Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Santam is a leading general insurer in South Africa with a market share of 21%, with business interests in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. The company has announced the rebranding of its app-based digital client solution from JaSure to Santam Switch, following the 100% acquisition of the insurtech company…

Twitter Blue, which Elon Musk is currently rebranding to X Blue, now includes the option to hide the notorious blue checkmark. Twitter Blue subscribers recently started noticing the “hide your blue checkmark” option on the web and in mobile apps, offering the ability to hide that they’re paying for Twitter…

Kenya’s interior ministry said on Wednesday that it had suspended the local activities of the cryptocurrency project Worldcoin, while government agencies assess potential risks to public safety. This announcement comes after the country’s regulatory authority recently urged people to be extra cautious when interfacing with Worldcoin. The project founded by…

X, formerly Twitter, has renamed TweetDeck to XPro in an ongoing rebranding exercise of the social media service. The company has adopted the @Pro handle instead of @TweetDeck for the tool. However, many parts of the tool, including the help page, still have “Twitter” and “TweetDeck” mentions. The renaming is…

Nigerian fintech startup, Traction, today announced a $6 million seed round. With the new funding, Traction will be looking at accelerating its growth in Nigeria, strengthening its team, and driving expansion outside Nigeria. The investment was anchored by Pan-African investor Ventures Platform and Multiply Partners, with participation from P1 Ventures and…

Elon Musk marked San Francisco as the spot for X Corp. over the weekend, erecting a giant, garishly lit X sign on top of the company’s headquarters Friday. But after the construction, it drew criticism from neighbors and city officials, the sign has finally been removed from the roof. Twenty-four complaints…

Apple is preparing to unveil its next generation of devices this fall, and the high-end iPhone 15 models will reportedly feature some major changes. In Bloomberg this morning, reporter Mark Gurman confirmed a handful of details that have been floating around all year about what to expect when the next iPhone lineup is…

Nigerian health tech startup Remedial Health which digitizes pharmacies and brings efficiency to the pharmaceutical supply chain, has raised $12 million in Series A equity-debt funding, with a mission to scale operations in the West African country, before expanding to the rest of Africa. Founded in 2020 by Samuel Okwuada, a trained…

Telecoms operator Cell C has appointed another former Vodacom executive, Melanie Forbes, as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), effective 1 August. Melanie Forbes has experience in telecommunications, IT, and consumer electronics and has worked for the likes of Philips, NetFlorist, Siemens Telecommunications, Nokia Siemens Networks, and, most recently, Vodacom, where she…

Twitter — now called X — is threatening to sue the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) for its research into hate speech on Twitter that the company claims is driving away advertisers. In a letter to the CCDH, which was first reported by The New York Times, Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro claims…

Apple typically doesn’t allow developers to name their apps as a single character; but Twitter, which is rebranding as X, is now listed as X in the iOS App Store, suggesting the app got special treatment from Apple to allow a single-character name. The renaming was briefly hindered by a rule…

Elon Musk may have successfully pushed Twitter’s new name and logo, ‘X’, and even made the vanity domain x.com redirect to the social media website, but that’s not to say, the Mathematical double-struck letter will fit the bill everywhere. If you want to download Elon Musk’s X app onto your iPhone, well,…

Kanye West’s account which currently has 31,6 million followers has been reinstated on X after an almost eight-month ban over offensive tweets. The US rapper, known as Ye, was accused of violating the platform’s rules prohibiting incitement to violence. But he has not posted anything new since returning to the…

Twitter is in a state of flux, as it tries to shed its old skin and emerge as a new creature: X. The website is still littered with remnants of its past, such as the words “Twitter” and “tweet”, even as the X logo is slapped across the platform now.…

Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says its new social media platform, Threads, has lost more than half its users. The Twitter rival rocketed to more than 100 million users within five days of its launch earlier this month. But Mr. Zuckerberg has acknowledged those numbers have now tumbled. If you…

 X, formerly known as Twitter, has officially retired its famous blue and white bird logo. The icon on the mobile app changed to an “X” late Friday night in the latest phase of a sweeping rebrand the platform’s owner Elon Musk announced earlier this month. The company previously introduced the logo on the…

Twitter has gone through some drastic changes over the past week. Elon Musk renamed the whole platform “X” and got rid of the iconic blue bird logo, just to name a few of the biggest examples. And Musk had at least one more radical idea for his platform this week: switch…

Elon Musk said on Friday that monthly users of social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, reached a “new high.” To prove his claim, he shared a graph that showed the latest count as over 540 million. Musk’s post on X about the user figures comes as the company…

Google wants to make its robots smarter with the release of the AI learning model Robotic Transformer (RT-2). Google announced a new artificial intelligence model on Friday that can help it train robots to understand tasks like throwing out trash. The Robotics Transformer 2 (RT-2) is a vision-language-action model trained on information…

Twitter’s swift rebrand to X is generating yet another issue. As reported by Bleeping Computer, X is causing Microsoft’s Edge browser to throw up a warning, indicating some sort of security problem. It seems to be related to how Edge and other Chromium-based web browsers deal with favicons. With the Twitter rebrand…