Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

Zoom Video Communications Inc announced that it’s acquiring Five9, a provider of cloud contact center software, in an all-stock transaction valuing the company at $14.7 billion. The deal marks Zoom’s first billion-dollar acquisition and comes as the company prepares for a post-pandemic world with employees returning to the office. It’s the second-biggest…

The Huawei P50 series finally got an official launch date. Huawei confirmed that it would be unveiling the flagship P50 series this month. The company recently posted the event for the P50 series launch will take place on July 29, though as of now, the rumours suggests that we are…

Cape Town-based employee wellness app Strove has just raised $278K (R4-million) in seed funding in a round led by venture capital firm, Launch Africa. The round comes after venture builder The Delta launched the initial product in January. Chris Bruchhausen, in partnership with The Delta, founded Strove in 2020, and the company…

Microsoft is once again advising its customers to disable Windows print spooler, after a new vulnerability that allows hackers to execute malicious code on machines has emerged. While a patch fixing the flaw will be released in due course, the most effective workaround currently on the table is to stop…

All of the other Chinese smartphone brands have benefited from Huawei’s international demise (except Honor), but none more than Xiaomi, and today’s news comes to confirm this fact yet again. According to Canalys, in the second quarter of 2021, Xiaomi was the second-biggest smartphone maker globally in terms of sales.…

Crypto is poised to set a new record for the biggest private round fundraise ever. The France-based fantasy soccer game and non-fungible token (NFT) trading platform Sorare has reportedly completed a $532 million funding round at a $3.8 billion valuation. This round would add to an already lucrative 2021 for…

Netflix Inc is the king of streaming with more than 200 million subscribers. But now it appears the platform has set its sights on dominating a new form of entertainment: video games, marking its first big move beyond TV shows and films, and has hired a former Electronic Arts Inc. and Facebook Inc. executive to lead…

Clippy hasn’t had an easy life. Microsoft’s iconic but polarizing virtual assistant first appeared in Windows 97 as a small paper clip to help Microsoft Office users. It was given the boot by Office 2007, only earlier this year, it resurfaced for one day as an animated sticker in Microsoft Teams before…

South African innovative medical technology startup Envisionit Deep AI which utilizes artificial intelligence to streamline and improve medical imaging diagnosis for radiologists has won $50 000 at the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge with its healthcare solution, Radify. The Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge is an online competition that awards…

Last month we made a report that gaming giant company Electronic Arts (EA) had been hacked with valuable data of about 780GB stolen, now the same hackers who had stolen the data from EA have moved from trying to sell that data to now releasing parts of it publicly. In one message on…

Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, is getting into the animation world, with Netflix also confirming such new developments that it’s working on developing a new animated series with Meghan and Archewell Productions, the production outfit founded by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. According to a press release, the series,…

We use emojis every day, so why not celebrate them? World Emoji Day! Did you even know that there’s a World Emoji Day? Well, there is … and it’s on July 17!  Not a day goes by where I don’t use a little party popper emoji to add color to a…

Remember when Snapchat created the Stories format and then every company under the sun copied it? Well, as it turns out, some were more successful than others at that. Facebook’s Instagram, for example, overtook Snapchat a long time ago and it’s not looking back. Twitter, on the other hand? It…

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday announced the company plans to pay out $1 billion through 2022 to content creators for its Facebook and Instagram social networks. It’s one way the company hopes to attract influencers to create content for its platforms as it competes with other popular services, such as…

UK electric aircraft manufacturer, Vertical Aerospace, has won the backing of American Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, and Microsoft in its bid to make urban air travel a reality. The startup revealed on Thursday that it has pre-orders for up to 1,000 of its zero-emissions VA-X4 vertical takeoff aircraft, worth as much as $4 billion, as it announced…

The online chat platform Discord has purchased a company that makes AI-powered software to detect and remove online harassment and hate. The company, Sentropy, monitors online networks for abuse and harassment, then offers users a way to block problematic people and filter out messages they don’t want to see. Its first product,…

On Tuesday, France’s competition regulator fined Google 500 million euros ($592 million) for failing to negotiate in good faith with French publishers in a dispute over payments for their news. The agency threatened fines of another 900,000 euros (around $1 million) per day if Google doesn’t come up with proposals within two…

Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co recently revealed that it has signed a 4G patent licensing deal with an unnamed supplier of parts to Volkswagen, the world’s largest carmaker. Although reports said it was Luxembourg-based Rolling Wireless, one of the world’s leading suppliers of 4G and 5G network access devices to the…

Samsung has never hesitated to make the rounds in terms of its flagships, as it was one of the first handset makers to launch a device with a 108MP primary sensor. Even its foldable series, which faced criticism due to building issues with the first generation Fold, later became known…

Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp has been accused of multiple breaches of European Union (EU) consumer protection law as a result of its attempts to force WhatsApp users to accept controversial changes to the messaging platforms’ terms of use — such as threatening users that the app would stop working if they…