Spotify’s latest personalized experience, Blend, is rolling out of beta to Spotify Free and Premium users globally to help sync your tastes even further and put your music compatibility to the test. Spotify in a blog post said, “We launched Blend Playlists in beta in early June as a new…
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Since the beginning of 2021, Kaspersky has detected more than 1,500 fraudulent global resources aimed at potential crypto investors or users who are interested in cryptocurrency mining. During this period, the company also prevented more than 70,000 user attempts globally, to visit such sites. The most common schemes used by…
French-Nigerian technology startup Kwik Delivery on Tuesday unveiled its two brand ambassadors, Nigerian football legend Jay Jay OKOCHA and power biker-lady FEHINTY. “Since its launch in 2019 in Lagos, Kwik Delivery has become synonymous with swiftness, efficiency, passion, innovation and drive. Kwik Delivery is all about enabling Nigerians to succeed…
Both of Samsung Electronics’ latest foldable smartphones, Galaxy Z Fold3 5G and Galaxy Z Flip3 5G, come with One UI 3.1.1, the most intuitive UI for foldables to date. Designed to take advantage of the devices’ large screen real estate and unique form factors, the new UI helps make the…
Apple today introduced the News Partner Program, a new slate of initiatives to expand Apple’s work with and support for journalism. The News Partner Program aims to ensure Apple News customers maintain access to trusted news and information from many of the world’s top publishers, while supporting publishers’ financial stability…
Earlier this week, Airbnb.org and Airbnb announced that Airbnb.org will offer free, temporary housing to 20,000 Afghan refugees worldwide. These stays are being paid for through contributions to Airbnb.org from Airbnb and Brian Chesky, as well as donors to the Airbnb.org Refugee Fund. Since the announcement, the company has received…
IFC provided record financing in fiscal year 2021 in the Middle East and Africa to help thousands of small businesses access finance, connect people and businesses to reliable digital infrastructure, trade and services, and help to meet critical health needs amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The financing reached $10.4 billion. IFC’s…
African businesses and consumers will now be able to benefit from a direct connection to the USA as Liquid Intelligent Technologies opens an Internet Point of Presence in Miami, connecting to the Liquid network via a South Atlantic subsea cable. As part of Liquid’s East-West route between the US and…
Uber has partnered with Mastercard and the Department of Health to provide one million free trips for all eligible South Africans aged 18 years and above to vaccination sites countrywide. This initiative will be rolled out nationally from Wednesday, 25 August until 31 October 2021 targeting all people who are…
TikTok today unveiled an expanded partnership with Shopify and pilot testing TikTok Shopping among a select group of Shopify merchants in the US, UK, and Canada in the coming weeks. TikTok Shopping will bring new features that help Shopify merchants create engaging, organic content that sends consumers directly to their online…
Facebook today announced the launch of Marketplace to 37 countries and territories in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Comoros, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Namibia,…
MTN Group today announced the appointment of Burak Akinci as Chief Executive Officer of Simfy (ayoba), reporting to the MTN Group Chief Digital and Fintech Officer Serigne Dioum and responsible for the super app ayoba. Effective 1 September 2021, Burak joins Africa’s leading mobile operator from Turkcell, where he…
IBM today unveiled details of the upcoming new IBM Telum Processor, designed to bring deep learning inference to enterprise workloads to help address fraud in real-time. Telum is IBM’s first processor that contains on-chip acceleration for AI inferencing while a transaction is taking place. Three years in development, the breakthrough…
Accenture has been selected by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to support a group of digital transformation (DX) projects in six countries across Asia and Africa. As Japan’s central governmental organization providing economic and social aid for developing nations, JICA is prioritizing the application of digital technologies to address development…
Moonbug Entertainment, the award-winning global entertainment company behind some of the world’s most popular kids’ titles and Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment, today announced an exclusive global partnership. Under the terms of the agreement, UMG will provide worldwide distribution, publishing and licensing for the Moonbug…
Lenovo will host its annual global innovation event, Tech World, virtually on September 8, marking the 7th consecutive year of the event. This year’s visionary showcase will focus on Lenovo’s transformation and new solutions for the next reality – a new era where technologies for hybrid working and living environments and…
A creative youth competition on African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) for young people in Africa as well as those in the Diaspora with African citizenship has been launched. The competition dubbed the ‘Umoja Africa Campaign – Youth Contributing to the Implementation of the AfCFTA’ targets young people between the age of…
Facebook today launched the open beta of Horizon Workrooms available for free to download on Oculus Quest 2 in countries where Quest 2 is supported. Workrooms is Facebook’s flagship collaboration experience that lets people come together to work in the same virtual room, regardless of physical distance. It works across…
Audiomack has announced it has partnered with Vydia, to enable Audiomack creators access the tools they need to scale up their reach by connecting their Audiomack profile to Vydia’s suite of premium features, including global distribution, analytics, rights management, payments, detailed revenue reporting, and marketing. The new integration makes it…
Verizon is testing how a Quantum Safe Virtual Private Network (VPN) can enhance protection of data today in order to thwart hackers in the future. As quantum computers become more advanced, they will have the potential to break today’s public key encryption ciphers. Theoretically, hackers could capture data riding on networks…