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Mastercard announced today that it is championing efforts to increase contactless payment limits across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region as people look for safer ways to pay in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The initiative is in line with recommendations from global and regional health authorities and…

In a bid to reduce the spread of fake news during this coronavirus pandemic, WhatsApp is introducing a limit so that these messages can only be forwarded to one chat at a time. This means that when you receive a frequently forwarded message and it has been forwarded more than…

Do you know you can advance your career by taking free online courses during this coronavirus lockdown? There are several organisations offering free courses such as Harvard Business School, Coursera, Oracle and more. Harvard Business School The prestigious Harvard Business School (HBS) is offering free, interactive business lessons you can…

The Nigerian government has issued a statement denying the issuance of the 5G license to any mobile telecommunications company in the country. The press statement was made by Dr Isa Patanmi, the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy yesterday. He did this in part to allay the fears of…

South African based fintech startup, TaxTim has expanded into Nigeria through a partnership with PwC. This is the second country outside South Africa after Namibia which was launched in June 2015. Founded in 2011 by Marc Sevitz and Evan Robinson with initial seed funding from Google, TaxTim offer virtual tax assistance…

Access Bank has just launched a new service called Dual Transaction Service (DTS) which avails profiled customers access to a credit line through their existing debit card. This means that your Debit card can act as a Credit card also. According to a statement from the bank, the DTS is…

Yesterday German tech investor, Rocket Internet, stated that it has finally divested from the African e-commerce giant, Jumia. Bettina Curtze, Head of finance and investments of Rocket Internet made this revelation recently while speaking to journalists. Jumia had held an 11% stake in Jumia as of November 8 2019 and…

When working on its budget for 2020, I am sure CEO Eric Yuan never thought there would be an upsurge in the use of Zoom as it is experiencing right now with the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to Yuan in a recent blog post, “Usage of Zoom…

Andela Vice President, Global Operations, Seni Sulyman has announced that he is leaving the company this May. He tweeted about his transition today and shared his transition in a blog post. According to him, he is taking a personal sabbatical to rest, rest, rest, reflect, read, write, and re-energize. Omowale…

After seeing the rise in video conferencing apps, Facebook has finally decided to bring audio and video calling onto desktops with the launch of Messenger apps for MacOS and Windows. This is nine years after the launch of Facebook Messenger. And Facebook had originally announced the Messenger desktop apps at its F8…

Electronics giant, Sony has introduced two new headphones – the Wireless WF-XB700 Headphones and WH-CH710N Noise Canceling Headphones. Experience Punchy Sound with the WF-XB700’s EXTRA BASS™ Featuring Sony’s EXTRA BASS technology, the WF-XB700 headphones create precise, punchy rhythms that lift every track and maintain vocal clarity for a superbly rich,…

YouTube is reportedly working on a rival named “Shorts” to compete with TikTok, the Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance. According to The Information, YouTube is planning to release “Shorts” before the end of 2020. It will be a feature inside its existing mobile app and will include…

Ride-hailing companies Uber and Bolt have temporatily suspended operations in Nigeria because of the lockdown imposed by the President to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari on March 29, 2020, directed that all forms of movement will be halted for the next…

Kenyan Peter Ndegwa has officially taken over Michael Joseph as CEO of Kenyan telecoms giant, Safaricom. The Safaricom Plc. Board of Directors named Peter as the next CEO last year taking over from Michael Joseph who made a comeback in an acting capacity at the helm of East Africa’s largest telco…

44 years ago, three brave men came together to create a company – Apple Computer Company. These men were Steve Jobs (deceased), Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. Bet you didn’t know that they were three at the beginning. Well after 12 days, Ronald sold his 10% share of the company…

Traditionally, brands and people would have been celebrating April Fools’ day with pranks and tricks. This year is different as corporate bodies and governments have decided to skip the pranks so that they are not seen as insensitive to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Tech giant Google, famous for its annual…

With the COVID-19 pandemic still on where most people are now on lockdown and working from home, you need to be more cyber-secure as you are not within your office environment where you are protected by firewalls, anti-viruses and more. Here are 10 ways to be Cyber-Secure when working remotely…

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) is collaborating with the Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), the leading technology innovation centre in Africa, to launch a call, for innovative communication projects on COVID-19 based on African languages targeted at the semi-urban and rural population across Africa. The communication projects are…

With the current coronavirus pandemic spreading round the world, there are definitely some dubious characters who want to take advantage of vulnerable people and scam them. The apps claim they help in tracking COVID-19 cases, testing for COVID-19 and even treating COVID-19. There are reports of some apps which are…

GT Bank, Africa Finance Corporation have donated a 110-bed isolation centre to aid the Lagos state government in its management of #COVID19 cases in Lagos state. The facility was set up in record time of one week. The isolation centre situated at the Mobolaji Olufunsho Johnson Stadium in Onikan, has…