Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi

The head of streaming for Disney Kevin Mayer is leaving the Magic Kingdom and headed to TikTok. Kevin Mayer, chair of Walt Disney direct-to-consumer and international, resigned from the company on Monday to become TikTok’s new CEO. Mayer will also become the chief operating officer of TikTok’s owner, ByteDance. RELATED…

As businesses across the country start returning to work, the safety of employees and customers is of paramount importance. Vodacom has created specific digital solutions to support businesses as they navigate their return to work post-lockdown. Businesses will have to make changes to their regular operations in order to open…

Ride-hailing giant Uber announced thousands more layoffs on Monday, the latest round of cuts for a business devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. The company said it was laying off 3,000 workers and shuttering or consolidating 40 offices across the globe, including a large office in San Francisco that would be absorbed by…

Fitbit, which makes fitness-tracking wearables, is one of the many companies that will be shifting supply chain resources to make emergency ventilators. The ventilators will be used to help treat COVID-19 patients and could help bolster the national supply of the medical devices, which have been in need during the…

Africa’s largest mobile network provider, MTN, said yesterday that it had recorded an 11.1% increase in service revenue after normalizing for changes in currency in 21 countries. MTN said the revenue came on the back of double-digit growth in Nigeria and Ghana. Chief executive Rob Shuter said that revenue at…

Sony says that the PlayStation 5 is “on track for launch in this holiday season” despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The company made the announcement as part of its fiscal 2019 earnings release today, where it also reported 14 percent lower gaming revenue year-on-year. Sony put the decline down to lower…

Sony is slowly but surely getting ready for the launch of its PlayStation 5 game console later in 2020 and has announced a new PlayStation Studios brand that it’ll be using for its first-party exclusives going forward as a way to let customers know that a game comes from one of Sony’s…

Google Chrome will soon begin blocking resource-heavy ads in an effort to improve browsing experience and save your phone’s battery and network data. Chrome may be the most-used browser, but it has also historically received the most criticism for being not so good for resource management especially on phones. The ban on resource-heavy ads…

Lyft riders and drivers need to check a few boxes before getting in the car. Lyft announced that users must submit a “Personal Health Certification,” which requires every rider, and driver, to self-certify that they are following Centers for Disease Control and local guidelines related to COVID-19. Riders and drivers must…

With the nationwide Covid-19 lockdown in full effect, Vodacom has put numerous measures in place to protect customers and employees. These include measures that has seen frontline agents now working from home and practicing social distancing as well as stepping up its reliance on TOBi – Vodacom’s chatbot – which…

Luckin Coffee fired its CEO after the Chinese homegrown rival to Starbucks was found to have fabricated sales. Jenny Zhiya Qian was terminated on Monday, along with chief operating officer Jian Lu — the executive whom the company said last month was the architect of the fraud — according to a filing Luckin made…

Michelle Obama has worn a number of hats over the past several years: first lady, film producer, best-selling author. She now adds a new title to her résumé: Netflix documentary star. Michelle Obama’s 2018 memoir, Becoming, sold more copies than any other book published in the U.S. that year, breaking the record after…

Just recently following the coronavirus pandemic Google decided to allow its employees to work from home until the end of 2020 but Twitter has gone all out becoming one of the first companies to implement a work-from-home policy to prevent the the spread of the virus, saying it does not anticipate being…

Uber Technologies Inc is in advanced talks to buy online food delivery company GrubHub Inc in an all-stock deal. The two companies could reach an agreement as soon as this month. Shares of GrubHub jumped about 29% to $60.50, while those of Uber rose 6%. RELATED READING: UBER RECORDS LOSS…

CEO Pick n Pay Richard Brasher said he had expected to step down when he announced the retailer’s 2019 annual results but due to uncertainties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, instead he is “stepping up”. Brasher announced the Pick n Pay annual results to end-February on Tuesday, which included a contraction of headline earnings per…

On our breaking news today for those who were following the Anthony Okolie’s case, the Federal High Court, Asaba, Delta State, has fixed May 14, 2020 for judgment in the lawsuit filed by a Nigerian businessman, Anthony Okolie, against Hanan Buhari, the Department of State Services and telecommunication company, MTN.…

The new normal during the coronavirus pandemic means doing your job from home for many. The flip side? Jobs may be terminated remotely, as about 3,700 Uber employees learned recently via Zoom. RELATED READING: UBER LAYS OFF 3,700 EMPLOYEES DUE TO CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Uber used the popular teleconference software to conduct multiple meetings last…

Convergence Partners has announced that its African digital service provider platform, Inq Holdings Limited, has acquired Vodacom Business Africa’s operations in Nigeria, Zambia, and Cote d’Ivoire. It also plans to acquire the operations in Cameroon pending regulatory approvals. “This represents a further milestone in our journey to create a group…

Elon Musk restarted production at Tesla Inc.’s only U.S. car plant, flouting county officials who ordered the company to stay closed and openly acknowledging he was risking arrest for himself and his employees. “I will be on the line with everyone else,” the chief executive officer said in a tweet…

Ghanaian telecom operator, AirtelTigo has announced its partnership with popular mobile web browser Opera Mini to offer free data and browsing on the Opera Mini browser and Opera News App for three months. Through the partnership, both new and existing AirtelTigo customers will automatically receive free 50MB data every day…