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Big Announcements From Apple’s Spring 2021 Event: iPhone 12 And 12 Mini In Purple, New iMacs, iPads,…
Apple have on Tuesday announced a host of new services and hardwares during its first event of 2021, products like a redesigned iMac, long-rumored lost-item trackers called AirTags and purple iPhone 12.
There were expectations about new…
Twitter To Set Up Base For African Operations In Ghana
Popular American microblogging platform, Twitter has on Monday announced that it would be setting up a base for its African operations in Ghana.
The tech giant said this in a statement, stating that the company is actively building a…
LG Electronics To Shut Down Its Smartphone Business Due To Years Of Losses
LG Electronics, South Korea’s second-largest appliance firm after Samsung, has on Monday, April 5 announced it will be shutting down its mobile phone business, after losing billions of dollars in recent years.
The company announced the…
N42bn Debt: Bank Recharge Channels Via USSD Unavailable – MTN
Mobile network operator, MTN Nigeria, has announced that bank recharge channels through Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) services are currently unavailable to customers.
According to ThePunch, the telecommunication giants…
Elon Musk Says Tesla Now Accepts Bitcoin As Payment For Cars
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk has late Tuesday announced that it is now possible to buy Tesla vehicles in the United States with bitcoin.
The announcement comes less than a month after the automaker revealed that it had bought $1.5 billion worth…
Ex-Google Employee, Dave Girouard Becomes Billionaire In 24 Hours
Forbes has announced Upstart Holdings’ co-founder and CEO, Dave Girouard, who is an ex-Google employee, as the latest tech expert to become a billionaire.
The company’s shares reportedly increased by a whopping 89% on a single day…
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Sells First-Ever Tweet For $2.9 Million As An NFT
Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey has sold his first-ever published tweet for $2.9 million dollars as an Non-Fungible Token (NFT) on Monday.
The tweet, which said, "just setting up my twttr," was published on March 21, 2006. It has been shared…
WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Down For Thousands Of Users Worldwide
If you have been trying to access your WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook account, then you're not alone - the social media applications are down for several users worldwide.
Many users took to Twitter to share their complains, asking what…
Facebook Rolls Out Instagram Lite That Uses Less Data In Sub-Saharan Africa
Facebook has announced the launch of Instagram Lite, a lightweight version of the original app for Android which uses less data and works well across all network conditions, in Sub-Saharan Africa and other emerging markets.
Instagram is…
Flutterwave And PayPal Partner To Allow African Merchants Accept, Make Payments
Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, has on Tuesday announced a new collaboration with global payment leader, PayPal to enable customers of the latter globally to pay African merchants in the continent through…
Audio Cassette Tape Inventor, Lou Ottens Dies At 94
Louis Ottens, a Dutch engineer credited with inventing audio cassette tape and helped develop the compact disc decades later, has died at 94.
The engineer died in his hometown of Duizel last weekend, his family announced on Tuesday but…
Nigerian Payments Startup, Flutterwave Raises $170 Million, Now Valued At Over $1 Billion
Nigerian payments startup, Flutterwave has raised $170 million in a Series C funding round, the largest amount ever secured by an African tech startup.
Series C financing (also known as series C round or series C funding) is one of the…
Jack Dorsey’s Square Buys Majority Stake In Jay-Z’s Tidal Music Streaming Platform
Square, a payment platform founded by Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, has acquired a majority stake in Tidal, audio and video streaming service led by rapper, Jay-Z.
The financial company announced on Thursday that it is paying $297…
Google.org’s New Tracking Tool Leverages Global Health Stats To Tackle COVID-19
Google.org has joined hands with a consortium of COVID-19 researchers to announce the launch of Global.health, an open-access epidemiological data platform that enables experts to track disease spread in real-time and to forecast future…
Twitter To Launch ‘Super Follows’, New Feature That Allows Users Charge For Exclusive Content
Twitter has announced plans for a new feature called "super follows", which will enable users to charge and get paid for exclusive content.
The move comes as Twitter is branching out from advertising to find more ways to make money —…