Google to invest $1bn to lift Africa internet access
Johannesburg – Google on Wednesday said it will invest $1 billion over the next five years to allow for faster... Read more
6 Oct, 2021
Facebook fights global outage and whistleblower revelations
Washington – Facebook battled dueling crises on Monday as potentially billions of users were impacted when its dominant social... Read more
5 Oct, 2021
Facebook blames major outage on router work
San Francisco – Facebook late omn Monday blamed a major outage across its platforms on configuration changes it made... Read more
5 Oct, 2021
Facebook chooses ‘profit over safety’, says whistleblower
Washington – The whistleblower who shared a trove of Facebook documents alleging the social media giant knew its products were... Read more
4 Oct, 2021
Nigeria’s Buhari orders Twitter ban lifted once conditions met
Lagos – Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said he had ordered the country’s ban on Twitter to be lifted... Read more
2 Oct, 2021
Rwandan YouTuber jailed for 15 years after anti-Kagame posts
Kigali – A Rwandan court on Thursday sentenced a prominent YouTube commentator and genocide survivor to 15 years in prison... Read more
1 Oct, 2021
Nigeria delays launch of eNaira digital currency
Abuja – Nigeria has delayed the launch of its eNaira digital currency, initially planned for Friday, because of the country’s... Read more
1 Oct, 2021
Malawi fines India’s Airtel for frauding customers
Lilongwe – Malawian regulators on Wednesday fined the local unit of India’s Bharti Airtel the equivalent of around $2.6 million... Read more
29 Sep, 2021
Egypt to tax social media stars
Cairo – Egypt said it will tax social media content creators in a revenue raising exercise as more citizens... Read more
27 Sep, 2021
South Korea fires first submarine-launched ballistic missile
Seoul – South Korea successfully test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile on Wednesday, the presidential Blue House said, becoming only... Read more
15 Sep, 2021
