South Korea has fined Video-sharing platform TikTok for mismanaging children’s data, as concerns continue to grow about users’ privacy. TikTok was fined 186m won (£123,000) by the country’s media regulatory body, Korea Communications Commission (KCC). The KCC said that TikTok collected data of children under 14 years old without the…
Author: Oluwasegun Olukotun
Google has launched a machine-learning powered translator to decode ancient Egyptian language- hieroglyphics. The feature has been incorporated into Google’s Art & Culture App. It enables users to translate words and emojis into shareable hieroglyphs. Google says Fabricius is the first such tool to be trained via machine learning “to…
Hackers on Wednesday afternoon coordinated simultaneous attacks on prominent crypto Twitter accounts and also took over some high profile Twitter accounts including the likes of Bill Gates , Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, President Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Wiz Khalifa, Warren Buffett and Apple. The hackers who pumped…
Digital transformation could be a game-changer for the African continent, and FinTech is currently one of the main drivers of this technology revolution. The tremendous opportunity for digitally-driven financial services companies lies in the high proportion of unbanked citizens, the immense size and favorable demographics of the African population, and…
Kenya’s micro-forestry startup, Komaza, has raised $28m of a planned $33m Series B equity financing. The round of funding was co-led by Novastar LPs AXA Investment Managers (through the AXA Impact Fund: Climate & Biodiversity), and the Dutch development bank FMO, with further participation by Mirova’s Land Degradation Neutrality Fund.…
Female entrepreneurs are invited to apply for the Women in Business Cohort 2 programme powered by iHub and Co-Creation Hub. The CcHUB and iHub are implementing the 2nd edition of the Women in Business program as one that not only focuses on women-led technology businesses, but women-led businesses as a…
Apple Inc announced it was launching a free online coding course for teachers, as it also boosts its existing school coding programs with new materials. The company made this known on Thursday. The California-based company, which offers coding courses under the “Develop in Swift” and “Everyone Can Code” banners, said,…
TikTok has revealed it deleted over 49 million videos that violated its rules between July and December 2019. According to the company’s transparency report, close to a quarter of the videos deleted contained adult nudity or sexual activity, the business. The US has suggested it is “looking at” whether to…
Spotify and several iOS apps on Friday morning experienced crashes, a problem that persisted for about two hours, though the apps for Apple’s mobile operating system appear to be working again. The other apps affected were Waze, Tinder, and Pintrest, according to social media reports. Outage monitoring site Down detector…
Wimbart, the Public Relations agency specialising in Africa & emerging markets is inviting early stage startups to apply for the second edition of its Office Hours Programme, that equips early-stage technology start-ups with the PR and communications tools needed to help scale their businesses. In partnership with Pan-African early-stage fund…
The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has introduced an online course on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) to support its fight against the Coronavirus and other infectious diseases. The course is aimed at lowering the spread of the virus among the general public with a focus on the health…
Publisher Media24 has announced it plans to close seven print units and outsource most of its remaining monthly magazine. This is a big blow to the South African publication industry that has already seen a good number of its print media fold up, owing largely to the effect of the…
The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Club of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Thursday, July 2, received books on AI worth a million Naira and shelf support as prize for emerging the AI School of the year at the AI BootCamp organized by Data Science Nigeria in November last year. The…
The Nigerian Communications Commission is inviting startups, tech hubs and Innovation digital SMEs in Nigeria to apply for its Virtual hackathon to stand a chance of winning a grant of N3, 000,000. The Virtual hackathon is themed ‘Adaptable Digital Solutions for Addressing the Present and Future Impacts of Pandemic and…
Andela, today announced it will now accept engineer applications from across Africa, in a bid to double its global talent pool and connect an even greater number of specialised engineers with opportunities. The company is accepting pan-African applications for senior engineers, with in-demand stack experience such as Node, React, Python,…
Google today announced that businesses can now list their products in the company’s search results for free. This move expectedly will stoke the fire of rivalry already kindled between Google and Amazon. Before today’s announcement, Google displayed shopping lists as a panel of sponsored links from advertisers bidding on specific…
Social media giant Facebook is testing dark mode for its mobile apps. According to the company, the dark mode is available for “a small percentage of users globally right now.” Facebook’s dark mode testing for its mobile app comes after the company introduced the dark mode for its desktop upgrade…
FCMB Group Plc has obtained a $50 million loan from International Finance Corporation to help companies hit with the harsh impact of the coronavirus pandemic. FCMB disclosed in an emailed statement that the fund is from an $8 billion credit facility launched in March by the World Bank’s private-lending arm…
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg lost $7.2 billion after several companies stopped advertising on the social media platform. According to reports, the shares of the company fell 8.3% yesterday, the biggest dip in three months after Unilever joined other brands in boycotting ads on the social network. Unilever which happens to…
Sony’s post-apocalyptic survival game The Last of Us Part 2 has sold more than 4 million copies after a week of release. The game which is one of the company’s fastest-selling games ever was released on June 15 and is set decades into a pandemic that almost annihilated the entire…