By Rasheed Sobowale Facebook-owned messaging app, WhatsApp, has belayed its schedule for suspending and deleting the account of users who did not accept its new terms and data privacy policy by February 28. The company after the announcement of the new policy has come under a heavy backlash. Some users dumped the messaging platform for […]

WhatsApp on Friday postponed a data-sharing change as users concerned about privacy fled the Facebook-owned messaging service and flocked to rivals Telegram and Signal. The smartphone app, a huge hit across the world, canceled its February 8 deadline for accepting an update to its terms concerning sharing data with Facebook, saying it would use the […]

…As Coy vows to crash cost of internet in Nigeria By Emmanuel Elebeke A multinational technology company and major global player in wireless/virtual technologies, E.  F. Network Ltd, has been licensed by Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) to provide internet services in Nigeria. The approval came on the heels of the company meeting all requirements and […]

Parler on Thursday urged a US judge to order Amazon’s web division to allow the conservative-favoured network back online after cutting it off for failure to rein in incitements to violence. Attorneys for Parler and Amazon argued their rival positions by telephone before the US. District Judge, Barbara Rothstein, who promised a prompt decision. Parler […]

Shares in Chinese technology giant Xiaomi collapsed more than 11 per cent in Hong Kong trade Friday after the US put it on a blacklist banning Americans from investing in it, as the Trump administration ramps up its battle with Beijing. The company, one of the world’s biggest smartphone makers and considered China’s answer to […]