Russia’s leading media holding, which is controlled by state energy giant, Gazprom, will launch an app similar to the video-sharing social network TikTok, the group’s CEO said Wednesday. The Kommersant business daily cited Gazprom-Media CEO Alexander Zharov as saying the holding had purchased a service called “Ya Molodets” (“I am great”). Zharov said the app […]

China has launched an anti-monopoly investigation into Alibaba, regulators said Thursday, heaping further pressure on the e-commerce giant and sending its share price tumbling. Regulators will also hold “supervisory and guidance” talks with Alibaba’s gigantic financial services subsidiary Ant Group, state media reported, just weeks after its record-breaking IPO was halted at the last minute […]

Li Changming just purchased a new Huawei smartphone and the 70-year-old retiree is still a bit puzzled by a high-tech device that China policymakers hope will help unlock spending by millions of older Chinese. Undeterred, he’s enrolled in a training session — sort of a “mobile phones 101” — that is part of China’s plans […]

By Emmanuel Elebeke, Juliet Umeh The Federal  Government, yesterday,  extended the synchronisation  of SIM cards with the National Identity Number, NIN, to January and February 2021 for different categories of subscribers respectively. A statement  by the National Task Force on NIN and SIM registration, indicated that the Federal Government approved three weeks extension for subscribers […]

…Say it’s impossible to link 170m subscribers’ lines with NIN in 2 weeks …Unjustifiable, unnecessary, stop it, SERAP tells Buhari …Lawyer drags FG, NCC to court over NIN registration deadline By Victor Ahiuma-Young, Olasunkanmi Akoni & By Henry Ojelu Workers in the nation’s Communications industry under the aegis of Private Telecommunications and Communications Senior Staff […]