The National Information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA) has equipped more than 20 higher institutions in Nigeria with virtual libraries. This was made known by the agency during a courtesy visit to its Abuja headquarters by the Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (NIALS) led by its Director-General, Professor Mohammed Ladan…
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Dropbox today announced it has rolled out a new feature dubbed Dropbox Transfer. The new feature enables users share easily their files without them sharing access to their personal copies of those files. A Dropbox post reads, “Transfer is our answer to a common problem: Sometimes you simply want to…
Google has just announced it has officially acquired wearable company Fitbit for a whopping $2.1 billion. Google SVP of Devices and Services in a blog post said that the Fitbit purchase is “an opportunity to invest even more in Wear OS as well as introduce Made by Google wearable devices…
Android phone users can now unlock their Whatsapp app with their fingerprints. The new feature is available but on supported handsets. The new feature means that users after unlocking their handsets with the intention of accessing the app will be required to press their fingers on the phone’s sensor to…
TLcom Capital, the Africa-focussed venture capital firm, yesterday held its inaugural Africa Tech Female Founder Summit. Launched to build a collaborative network of Africa’s female tech founders, over 50 female founders from across Africa including, Odunayo Eweniyi of Piggyvest, Isis Nyong’o of Mum’s Village, Vivien Nwakah of Medsaf and Miishe…
Facebook has decided to pay a £500,000 fine imposed exacted by the UK’s data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Facebook had earlier appealed the penalty which prompted the Information Commissioner’s Office to pursue its own counter-appeal. As part of the agreement, Facebook has made no…
HBO and WarnerMedia have announced there will be a Game of Thrones prequel series which will be called House of Dragon. The prequel series is based on George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones tie-in Fire & Blood and is set about 300 years before the flagship series. House of…
Luno, the global cryptocurrency platform, has announced that customers can now buy Ethereum on its exchange using Nigerian Naira. Previously, it was only possible to buy Ethereum in Nigeria using Bitcoin or through Luno’s instant-buy option. Ethereum has become a very popular cryptocurrency in Nigeria. In fact, activity on cryptocurrency…
A fingerprint security flaw detected last week from Samsung’s Galaxy S10 and Note 10 phones has been fixed. The company had announced on Friday, last week that it would fix the flaw on its fingerprint scanner this week. According to reports, the company has now developed a fix and is…
Instagram will take off all augmented reality (AR) filters that show or promote cosmetic surgery. There are concerns that these filters have pernicious effects on people’s mental wellbeing. Among the filters that will be banned are those that make people look like they have had lip injections, fillers or a…
African Startups are invited to apply for the Daikin -Samurai Incubate Africa Ideathon scheduled to hold between December 10 -11, 2019 in Nairobi. ‘Daikin -Samurai Incubate Africa Ideathon’ is an initiative by the leading multinational AirConditioning brand DAIKIN and African early-stage VC – Samurai Incubate. The Ideathon aims to find…
WeWork and SoftBank have announced a deal that will see SoftBank take over 80 percent of the struggling real estate company. Marcelo Claure, the former boss at Sprint which SoftBank acquired in 2012 will take over as the executive chairman at WeWork. Adam Neumann, the founder, and CEO who is…
Carbon, Nigeria’s foremost digital financial services company, has launched Carbon for Business, a digital financial services platform that provides startups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and FinTechs with the services and technology they need to build and scale their businesses. With access to uncollateralized credit, secure online payments, reliable funds…
Tik Tok, an iOS and Android social media video app for creating and sharing short lip-sync, comedy, and talent videos has removed dozens of ISIS propaganda accounts from its platform. Reports say the Islamic State propagandists are trying to leverage on the social media app TikTok as a recruiting tool.…
West Africa-based pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar company has PEG Africa has raised USD 4 Million in a round of funding led by CDC Group, a development finance institution. The company will employ the new fund to increase its reach in Senegal where it has recently recorded a great deal of traction.…
A Russian-based group Turla has reportedly hacked an Iranian hacking group codenamed OilRig with the aim to spy on a good number of countries, according to UK and US intelligence. The Russians piggybacked on the Iranian group to target other victims. A National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) investigation, begun in…
The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) Prof. Umar Danbatta has said that early depletion and rise in data consumption by telecoms consumers are not necessarily as a result of ‘illegal deductions’ or ‘sharp practices’ by Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) but more as a result of…
Access Bank has revealed its digital lending portfolio has hit N1 billion daily. The Executive Director, Retail Banking, Access Bank, Victor Etuokwu Plc said, “We are at the forefront of digital lending across the continent. This is a deliberate choice we made when we introduced the first USSD based digital…
Following a fingerprint security flaw discovered from the Samsung Galaxy S10, Samsung has said it will release a patch for its phones’ in-display fingerprint sensors as early as next week. It was discovered lately that the biometric security method could be rendered useless by certain screen protectors. According to Samsung,…
Volvo has unveiled its first all-electric vehicle XC40 Recharge at a glamorous event in Los Angeles with an assortment of futuristic features, including an infotainment system built on Google’s new embedded Android Automotive software. Volvo CEO Håkan Samuelsson who had described climate change as ‘a real threat to our future”…