Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Social media giant Facebook Chief Executive and Founder Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion (R105 billion) in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline such…

Facebook Inc has cited ‘faulty configuration changes’ on its routers as the root cause of the nearly six-hour outage, depending on your time zone, that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. Others have provided a bit more…

What to watch next? Netflix is officially bringing its shuffle feature to its Android mobile users, which will make it easier to find something to watch when you can’t make a decision. The feature, called “Play Something,” is a shuffle mode option that will play another movie or show Netflix believes…

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger – basically every Facebook-owned platform – has been down for hours now. And Twitter is basking in the glory of it all, with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey also appearing to be getting just as much pleasure out of today’s global Facebook outage as anyone. The microblogging chief is tweeting…

WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook have all gone down in a major outage. The three apps – which are all owned by Facebook, and run on shared infrastructure – all completely stopped working shortly before 5 pm. Other products that are part of the same family of apps, such as Facebook Workplace,…

Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc and investment firm SSW Partners, today announced they have reached a definitive agreement to acquire Swedish automotive technology company Veoneer, Inc. for $37.00 per share in an all-cash transaction, representing a total equity value for Veoneer of $4.5 billion. Veoneer has terminated its prior acquisition agreement with Magna International Inc.…

Entrepreneur and musician Kanye West broke the internet with his “DONDA” album release last month, and now the 44-year-old billionaire is filing a “DONDA” name trademark for a line of tech products to compete with Apple according to legal docs. The legal documents show that Kanye plans to step into the tech…

The identity of the Facebook whistleblower who released tens of thousands of pages of internal research and documents — leading to a firestorm for the social media company in recent weeks — was revealed on “60 Minutes” Sunday night as Frances Haugen. The 37-year-old former Facebook product manager who worked on civic integrity issues…

Following a crackdown on gaming by Chinese authorities, ByteDance is introducing new youth controls for Douyin, its TikTok-equivalent app in China, Bloomberg has reported. Any users confirmed to be under 14 will enter a new “youth mode” limited to 40 minutes of usage per day. At the same time, it unveiled a new app called Xiao…

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos participated in a $87 million Series B funding for Indonesian startup Ula, marking his first-ever investment in Southeast Asia’s e-commerce space. Bezos’ interest in Ula, which operates a business-to-business e-commerce platform, comes at a time when Amazon has either not entered most Southeast Asian nations — or maintains…

Rivian Automotive, an electric truck maker backed by Amazon and Ford Motor, recently revealed huge losses and a voracious need for cash as it headed into one of the most anticipated initial public offerings of the year. The company filed its IPO confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission in August, and…

Former US President Donald Trump has asked a court to mandate that Twitter restore his social media account. In a filing late Friday, Trump asked a federal district judge for a preliminary injunction enabling his return to Twitter while his lawsuit against the social media giant continues. “Plaintiff Donald J.…

The South African legal Technology Network aims to usher in technology into the legal sector in South Africa and act as a ‘voice’ for local legal tech startups. Founded by Catherine-Jane Paulse and Yusha Davidson, the SALT Network was born out of the growing number of South African legal tech…

Hackers stole cryptocurrencies from at least 6,000 customers of the Nasdaq-listed digital asset exchange Coinbase by exploiting a flaw in its two-factor authentication (2FA) system. The news, first reported by Bleeping Computer, comes just a week after the company had to drop its plans to launch a new lending product following the…

Microsoft is launching Office 2021 on October 5th, and the company has finally detailed the features and pricing today. Office 2021 will be the next standalone version of Microsoft’s Office suite, designed for businesses and consumers who want to avoid the subscription version of Office. Office Home and Student 2021 will…

Google is scrapping its plans to offer banking services directly to users. The shift comes nearly two years after the company first announced its banking plans and several months after a key executive leading the project departed. The Wall Street Journal first reported news of the scrapped plans Friday, stating a series of…

Google is so successful that it’s the most searched for term on Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine, the company lawyers revealed while making their appeal against a $5bn fine levied against it by the EU for anticompetitive ”illegal practices” relating to its Android operating system. The tech giant has asked EU judges to…

Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm that owns analytics vendor Tibco, acquired robotic process automation vendor Blue Prism for $1.5 billion and plans to combine Tibco and Blue Prism once the acquisition closes. Blue Prism, which specializes in software robots that automate repetitive tasks, said Vista would pay each shareholder £11.25…

Microsoft has begun testing cloud gaming on the Xbox consoles. It’s currently only available for randomly selected members of the Xbox Insider programme, but in an Xbox Wire blog post, Microsoft says it plans to expand to more Insiders over time. Xbox Cloud Gaming is designed to let players have the Xbox experience whether they’re…

ABB has launched the world’s fastest electric car charger, the Swiss engineering company said on Thursday, to plug into the booming demand for electric cars made by Tesla, Hyundai, and other automakers. The company is launching the new Terra 360 modular charger as it presses ahead with plans to float its electric…