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Warner Music Group has announced that it is investing in Africori, Africa’s leading digital music distribution, music rights management and artist development company. The deal gives Warner Music’s ADA division access to Africa’s largest catalogue and A&R network, as well as enabling WMG to establish a presence in many African…

Nigerian education technology startup, uLesson, has announced new investment from Founder Collective, a marquee seed-stage venture capital fund. Though the amount is undisclosed, it is part of uLesson’s seed funding round secured in 2019 and it allows the edtech to expand its online learning platform. uLesson’s online platform leverages best…

As you may have noticed over the last couple of days, Google has been dishing out Google Doodles on its search page thanking the coronavirus helpers globally amid the pandemic. The series of Doodles which started in the 6th of April, shows the people responding to COVID-19—from doctors and nurses…

Tech giant Google has launched a global Journalism Emergency Relief Fund through the Google News Initiative to support small and medium-sized news organizations producing original news for local communities during this COVID-19 pandemic. Available globally, the fund is to support the production of original content for local communities. It will…

Facebook has launched several tools and resources to help faith-based communities/groups stay connected and engaged during the current COVID-19 outbreak. The resources include the “Faith on Facebook Resource Hub” and the Faith on Facebook toolkit, both providing guidance and step-by-step tips that faith-based groups can use to keep their communities engaged while…

Instagram has now rolled out the feature where you can now get and send Instagram Direct messages on desktop. Hitherto this was only available to a privileged few as Instagram started rolling out this feature this January. Instagram took to Twitter to make this announcement last Friday. So this direct…

Nigerian edtech startup, uLesson, is partnering with Airtel Nigeria to provide online education at a subsidized rate to Nigerian students during this coronavirus lockdown. The partnership provides all new and existing uLesson subscribers who use the Airtel network, free 500MB daily to continue learning via the uLesson app. Launched by…

Tech giant Google announced that it is giving gamers free access to Stadia Pro for two months to to cope with staying at home during this coronavirus lockdown. Launched last year, Stadia is a video game platform, delivering instant access to your favorite games on any type of screen—whether it’s…

Microsoft’s Skype has unveiled a new service “Meet Now” where you can carry out video conferences without signing up or downloads. Hitherto, you would need to have a Skype ID or an account before having a conference call with anyone on Skype. This is sometimes a limiting factor when you…

Yves Guillemot, Founder & CEO of French video games giant Ubisoft S.A. has invested and undisclosed amount in Franco-Nigerian startup Africa Delivery Technologies SAS, operator of the Kwik Delivery service in Nigeria The investment, part of Kwik’s ongoing Series A round, aims to allow the company to scale up in…

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…