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Uber Sued For $10 Million By Woman For Putting Her In Harm’s Way

Uber has been sued for negligence and protection law infringement by a resident of Washington DC. The victim, Jane Doe, was sexually assaulted by an Uber driver named Raul E. Rodriguez Vasquez on April...

Sony’s Chairman Kazuo Hirai Is Retiring

Sony's Chairman and former CEO Kazuo Hirai has today announced his retirement. The Japanese business man worked for the illustrious brand for 35 years, and now he is set to leave the company as...

Telegram Messenger Introduces A New Kind Of Effective Private Communication.

Telegram Messenger has now added more effective private communication features: "unsend anything, Anonymous Forwarding, setting search and more" to its app. This was revealed in a blog post on Sunday by the company. The...

MTN Nigeria Records #1.04 Trillion Revenue 3 years After NCC’s #1.4 Trillion Fine

MTN Nigeria hits the #1.04 trillion revenue mark rounding off 2018 report. The leading telecoms company in Nigeria is the first to record such feat despite its frequent challenges. Recall that in 2015, the giant...

China Banned People From Buying Plane Tickets 23 million Times Due To Low Social...

China rolled out a list of its social offenders of 2018 and dished out equivalent punishments by law.  Chinese government banned people from buying plane or train tickets 23 million times last year because their...

Reasons Why Amazon’s Deal In New York Flopped -All Thanks to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Amazon's plans to make New York City her headquarters have been frustrated by Democrats like state Sen. Michael Gianaris, D-Queens, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. The Billion dollars company revealed this in their company news...

How The Lagos Social Media Week Is Beating Expectations

The Lagos social media week has just been concluded on the 8th of Feb. 2019. The yearly event which took place at the Landmark event centre, Ikoyi, Lagos, from the 4th of Feb. to...

Nigeria’s Language Expert Kola Tubosun, Appointed As Google’s Project Manager For Natural Language Processing

Kola Tubosun is returning to Google as Project Manager for Natural Language Processing Tasks. Between 2015 and 2016, he worked with Google on a Nigerian English voice project. Techcabal spoke with Kola, who created Yoruba...

Google+ To Shut Down On April 2, 2019

Google released an update to the announcement it earlier made in December 2018 concerning shutting down its Social Media arm, Google+. Google says its decision to shut down Google+ for consumers in April 2019 is...

Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram To Message Each Other

Social Media giant Facebook wants to collaborate with its subsidiary Social Media platforms in terms of communication. According to the Newyork times report, Facebook's underlying infrastructure is to allow for easy navigation between networks such...