American multinational technology company, Google, on Tuesday, January 28, launched a developer hub in Lagos for African tech entrepreneurs. Similar to the Facebook Hub that launched...
Kenya’s ecommerce platform, Africasokoni, has taken another step towards the fulfilment of its vision as it thrusts its foot into Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria. The B2C...
On Monday, January 27, the Lagos State government, through the office of the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on New Media, announced its intention to...
Bolt, formerly Taxify, that first launched its cab-hailing venture in Nigeria in 2016, is taking a new offering (tricycle services) to the people of Uyo with...
More Nigerian-owned companies, especially those operating in the tech space, have been recording significant growth as they increasingly acquire other startups, fund multimillion projects, or simply...
Recently, the rivalry between 6 years old Telegram and the Mark Zuckerberg-owned Whatsapp has become intense. The heat of this competition has remarkably been instrumental to...
Boston-based BFA Global through it startup accelerator initiative, Catalyst Fund, has listed Nigeria’s Cowrywise as one of the startups making up its new cohort. The new...
Opera, in a prelude post on Tuesday, January 22, hinted the public on a new offering in the pipeline -a phone in the making to be...
Payment startup, Flutterwave, has secured a $35 million funding round as it looks to expand its coast across the continent. The funding, which comes along with...
New online learning platform, Traindemy, which relatively runs similarly to Alearnko, is currently garnering reviews from product testers and analysts as it thrusts into the digital...
Digital services provider, Google, has recently delisted one of Opera’s household Apps on its portal for breaching Google’s policy on loan provisions. Okash, a division of...
Chinese product, Lenovo, has finished the fourth quarter of 2019 as the number one listed PC shipped worldwide, beating America’s HP and other key PC market...
As the US-Iran dispute rages on and international communities begin taking sides, Facebook has announced its intention to yank off posts backing Iran over the US....
As more gift card trading platforms increasingly push and compete to improve services, Cardtonic, one of Nigeria’s vendors, has launched a mobile app that is thought...
As part of plans to improve the country’s broadband infrastructure within the next four years, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has released a new strategy blueprint...
A new report has revealed that Iran could launch several cyberattacks as well as targeting US critical infrastructure like the electric grid following the assassination of...
American tech giant, Amazon has revealed that it has fired four of its employees over the past four years for improperly accessing video data from users’...
Telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, has reportedly “made a debut in the Television (TV) Service” with its new offering that will afford subscribers real time TV...
Facebook has announced plans to unveil new privacy settings and policies in order to give users more control over their data. This announcement was made as...
Callaba, a new player in the communication space, has launched operations and is currently enjoying what might pass as product testing phase. Being a new player,...
Aliens exist and it is possible they are already here on Earth, according to the first British astronaut to go into space. Speaking to the Observer...
It is needless to say that Artificial Intelligence is begging to change the way we do things and has come part of our everyday life as...
India has announced plans for a third lunar mission, months after its last one crash landed on the Moon’s surface. The chairman of India’s space agency,...
Microsoft says it has obtained a court order allowing it to seize web domains used by North Korean hacking groups to launch cyberattacks on human rights...
A U.S. female astronaut has set a record for the longest single space flight by a woman, thus breaking the old mark of 288 days set...
American space agency, NASA has proposed the launch of a new space telescope to embark on a Habitable Exoplanet Observatory (HabEx) mission to search for a...
While the economy in 2019 was experiencing fluctuations in both capital and money markets, the tech space, as another robust business enclave, witnessed significant growth year...
A researcher has claimed that he matched 17 million phone numbers to user accounts – including high-profile politicians and officials — by exploiting a vulnerability in...
To sustain relevance in today’s competitive market, every industry now uses innovative technologies that make their solutions more powerful and very attractive for users to let...
The US Navy issued a bulletin uploaded to a Facebook page serving military members, saying that service members are to delete the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok...
French officials have slapped Google with a hefty fine for unfairly suspending companies from its digital advertising platform. The French Competition Authority issued the penalty of...
Sheldon Hand, head of security software and services at IBM Southern Africa, has, in a recent interview, established that more cyber crimes are perpetrated during the...
A Chinese Long March 4B rocket (CZ-4B) today blasted off into space carrying onboard Ethiopia’s first remote sensing satellite, ETRSS-1, at 03:21 GMT from the Taiyuan...
Asian giants, China could be set to turn on its HL-2M tokamak – a device designed to replicate nuclear fusion, the same reaction that powers the...
Social networking platform, Facebook, has revealed that its system can identify users’ locations without users’ knowledge. Facebook made this revelation in a letter to the US...
A data breach at Canadian clinical laboratory services provider, LifeLabs, has exposed the records of at least 15 million patients. However, the company had in an...
Online shopping store, Konga, has announced its launch of new features to include USSD and cashless withdrawal. The e-commerce platform made the announcement via its twitter...
Giant mobile phone manufacturer, Apple and Elon Musk’s car company, Tesla, have been accused among five global leading tech companies aiding child labour in Africa. International...
Two Nigerian artificial intelligence engineers identified as Orevaoghene Ahia, 21, and Kelechi Ogueji, 23, have both succeeded in developing the world’s first pidgin-to-English translation model. According...
Nigeria’s Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, is advocating the use of nuclear technology to effectively eradicate mosquitoes from the continent of Africa. Onu...
Norwegian-owned startup, OPay is reportedly set to compete with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger with an instant messaging feature — Friends — which allows real-time conversations between...
Independent German company and manufacturer of automobiles, Bavarian Motor Works (BMW), has announced a proposed launch that will serve its Android customers. This is to replicate...
Social messaging application, WhatsApp will stop working on millions of phones in the next couple of months as the company withdraws support for some older mobile...
The Lagos Waste Management Authority (LAWMA) has launched a mobile app to enable Lagos State residents track waste disposal operations across the state, a public notice...
The Asset and Resource Management (ARM) and Ventures Platform have agreed to invest $20,000 in financial technology– focused startups to boost the nation’s financial sector. The...
A study from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) indicated that climate change and the ensuing hot water reduced the amount of oxygen dissolved...
A group of scientists based in Australia have joined forces to create a new jelly-like material which they claim has the strength and durability of actual...
Sony has been prompted by the FBI to hand over information on a PlayStation 4 user that allegedly used the system’s online services to distribute thousands...
Internet and broadband service company, Spectranet, on Friday launched a car Mifi device: Car-Fi to meet the increasing demand of Nigerians for internet connectivity on the...
A new study reported this week claims that of the thousands of ingredients that go into hair products used to dye and straighten our hair, some...
