Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

One of Instagram Threads’ most requested features is finally here: the Following tab that lets you see only the people you, er, follow. “Ask and you shall receive,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Threads quoting a user asking for the feature. For those of us who have the…

The second-largest payments company, Mastercard, has announced a partnership with Nigerian B2B eCommerce platform, Alerzo. The partnership is fostered in a bid to empower Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) by offering digital payment solutions, financial education, and credit access. This partnership plans to accelerate the adoption of digital payments and…

Clafiya, a Nigerian health-tech startup has today announced that it has raised $610,000 in a pre-seed round. The company will use the capital injection to accelerate growth, invest in product development and hire new tech talents. This funding announcement follows Clafiya’s admission into the 2022 Google Black Founders Fund. The round,…

WhatsApp launched Channels, “a simple, reliable, and private way to receive important updates from people and organizations, all right within WhatsApp”. Now it has expanded its Channels features for broadcasts in seven more countries including Egypt, Chile, Malaysia, Morocco, Ukraine, Kenya, and Peru. For social media managers, it’s another platform…

Icasa has confirmed that Starlink, a satellite internet provider owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has not applied for the necessary licenses to operate in South Africa. Starlink has a fleet of low Earth orbit satellites that provide access to high-speed internet across most of the world, including in rural areas,…

TikTok is rolling out its new subscription-based music streaming platform to Australia, Mexico, and Singapore for testing. Dubbed TikTok Music, it’s almost two weeks after the service first debuted in Indonesia and Brazil. TikTok invited these new markets to join a closed beta test starting today, providing participants with a three-month free…

Spotify on Monday announced it will increase the price of its Premium subscription offerings as much as $2, which translates to a 20% increase for some plans. The company said the market landscape has “continued to evolve” since Spotify launched, and that the changes will help the company “continue to deliver value to…

Twitter is undergoing a major rebrand after owner Elon Musk announced the platform would officially become “X” over the weekend. In a memo on Monday to staff CEO Linda Yaccarino addressed the change, applauding employees for their hard work. The transition from Twitter to X reflects a step toward Musk’s goal to turn the…

In a radical rebranding, Twitter has finally removed the iconic bird logo and adopted ‘X’ as its official logo. This move comes after Elon Musk announced the change over the weekend. The change is already live on the website. Twitter, founded in 2006, has used its vivid, globally recognized blue bird…

According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in Power On today, Apple is internally using its chatbot to help its employees work. The internal chatbot is helping employees “prototype future features, summarize text, and answer questions based on data it has been trained with. Apple hasn’t been sure what it wants to do with its Apple GPT…

As Reddit promised, it has been taking over control of subreddits that shut down to protest changes to the platform’s API. The admin account u/ModCodeofConduct has taken sole charge of r/malefashionadvice, a community with more than 5.4 million subscribers. The subreddit joined thousands of others in closing shop in mid-June to…

Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, launches on Monday. Worldcoin Foundation’s vision is to “drastically increase economic opportunity,” has started rolling out its services in 20 nations, more than three years after it began its work. The project’s core offering is its World ID, an account…

Elon Musk on Sunday said that he was looking to change Twitter’s logo, tweeting: “And soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds”. And this marks what would be the latest big change since he bought the social media platform for $44 billion last year. In…

Here’s an interesting topic that most parents like myself can relate to — work-life balance. It becomes even more challenging if you lack support from your employer. Fast-forward, now with the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), a lot of people have visibly been skeptical that it may replace their jobs…

Ever since its launch, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has been making headlines for its astounding use cases, now it’s finally ready to release an app for Android. The ChatGPT for Android app is launching a few months after the free iOS app brought the chatbot to iPhones and iPads. In a tweet, the company announced ChatGPT…

Twitter has again made its platform a little less usable for people who choose not to pay for a Blue subscription. The company has announced that it will soon implement a new rule that puts a limit on the number of DMs unverified accounts can send per day. In a tweet, Twitter…

The Pretoria High Court has set aside a Presidential Proclamation, which gave the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) authority to investigate questionable deals at Telkom. In January 2022, President Cyril Ramaphosa gazetted a proclamation, which allowed the SIU to investigate questionable deals at Telkom, a partly state-owned entity. Ramaphosa referred the…

YouTube, Google’s video streaming platform, has hiked prices on its monthly and annual Premium plans in the US for the first time since the subscription service was launched in 2018. The YouTube Premium plan will cost US$13.99/month in the US, up $2 from before, according to the company’s website on Thursday.…

Vodacom has recorded a massive increase in group revenue in the quarter that ended on 30 June 2023. In a trading update for the first quarter of the 2024 financial year, Vodacom said that its group revenue increased by 36.9% (5.3% in terms of normalized growth) to over R35 billion,…

Rwandan startup Kasha has raised $21 million in a Series B funding round led by Knife Capital. Kasha is a digital retail platform serving a wide range of customers with women’s health elements, with a mission to expand health access platform across Africa. The seven-year-old startup, founded in 2016 by…