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Apps
WhatsApp Voice and Video Calls Hit an All-time High on New Year’s Eve
2020 was anything but a crazy year for the human race due to the novel coronavirus. The pandemic occasioned an…
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Apps
Facebook to begin testing Revamped Instagram Lite
Facebook is back with another version of Instagram Lite after the company shut the lightweight app earlier this year. Instagram…
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Blockchain
Facebook-backed Cryptocurrency Libra has been Renamed Diem
Facebook-led Libra cryptocurrency has been renamed, Diem. The independent association behind the project, which comprises 27 members, has also been…
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Blockchain
Facebook Libra Cryptocurrency to Launch in 2021
Facebook’s Libra ambitions to enable seamless transfer of cash and digitizing the financial world in its unique fashion were met…
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BUSINESS
WhatsApp Debuts A Digital Payments System in Brazil
The Facebook-owned instant messaging app, WhatsApp, has just launched a digital payments service in Brazil. Through the payment service which…
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News
Facebook Launches Programme To Meet Digital Literacy Needs Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Facebook has today launched a new digital literacy programme designed to equip young people across Sub-Saharan Africa with digital skills…
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News
Facebook and Red Cross Launch Campaign Calling for Vigilance against Covid-19 in Africa
Facebook and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are partnering to launch #AfricaTogether – a digital campaign and…
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BUSINESS
Facebook Partners With Telcos To Build A 37000km, 180Tbps Undersea Cable To Serve Africa
Facebook has partnered with several telcos in Africa to bring faster internet connectivity. The social media giant together with a…
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Apps
Facebook SDK Bug Crashes Major iOS Apps including Spotify, TikTok and Tinder
Last night several iOS users took it on Twitter complaining about app crashes. The most affected apps were major apps…
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News
Maina Kiai among 20 members appointed to the Facebook oversight board to moderate content
Kenya’s Maina Kiai is among the three Africans that have been appointed as Board Members to the newly created Oversight…
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Blockchain
Facebook Scales Back Ambitious Libra Project, Plans To Launch Later in 2020
Facebook Inc., together with its partners, is now scaling back on the Libra project which was marketed as futuristic global…
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News
Facebook launches its Coronavirus Information Center in Kenya and 16 other African countries
After launching in South Africa, Facebook is now expanding its Coronavirus Information Center to 17 more countries in sub-Saharan Africa.…
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News
Facebook Sued In Australia Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Barely a year after the FTC reached an agreement with Facebook to settle the Cambridge Analytica issue, the issue is…
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News
Facebook Cancels Its 2020 F8 Developer Conference Due To Coronavirus Outbreak
The Novel Coronavirus outbreak has put the world to a standstill. Conferences have been cancelled, and some companies have closed…
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News
Shopify Joins Facebook-led Libra Association, Months After High Profile Members Exit
Facebook Libra has received the first new member, ever since the exit trend kicked off in the wake of regulatory…
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Blockchain
Vodafone Quits Facebook Libra Association, To Focus On M-Pesa Expansion To More Countries
Facebook’s Libra project has been heavily criticized over the parent’s company issues with how it handled customer data in the…
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CYBER SECURITY
Phone Numbers Of 267 Million Facebook Users Exposed Online In A Data Breach
Millions of Facebook users have had their data being exposed online. This follows a discovery by security researchers who found…
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Blockchain
Libra Season About to End? Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Mercado Pago Call it Quits
Barely a week after PayPal exited the Libra Association; other U.S payment companies have followed suit. As on Friday 11th,…
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Blockchain
France says it will block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency in Europe
Two months later since Facebook officially announced its planned launch of own cryptocurrency Libra, many jabs have been thrown at…
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Apps
WhatsApp Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Alter Your Messages
Facebook’s popular instant messaging app WhatsApp has yet another series of flaws that could let attackers alter your messages. The…
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News
Big Tech Companies to Be Reviewed By the US over Anti-Competitive Practices
The US Department of Justice yesterday launched a probe to investigate big tech companies on whether they engage in anti-competitive…
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CYBER SECURITY
NSO Group’s Malware Now Capable of Spying on Data Stored in iCloud, Reports
The NSO Group, a famous Israel security firm has reportedly developed tools which can be able to scrape data from…
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Startups
Facebook, MainOne, to grace Nigeria’s #StartupSouth5 conference
Social media giant, Facebook, and West Africa’s largest cable data provider, MainOne is among the top tech companies that will…
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Apps
Upcoming WhatsApp feature will enable you to share your WhatsApp status to Facebook and Instagram
Facebook will soon let you share your WhatsApp stories to different platforms. Rolled as a beta-feature on June 24, the…
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News
Facebook’s new Cryptocurrency may be launched this month
In case you aren’t aware of Facebook’s cryptocurrency ambitions that have been speculating around, the project will be presented to…
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Gadgets
Facebook bans its apps from being pre-installed on Huawei devices
Huawei devices will no longer have Facebook apps pre-installed. This is just an additional drop to the already existing sea…
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News
Firefox deepens privacy protection with default third-party cookie blocking
Dave Camp Firefox’s Senior Vice President in a blog post stated that “we feel that the time is right for…
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News
Facebook AI researchers create the world’s most detailed population density maps of Africa
Facebook is working closely with key non-profit and research partners to use artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to address…
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News
Vodacom and Facebook partner to launch Facebook Flex in Lesotho
Vodacom has announced a new partnership with Facebook to launch Facebook Flex, a connectivity service that allows peoples to stay…
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News
Cellulant patners with Facebook to launch Augmented Reality (AR) powered try-on experiences on Messenger
Pan-African Payments company, Cellulant, has built Africa’s first Augmented Reality (AR) powered try-on experiences in Facebook Messenger. As part of…
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News
Internet Society Partners with Facebook to Expand Internet Connectivity in Africa
The Internet Society is partnering with Facebook to develop Internet Exchange Points (IXP) throughout Africa. An Internet Exchange Point is…
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News
Facebook is working on a ‘’Clear History’’ feature that will let you delete all your browsing history
Facebook has announced that it is working a new Clear History feature that will enable users to cookies and history.…
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News
Facebook is reportedly testing Messenger payments in India
It seems like Facebook is looking for more ways to make money other than just advertising. The social network is…
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News
Facebook wants to give you more control over your data, but will it really do so?
We are all aware of the happenings that have been going on around Facebook over the last couple of weeks.…
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News
Facebook has suspended jubilee linked data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica
Facebook has suspended political data analytics company Cambridge Analytica after finding out the company had violated data privacy policies. Facebook…
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News
Growing Africa’s digital ecosystem by bringing high touch to high tech
The international tech community is nurturing Africa’s digital ecosystem by supporting skills development, technology adoption and the growth of digital…
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News
Facebook announces winners of its First Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge
Facebook has finally unveiled the winners of its Bots for Messenger Developer Challenge for developers across the Middle East and…
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