SAP Africa Code Week, Africa’s biggest digital skills initiative, is celebrating a successful 2020 program that included a switch to all-virtual teaching, the launch of a smartphone app, a continent-wide coding competition and a host of on…
Not all record-breaking numbers are feats or achievements towards which we all aspire. For example, in 2006, American teenager Matt Suter was destined to become the holder of the record for the ‘farthest distance thrown by a tornado and su…
Volvo’s entire car lineup will be fully electric by 2030, the Chinese-owned company said on Tuesday, joining a growing number of automakers planning to phase out fossil-fuel engines by the end of this decade.
“I am totally convinced the…
Online retailer Amazon’s new Polish website went live on Tuesday morning, the company said, marking a significant intensification of competition in the country’s booming e-commerce sector.
Amazon had said in January it would open a Poli…
Google Workspace, the company’s productivity platform you’ll forever refer to as G Suite (or even “Google Docs”), is launching a large update today that touches everything from your calendar to Google Meet and how you can use Workspace wit…
You might call Cappuccino the anti-Clubhouse, but the company has been iterating on its app concept for a couple of years — its CEO doesn’t have any strong opinions on Clubhouse. And it’s true that Cappuccino is an interesting social app o…
Google over the weekend began to update many of its flagship iOS apps after a lengthy delay caused by the company’s failure to add Apple’s newly required privacy labels in a timely fashion. Though Google earlier this year said it would “so…
Paytm, India’s most valuable startup, said on Monday it processed 1.2 billion transactions in the month of February, illustrating the level of penetration it has made in one of the world’s fastest-growing payments markets where it competes…
Lime said Monday it has allocated $50 million toward its bike-share operation, an investment that has been used to develop a new e-bike and will fund its expansion this year to another 25 cities in North America, Europe, Australia and New …
A bulk of the trading in the $6.6 trillion-a-day foreign exchange markets is expected to be on cloud technology over the next five years, according to a survey conducted by fintech firm Integral.
Two-thirds of 94 heads and senior manage…
Bitcoin rose nearly 7% on Monday as risk assets rallied after last week’s bond rout cooled, with Citi saying the most popular cryptocurrency was at a “tipping point” and could become the preferred currency for international trade.
With …
In October 2020, Miami-based art collector Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile spent almost $67,000 on a 10-second video artwork that he could have watched for free online. Last week, he sold it for $6.6 million.
The video by digital artist Beeple, …
The enormous beef between Australia's government and Facebook has persuaded a lot of people that we are entering a new era of technology regulation.
In policy and news conferences from Palo Alto to Perth, mostly conducted on Zoom of cou…
Nissan Motor Co said on Friday it has reached a breakthrough in achieving a 50% thermal efficiency with its in-development e-POWER hybrid technology, which could lead to a further reduction of car CO2 emissions.
This new thermal efficie…
Telegram is updating its messaging app with options for auto-deleting messages, expiring invite links, and new unlimited groups, the company shared in a blog post. Much like Signal, Telegram received a burst of new users in the confusion o…
Apple is once again releasing an update to prevent a charging problem from killing MacBooks — this time it’s to fix a problem where 2019 and later MacBook Pros, and 2020 and later MacBook Airs were being damaged when connected to third-par…
Bitcoin was headed on Friday for its worst week since March as a rout in global bond markets sent yields flying and sparked a sell-off in riskier assets.
The world’s biggest cryptocurrency slipped as much as 6% to $44,451 before recover…
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has not invested in Bitcoin, he said in a live chat on the social network Clubhouse.
Mr Gates told host Andrew Sorkin that he preferred to invest in companies "that make products", citing malaria and measles…
Twitter has announced plans for a new "super follow" feature which will enable account holders to charge for exclusive additional content.
This could take the form of extra tweets, joining a community group or receiving a newsletter, th…
India announced new rules on Thursday to regulate big social media firms, such as Facebook and Twitter, the latest effort by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to tighten control over Big Tech firms.
The rules come after Twitter …
China’s Xiaomi Corp is enlisting more contract manufacturers to make its phones in India, adding heft in a country where it is already one of the biggest smartphone brands.
China’s BYD and DBG will be the company’s new suppliers in Indi…
Australia’s parliament passed a law on Thursday to make Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc pay media companies for content on their platforms in reforms that countries such as Britain and Canada are looking to replicate.
After robus…
A budget electric vehicle (EV) selling in China for $4,500 (£3,200) is now outselling Tesla's more upmarket cars.
The compact car is proving a big hit for state-owned SAIC Motor, China's top automaker.
The Hong Guang Mini EV is being…
A new Land Rover Defender XS Edition, featuring tough exterior design elements and comprehensive standard specification, will be introduced in sub-Sahara Africa in 2021.
The new XS Edition replaces the hugely successful First Edition. P…
In response to the growing demand for high-quality camera equipment to meet the evolving requirements of today’s content creators, Canon Europe (Canon-europe.com) today announces the EOS M50 Mark II, the successor to the award-winning [1] …
Today, GIZ, (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), Orange (www.Orange.com), the Ministry of Innovation and Technology, the Ethiopian Investment Commission and the Industrial Parks Development Corporation are launching t…
Here at Networks Unlimited Africa, we are applying the ‘Broken window’ principle when looking at our internal cybersecurity posture and how it affects business processes.
The term ‘Broken window’ comes from George Kelling, a criminologi…
Hyundai Motor Co will replace battery systems in some 82,000 electric vehicles globally due to fire risks - a costly $900 million recall that lays bare the thorny issue of how car and battery makers split the bill when problems arise.
T…
Finnish telecom network equipment maker Nokia on Wednesday said it has won an order from Globe Telecom to build a 5G network to the Philippines’ second and third largest islands Mindanao and Visayas.
Nokia will also upgrade the existing…
Tech giants Google and Facebook have too great a share of the UK online advertising market, the boss of the UK's competition watchdog has said.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) would like regulatory changes to deal with that …
Sony says its next-generation PlayStation VR system will feature an improved field of view and silence critics of the current device's wire-heavy set-up.
The headset will also come with a new controller inspired by the PS5's DualSense g…
Less than a year old, Clubhouse already ticks the boxes for being the next big thing:
huge hype
super-famous users
controversy
bans
a massive valuation (despite not making any money, obviously).
Here's what y…
A smart city project started by Google's sister firm Sidewalk Labs to track mobility patterns in the US city of Portland, Oregon has been shelved.
Last year, Sidewalk also ditched an ambitious project to build a digital city in Toronto,…
Streaming platform Spotify is to launch in 85 new markets, bringing the service to more than a billion extra people.
The announcement came via a livestreaming event featuring Justin Bieber, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Spotify has…
WhatsApp users who do not accept its updated terms and conditions by the 15 May deadline will be unable to receive or send messages until they do so.
Their account will be listed as "inactive". And inactive accounts can be deleted after…
Huawei has unveiled a revamped foldable smartphone, which it says has a much smaller internal gap when closed than that of its main rival Samsung.
The Mate X2 marks a major redesign for the Chinese firm. When shut, the large display is …
Audio-only social network iPhone app Clubhouse has confirmed that it experienced a data spill on Sunday.
The app allows users to join and participate in pop-up public or private audio chatrooms, promising that conversations are not reco…
China is hosting one of the few in-person technology trade shows since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
More than 200 companies and about 20,000 people are expected to attend Mobile World Congress Shanghai.
But the three-day ev…
Optyma™ Control Panel Proves Effective at Facebook HQ office in Dubai. Cooling IDS team MENA Region has bagged a remarkable project for the Control Panels by providing an effective Turnkey solution for Facebook Dubai. It was a strategical …
5G will be the most transformative communications technology in a generation and enable a universe of new services, including advanced energy management capabilities that will be critical to solving growing energy and sustainability challe…
Covid-19 has accelerated education’s digital transformation, highlighting Africa’s digital divide – and exposing the vital need for all-inclusive digital literacy, say expert panelists at the inaugural session of Canon’s (Canon-CNA.com) gr…
Hype will first launch in Africa, where Opera (Opera.com) has nearly 150M MAU, with Kenya as the pilot market; With Hype, Opera reimagines the chat experience, with content sharing as a key feature; Opera Mini, with more than 100M users wo…
“Ten years in, TransferWise is now Wise,” screams the press release that landed in my in-box late last week. The fintech giant, most recently valued by private investors at $5 billion, is re-branding ahead of an expected IPO.
Of course,…
Video game platform Roblox Corp revived plans to go public and said it expects its shares to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange on March 10, according to a regulatory filing on Monday.
The company had postponed plans to go pub…
Discovery Inc said on Monday it expects to have 12 million global paid streaming subscribers by the end of this month, as coronavirus-led restrictions kept people home and fueled subscriber growth.
Launched in January, discovery+ houses…
The European Commission on Monday announced three flagship projects - in drone technologies, space communication and space traffic management - aimed at giving the 27-country bloc a competitive edge in these new fields.
Called the Actio…
Billionaire CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday the price of bitcoin and ethereum seemed high, at a time when the cryptocurrencies have hit record highs, with bitcoin crossing the $1 trillion market-capitalization threshold.
The chief execut…
Apple is said to be lobbying the Indian government in a move that could see the company manufacture iPads in the country for the first time. Reuters reports that the government is planning to launch an incentive scheme designed to boost In…
Photomath, the popular mobile app that helps you solve equations, has raised a $23 million Series B funding round led by Menlo Ventures. The app is a massive consumer success, and chances are you might already know about it if you have a t…
2020 was a weird year by any measure. Certainly it was a wild ride for those in the consumer electronics category. Take smartphones — first there were manufacturing delays out of China, followed by an across the board decrease in demand. T…