Mark Zuckerberg is throwing money at some of the most popular content creators for rival TikTok in a bid to build buzz for a new copycat app, a new report says. Zuckerberg’s photo-sharing app Instagram has offered big-name creators hefty payments to ditch TikTok and join Reels, a short-form video service it plans to roll […]

An analogy between Multichoice’s Big Brother reality TV and the actions of humans when confined to a space, such as what COVID-19 lockdown.

TikTok unveiled plans for a $200 million “creator fund” to add content from emerging social media personalities to the fast-growing video-sharing app. The new US fund will “help support ambitious creators who are seeking opportunities to foster a livelihood through their innovative content,” said Vanessa Pappas, general manager of TikTok US. The move comes with […]

Google will keep its employees working from home for at least another full year. Staff at the search giant who were first sent home in March due to the coronavirus pandemic are not expected to return in a large capacity until at least July 2021, according to the Wall Street Journal. The decision slams a […]

A highly anticipated congressional hearing on anti-competitive practices, bringing together the heads of four US technology giants, has been rescheduled for noon (1600 GMT) Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee has announced. The heads of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple — the world’s biggest technology companies — will be testifying at a time of growing complaints […]

Microsoft on Wednesday reported rising revenues in the past quarter amid strong demand for cloud computing services from pandemic-hit businesses and consumers and big gains in its Xbox gaming operations. Profits in the quarter ending June 30 fell 15 per cent to $11.2 billion, the result of increased tax charges compared with a year ago. […]

Twitter said Thursday user growth soared in the past quarter even as ad revenues took a hit amid civil unrest in the United States. The short-messaging service reported a net loss of $1.2 billion in the quarter, most of that coming from setting aside funds for income taxes. Revenue slumped 19 percent from a year […]

The workplace messaging platform Slack said Wednesday it has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission alleging that Microsoft is illegally tying its own product to its dominant Office software suite. San Francisco-based Slack said the tech giant is abusing its market dominance and harming competition by promoting its own messaging service, Teams, as […]

By Okoh Aihe The title of this piece is not a curse but a metaphorical expression of my exasperation with the telecommunications industry, whose fortunes in terms of service delivery to the customers have plummeted abysmally in recent times. As expected, telecom operators have come under very intense pressure and pillorying by angry customers who […]

Google on Tuesday said it had launched its Sub-Saharan African website- `thinkwithgoogle.com/ssa’- to help marketers on the continent get the locally-relevant insights they need. Asha Patel, Head, Google SMB Marketing, Sub-Saharan Africa made this known in a statement. According to her, Think with Google Sub-Saharan Africa walks alongside marketers and business leaders as they deal […]

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor As the Web Virtual Conferencing market size grows to USD12.58 billion in 2020 and  estimated to reach USD 19.02 billion by 2025, smart Nigeria tech companies are planning how to be part of the windfall. This is as a Nigerian Technology centre, 21st Century Technologies, at the weekend, launched  Konet;  […]

By Juliet Umeh Insurance company, AXA has announced collaboration with cross – border, cross-currency money movement and payments, Western Union to provide inclusive insurance products to customers. By linking insurance to money transfer services, the two groups will help to better cover migrant workers and their families at home. An initial pilot, called ‘Transfer Protect’, […]

By Prince Osuagwu, Hi-Tech Editor Nigeria’s 41 million small and medium enterprises, SMEs may have to ramp up more investment in cloud technology to grow quickly and attract major support of big players in the global market. This sums up the resolution of a wide range of experts in technology business who gathered at a […]

A United Arab Emirates spacecraft rocketed into blue skies from a Japanese launch centre Monday at the start of a seven-month journey to Mars on the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. The liftoff of the Mars orbiter named Amal, or Hope, starts a rush to fly to Earth’s neighbour that is scheduled to be followed […]

By Chinonso Alozie The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, led by Uchenna Madu, on Sunday, said that the former Head of State, late General Sani Abacha, alongside his followers frustrated the vision of Engr Ezekiel  Izuogu, who was said to have manufactured the first indigenous car— Z-600— in Africa. […]