Technology & Business

Apple Inc is limiting customer purchases of iPhones over its online stores in many countries including the United States and China to a maximum of two handsets per person, checks on its website on Friday revealed. FILE PHOTO: ...

As the coronavirus threatens the global economy, experts have confirmed that the Cryptocurrency has remained stable amid the crisis. They stated this during the Nigeria international conference of The Billion Coin (TBC), to celebrate four years existence of ...

Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft’s board, the company announced on Friday. Gates co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen, who died in 2018. Gates is among Microsoft’s top shareholders, owning 1.36% of shares, according to FactSet. Microsoft announced ...

Apple CEO Tim Cook encourages employees to work remotely The new policy is implemented to avoid the spread of coronavirus The memo states that this policy is for the week of March 9 to 13 Apple’s Chief Executive Officer ...

The Nigerian House Committee on Information and Communication Technology, ICT says that harnessing the potentials in ICT will boost revenue generation for the country. The Chairman of the Committee, Mr Lado Suleija, stated this during a briefing by ...

After months of beta testing and development, WhatsApp has finally enabled dark mode on Android and iOS. The theme, which was already available on Facebook’s Messenger, comes as part of an effort to make the messaging service easier on the eyes of users, particularly ...

Dan Holdings Group, a Dubai-based blockchain technology and cryptocurrency company, is expanding its business operations to Nigeria and Africa. The move, according to the Group Chairman of Dan Holdings Group, Mr. Dan Oyekan, was to give financial access ...

People now enjoy shopping on platforms that offer great deals from the comfort of their homes since the inception of e-commerce in Africa. What used to be an exclusive preserve of residents of developed countries has now been ...

Google said Wednesday it would invest more than $10 billion in US offices and data centres in 2020, including its new campus planned for New York City and projects in 10 other states. The pledge comes on top ...

The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency, Mr Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi has emphasized the need for youths to take full advantage of Information Technology saying it will pave the way for more revenue flow and Foreign ...

Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is to host a special session on how the Fifth Generation (5G) networks will impact Nigeria’s socio-economic landscape and the inherent challenges to the deployment, at the Social Media Week Lagos (SMWL) 2020.   ...

Twitter founder, Jack Dorsey, has donated £5,000 ($6,437) in Nigeria’s nonprofit software startup, DevCareer. The fund from Dorsey, who was in Nigeria last year, formed part of the £16,800 ($20,599) raised by DevCareer. The founder of DevCareer, Sultan Akintunde, disclosed the Twitter ...

After a number of firms ditched the Facebook-backed cryptocurrency, Libra, months back, the currency has added another feather to its cap, as Shopify joined the league. Some of the companies that ditched the currency are Vodafone, Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, PayPal, ...

Samsung Electronics has resumed operations for its handset factory in South Korea on Monday after it was temporarily shut down due to a coronavirus infection. Its factory at Gumi, a city southeast of the capital Seoul, was shut ...

Interswitch Limited, a leading technology-driven company focused on the digitisation of payments in Nigeria and other countries in Africa, and American Express (AmEx), are pleased to announce a new partnership to expand the usage and acceptance of American ...

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the US military from awarding a multibillion-dollar cloud computing contract to Microsoft, after Amazon claimed the process was tainted by politics. A preliminary injunction requested by Amazon was issued by Judge ...

Sanofi, a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving the lives of people worldwide, is calling on technology entrepreneurs and startups in Nigeria to participate in its 2020 AfricaTech Challenge. AfricaTech is a lab dedicated by Sanofi at VivaTech ...

Samsung is unveiling three new smartphones at today’s Unpacked event, the Galaxy S20, S20+ and S20 Ultra, which will be launched from 13 March 2020. While the company may be skipping the teens by jumping from the S10 to the ...

The tenuous relationship between the United States and the Chinese telecommunication giant, Huawei is about to take a new turn. The country has been told to buy controlling stakes in European companies, Nokia and Ericsson to compete with Huawei. ...

Apple Inc.’s China-centric manufacturing base is at risk of disruption after the Lunar New Year holiday as the company’s partners confront the coronavirus outbreak that has gripped the country and caused more than 100 deaths. Virtually all of ...