Few would have predicted that short video loops of Kanye West or cats furiously typing on laptops would be the final straw for competition regulators. Yet on Tuesday, the U.K. ordered Meta Inc.’s Facebook to sell Giphy, the animated file search engine it bought for $315 million in 2020, in part because the deal would attract […]Read More
The Minister of Power, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, has assured the Republic of Chad of Nigeria’s continuous interaction on power interconnection. Mr Odutayo Oluseyi, Assistant Director, Press, Ministry of Power, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday quoted Aliyu as saying this while receiving the Chadian Ambassador, H.E Abakar Chahaimi, in his office. According to the […]Read More
Twitter’s chief executive officer, Jack Dorsey, announced Monday that he has resigned from the microblogging company. Mr Dorsey disclosed this in a post on his official handle. “Not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter,” his tweet reads. “I’ve decided to leave Twitter because I believe the company is ready to move on […]Read More
The social network platform which rose to prominence over two decades ago announced Thursday that it is renaming itself. The Mark Zuckerberg company will now be known as Meta, a nod to its future digital frontier Metaverse, a fusion of different digital worlds. Speaking at a virtual event to showcase Facebook’s technological plans for the future, […]Read More
Facebook has confirmed it will continue to ban Taliban content from its platforms as it considers the group to be a terrorist organisation. The company says it has a dedicated team of Afghan experts to monitor and remove content linked to the group. For years, the Taliban has used social media to spread its messages. […]Read More
In a bid to encourage voluntary compliance to building rights, the Lagos State Government, through the Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development, has engaged Developers under the aegis of the Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN), Lagos State Chapter. Speaking at the forum, tagged Developers Roundtable, at the Oriental Hotel, Victoria Island, on […]Read More
Technology giant, Google, has restated its commitment to the start-up ecosystem in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. It disclosed this yesterday at the opening of applications for the 6th Class of the Google for Start-ups Accelerator programme, and the launch of new developer scholarships in partnership with Pluralsight and Andela. At the virtual event, […]Read More
Netflix shares plunged Tuesday after the leading streaming service reported cooling growth in paid subscriptions that had caught fire during the pandemic. While revenue jumped 24 percent in the first quarter of this year when compared to the same period in 2020, paid memberships grew less than expected to 208 million, Netflix said in its […]Read More
Despite continued progress in the expansion of mobile service and Internet connectivity, 50 per cent of Africans (680 million people) did not use mobile phone in 2019 while about 75 per cent or 950 million people did not access mobile Internet in the same period. Africa is said to be home to about 1.36 billion […]Read More
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