Nigerians spent big at Cinemas in the month of July or so the recent stats released by the Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN) show. This sees both attendance and movie grosses reach their highest points this year. According to the stats, 580,978 people went to watch
The White House has called on social media companies to build technologies that could help curb the spread of violent ideologies online. The appeal was made during a meeting between officials from the White House and big social media companies on Friday. The gathering came
The opera-founded startup, OPay, has just introduced OTrike, a tricycle hailing service, in the commercial city of Aba, southeast of Nigeria. In 2018, the disruptive startup started operations as a mobile payments platform reaching Nigeria’s huge unbanked population. It has since diversified its product offerings
24 final year students of Bayero University Kano (BUK) have been expelled from the institution as confirmed in a statement released by its management on Friday, August 9. The statement released by the spokesperson for the university Lamara Garba revealed that 6 students presented fake results from their institutions
Facebook has filed lawsuits against two app developers accused of generating fraudulent revenue using the social media giant’s advertising platform. The company announced the legal action in a blog post-Tuesday. “The developers made apps available on the Google Play store to infect their users’ phones with malware,”
At the third Google for Nigeria event, Google announced new products and features to make it more helpful to more people in Nigeria and across Africa. The announcements include navigation instructions in a Nigerian voice for both motorcycle and car driving modes, new Street View
Uber just reported its second quarterly earnings ever as a public company, and hoo boy! That’s a lot of red ink! The ride-hailing giant reported losing a whopping $5.2 billion in the last three months. No, there isn’t dirt on your screen. That’s billion with a “b.”
Huawei has officially announced HarmonyOS, the operating system it was rumored to be developing to replace its reliance on Android. In China, the software will be known as Hongmeng. The company says the operating system, a microkernel-based distributed OS, can be used in everything from
It seems like every YouTube creator has a podcast these days, and that now includes Marques Brownlee. Brownlee, one of YouTube’s most prominent creators who has more than 9 million subscribers on his tech-focused channel MKBHD, is launching a new podcast called Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast.
Jim Kavanaugh climbs into a sleek, black-leather-interior Mercedes bus that whisks him away from his company’s new headquarters in St. Louis to a squat, one-story outpost nearby. Kavanaugh is retracing the route he has traveled many times with executives from hundreds of America’s largest companies, including Citigroup, Verizon
Nigerian-based payment application development company TechAdvance, with subsidiaries such as Gpay Africa, PayElectricBills and Advance Bank, recently received a $1 million investment from Bahrain-based group, Lamar Holding. The Nigerian company is focused on developing and deploying niche payment technologies in emerging markets. This recent investment by Lamar Holding’s so
The Galaxy S10 is a fitting 10th-anniversary phone for Samsung and its storied S series. It delivers on change with a novel-looking Infinity-O screen so large it displaces the front camera, and a triple-lens rear camera that takes ultra-wide photos. Its in-screen fingerprint sensor tech
Following a wide-spread suspension that swept through Twitter on Tuesday, the company has confirmed that it may have been an error and that some of the accounts have been restored. A Twitter spokesperson told Techpoint Africa that “upon further investigation, a number of the accounts
Chinese mobile-phone and device maker Transsion will list in an IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market, Transsion confirmed to TechCrunch. The company—which has a robust Africa sales network—could raise up to 3 billion yuan (or $426 million). “The company’s listing-related work is running smoothly. The registration application and issuance process is
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