In the wake of the decrease in demand for its ride hailing services due to the Coronavirus pandemic, Uber is launching a pair of delivery services called the Uber Connect and Uber Direct. The pair of new services will be focused on moving items rather than people. The Uber Direct…
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E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has announced it will invest 200 billion yuan ($28 billion) in cloud infrastructure over three years. This follows a surge in demand for business software as the coronavirus pandemic peaked in China. The company disclosed in a statement that it will dedicate the funds…
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced a new multiyear alliance, which will transform the way fans experience the NBA. As part of this collaboration, Microsoft will become the Official Artificial Intelligence Partner and an Official Cloud and Laptop Partner for the NBA, Women’s National Basketball…
Google has revealed that scammers are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic by sending 18 million COVID -19 related hoax emails to Gmail users every day. The company said that the pandemic has led to a great surge of phishing attacks in which criminals try to trick users into revealing…
Google is planning to introduce a Zoom-like gallery view to its Meet video conferencing service and also allow users to take calls right from Gmail. Google’s GM and VP of G Suite Javier Soltero made this known during an interview with Reuters. The new features are coming in the wake…
TikTok today added a feature ‘Family Pairing’ to its platform that enables parents to remotely set restrictions on their kids’ accounts. The new feature will let parents link their kids’ accounts to their own, where they can disable direct messages, turn on restricted content mode, and set screen time limits.…
54gene, the African genomics research, services, and development company has closed a Series A round of $15M, led by Adjuvant Capital, a life sciences fund backed by the International Finance Corporation, Novartis, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The round included participation from Raba Capital, V8 Capital, Ingressive Capital,…
Rensource, Nigeria’s leading provider of critical merchant infrastructure on Thursday launched Merchlist.co – a digital platform that helps small and medium-sized retailers get discovered quickly while enabling servicing and fulfillment of customer orders online. The Merchlist.co platform was rapidly developed as a solution to keep SMEs viable during the COVID-19…
Short-form video platform Quibi recorded over 1.7 million downloads in its first week after launch. The stat was disclosed by CEO Meg Whitman and she added that the median age of Quibi viewers is so far somewhere in the low 30s. Quibi is only available on Android and iPhone gives…
Facebook is adding a new feature “Quiet Mode” to its main mobile app. The company announced this on Thursday. The Quiet Mode is designed to pause “most” push notifications and remind users that it’s turned on when they try to open the software on their phone while the mode is…
Call of Duty: Free-to-play battle royale video game Warzone developed by Infinity Ward now has more 50 million players just one month after its release. Publisher Activision made this known on Friday. The game which is one of the fastest-growing free-to-play titles in the game industry was relased on March…
Electronic Arts has pledged $1 million to the Global Giving’s Coronavirus Relief Fund in conjunction with its upcoming FIFA Stay Home, Play Together campaign tournament. The fund will assist Global Giving in donating masks and ventilators to hospitals while also sending doctors to communities in need. The nonprofit organization is…
The ongoing laying of fibre optic cables and the deployment of other telecoms equipment by mobile network operators (MNOs) across Lagos and other states is entirely to expand their networks infrastructure across the country to provide more efficient services to the consumers, the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian…
TikTok has announced a series of relief packages to assist those fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The relief funds and initiatives will help both individuals and organizations finding it hard to deal with the impact of the pandemic. The company has pledged $375 million to be disbursed as follows: $250 million…
Google has changed the name of its Hangouts Meet to Google Meet. The change was made known yesterday in a Google Cloud blog post made by two of Google’s directors of product management, Karthik Lakshminarayanan, and Smita Hashim. The blog post highlights several privacy measures that Google Meet has put…
Yesterday, Innovation Village reported that the Taiwan government had banned the use of Zoom in the conduct of its business and activities. Google has also issued a ban on the use of the platform for its employees citing security concerns with the app that has seen a spike in usage…
Disney Plus’ number of subscribers has now exceeded 50 million up to more than 22 million since the last time Disney last updated on its numbers in February. Disney’s add ons in numbers of subscribers follow a sequence of rollouts in international territories like the UK, India, Germany, Italy, Spain,…
Netflix is rolling out a series of tools to help parents filter the contents their kids see while using the service. Also is the ability to remove the titles of contents. The company is broadening parental control options both for the general section and Netflix’s designated kids portal. The biggest…
GreenTec Capital Partners has announced it has invested an undisclosed amount of funding in Kenya’s e-logistics startup Amitruck. Amitruck is an innovative mobile and web-based trucking logistics platform that brings together cargo owners and transporters for their mutual benefit. Logistics spending in Africa by manufacturers and retailers has crossed the…
Sony has unveiled ‘the DualSense’ the controller for the PlayStation 5. The DualSense marks a very big departure to Sony’s controller design in its over 25-year history of PlayStation consoles. The DualSense in features has some big changes to it. The company previously announced it has haptic feedback replacing the…