A Republican and a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill aimed at reining in…
Tesla’s Musk Hopes To Make First Cars At Berlin Plant In Oct
Tesla (TSLA.O) hopes to make the first cars at its "Gigafactory" in Gruenheide, near Berlin, in October or…
FinTech Raises N11.5bn Series ‘A’ Funding To Address Vehicle Financing Gap In…
Moove, an African mobility fintech, has raised $23 million Series ‘A’ funding, led by Speedinvest and Left Lane…
Instagram Unveils New Tools To Reduce Abuse, Racist Comments
Instagram on Wednesday announced new measures to curb abusive and racist content on the image-centric social…
Computer Security Firm Norton Buys Avast For Over $8bn
US cybersecurity giant NortonLifeLock is to buy Czech rival Avast for over $8 billion to create a leading consumer…
Experts Weigh Costs As Federal Government Plans To Unban Twitter
The Federal Government has hinted at a possible resolution to the suspension of micro-blogging platform, Twitter in…
Airbnb Shares Fall After Company Reports Revenue Jump Of 300% But Warns About…
Airbnb’s stock on Thursday fell more than 4% after the company reported its second-quarter earnings. The company…
More Than $600 Million Stolen In What Is Likely To Be One Of The Biggest…
More than $600 million has been stolen in what’s likely to be one of the biggest cryptocurrency thefts ever.…
Semiconductor Veteran Confirms He’s Part Of A £300 Million Plan To Buy The United…
Semiconductor veteran Ron Black, the former CEO of the U.K.’s Imagination Technologies which used to design chips…
More Than $600 Million Stolen In What Is Likely To Be One Of The Biggest…
More than $600 million has been stolen in what’s likely to be one of the biggest cryptocurrency thefts ever.…
Lenovo Q1 Profit More Than Doubles, Beats Expectations
China's Lenovo Group Ltd (0992.HK), the world's biggest maker of personal computers, on Wednesday posted a…
Facebook Removes Russian Network That Targeted Influencers To Peddle Anti-vax…
Facebook (FB.O) said on Tuesday it had removed a network of accounts from Russia that it linked to a marketing firm…
SoftBank Unit Behind Risky Multibillion-Dollar Tech Bets Dumps Microsoft,…
SoftBank has offloaded shares of U.S. tech giants like Facebook, Microsoft, Alphabet and Netflix, according to its…
Digital Economy: Cloud Computing Offers Fresh Vista
Nigeria has never hidden its resolve to leverage emerging digital technologies to transform the economy.The…
Australian Startup Dovetail Set For Expansion As Valuation Hits $100 Mln
Australian customer analytics startup Dovetail wants to almost triple its staff and open an office in the United…
Samsung Leader Jay Y. Lee Granted Parole, To Leave Prison On Friday
Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) vice chairman Jay Y. Lee, in jail after convictions for bribery, embezzlement and…
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…
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…
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…
Southeast Asia’s Tech Start-Ups Could be valued at $1 trillion By 2025,…
Southeast Asia’s technology start-ups had a combined valuation of $340 billion last year and that figure may jump…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Flutterwave To Drive US Expansion As It Appoints Silicon Valley Veteran As Head Of…
African payments startup, Flutterwave, has announced the appointment of Jimmy Ku as the Head of US Growth.
With…
Nigeria Can Generate Billions of Dollars From Cloud Computing Services To Unlock…
The Director General/CEO, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi has…