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MTN Partners fintechs As Talks With Banks Lingers
MTN has activated a number of new channel partnerships with fintech companies as the company continues meeting with…
Hyundai Motor To Suspend South Korea Production Due To Chip Shortage: Yonhap
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co plans to suspend production for two days from Monday at its Asan plant because of a…
China’s Capital Envisages 10,000 Fuel Cell Vehicles By 2025
The city of Beijing aims to have over 10,000 fuel cell vehicles on the road and build 74 hydrogen filling stations…
Europe Should Invest In Chip Design, Not A Mega-Fab: Think Tank
Europe’s ambition to make the most powerful computer chips risks wasting billions of euros, a German think tank…
China EV Battery Maker Octillion Looks To Cash In On Carbon Neutral Drive
China’s push towards carbon neutrality as well as its growing manufacturing might will allow electric vehicles (EV)…
Prosus Nets $14.6 Billion From Sale Of Tencent Stake
Amsterdam-based technology investor Prosus NV has netted $14.6 billion from the sale of a 2% stake in Tencent…
MacBook, IPad Production Delayed As Supply Crunch Hits Apple – Nikkei
-Production of some of Apple Inc’s MacBooks and iPads has been postponed due to a global component shortage, the…
SaltPay To Acquire Apis Partners-Controlled Tutuka; PE To Swap Stake
European payments firm SaltPay has inked a deal to acquire South Africa-born third-party payments enabler…
Azman Reshuffles Management After NCAA Audit
Azman Air has reshuffled a number of appointments amongst its management cadre following the recently concluded…
U.S. Auto Industry Calls For Government Help As It Warns Of Impact Of Chip…
A U.S. auto industry group on Monday urged the government to help as it warned the global semiconductor shortage…
Africans Unwilling To Quit WhatsApp, Despite Cybercrime Threats’
Africa’s mobile users are getting worried about the increase in cybercrime threats, considering the mobile risks…
‘30m People Worldwide Acquire Digital Skills During COVID-19’
Microsoft Corporation has disclosed that it has helped over 30 million people in 249 countries and territories gain…
Tech Start-up Set To Launch Virtual Meeting Solution
A Nigerian tech start-up firm, Newwaves Ecosystems Limited, is pitching for a major stake in the…
PayPal Allows US Shoppers To Make Cryptocurrency Purchases
PayPal on Tuesday began allowing people in the United States to use cryptocurrency to make purchases from millions…
Leveraging Customer Data For Growth Acceleration
Raheem Akingbolu writes on how businesses can leverage on customer data to drive sales and accelerate brand growth…
ByteDance Considers Listing Douyin In New York Or Hong Kong: Sources
ByteDance is in talks about a possible offshore listing of its short video app Douyin, the Chinese version of…
Hitachi To Buy U.S. Software Developer GlobalLogic For $9.6 Billion
Hitachi Ltd said on Wednesday it will buy U.S. software company GlobalLogic Inc for $9.6 billion, including…
A Billion Dollars For Every Chip-Maker Who ‘Makes In India’
India is offering more than $1 billion in cash to each semiconductor company that sets up manufacturing units in…
Tech Start-Up Set To Launch Virtual Meeting Solution
A Nigerian tech start-up firm, New waves Ecosystems Limited, is pitching for a major stake in the…
Ericsson Opens Lab In Canada To Test New 5G Tech
Ericsson is opening a lab in Ottawa, Canada, to work with customers and partners on new 5G radio access networks…
Daimler To Speed Up Electric Shift As 2021 Starts Strongly
Daimler has got off to a good start in 2021 despite a global shortage of semiconductor chips, and plans to…
PayPal To Let US Users Pay With Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin From Today
Online payment app PayPal has announced US customers can make payments with its “Checkout with Crypto” feature,…
Hyundai Motor To Suspend Some South Korea Output Due To Chip, Component Supply…
South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co said on Tuesday it plans to temporarily suspend production at its Ulsan No.1 plant…
BMW Has Got Its Timing Right For Beefing Up Electric Cars: CEO
BMW has timed its shift to electric cars well and its upcoming products will upend the perception the German…
Exclusive: Visa Moves To Allow Payment Settlements Using Cryptocurrency
Visa Inc said on Monday it will allow the use of the cryptocurrency USD Coin to settle transactions on its payment…
NIN: Telcos Lose 11.8 Million Subscribers In Four Months
The number of telecom subscribers in the country dropped by 11.84 million in four months, according to latest…
Seplat Issues $650m Five-Year Senior Notes
Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc, a Nigerian independent energy company, said on Sunday that it had priced…
Toyota Presses Australia To Promote Roll-Out Of Hydrogen Fuel Stations
Toyota Motor Corp on Monday opened its first commercial hydrogen fuel pump site in the Australian state of…
Visa Moves To Allow Payment Settlements Using Cryptocurrency
Visa Inc said on Monday it will allow the use of the cryptocurrency USD Coin to settle transactions on its payment…
Telcos Reject Demand By Banks For Sim Swap List
Telecommunication Companies have rejected the demand by Association of Chief Audit Executives of Banks in Nigeria…