<p>News stories in the tech world</p>
The 13 winners of the 2021 Facebook Community Accelerator Programme was recently announced by Facebook, with over half being Nigerians.
At the first virtual Google for Africa event on October 6, 2021, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, announced a plan to invest $1billion over 5 years to support digital transformation in Africa. The investment focuses on enabling fast, affordable internet access for more Africans; building helpful products; supporting entrepreneurship and small business; and […]
At the first-ever Google for Africa event, held virtually on Wednesday, Google announced the launch of a 50 million-dollar Africa Investment Fund, through which it plans to invest in African startups. Selected companies will be provided with access to Google’s employees, network and technologies, to help them build products. Targeted at early- to growth-stage startups, […]
Facebook has revealed the cause of one of the worst service outages ever to hit the social networking site. The downtime occurred on Monday, October 4, and affected billions of users globally for around six hours. It also knocked out other Facebook-owned services such as Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. During the outage, the company took to Twitter […]
Google has announced it’s yearly October event for 2021. This year, Google will be revealing all there is to the Pixel 5A and the Pixel 6/6 Pro. Although publicly known, the company clearly hasn’t said everything it wants to say quite yet, and the just announced virtual event for October 19th at 1PM ET / 10AM PT is […]
Paga, a Nigeria-based mobile payment company, has partnered with investment firm, Untapped Global, to provide financing of point-of-sale (POS) devices for small businesses and merchants in the country. Paga’s POS devices enable merchants to accept cards, mobile payments, and other forms of digital payments, making it easy for them to get paid while enabling them to […]
On October 5, 2021, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp went down for millions of users around the world, according to complaints from users around the world and data from outage tracking website Downdetector.com. I personally tried to send my wife some messages severally but couldn’t and i had to resort to Telegram to send her a message […]
The first Galaxy S22 Ultra renders based on leaked official information emerged last week, revealing what could be the upcoming flagship’s design. However, these first renders were created from loose bits of information, which means that the finer design detail could be inaccurate. Among many other things, the first Galaxy S22 Ultra renders revealed a design with a square […]
Beijing’s announcement has sent cryptocurrencies tumbling.
World’s first 16-inch OLED laptops: ProArt Studiobook and Vivobook series feature the world’s first 16″ 4K OLED HDR display Complete OLED lineup: All-OLED ProArt Studiobook, Zenbook, Vivobook and ExpertBook series for all users to enjoy the best visuals OLED offers an exceptional user experience: OLED displays bring many practical benefits, including incredible color reproduction and improved […]
ASUSs’ Advanced creative ecosystem has a full range of innovative new ProArt Studiobook, Zenbook Pro and Vivobook Pro laptops, suitable for all levels of creator ASUS ‘Create the Uncreated’ Launch Event – SEPtember 2, 2021 TAIPEI, Taiwan, September 2, 2021 — ASUS today showcased its full range of ProArt Studiobook, Zenbook Pro and Vivobook Pro creator […]
Lagos, Nigeria. The Board of Directors of Africa’s leading fintech company, Appzone Group, have approved the appointment of Timothy “Tim” Souter as the new Group Chief Financial Officer. A seasoned financial expert with expertise garnered in Europe and Africa, Tim Souter brings over 15 years of financial leadership experience across several industries and sectors including […]
New WD Purple Pro product line brings elevated performance, workload capability and reliability to advanced AI-enabled recorders and video analytics server applications WD SAN JOSE, Calif., May 18, 2021 – Empowering the world’s essential data infrastructure, Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced the expansion of the WD Purple family with the WD Purple™ Pro […]
Twitter is where you go to talk about what’s happening. We are constantly listening to what people who use Twitter want and testing new features to make it even easier for them to have conversations anywhere on our service, including Direct Messages (DMs). To make chatting in DMs more convenient, we are bringing voice messages […]
The new Samsung Galaxy A series enables everyone to experience awesome technology at a price that suits their needs
