TikTok announced that it has started the rollout of a new audience control feature which gives creators the ability to restrict their videos to adult viewers. Hitherto, the adult-only audience controls feature was only available for TikTok Live. TikTok says it will expand the feature globally over the coming weeks.…
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On Wednesday, tech giant Meta was slapped with a fine of €390 million ($414 million) for a breach of European Union (EU) privacy laws. Meta was accused of “forcing” subscribers to consent to the processing of their personal data for behavioural advertising and other personalised services. Specifically, Meta was ordered…
Tech giant Microsoft is said to be working with OpenAI to incorporate its ChatGPT software into the Bing search engine. According to The Information, two people with direct knowledge of the plans say that Microsoft is preparing to launch a version of its Bing search engine that uses the artificial…
Do you know that as a Nigerian, you can now buy shares of exchange-listed securities on the Johannesburg Stock exchange seamlessly from Nigeria with the commencement of the cross-border trading on the African Exchanges Linkage Project (AELP)? The AELP Trading Link went live on 18 November following a beta testing…
The mobile telecom operators under the auspices of the Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) have threatened to stop providing Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) services to the banks over N80 billion debt. This was reiterated by the Chairman of the body, Gbenga Adebayo, who made this known…
Imagine a solution to sleepless nights caused by nightmares. Apple has launched a solution to this and it is called NightWare. NightWare is a prescription digital therapeutic system for the reduction of sleep disturbance related to Nightmare Disorder or nightmares from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is the first and…
A recent study found that 83% of B2B marketers use social advertising. It is only second to search engines in terms of effectiveness as a marketing channel. The social space provides several advantages for B2B brands, ranging from customer nurturing to flexing industry influence. Although B2B social media marketing can…
Chinese ByteDance, the parent body of TikTok, stated that an internal investigation showed that its workers obtained data on a small number of U.S. users, including two reporters – Emily Baker-White, who wrote for BuzzFeed and is now at Forbes, and Cristina Criddle of the Financial Times who were covering…
Meta, parent company of Facebook, has agreed to pay $725 million as settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit related to the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal. This is the latest in payments by the company concerning the scandal that came to light in 2018. As the story goes, a…
The African Development Bank (ADB) has announced the approval of an additional €5.01 million for the Diamniadio Digital Technology Park in Senegal. This is in addition to an initial loan of €60.96 million extended to the country for this effort in 2016. The brings the bank’s commitment to 87% of…
Tech giant, Meta, has announced that it is shutting down Jobs on Facebook on 22 February 2023. This means that the feature will no longer be available on the Facebook app, Facebook mobile website (m.facebook.com/jobs) or Facebook desktop site for both employers and seekers. It was shut down everywhere except…
Lionel Messi, the world cup winning captain of the Argentine national team, has added another feather to his cap by posting the most liked post on Instagram ever. His Instagram post showing him lifting the world cup in celebration has become the most popular post on social media with over…
Many people think of the festive season as being the happiest time of the year. And while that may be true, there’s no denying that it’s also a time during which many people feel stressed out. This is often because buying gifts for people can be overwhelming. However, it doesn’t…
There is always something new brewing at Twitter and that is why the recent engagement has been on the high. The Elon Musk owned social media platform has commenced the rollout of a new program called “Twitter Blue for Business” to assist businesses distinguish their brands and key employees on…
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Aiphabet and Google revealed in a tweet that the Google Search engine recorded the highest ever traffic in 25 years during the final match of 2022 FIFA World cup that took place in Qatar between Argentina and France. According to him, “it was like the entire…
Having one revenue stream may prove a business is unreliable, insufficient, and risky. While it’s pretty tough to create one successful income stream, the benefits of developing and making more are worth the try. Multiple and diversified revenue streams are considered the elixir of any business. A company with more…
MyHealth Africa, a Kenyan Healthtech startup has raised $1 million in a seed funding round led by GIIG Africa fund, with participation from existing investors and a new investor, Japanese-based Samurai VC. The company intends to expand in Africa and enter in Middle East and Asia next year. Launched in…
(Update: After the criticism of this new policy, Twitter has silently deleted the tweets announcing the policy that stopped the promotion of specific social media links and handles on its platform. It has also deleted the policy altogether.) Elon Musk has now tweeted that the “policy will be adjusted to…
Sun King, one of the leading providers of solar energy products for off-grid homes in Africa and Asia, announced that it has received $70 million in equity investment from Leapfrog Investments to extend its Series D funding round to $330 million. In April 2022, the solar energy company announced that…
Twitter suspended @ElonJet, the bot account created by a student, Jack Sweeney, tracking Elon Musk’s flights in the early hours of Wednesday morning. So this student called Jack Sweeney created a Twitter account, named @ElonJet that uses publicly available data to track the whereabouts of Elon Musk’s private jet. The University of…