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For almost 3 days now, internet service in at least 12 sub-Saharan African countries has gone clumsy. Although some countries have greater impacts than the others, like consumers and businesses not being able to send emails or make international...

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...

WhatsApp’s latest update for iPhones brings important features like the call waiting, Braille keyboard integration and also a redesigned chat screen. The call waiting support now allows users to receive a WhatsApp call while they’re already on another call, as opposed...

Nigerians on Monday woke up to the devastating directives from the Advertising Standards Panel (ASP), a statutory committee of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON), concerning vetting of online advertisement in Nigeria. The directives which was revisited by a...

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 the 8th of Feb, saw...

JUMIA has shutdown its operations in Tanzania barely two weeks after its exit from Cameroon. Consequently, users will no longer be able to buy and sell goods from the retailers website, jumia.tz. The company told techcabal in a statement that...

Today Facebook announced it's Cryptocurrency called Libra. The name was inspired by Roman weight measurements, the astrological sign for justice and the French word for freedom, said David Marcus, a former PayPal executive who is heading up the project. "Freedom,...

"Health is expensive" for the poor and average person in the world, which accounts for about 70% of the world healthcare challenges encountered today. In as much as "health is wealth", factors such as awareness, access and cost create...

China is returning to work as the rest of the world goes into lockdown; its restarting productions at factories and resuming some flights; Employees are returning to work, and consumers are returning to shopping; Even the original outbreak central point...

It is no longer news how the next generation of technology is fastly underway; 5G, Autonomous Vehicles, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud computing. But who gets to define those standards has yet to be determined. Industry bodies define standards used in a particular industry or...