Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Kyndryl, the managed services giant spun off from IBM and is the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, and Microsoft Corp. have announced a landmark global strategic partnership that will combine their market-leading capabilities in service of enterprise customers. The deal with Microsoft is Kyndryl’s first since recently becoming an independent public company…

Chinese auto giant Geely has launched a new electric semi-truck called Homtruck as automakers look to bring new technology to the commercial vehicles market. The Homtruck manufactured by Farizon Auto is the Chinese autonomous electric truck that wants to rival the Tesla Semi, and it looks like a Transformer. The Homtruck’s cabin…

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said it detected the spam emails quickly on Saturday and shut down the system that was used to send fake emails warning of a potential cyberattack. It also reminded the public to remain cautious and report suspicious activity. Hackers sent out emails from what…

China’s big crackdown on business appears far from over. Yahoo has shut down access to its services in China, becoming the latest American tech company to exit the country. It pulled the plug “in recognition of the increasingly challenging business and legal environment,” a Yahoo spokesperson said in a statement. “Yahoo remains…

Instagram has added text-to-speech and voice effects to its TikTok competitor Reels, two features TikTok has had for some time. The robotic voice-overs used as narration for videos grew so ubiquitous on TikTok in fact, that voice actor Bev Standing sued the company in May, saying it didn’t have permission to…

The price of the Tesla Model Y is rising as fast as the automaker’s stock lately. Electric carmaker Tesla, Inc. has again increased the price of the Model Y in the US for the eighth time this year, and it is coming as new incentives are expected. Model Y is a fully electric,…

Instagram really wants you to post Reels, that they’ll even pay you up to $10,000 for one, thus if you’re lucky. Instagram is offering massive sums of money to creators to post videos on its TikTok competitor Reels. Instagram announced its bonus program for Reels in July when Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg…

A Rwandan who used his YouTube channel to criticize the government has been sentenced to seven years in prison by a court in Kigali, amid a growing crackdown on dissidents in the tightly controlled East African nation. Dieudonne Niyonsenga, whose YouTube channel Ishema TV had amassed more than 15 million…

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Wednesday announced a partnership with Microsoft that will allow customers to integrate Meta’s Workplace enterprise social network software with Microsoft Teams. The integration gives customers access to Workplace content inside the Teams app. Likewise, users can view Teams video meetings in the Workplace…

Japan’s Toshiba Corp outlined plans on Friday to break up into three independent companies by spinning off two core businesses — its energy and infrastructure business as well as its device and storage business. After spinning off the two companies, Toshiba will continue to own its 40.6% stake in memory chipmaker Kioxia…

Cloud service provider Oracle announced that it was extending its partnering with Indian telecoms group Bharti Airtel’s data centre unit in an expansion push that will widen the U.S. company’s customer access in one of its fastest-growing markets. The number of active Internet users in India is projected to grow to over…

Elon Musk sold another block of Tesla shares on Thursday. In two additional filings, Musk disclosed early Friday that he had sold another $687.3 million worth of the stock on Thursday. That brings his sales of stock for this week to 5.2 million shares for a total of $5.8 billion.…

The Chairman, and Chief Executive of Johnson & Johnson, Alex Gorsky, has joined Apple’s board of directors. Gorsky’s move to Apple’s board comes ahead of his planned departure as CEO of Johnson & Johnson in January 2022, and it also coincides with Apple focusing more on health technology. It’s not surprising…

As healthcare conglomerate, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) faces an avalanche of lawsuits linked to claims that traces of asbestos in its baby powder caused ovarian cancer and mesothelioma, J&J announced plans Friday to split its consumer products business that sells Band-Aids and Baby Powder from its large pharmaceutical and medical device…

Numerous Gmail users have reported issues with accessing the email service on Friday morning and it’s the go-to email service for many people around the world. The global and South African Gmail Downdetector pages showed steep increases in reports of issues from around 10:30. Several Twitter users across Europe, the UK, and Japan have…

Have you heard? The old Myspace is back. Sort of. Tens of thousands of people are flocking to a new social website that resurrects the look and feel of MySpace from the early 2000s in all its primordial glory. Created by an 18-year-old German coder identifying himself as ‘An the…

We still don’t have Netflix on the Nintendo Switch, but now we’re one step closer to being able to use it as a viewing platform as well as a game one, because Twitch app just launched on the Nintendo Switch eShop, and it’s a free download that’s available now on the eShop.…

Spotify has announced plans to acquire the audiobook services and distribution company Findaway for an undisclosed price. The company operates multiple businesses, including distributing audiobooks to various platforms and offering audiobook creation services under its business Findaway Voices. The company pairs authors with narrators, which could become a new and…

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday signed legislation to prevent companies like Huawei Technologies Co or ZTE Corp that are deemed security threats from receiving new equipment licenses from U.S. regulators. The legislation, Secure Equipment Act of 2021, will require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adopt new rules that clarify…

Cape Town-based low-code insurance platform start-up Root closed a $3 million seed funding round to help expand its infrastructure build to support the digital insurance economy. Primary backers Invenfin, Base Capital, Savannah Fund, P1 Ventures, FireID, and Luno were joined by a select group of high-impact angel investors for the hugely successful round.…