According to Indian lawmakers they said that TikTok was encouraging the spread of explicit content and “cultural degradation” among youth, and then they successfully banned the short video app — but only for a week or so, because the TikTok ban has now been lifted. That’s according to reports from Reuters, TechCrunch, CNN Business, and others. Technically, TikTok’s existing…
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Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey sat down with President Trump for his most high-profile tête-à-tête yet. Dorsey’s 30-minute meeting with Trump happened behind closed doors. Motherboard reported the meeting just before Trump tweeted about it. Unless either of the men decides to share more about what they discussed we won’t know how things went…
Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa plans to list part of his Botswana telecoms operator Mascom by October this year, he said on Tuesday, in what he expects to be one of the biggest flotations on the Gaborone bourse. Masiyiwa, through his holding company Econet, is finalising a $300 million deal with…
Even the best phones are smudge magnets. Grease from your fingers, your lunch and your face find their way onto the screen, and onto the backing if you don’t have a case. It’s gross, and annoying. While you may be tempted to constantly wipe your screen with your brand-new shirt,…
Samsung’s spokesperson in a statement announced the postponement of their two launch events for its folding smartphone, days after several early reviewers said the screens on their devices had broken. In April, Samsung let several reviewers to try its new Galaxy Fold smartphone. But some found their folding display broke…
Tennis superstar Serena Williams has been quietly building a venture capital portfolio since 2014, amassing investments in more than 30 startups with an accumulated market cap of $12 billion. On Wednesday, she finally announced her business to the public. Andela, the developer training and outsourcing company with operations in four…
A year ago SA Durban- Cyber-security experts raised concerns at the lack of security measures on government websites in the wake of a cyber attack on the official Presidency website. If it was so easy to attack a website like that of the Presidency then one had to ask about…
Despite the head of U.N. Internet and Telecoms Agency Houlin Zhao denying any wrongdoing on the part of Huawei, the U.S intelligence doesn’t seem to be taking heed. Zhao said that U.S. security concerns about 5G mobile networks built by Chinese telecoms giant Huawei appear to be driven by politics and trade rather than any…
Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote, known as Africa’s richest man, told a forum in Ivory Coast on Saturday how he once took $10m in cash out of the bank just to look at it and get it into his head that this was real money, not just figures on paper. “When…
Disney Plus will cram new originals and legacy premium programming into its service, at almost half the cost of Netflix’s most popular plan in the US.
Will your favorite movies or shows be included in Disney’s $7-a-month streaming service? Here’s all the ones that are confirmed.
Here’s everything we know about Disney Plus, the entertainment giant’s answer to Netflix.
Lei Jun has said he will give the giant bonus to charity.
Last week Thursday MacKenzie Bezos announced the news of her own divorce settlement with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a Twitter post. The dissolution of their 25-year marriage will result in MacKenzie Bezos becoming one of the wealthiest women in the world after she announced that the settlement will leave her with…
BMW SA has donated at least one of its X3 models to the new Soshanguve Engineering School of Specialisation (SoS) for educational purposes.
The PC business unit behind the hardware has rebranded itself as Dynabook. The move comes after Toshiba sold its PC business unit to Sharp, the Japanese display maker. The tech community has already lost so much in 2019. Google+, Amazon Dash buttons, Microsoft Bands. Now, we must bid adieu to…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is joining the Internet space race. Last month, Amazon filed with the International Telecommunications Union for permission to put 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit so it could offer Internet service globally. The plan, codenamed Project Kuiper, is similar to those of a number of other companies that…
Avengers: Endgame may well mean the end for some of the Marvel characters we’ve been watching on screen for the past 11 years. And audiences can’t wait to see who. Audiences overwhelmed ticketing web sites when pre-sales began earlier this week and box office trackers now say the highly anticipated film could have the…
Just days ahead of the return of “Game of Thrones,” Roku has forged a deal with HBO that now gives the media device maker the ability to sell the premium channel as a subscription through its dedicated content hub, The Roku Channel. Originally a destination for free and ad-supported movies and TV, The Roku Channel in…