Uber Drivers are not working today in Abuja because they are on strike due to ‘a series of issues with the company’. Media Reports reveal that attempts to resolve issues affecting both drivers and partners have been rebuffed by Uber thus the need for the drivers downing tools. Some of the issues…
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Uber’s ambition seems to be the total domination of the transport business. It is arguably the global leader in the provision of taxi hailing services. Now it has ventured into self-driving trucks. While other tech companies like Google are still testing self-driving cars, Uber has taken the bold step to make…
Study by researchers at the University of Stirling, Scotland show that heading a ball can cause significant changes in the performance and function of the brain. The researchers in making this discovery tested 19 players by making them head a ball shot from a machine 20 times. The result revealed…
Drake’s ‘One Dance’ is officially the most streamed song on Spotify ever. It has been streamed more than 882 million times on the podcast, music and video streaming site. The song which featured Nigeria Afrobeat star, Wizkid And British singer Kyla has had an amazing reception since it was released…
The websites of big companies like Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, Netflix, GitHub and Amazon amongst many other suffered a major Distributed Denial-Of-Service attack today. . According to Hacker News, a “Massive Dyn DNS outrage” caused Twitter, Amazon, Vox Media, Reddit, Airbnb, Etsy, Github, SoundCloud and Spotify to go offline. In addition, it…
The days of yay and Nay-(the yays have it!) in the senate may be over as the red chamber used the electronic voting system for the first time (of course, we know their attitude towards electronic voting). Interestingly, they followed this up by streaming their plenary live on Facebook? even though…
China seems to be making it difficult for businesses from the United States to successfully and smoothly operate. Few months ago, Uber exited China, and Apple is finding it difficult to find its foot in the country. Now, news has emerged that Netflix has given up launching in China after…
In the future, it seems many of us will be unable to do without Google because we will need in every facet of our life. A good sign of this is that Google can now alert you on the possible time the price of your flight ticket will increase. The…
YouTube owned by Google has bought FameBit, a platform that connects businesses to Vloggers and video content creators who may be interested in sponsoring them. The idea behind buying FameBit according to reports is to ensure that video makers earn money from producing videos. With this purchase, YouTubers especially those…
In order to prevent the mass exodus of users to rival services due to Yahoo’s email breach which affected 500 million users, it has disabled automatic email forwarding. Automatic email forwarding makes it possible for users not to miss important messages as they change one address for another. This is an…
Despite assurances and the ongoing swap of the Galaxy Note 7 by Samsung, the tech giant has decided to suspend production of the smartphone in order to manage the recall of more than 2.5 million smartphones. This action was as a result of new reports of overheating and fires with phones…
It seems Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new bride as technology companies are making efforts to launch their own AI. Google launched its AI-powered system that works via its smartphones while Amazon recently unveiled its Echo Speaker powered by the AI assistant Alexa. Today, Samsung announced that it is acquiring…
The Prime Minister of Norway, Erna Solberg was caught playing the virtual reality game, Pokemon Go during a debate in parliament. The leader of the Conservative party was pictured playing the game when the opposition leader was addressing members of parliament. This is not the first time Solberg was nabbed…
Messaging app, WhatsApp as introduced has upgraded its app to accommodate new camera features that can be used to customize and enhance images and videos shared on the platform. With WhatsApp’s new camera features, users can now do more. They can write or draw on pictures and videos as well…
When traditional taxi drivers in Nairobi protested against Uber by attacking their drivers, I questioned why the drivers should result to that rather than re-strategise. Well, this is no longer a surprise to me as I had a firsthand experience of riding in an Uber cab during this long independence…
Business leaders, investors, regulators, entrepreneurs, statistics and research firms can now get tax information at their fingertips as foremost multinational professional services firm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC), Nigeria has launched an app called Tax247 for this purpose. This app will provide up-to-date and latest data about relevant tax and related laws. Speaking…
Five persons have been arraigned before a magistrate court in Tanzania for abusing the President, John Magufuli on social media. The accused who were charged separately are: Mr. Dennis Temu, Mr. Suleiman Nassoro, Ms. Shakira Makame, Mr. Juma Mtatuu and Mr. Dennis Mtegwa. They were charged with sharing offensive content…
Engaging in groundbreaking projects is not something that is alien to Uber. It is testing self-driving or autonomous cars. You are already aware of this. But, there is a new one. Jeff Holden, the Chief Product Officer at Uber Technologies announced that the company is researching into small planes that…
Facebook has posted amazing results for the past few years both in the number of active users and ad video views. However, this growth especially, for their ad video views, may be questionable it was discovered that since Facebook launched video ads in 2014, the biggest social media network in…
Nigerians who have been tagging Aba-made products as counterfeit can now abdicate that perception as the Abia State Government is launching, http://madeinaba.com.ng/, an Ecommerce platform for goods made in Aba on October 1st, Nigeria’s independence day. This was announced in a tweet by Sam Hart, a Senior Special Assistant to…