Spotify, a well-recognized and popular African music App in Africa, has grown and expanded over the last few years after it started. Several factors can be associated with this development, including but not limited to the collaboration with local and international artists, including music streaming and social media. But, somehow, only a few of these […]

Jack Dorsey, The founder and former CEO of the social networking app Twitter, has unveiled a new social media platform called ‘Bluesky’. The launch is coming bare one week after serial entrepreneur Elon Musk, took over Twitter as the owner and CEO. Read also: Elon Musk Monetizes Twitter, Frowns At Impersonation Jack, as he is fondly […]

In an effort to cut costs, Elon Musk, Twitter‘s new CEO, announced plans to eliminate positions at the microblogging platform. In the wee hours of November 4, 2022, Twitter employees found that their work laptops wouldn’t turn on, they couldn’t access their work tools, and their emails had been blocked. According to a source, several […]

Microblogging and social networking service Twitter has revealed plans to introduce a monthly fee of as high as about $20 for account verification. In an official statement on Monday, Twitter said its subscription price would range from $4.99 to $19.99 per month, adding that users who do not pay will lose their verification. The social […]

Netflix announced plans for a less expensive, advertising-supported subscription, hoping that a $6.99/month alternative for customers can maintain its earnings in increasingly difficult economic times. When the company’s once exploding subscriber growth turned into reverse as a symptom of market saturation in North America, Reed Hastings, chief executive, changed his previous resistance to advertising support […]

Flat6Labs has provided follow-on funding for Roboost, an Egyptian delivery management system. This is on top of a six-figure seed round investment from Falak Startups and AUC Angels. As a result of the new fundraising round, Roboost will improve its AI delivery management system and add more products to its line. This will speed up […]

Safaricom, a Kenyan telecommunications company, recently announced that it had made a deal with Google to promote and add more short videos from YouTube to its platform. During the promotion, which will last for a total of two months, content creators in the east African country will be able to get 1GB of data for […]

  Adobe has proved to be very active lately, as it has been partnering with many organizations across different industries. The multination computer software company, Adobe, has formed another partnership with HUGO BOSS, a luxury fashion brand, to help power its strategy around 3D and immersive design. The collaboration will aid in exploring new customer […]

The first and largest digital library of contents highlighting the Osun Osogbo Sacred Grove has been launched, according to a press release from Google Arts & Culture in collaboration with The Adunni Olorisha Trust and CyArk. One of Nigeria’s last remaining holy groves has been preserved digitally with the introduction of Google Arts and Culture’s […]

The Kazi app, whose creators won the 2021 MTN Business App of the Year Award for Best Africa Solution for making it, gives people who have to live from hand to mouth not only work but also hope and dignity. The founders of the start-up, Granville Wafula and Mwenesi Musalia had a simple idea: they […]

YouTube, the video-sharing platform, has introduced a new feature specifically for its creators, but still regular users can take advantage of it to change the way they identify their channels or even themselves. As a result of this new functionality, any user on the site can now have their very own name handle. The platform […]

‌A pre-seed fundraising round brought in $3 million for Tushop, a social-commerce network based in Nairobi that helps communities buy food at lower prices and receive free delivery of their orders. JAM Fund, Breyer Capital, Chandaria Capital, TO Ventures, Golden Palm Investments, and DFS Lab were among the investors who took part in this funding […]

Fatima Laher has been appointed Group Executive: Group Legal by MTN Group, a pan-African mobile and telecommunications provider. Her appointment will take effect on October 1, 2022. Her return to MTN follows six years of working for Samsung Electronics as Head of Africa Disputes. Lele Modise, Group Chief Legal and Regulatory officer, said, “Fatima is […]

In South Africa, DStv, which is owned by MultiChoice, has started offering bundles that include DStv streaming bouquets and unlimited fiber internet at lower prices. This is to get more people to sign up for streaming services. The packages, which will only be accessible to streaming subscribers, will cost R699 (about $39) for the Compact […]

Netflix is currently rolling out a new feature that allows users to create game handles, resulting in a more individualized and immersive gaming experience. With game handles, members will be able to create a one-of-a-kind public login that may be used across the board for all Netflix games. In multiplayer games like Rival Pirates, an […]

TikTok will soon make its comment disapproval option available to users worldwide. In April, the short-form video app began testing the “dislike” button, allowing users to flag remarks that they feel are improper or irrelevant to the app’s content. If you click the button labelled “dislike” on a comment, the comment in question will not […]

MultiChoice is expanding its business beyond the entertainment industry by buying the emergency help mobile app Namola for an amount that has not been made public, The operator, which already owns DStv, is extending its portfolio of offerings by expanding into other routes, and this acquisition is one of the ways it is doing so. […]

Instagram is reportedly working on a new feature that will protect users from getting explicit content or nudity in direct messages (DMs) from people they don’t know. The feature is being tested to automatically hide nudes that you didn’t ask for in your DMs. The feature, aptly named “Nudity Protection,” is in development, but it […]

  YouTube, in its effort to counter TikTok’s unequalled growth, has announced new initiatives for YouTube Shorts to compete in the short-form video arena. The platform rolled out new revenue-sharing tools for content creators on its YouTube Shorts video products. Hitherto, TikTok has been dominant in this area as it has appealed to the younger […]

The Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which set harsh penalties for cybercrimes and was privately proposed by Muhammad Nsereko (Ind., Kampala Central), has been passed by the Parliament of Uganda. The purpose of the Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill, 2022 was to amend the Computer Misuse Act, 2011, in order to strengthen the provisions on unauthorized […]