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 […]

When it comes to functionalities, WhatsApp groups continue to be the most popular option. WhatsApp groups are a wonderful way to maintain connections with family, friends, or coworkers. Nevertheless, many users often use the function to add large numbers of individuals to WhatsApp groups for marketing goods or services. It is common to form these […]

Today, LG announced that it has released LG Art Lab, its “very own non-fungible token (NFT) platform.” In a news release, the company talked about how the NFT platform gives people who have smart TVs at home a simple, all-in-one way to watch and trade NFTs. “The platform is now available in the United States […]

As the Chinese-owned video sharing app, TikTok, begins to gain popularity as the most used app for short videos, Instagram, the Meta-owned platform, and YouTube, which Google owns, have added new features to discourage users of their own short-video apps from sharing content between platforms.  Cross-sharing is the most significant challenge faced by users of […]

WhatsApp now allows users to delete a message that is up to two days and 12 hours, which adds up to 60 hours. Users can now remove an accidentally sent chat even hours after the message has been sent. In the past, the limit was 1 hour, 8 minutes, 16 seconds, and yet another odd […]

A recent financial report released by MultiChoice Group (MCG) reveals that the company’s turnover was negatively affected by the coronavirus lockdown as it was with many other businesses. The suspension of live sports has also had a direct impact on subscribers. Despite subscriber growth in the mass market and price increases, the company’s revenue rose […]