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The Mastercard Foundation has launched a new initiative “Young Africa Works” in Ghana to enable three million young people to access dignified and fulfilling work by 2030 The initiative is aligned with the government’s An Agenda for Jobs: Creating Prosperity and Equal Opportunity for All, and Ghana’s commitment to positioning the…

Alphabet’s Google will pay between $150 and $200 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission investigation into YouTube’s alleged violation of a children’s privacy law. This was first reported by Politico and has been corroborated by The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg . It is said that the official settlement will likely be made…

YouTube has launched a kid-friendly website named YouTubekids.com. This may be in reaction to the anticipated hammer from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation. It is rumoured that Alphabet’s Google will pay between $150 and $200 million to settle the Federal Trade Commission investigation into YouTube’s alleged violation of a…

Lenovo has introduced the next generation of Android tablets –  the Lenovo Tab M7 and Lenovo Tab M8. These tablets are the latest in the Lenovo’s mainstream (or M series) of tablets, which offer families a premium look and feel at an affordable price. The M series is a mid-level…

Bolt, formerly known as Taxify, commences operations in its 8th city in Nigeria, Port-harcourt. Previous cities include Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Owerri, Benin City, Calabar and Uyo. According to Uche Okafor, Bolt’s regional manager for West Africa; “After successful launches in seven Nigerian cities, expanding to the cosmopolitan city of Port…

Twitter has restored the account of #BBOG co-founder, Aisha Yesufu after tendering an apology. Aisha’s Twitter account was frozen for some hours thereby making it impossible for her to use her account. Aisha shared a photo of the apology letter from support@twitter.com. See the image below. According to Twitter, Aisha’s…

Apple has sent out invites for possibly the unveiling of the next iPhone scheduled for the 10th of September. The venue for the Apple event is the company’s Apple Park headquarters in Cupertino, California. There has been rumours and leaks but all that would be put to rest. It is…

Chinese electronic giant, Xiaomi, has just launched the Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro. Launched in China today, one of the outstanding features of the phones is actually the 64MP camera for the Redmi Note 8 Pro; making it officially the world’s first smartphone with a 64MP primary sensor.…

World Economic Forum (WEF) has launched a new initiative to help African start-up enterprises grow and compete in international markets. It is called the Africa Growth Platform. According to WEF, the Africa Growth Platform will do this in three ways: firstly, by securing commitments from governments to implement policy reforms aimed at…

Solar energy company, BBOXX, has successfully raised $50 million in a Series D funding round to boost BBOXX’s expansion drive and fuel its mission to use technology to unlock potential and transform millions of lives worldwide The financial milestone includes a substantial investment from Mitsubishi Corporation, a global integrated business enterprise…

US-based Fintech service, Esusu, has announced the closing of a $1.6 million seed round to scale, expand market share, and focus on product development. The seed round was led by Acumen Fund with participation from Sinai Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Katapult Accelerator, Plug and Play Tech Center, Global Good Fund, Temerity Capital…

Google has announced that it is shutting down the job application tracking system, Hire by Google, it launched just two years ago. The company had built “Hire” with Diane Greene, a former Alphabet board member. According to the tech giant, it says it is focusing its resources on other products in…

The Executive Governor of Oyo State, Engr. Oluwaseyi Makinde has unveiled a partnership between Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first digital agriculture platform, and the Oyo State government. The official launch event which was held on Monday in Ibadan, Oyo State had all executive members and commissioners of the Oyo State cabinet in…

According to Canalys, Baidu replaced Google in the number 2 position in the smart speaker market in the second quarter of 2019. The Chinese vendor grew 3,700% to reach 4.5 million units in quarter 2 after it re-entered the market with Xiaodu device in Q2 last year. Even though Baidu…

Gokada is back on the streets after a 2-week hiatus with Gokada 2.0 initiative. A couple of days ago, CEO of Gokada, Fahim Saleh said that the ride-hailing company was shutting down operations for two weeks. This was to attend to some operational issues that Fahim experienced while on the…

The photograph of a young girl carrying another younger albino girl has won Spaniard Sara De Antonio Feu the 2018/19 Grand Prize of the prestigious Nikon Photo Contest. De Antonio Feu’s winning photo was taken in Ghana and shows Ayimpoka, a young girl with albinism. Albinism is a recessive condition that drastically reduces…

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has approved the disbursement of $230 million to telecoms company 9mobile (formerly known as Etisalat Nigeria) to support its growth plans. According to a statement released by Abdulrahman Ado, its executive director for regulatory and corporate affairs, the facility divided into two tranches will be used to…

PewDiePie (real name Felix Kjellberg) now has over 100 million subscribers to his YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFzM-7_dSyE Though this is a newsworthy achievement, this does not necessarily translate to earnings. Last year he was ranked number 8 on the “YouTube earners in the top ten list for 2018” with $15.5 million. The…

Samsung witnessed a growth in its smartphone sales in the 2nd quarter of 2019 after six consecutive quarterly declines. It sold over 75 million smartphones in the second quarter of 2019 and grew its share by 1.1 percentage points year over year. It defied the global decline in smartphone sales…

Facebook is working on another messaging app to compete with Snapchat. It is called “Threads”. According to “The Verge”, this app is meant to promote constant, intimate sharing between users and their closest friends. Wonder why Facebook is intent in introducing yet another app? Well Facebook is intent on winning…