F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Facebook introduces free payments on Messenger
Facebook has revealed that users can send money to other users using the Messenger app at no charge. Facebook Messenger payments will roll out…
Smart Villages launches energy challenge to address off-grid settlements
Smart Villages is inviting East African entrepreneurs to form teams and come up with imaginative ways of distributing and implementing new or existing energy…
Facebook revamps its community standards, adds more clarity
There appears to be an increasing tweaking of guidelines by blogging and social platforms to protect their users. Twitter cracked down on trolls, Google’s…
Robert Downey Jr. gives an ‘Iron Man’ prosthetic arm to a seven year old boy
Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr delivered a real bionic prosthesis to a seven-year old boy named Alex, who was born with a partially…
Lyft raises $530m in funding, is now worth $2.5bn
Ride hailing is almost sysnonymous with Uber, owing largely to its controversies and rapid expansion. But there are other major players in the space….
Apple donates $50m to increase diversity in the technology industry
It’s no secret that the technology industry has a diversity problem, especially when it comes to gender and race. To address its own issues…
Wikimedia South Africa is offering R10k in prizes for aerial content
Wikimedia South Africa, in collaboration with FPV Fest South Africa, is asking people to contribute aerial video and photographic content to Wiki From Above…
Uber wants to create 1 million new jobs for women drivers by 2020
Uber wants to create one-million new jobs for women globally on its platform by 2020. The ride-hailing startup announced the initiative as part of…
Huge number of women still don’t have access to mobile devices
A new report titled ‘Bridging the gender gap: mobile access and usage in low and middle-income countries’ by GSMA reveals that there’s still massive…
The US government filed for 95% of all Pinterest user data requests in 2014
In its annual transparency report, Pinterest claims that the United States government was responsible for the majority of requests for user information in 2014….
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