Storage and power consumption have caused many users to experience trouble browsing over the years. In order to bridge this gap, Google is introducing two new features that will make browsing easier. Memory Saver and Energy Saver are Google’s two new performance settings that can be found in the Chrome browser. According to Google, the […]

Technology has significantly evolved over the years, improving the internet experience globally. There is now easier and more affordable access to a plethora of diverse information.  This advancement has also made human interactions more seamless across business operations and relationship building among individuals, organisations and nations, among other human endeavours. More than ever, the world […]

Multichoice has announced the addition of eight new countries to its Africa Accelerator Programme. According to a Multichoice statement, the countries that will benefit from the program are Ivory Coast, Senegal, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Angola, and Ethiopia. The increase suggests that the 2023 program now opens up possibilities for many more small enterprises in […]

Facebook will erase religious, political, and sexual preference information from user accounts. The transition begins on December 1. Matt Navarra, a social media consultant, noticed the small but telling change. It shows that Facebook wants you to think about its platform in a different way now. In the early days of Facebook, people would fill […]

Streaming video online, particularly on apps such as Netflix, YouTube, and Instagram, consumes more data than regular web browsing. It will take about 5.5MB of your data to watch a 3-minute YouTube video, while it will take up to 105MB of your data to watch a 22-minute Netflix video. However, there are a number of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

TikTok has a ton of security safeguards that might limit the kinds of material that young users can view.  By implementing certain suitable safety settings, you may, as a parent, ensure that your children are safe on TikTok. Connecting their accounts using the ‘Family Pairing’ option will help restrict their exposure to objectionable material on […]

VUZ, a social app, has recently raised $20 million in Series B funding. The app enables users to stream and experience immersive realism in extended reality and metaverse digital experiences. Some of the investors in this round of funding include DFDF (Dubai Future District Fund), WIN (Webit Investment Network), SRMG, Elbert Capital, Yasta Partners, Faith […]

The Egypt-based gaming company Cryptyd Inc. has gotten money from both its old and new investors, but the amount has not been made public. Cryptyd plans to put the new investment toward covering the cost of marketing the company’s flagship product, Baloot Quest, across the GCC countries. The startup company will also spend some of the […]

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 […]

This past weekend, Disney+ announced at Comic Con Africa about The Walt Disney Company’s streaming service, Disney+, which will have its app built into Xbox platforms. It is now official that September 29th 2022, will be the day South Africa can get their hands on the Xbox version of Disney+. People in South Africa have been […]

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. […]

FIFA has launched the FIFA Player App, which will give players at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar insights into their performance on the field. One of the goals of FIFA’s Vision 2020–2023 is to harness technology to serve the best football players and the game, including how FIFA processes players’ personal data. The […]

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 […]