Instagram has launched two new features Stories Highlights; a feature that puts Stories right on your profile and Stories Archive for private saving. This means Instagram users enabled by the archive feature will be able to automatically save their Stories after their 24 hours are up and they will exist…
Author: Oluwasegun Olukotun
Google is planning to deploy 10,000 employees to moderate YouTube videos in 2018. Recently there have outcry against the number of extremist content, non family friendly videos and channels flooding the video sharing site. YouTube chief, Susan Wojcick said that some users were exploiting YouTube to “mislead, manipulate, harass or…
Pan-African entrepreneurial training program, seed fund, and incubator MEST is partnering with Moringa School to offer Moringa School’s world-class technology training courses in all regions where MEST operates. Sequel to this development, Moringa courses will be offered at MEST Incubators in Cape Town, Lagos and Accra. With Moringa’s entry into…
Facebook and Instagram are both working on a new feature that will allow users to import Instagram contacts into Messenger according to Techcrunch. Facebook has been testing a way for users to cross-post Instagram Stories to their Facebook timeline this past September, and finally released the feature to everyone in…
Nigerian fintech startups Flutterwave and Riby have recently been named among the best 50 emerging fintech startups in the world according to the annual Fintech 100 report compiled by KPMG and H2 Ventures. The Fintech 100 demonstrates the acceleration of the disruption taking place in the global financial services industry,…
Facebook is rolling a version of Messenger specifically for users under 13 years of age those who are too young to use Facebook due to the site’s age restriction. The new app is called Messenger Kids, and Facebook is billing it as a way for preteens to safely communicate with…
Twitter is rolling out the space saving version of its main app Twitter Lite after 2 months of testing in the Philippines. The Social media platform announced on Friday it’s releasing Twitter Lite to Android’s Google Play store in 24 countries, mostly in emerging markets across Asia, Africa, Europe, the…
Crowd funding Platform GoFundMe announced on Thursday it will be dropping the five percent Platform Fee that it charges to individuals within the US (for now) when they launch personal campaigns on the platform and it will instead rely on optional tips to generate revenues from these campaigns. Currently, GoFundMe…
Apple is Countersuing American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications Equipment Company Qualcomm over claims it’s snapdragon mobile phone chips infringes on its Patents. Back in June, Qualcomm had filed a lawsuit claiming Apple infringed on several of its patents that help mobile phones get better battery life, and Apple’s new counterclaim…
Since the introduction of stories on Snapchat, the feature has since expanded to Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and even Skype. The latest to join this bandwagon is Youtube. The new feature, called Reels, is “YouTube’s clone on the popular ‘stories’ format, but designed specifically for YouTube creators,” Roy Livne, YouTube senior product…
Getting a placement for internship in Nigeria can be rigorous taking into consideration the level of unemployment and fiery competition for limited spaces. Also, information on readily available spaces in organizations and companies are scarce especially if one does not have an insider in such organizations. However, happier times are…
Bitcoin’s price has reached an all time high of $10,000 USD per BTC across global exchanges. The decentralized currency has captured the five-digit price range just a few weeks before the end of 2018. The milestone was hit on international exchanges earlier in the day (where prices are normally a…
Instagram users are up for a good treat as the company in a bid to increase engagement has announced a new feature ‘Remix’ which allows users to send each other private pictures back and forth with full access to edit and decorate. Until now, Instagram users were allowed to exchange…
Samsung has launched an application SeeColours that changes the way people with Color Vision Deficiency (colour blindness) watch Television. The app will provide people with vision deficiencies with relatively accurate colour renditions. Through the SeeColors app, users can test their visual color spectrum, and based on their unique diagnosis their…
Snapchat has launched new interesting filters for users. These new filters can recognize the objects in your photos. In other words, this implies the app now provide a contextually relevant border or sticker with respect to the image. For instance, taking a photo of a dog brings up a filter…
The fierce rivalry between Samsung and Apple is quite known to all. In a bid to outshine each other ad fight has recently been incorporated into the cold war. Enlisting in this Samsung-Apple battle is Motorola. We all saw the ad where Samsung mocked Apple, boasting about all features that…
Remember Sophia the Robot who addressed the United Nations few months ago and only recently was granted citizenship of Saudi Arabia? Now the humanoid wants to have a baby. Speaking during an interview the robot said that family is ‘a really important thing. She added that if she had a…
Finding a property or space for rental in Nigeria can be a strenuous exercise however this about to become a thing of the past as Nigerian startup Alosab has launched an on-demand property rental platform where home-seekers can find and secure rental properties. Alosab which was launched in September seeks …
Ride-hail Company Lyft is raising an additional $500 million in funding according to a share authorization document filed yesterday in Delaware. The move comes one month after CapitalG an investment arm of Google parent Alphabet injected $1 billion in ride hailing company. According to a spokesperson the $500 million is…
American premium cable and satellite television network, Home Box Office (HBO) is set to experience some relief as United States prosecutors have charged an Iranian national with hacking into cable TV network HBO and stealing episodes and plot summaries for unaired programs including Game of Thrones, then threatening to release…