China’s top cyber authority has scrubbed 9,800 social media accounts of independent news providers deemed to have posted sensational, vulgar or politically harmful content on the Internet, it said late on Monday.
China’s strict online c…
The Maraphone is high-spec, affordable, smart, transformative and in line with the Bank’s Industrialize Africa High 5 priority
African high-tech player Mara (Mara.com) on Friday announced the production of their newest product the Marap…
Internet giant Alibaba has set new sales records on Sunday for its biggest shopping day, the annual Singles Day.
The Chinese company hit a record $1bn (£774m; €883m) in sales in 85 seconds, and then just shy of $10bn in the first hour o…
French startup BlaBlaCar is announcing plans to acquire Ouibus, the bus division of France’s national railway company SNCF. For the first time, BlaBlaCar is moving beyond carpooling and plans to offer both long-distance carpooling rides an…
Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila has said the GPS signal in his country's northern airspace was disrupted during recent Nato war games in Scandinavia.
He said he believed the signal had been jammed deliberately and that it was possibl…
"Flash sales" publicising a Chinese smartphone company's UK launch have sparked a backlash on social media.
Xiaomi advertised two of its new handsets for £1 each last week as part of a "crazy deals" promotion.
But it has emerged that e…
When the initial buzz of Portal finally dies down, it’s the timing that will be remembered most. There’s never a great time for a company like Facebook to launch a product like Portal, but as far as optics go, the whole of 2018 probably sh…
Xiaomi’s expansion into Europe continues at speed after the Chinese smartphone maker announced plans to open its first retail store in London.
The company is best known for developing quality Android phones at affordable prices and a…
Germany must learn to “promote not impede” the use of artificial intelligence, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff said, as it seeks to close a digital technology gap between it and other leading economies.
Merkel’s cabinet is hol…
Google today announced that Chrome will soon get a new feature that aims to stop mobile subscription scams. Those are the kind of sites that ask you for your phone number and that then, unbeknownst to you, sign you up for a mobile subscri…
Company awarded Sustainability Certificate from Switch Data Center
Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), a global provider of enterprise software products and services, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP softw…
Coronet said on Thursday it has entered into a partnership with Dropbox (DBX.O) that is expected to bring the Israeli cybersecurity firm millions of new users for its data breach protection platform.
As part of the partnership, Coronet …
Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) intends to sell electric cars for less than 20,000 euros ($22,836) and protect German jobs by converting three factories to make Tesla (TSLA.O) rivals, a source familiar with the plans said.
VW and other carmakers…
Taxify, a European-based rival to Uber and the leading app-based taxi-hailing platform in Africa, expects to grow its African business ten-fold over the next two years while it works to dethrone Uber in Europe, its chief executive told Reu…
A follow-up to Vine has been announced, two years after the six-second video app was shut down by Twitter.
Byte will be a similar app to Vine, which helped launch the careers of stars including Shawn Mendes and Logan Paul.
After Vine…
The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance (DSA) today announced that RADWIN, Federated Wireless and Saankhya Labs have joined the Alliance, as it continues to advocate for laws and regulations that will lead to more efficient spectrum utilisation.
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The boss of Netflix, Reed Hastings, has told the BBC he is looking forward to going up against Disney when it launches its online streaming service, Disney Plus, next year.
"We've been competing with Amazon for more than 10 years, so we…
According to leading analyst firms such as IDC, IHS Markit, and Counterpoint Huawei overtook Apple again in the third quarter of 2018 and remains the world's second largest smartphone vendor for two consecutive quarters.
While its marke…
A US man accused of knocking game servers offline in a series of attacks has pleaded guilty to charges of computer hacking.
Sony, EA Origin and Steam were all hit by Utah resident Austin Thompson's attacks in 2013 and 2014.
Mr Thomps…
Toshiba Memory Corporation Develops High-Speed and High-Energy-Efficiency Algorithm and Hardware Architecture for Deep Learning Processor
Toshiba Memory Corporation, the world leader in memory solutions, today announced the development …
5G mobile data will be so reliable and fast most homes will no longer need a separate home broadband connection, according to one of the companies planning to launch a UK service.
Three UK's chief executive told BBC News there would be …
Alibaba Group’s newly formed on-demand online services unit has rocketed in value to as much as $30 billion after raising $4 billion in fresh funds, people with knowledge of the situation told Reuters.
Alibaba (BABA.N) combined the oper…
Ford is buying electric scooter startup Spin, Axios reports. The deal, according to a source close to the matter, “the total consideration in the deal was close to $100m.” Axios had previously reported the price tag was around $40 million…
China's state news agency has unveiled a virtual newsreader sporting a sharp suit and a somewhat robotic voice.
Xinhua News claims the presenter "can read texts as naturally as a professional news anchor", though not everyone may agree.…
Samsung has unveiled a folding handset at an event in San Francisco.
It described its Infinity Flex Display as "the foundation of the smartphone of tomorrow" and said it intended to start production within months.
When unfolded, the …
Automakers need standards for key equipment, a wide-reaching 5G broadband network and strong partnerships to make self-driving cars and electric vehicles a success, top European car industry executives said on Wednesday.
Ralf Speth, chi…
It has been just a decade since the mobile phone spread rapidly across Africa, leapfrogging the landline and bringing literacy, education and connectivity to widely scattered populations. Mobile has played a significant role in building im…
Google Cloud is getting a managed cron service for running batch jobs. Cloud Scheduler, as the new service is called, provides all the functionality of the kind of standard command-line cron service you probably love to hate, but with the…
China is home to the world’s largest network of CCTV cameras — over 170 million — and its police have adopted Google Glass-like ‘smart specs’ to seek out suspects in crowds, but now its surveillance efforts have hit a new level with techno…
Finnish mobile telecom network maker Nokia announced on Wednesday that it had signed frame deals with China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom worth more than 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion).
The deals includes deliveries of 4G radio…
Technology and automation will define the future of road transport according to new IRU research, but significant obstacles stand in the way.
In the face of geopolitical and economic uncertainty, technology-driven innovation w…
Hybrid cloud has become the new standard in data centres thanks to its fit for purpose potential and scalability
Cloud. At its most basic form, it drives innovation and harnesses intelligence for the organisation. It is the delivery of …
Staggering growth across industry and innovation is changing the face of performance testing
As secrets go, the fact that technology has fundamentally changed the face of business has to be the worst kept. From leap to bound, tech inno…
Amazon and its rival in India, the Walmart-owned Flipkart, did not break regulations through their selection of merchants and brands, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) said in a ruling late on Tuesday.
The decision is a defeat f…
Software engineer Samee Alam was ready to take the big leap and buy an iPhone in this week’s Diwali festival sales, but at the last minute he opted for cheaper Chinese competitor OnePlus instead.
Alam, 27, spends hours on his phone watc…
Z Services, an innovative cloud-based cybersecurity solutions provider in the MENA region, and TitanHQ, the award-winning web filtering, email filtering, and email archiving Security-as-a-Service provider, have expanded their existing OEM …
At last month’s Apple event, the Mac Mini was greeted like a returning hero. Maybe it was the over the top space advert or the fact that the company had packed the seats of the Brooklyn opera house full of local employees.
Most likely…
Bitcoin has experienced one of its worst annual price performances of its short 10-year-old life but also appears to have become more stable in the process.
Volatility of the original and biggest cryptocurrency has sunk to its lowest fo…
Several popular verified Twitter accounts have been hacked by scammers to promote an ad using Tesla boss Elon Musk's name and likeness.
British fashion retailer Matalan, film distributor Pathe UK and US publisher Pantheon Books were amo…
Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates had his hands full on-stage in Beijing on Tuesday, showing a jar of human faeces.
The stunt was part of his speech at the Reinvented Toilet Expo event - a showcase for new toil…
A babysitting app says it has been overwhelmed by responses after a parent posted an ad for a babysitter to join their family on an all-expenses-paid dream Christmas holiday.
The position involves spending two weeks in the Bahamas looki…
The amount of time children spend on devices has little effect on how long they sleep, a study from Oxford University suggests.
It runs counter to previous research that suggested excessive screen time was linked to children failing to …
Language learning company Reverso is launching a new product on the web and mobile. Reverso Synonyms is a thesaurus service that lets you learn new words and improve your vocabulary.
You may have found this feature in the main Reverso…
Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) said on Monday it would offer free shipping with no purchase minimum for the first time this holiday season, heating up the competition with Walmart Inc (WMT.N) and other rivals vying for customers’ Christmas shoppi…
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has told its smartphone assemblers Foxconn and Pegatron (4938.TW) to halt plans for additional production lines dedicated to its new iPhone XR, the Nikkei financial daily reported s.nikkei.com/2PHPYWb on Monday.
Apple…
When Artificial Intelligence works as intended, Silicon Valley types often say it's "like magic".
But it isn't magic. It's Brenda, a 26-year-old single mother who lives Kibera, Africa's largest slum, and perhaps the toughest neighbourho…
Rainbow Six Siege players have complained about proposed changes to the game before its wide release in Asia.
Ubisoft said it had altered artwork in some "maps and icons" to ensure the game complied with local regulations.
The altera…
Taxi-hailing firm Uber has launched a membership scheme dubbed Ride Pass, for passengers in five US cities.
The deal allows passengers to avoid price surging, when costs rise at rush hour and other in-demand times.
The fixed-fare pla…
BMW is expanding its car-sharing service DriveNow into five more London boroughs as the carmaker overcomes some of the barriers to operating across the city where firms need to strike agreements with separate local authorities.
Daimler …
Uber Eats is expanding to enterprise customers with the launch of Uber Eats for Business. The new service allows companies to manage their employees’ food orders and positions Uber Eats to compete more directly against rivals that already…