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Singapore Wealth Fund Buys 2.5% Stake In Cellnex From Benetton Family
Singapore wealth fund GIC has agreed to buy a 2.5% stake in Europe’s largest mobile phone towers operator Cellnex…
Facebook, Google Suggest Reform
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has laid out steps to reform a key internet law on Wednesday, saying…
Federal Government Of Nigeria Begs States To Back Actualisation Of 70 Per Cent…
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, has appealed to state governments to cooperate…
US Congress Piles Pressure On Big Tech CEOs Over Misinformation
Only Twitter Inc CEO Jack Dorsey replied “yes” to the question but said the “broader ecosystem” had to be taken…
Forex, Border Control Soar Prices Of Fairly Used Cars`
The prices of fairly used cars known as 'Tokumbo' have skyrocketed due to tight border control and soaring exchange…
Africa Is Ripe With Enough Innovation To Finance Its Future
If anything would increase a country’s chances of attaining economic independence, it is financial inclusion. With…
NFT Artwork By Humanoid Robot Sells At Auction For Nearly $700,000
A digital artwork by humanoid robot Sophia was sold at auction on Thursday for $688,888 in the form of a…
Boohoo Cuts Number Of UK Suppliers
British online fashion retailer Boohoo on Thursday revealed a major consolidation in its supplier base as it…
MTN Nigeria Unveils Customer Engagement Platform
MTN Nigeria has unveiled a new unified customer engagement platform, EnGauge, designed to enable small-to-medium…
Deutsche Telekom, Slovak Unit Lose Appeal Against EU Antitrust Fine
Deutsche Telekom and its Slovak unit on Thursday lost their fight against an antitrust fine levied nearly a decade…
Google Offered A Professor $60,000, But He Turned It Down. Here’s Why
When Luke Stark sought money from Google in November he had no idea he'd be turning down $60,000 from the tech…
Asian Shares Wobble In Volatile Trade As China Tech Selloff Weighs
Asian equities bounced between gains and losses on Thursday as a selloff in Chinese technology shares due to…
Chinese Tech Stocks Fall As U.S. SEC Begins Rollout Of Law Aimed At Delisting
Shares in dual-listed Chinese companies fell sharply on Thursday in Asia after the U.S. securities regulator…
Massachusetts Court Reverses Order Requiring Facebook To Disclose App Records In…
The top court in Massachusetts on Wednesday reversed an order requiring Facebook Inc to turn over to state Attorney…
Google Signs News Content Deals With Italian Publishers
Alphabet Inc’s Google has sealed its first licence agreements in Italy with several publishers to offer access to…
Airlines Must Pay All Charges Except Duty, VAT -NCS
The Nigeria Customs Service on Tuesday said airlines operating across the country including Air Peace must pay all…
Euro Zone Economy Back To Growth In March As Factories Roar: PMI
Euro zone economic activity made a surprise return to growth this month as factories ramped up production to its…
TSMC Shares Slide, As Taiwan Plays Down Intel’s $20 Billion Expansion…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) shares fell nearly 4% on Wednesday after Intel Corp announced a…
Musk Says ‘Can Now Buy A Tesla With Bitcoin’
Tesla Inc's Elon Musk tweeted here on Wednesday, "you can now buy a Tesla with bitcoin."
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Nigerian Fintech Startup, Blueloop, Gets YC Backing As It Plans Global Expansion
Nigerian fintech startup, Blueloop, has been accepted into the Winter 2021 batch of US-based accelerator, Y…
Twitter Boss Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet Sells For $2.9m
Each NFT has its own blockchain-based digital signature, which serves as a public ledger, allowing anyone to verify…
GameStop Loses Second Senior Exec As Shakeup Deepens
GameStop Corp said on Tuesday its chief customer officer Frank Hamlin will resign from the company on March 31, the…
Norway Blocks Rolls-Royce’s Plan To Sell Engine Maker To Russia
Norway will block Rolls-Royce from selling a Norwegian maritime engine maker to a Russian company on national…
Federal Government Orders Immediate Resumption Of Domestic Flights Catering…
Catering services, hitherto suspended at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic are to resume on domestic flights…
Abu Dhabi Funds Invest $150 Million In Messaging App Telegram
Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company and Abu Dhabi Catalyst Partners have invested a…
Microsoft In Talks To Acquire Discord For More Than $10 Billion
Microsoft Corp is in talks to buy messaging platform Discord Inc for more than $10 billion, Bloomberg News…
AB Volvo Shares Fall 7% After Warning Chip Shortage To Hit Output
Shares in AB Volvo fell 7% on Tuesday after the Swedish truckmaker warned of a substantial hit on production in the…
A Company Will Pay You $2,400 To Stay Away From Screens For 24Hours
Put the phone away for an hour. Or, better yet, make it 24 hours -- you might just get $2,400 out of it.…
Rise Fund To Invest $200 Mln In Airtel Africa’s Mobile Money Business At…
Telecommunications and mobile money services provider Airtel Africa said it signed an agreement under which The…
Samsung Gets 5G Equipment Contract From Japan’s NTT Docomo
Samsung Electronics Co said on Monday it has won a contract from Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo Inc to supply…