American image sharing and social media service Pinterest on Monday appointed its first black board member Andrea Wishom. She is the president at Skywalker Holdings and a former executive at Harpo Productions. Wishom’s appointment comes as Pinterest faces allegations of racial and gender discrimination. Apart from being the lifestyle-focused social…
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Epic Games, maker of online video game Fortnite has filed a fresh injunction against tech giant Apple as disputes between the companies continue over the latter’s App store policy. Apple had removed Fortnite from the store after the game offered a discount on its virtual currency for purchases made outside…
Microsoft is ending support for Internet Explorer 11 across its Microsoft 365 apps and services next year. The move is no surprise since Microsoft launched its Edge browser five years ago. The company also announced it will end support for Internet Explorer 11 on Aug. 17, 2021. Microsoft in a…
The United States clampdown on Huawei Technologies continues as the Trump administration today announced it will further tighten restrictions on the Chinese company’s access to commercially available chips. Reuters reported that the U.S Commerce Department will expand restrictions announced in May, targeted at Huawei, from obtaining semiconductors without a special…
Mozilla and Google have signed an extension to the deal that will keep Google as the default search engine within the Firefox browser until 2023. Though the deal hasn’t been formally announced, ZDNet estimates the deal to be worth between $400 and $450 million per year and might be announced…
One Young World has announced the five winners of its Entrepreneur of the Year award for 2020. Three weeks ago, the UK-based not-for-profit organization announced a shortlist of 15 young entrepreneurs nominated for the award. Created to identify and promote the world’s most revolutionary entrepreneurs, the award honours five leaders…
Do you know of any women-headed entrepreneurial, land-owning, lower-income families living in inadequate and dilapidated conditions? If yes, nominate them below and Ubuntu Design Group will partner with them to build them a home and help boost their business venture. Applicants can also nominate themselves. One Young World in partnership…
Opera Limited (NASDAQ: OPRA), one of the world’s major browser providers and leader in AI-driven content delivery, is extending its offering to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Nigeria. In 2019, Opera launched OLeads, a lead generation platform, and OList, an online marketplace for local merchants. Today hundreds of thousands…
Twitter is holding preliminary talks with embattled social network TikTok about the possibility of buying the US operations of the popular Chinese-owned Video app. US President Donald Trump had on Thursday issued an executive order that would ban TikTok in the US. The ban doesn’t kick in till September, which…
Genesis, a leader in digital currency prime brokerage services, today announced a partnership with Luno, the global cryptocurrency platform, to provide customers with simple, accessible ways to earn interest on their crypto holdings. The partnership creates savings accounts providing institutional-level interest rates to clients in traditional and emerging markets. These…
The Nigerian Communications Commission, in furtherance of its mandate to protect the interests of consumers and support a robust telecommunications sector, has revised its Determination on Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) pricing published on the 23rd of July, 2019. The amendment was necessitated following a protracted dispute between Mobile Network…
South Africa’s business accelerator Grindstone has announced the launch of a new venture capital fund, devoted to providing early-stage equity funding to its cohorts of companies and alumni. The Grindstone Accelerator is a structured entrepreneurship development programme jointly owned by leading venture capital fund manager Knife Capital and market access…
Fintech startup, Tafari Capital has announced the launch of Tafari App, its indigenously developed, fully integrated digital finance and e-commerce platform . With the App, users are entitled to free personal and business accounts that also allows them to build an online store where they can sell their products and…
Twitter has released an update on its iOS apps that now allows users to limit who can reply to their tweets. The microblogging platform has been conducting trials with this feature since May, however, the feature is now being rolled out more widely. Twitter while giving an update text on…
One Young World has announced a shortlist of 15 Entrepreneurs selection for consideration for the One Young World Entrepreneur of the Year 2020. One Young World is a UK-based not-for-profit organization that gathers young leaders from around the world to develop solutions to the globe’s most pressing issues. The annual…
Wimbart has announced a shortlist of 30 startups that will take part in the second edition of its Wimbart Office Hours. Over the past four months, the London-based public relations agency has through the Wimbart Office Hours programme shared PR knowledge, delivered mentorship, and learnt a lot about what it…
The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, today launched the first local face mask manufacturing factory, O-Care Medical Face Mask Factory in Lagos. The plant is situated at Amuwo Odofin with the capacity to produce 240,000 face masks daily. According to the governor, the manufacturing of the face masks avouches to…
Google has announced it is rolling out a new feature that gives more visibility to businesses owned by black people. The new tool will allow businesses to identify as Black-owned through the company’s Maps and Search listings. The company last month pledged to support the black community and the latest…
Two weeks ago, Comcast’s NBCUniversal launched its streaming service ‘Peacock’ in the US. Today, the company has announced that it has signed up 10 million accounts. The numbers include those who registered with Peacock when it rolled out just to Comcast pay-TV customers in April as well as new members…
Weird as it may sound, Facebook is launching an app with the aim of bringing back the internet experience of the 90s. The app called E.gg is the newest product from Facebook’s experimental app team New Product Experimentation and is aimed at “recapturing that atmosphere” of the early web. The app’s…