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Facebook is yet again going to face another lawsuit against Australia over Cambridge Analytica, which fine could scale to $529BN if Australia should prevail. Mark Zuckerberg confessed that up to 80 million users' information was compromised to Cambridge Analytica. 311,127...

WhatsApp has reportedly acquired 31.48% share of app sessions among users in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa followed by Facebook (2.05), Facebook lite (1.85), etc, according to 2019 report by Quartz Africa. But, what if I told you that fake...

Twitter has introduced ephemeral tweets to its platform, and calls them fleets. The social network says, it wants to make it possible for users to have conversations with less pressure and more control, having received complaints about being uncomfortable...

Jack Welch, the influential business leader and champion of corporate efficiency who built General Electric Co. into one of the world’s largest companies has died at age 84. He died on Sunday evening of renal failure in his New York...

More skilful unemployed youths are soon to hit the streets of Nigeria as Andela laysoff its junior to middle-level developers. Andela, a talent development and job connections company has recently released a memo of its plan to further downsize the...

Larry Tesler, an American Computer scientist who invented "cut-copy-paste" feature has passed away at age 74. His departure from mother earth was revealed in a tweet by Xerox, a U.S. tech company where he worked with before his death. “The inventor...

Twitter suffers heavy chide from one of South Africa's top-profile politicians as she drastically condemns the platform, describing it as an "evil platform" and apparently closes her twitter account @HelenZille on the social media platform, as reported by Techcentral. The...

Google's plan to buy a 12.5% stake in Africa's largest wind farm has been cancelled after delays to the project, Danish wind turbine maker, Vestas, said on Monday. The 310 megawatt (MW) Lake Turkana wind farm in Kenya was initially...

Facebook just published its Q4 2019 performance update with increases in both monthly active users and revenue. Q4-2019-Earnings-Presentation-_final The Zuckerberg-led firm added 34 million DAU (daily active users), and 1.66 billion DAU for Q4: 1 million users in North America, while adding...

Google on Tuesday, January 28th, 2020, launched its first African developers space in Lagos, Nigeria. And for the most part, it's FREE! The developers space is aimed to create a physical place where African entrepreneurs, developers, mentors, VCs, and...