Author: Smart Megwai

Google has released a new policy guideline mandating the disclosure of all relevant licencing documents by all loan apps on the Play Store. According the the Tech Giant, “This policy applies to apps which offer loans directly, lead generators, and those who connect consumers with third-party lenders.” In particular, the…

Starting next month, Facebook will no longer allow user data such as “religious views”, “political views”, “addresses” and the “Interested in” information, which indicates a user’s sexual orientation. The Meta-owned social media platform, which has started to notify users, noted that the changes will go into effect from December 1st.…

NIGCOMSAT, the Nigerian Communications Satellite Ltd., has announced that it intends to launch the NIGCOMSAT 2 satellite, which would bring the 5G network to Nigeria. Dr. Abimbola Alale, the company’s managing director, made the announcement during a Thursday conference in the city of Lagos with other technology industry representatives. The…

App Researcher Jane Manchun Wong, yesterday uncovered Twitter’s plans to bring back end-to-end encryption to its Direct Messaging system. She made this known in a tweet, which the company’s new CEO, Elon Musk confirmed, not explicitly but only posted a winky eye emoji in response. Although the CEO has lately…

According to a report in the Financial Times, YouTube is expanding its short-form video platform to include e-commerce feature that will allow viewers pay for products as they scroll through Shorts. In a move that mimics rivals TikTok and Instagram, Shorts will soon enable in-app purchases. As it rolls out…

“Today we’re introducing a new feature that’s going to make your live streams even more interactive – Live Q&A! ,” per YouTube on its support page. The new Live Q&A feature will help content creators host dedicated question and answer sessions and to properly organise them during livestreams and premieres. YouTube’s question and answer tool…

CEO, Elon Musk, today, announced in his first email to Twitter employees, the end of remote work and warned of “difficult times ahead.” The email, which was issued late last night, stated that the economic downturn in the US could not be “sugarcoated” in any way. He was quoted in…

Meta recently added a new feature to its instant messaging platform, WhatsApp, called “Avatar.” With this feature, users are able to create animated representations of themselves to use within the app. They can use any of these avatars as profile photos or as stickers while sending messages to WhatsApp contacts.…

Instagram is updating its web platform from a carbon clone of the app to one that is “cleaner, faster, and easier to use.” The Platform’s head, Adam Mosseri made this announcement through a post on Tuesday along with a feature that enables professional accounts to schedule their posts, which is currently…

At Zoomtopia yesterday, Zoom launched two key products that will help the company expand its offerings beyond just Zoom Chat and a Video conferencing platform to small and medium sized businesses. In a recent news release, the Video conferencing service said that it would be offering its own email and…

Isizwe, an internet service provider, that offers online access to low-income communities, has launched a prepaid and low-cost fiber project in South African township Kayamandi in Stellenbosch in the Western Cape. The Fibre network which went live on the 7th November 2022, currently connects 3,000 homes to uncapped prepaid fiber…

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has formed an industry-wide committee to facilitate the deployment of broadband infrastructure as part of a project called National Communications Backbone. The purpose is to jumpstart the growth of broadband services in Nigeria (NCB). The National Broadband Infrastructure Joint Committee (NBIJC) is a group led…

Starting Wednesday, Meta could begin laying off a huge number of staff, credible sources with knowledge about the issue told Wall Street Journal. This was disclosed yesterday Sunday, with confirmation that the dismissal would be massive and might affect “thousands” of employees. The company reported about 87,000 employees at quarter…

Most people didn’t think that the 3,700 Twitter employees reportedly laid off today, would extend to the company’s African office in Ghana. The company had earlier notified members of staff via email that it planned to cut down on the number of employees “in an effort to place Twitter on…

Teraco, the largest provider of data centres and connectivity platforms in Africa, has announced the completion of the first phase of JB4, a hyperscale data centre extension at its Bredell Campus in Ekurhuleni, to meet the rising demand for data centre capacity from corporations and cloud providers. According to Teraco…

Google has introduced a new feature on Gmail that help users to track their soon-to-be-delivered packages without ever leaving their inbox. “Gmail will show a simple, helpful view of your package tracking and delivery information right in your inbox,” the Tech Giant explains in a blog post. The Gmail feature…

Meta has announced the global release of its WhatsApp Communities, a new feature on the app which allows users to create larger, more organised discussion groups. Communities was first spotted by XDA Developers in October, after which WABetaInfo reported the next month that the feature is under development and will…

We’re introducing a way for creators to make their own NFTs (or digital collectibles) and sell them to fans and collectors both on and off Instagram, via Meta. Currently, this is for a “small group of creators in the US” and the company hopes to invite more testers in other countries. 1.…

Google doesn’t change its desktop home page often, but a report by 9to5Google revealed the Tech giant has added a Lens button to its popular search bar on the homepage. Rajan Patel, Google’s VP of engineering in charge of Search and Lens, also pointing out in a tweet. “The Google…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has announced that it will redesign the N200, N500, and N1,000 notes and begin circulating the new notes on the 15th of December 2022. This, as Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria noted, is an effort to reduce the inflationary pressure…