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…
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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…
Tech giant, Visa, announced that it is going to investing $1 billion in Africa over the next five years to advance resilient, innovative, and inclusive economies across the continent. This announcement was made by Visa Chairman and CEO Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. at the U.S-Africa Business Forum alongside the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC Visa’s increased investments…
If you’re running a new real estate brokerage, it can feel a little daunting to be in the same industry as your more established competition. It’s certainly difficult to compete with decades-long legacies or millions of dollars worth of capital. There’s also the fact that all startups get confronted with…
Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON), the advertising regulatory body of Nigeria has issued a press release advising brand owners, digital bodies and secondary digital owners such as bloggers, skit makers, comedians, influencers, vloggers to obtain pre-approval of all advertisements or else face sanctions. ARCON through its director-general, Olalekan Fadolapo,…
Kenyan Nelly Cheboi has emerged CNN’s Hero of the year for 2022. The founder of TechLit Africa, a non-profit that provides students across rural Kenya with access to donated, upcycled computers, beat ten other heroes to cart away the much coveted prize at an event held at the American Museum…