WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a widespread global outage on Wednesday that lasted for several hours before being resolved. The main cause would have been contributed by Google Docs experiencing a widespread phishing attack, that, sent the internet into panic. People across the world found the…
Author: Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi
Snapchat faced a fierce backlash after an unsubstantiated report that CEO Evan Spiegel had disparaged India and Spain as “poor countries” that he wasn’t interested in, because the “app is only for rich people.” Snap vigorously denied the allegation, made by a former employee. But #BoycottSnapchat became a trending topic…
YouTube mobile live streaming can help you reach your audience live by taking advantage of live streaming on YouTube. YouTube rolled out live streaming for those who want to broadcast directly from their phones. Before, one had to have at least 10,000 subscribers to enable the feature. Today, however, the…
Facebook Live video streaming service focuses on the potential for sharing funny and happy moments from its users’ lives like weddings, graduations and birthdays. But its video platform has also become a popular way to share much horrifying moments like the recent killing of an innocent 74-year-old grandfather in broad daylight…
Who may have seen this one coming – David and Victoria Beckham have trademarked their five-year-old daughter’s name, Harper Beckham, for exclusive commercial use. This recent development entails that the protected rights on the five-year-old’s name means her famous parents could use it on products from deoderant to dolls. Therefore,…
Presumably, you had once heard or is still using Snapchat. Just in case, you have been seriously out of the loop lately, chances are you have heard about the Snapchat IPO. After a slight uptick in the first few days of trading, the share price came tumbling down and erased…
Pepsi may be secretly thanking United Airlines as social media backlash has shifted from the beverage brand’s Kendall Jenner ad fiasco to the airline company after a video surfaced on Sunday evening of a passenger being forcibly removed from an overbooked flight. United Airlines passenger ejection may cause a permanent…
Last week on Tuesday, Pepsi released an ad featuring Kendall Jenner. This ad achieved the exact opposite of its main intention. In an attempt to piggyback on the rally of activism behind the idolized, but out-of-touch, Kendall Jenner; Pepsi expected an encore and instead they acquiesced an onslaught. Since then, they’ve pulled…
Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, popularly known by his stage name Wizkid is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. Wizkid is currently trending on social media and it’s all for the good reasons. Wizkid’s latest video Come Closer hit 1 million Youtube views in 24 hours, a feat no African has achieved. The…
Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. The sun is suddenly shining for Apple Inc rival. The global memory chip leader, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd current forecast highlights its best quarterly profit in more than three years in the January-March period as chips soar. Therefore, beating expectations…
Are customers being given too much power? Much more, in today’s world of customers empowered by social media. The customer is not always right but does it really matter? The customer is usually wrong; but statistics indicate that it doesn’t pay to tell him so – Aleister Crowley. I will…
Don’t you too find it rather surprising that the banks with the largest, dreadful and most ridiculous queues all the time, whether it’s month-end, mid –month or beginning of the month, are sitting pretty, ranking high with the largest profits? This is an absolute circus. Let me give you an…
Nowadays, probably it’s the era we are now living in, that’s now heavily dominated by sharing selfies and photos on social media. Almost everyone is crazy about sharing selfies and photos on social media sites and along with the trend of selfies the collage making is also becoming popular among…
Regardless that, Amazon has conquered the smart home industry. From connecting appliance makers and game creators to television networks and even financial institutions, everyone seems to be jumping aboard the Alexa ship. But Amazon is eyeing a new domain that is even bigger – that’s your smartphone. And its bid…
I constantly multi-task on my PC hence I am really fond of a PC’s performance. This should be great news for PC gamers, Internet geeks, video professionals, among many others, who crave fast performance. For the speed maniacs out there, here is some good news. JEDEC is an organization that…
Looking at startups in Africa, we tend to be doing fairly well, especially in Nigeria which is really outstanding. Very well, therefore, this article is going to be mainly focusing on Nigeria and why software engineering is proving to be less lucrative. Lagos, Africa’s largest city, appears to be that…
Everyone likes remembering and wishing a friend, spouse, brother or sister a happy birthday, wedding anniversary, congratulations, good luck or best wishes. There is an application that lets you schedule your text message for a particular time or date just in case you may forget. This new iOS App is…
Apple could be about to drop support for older models of the iPhone. The company’s developer downloads webpage lists all of the devices that are in line for the upcoming iOS 10.3.2 update, which is currently in beta. Missing from the list are the iPhone 5, iPhone 5C and fourth-generation…
Yesterday, Snap Inc (SNAP.N) said its Snapchat messaging app would add an option for users to search through photos and videos that users have posted to the public. The move comes just days after larger rival Facebook Inc (FB.O) stepped up efforts to encourage users to take more photos and…
Samsung on Wednesday unveiled its latest premium smartphones, the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus, which the company hopes will restore its reputation as one of the world’s best smartphone makers. To do that, of course, Samsung must recover from the disastrous recall of its last premium phone, the Galaxy Note…