Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries has said people have become afraid to say what they think for fear of being "cancelled", and that left-wing activists have "hijacked" social media.
In her first TV interview since taking the job, she sai…
Walmart-backed Flipkart is acquiring online pharmacy startup SastaSundar to enter the healthcare segment in India as e-commerce battle intensifies in the world’s second largest internet market.
Flipkart said it has signed definitive agr…
The US and UK are joining forces to "impose consequences" on their shared adversaries who conduct malicious cyber-activities.
The combined action would address "evolving threats with a full range of capabilities", they said.
The shar…
A group of US states is investigating how Instagram targets children, despite it posing potential risks to them.
The group - made up of both Democrat and Republican states - is investigating Instagram and Facebook's parent company Meta …
Microsoft’s Africa Transformation Office will drive strategic initiatives across Africa to accelerate digital transformation and economic prosperity
To enable digital transformation powered by Africans for Africa, Microsoft is doubling do…
Google has formed a key partnership to help provide loans to micro and small businesses in India, the firm announced at its annual event for the South Asian market.
The company said it has partnered with Small Industries Development Ban…
Google will roll out support for Hinglish, a mix of Hindi and English, and a range of additional features to its payments app Google Pay in India as the global tech giant makes further push to expand its reach in the South Asian market.
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Meet Cron, a new calendar app for the Mac that wants to bring some innovation to this space. The startup directly mentions Sunrise as an inspiration for those of you who still remember it. Sunrise used to be a popular calendar product that…
A weird thing has happened in the past two years. After years of decline, motorcycle and scooter sales have bounced back. That’s good news for BMW’s Motorrad division and its latest electric scooter, the CE 04.
The two-wheel retro-futur…
IBM has unveiled an advanced "quantum" processor that is part of an effort to build super-fast computers.
These machines could revolutionise computing, harnessing the strange world of quantum physics to solve problems beyond reach for e…
The number of companies launching which claim to be able to help organizations measure and reduce their carbon output continues apace. There is already Normative, Plan A and any number of others, to varying degrees of depth, detail or appr…
Over the years we’ve seen wearables measuring every aspect of your body, but lung capacity is more esoteric than most. Sylvee is a brand new wearable from Respira Labs which continuously measures lung function — perfect for COPD and asthma…
Partly as a result of modern employment trends, and partly as a result of the pandemic’s effect on the world of work, there’s an increasing gap between traditional full-time employment and freelancing. So-called ‘job pairing’ splits a full…
Amazon will stop accepting Visa credit cards in the UK from 19 January, the online retail giant has told customers.
It said the move was due to high credit card transaction fees but said Visa debit cards would still be accepted.
Visa…
TikTok is trying to strengthen the detection and enforcement of rules against dangerous online challenges and hoaxes.
Just over one in five teenagers has participated in an online challenge, a survey commissioned by TikTok suggests.
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South African payments company Ozow is making waves in the fintech community. Its focus on developing innovative payment solutions that help to drive financial inclusion has attracted Tencent, a world-leading internet and technology compan…
Infinet Wireless [1], the global leader in fixed wireless broadband connectivity, will host its Smart City 2021 online event, the virtual conference designed exclusively for system integrators, service providers, municipal administration r…
While the number of attacks from online resources (known as web threats) blocked by Kaspersky (https://Kaspersky.co.za/) in Kenya and Nigeria combined for the second quarter of 2021 decreased to 14.9 million from the 16.4 million blocked i…
Twitter is updating its web platform to change the way users see new tweets. The social media giant will no longer automatically refresh timelines on the web with new tweets, and users can now decide when they want to load new tweets. Twit…
Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline.
With millions of Nigerians using danfo minibuses and okadas to commute to their various …
Online hate speech in the UK and US has risen by 20% since the start of the pandemic, according to a new report.
Youth charity Ditch the Label commissioned the study, which analysed 263 million conversations in the UK and US, between 20…
Google has announced that it will invest A$1bn ($740m, £550m) in Australia over the next five years.
It is the US technology giant's largest investment in the country to date.
Google says the money will be used to build a research hu…
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YouTube users will no longer see how many dislikes a video has got.
The platform says it's made the change to protect users from "dislike bombing" and to reduce "stress and embarrassment" for creators.
Dislike bombing is when there i…
US President Joe Biden has signed legislation that stops companies judged to be a security threat from receiving new telecoms equipment licences.
The Secure Equipment Act says the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should no longer…
On this day 20 years ago gamers first got their hands on a big black box with a heart of green that was designed like the letter X.
The original Xbox, coupled with its chunky controller (nicknamed The Duke) burst onto the scene to comp…
iOS 15.2’s latest beta adds an Apple Communication Safety feature to the Messages app, MacRumors reports. The opt-in feature is designed to protect children from inappropriate imagery by scanning incoming and outgoing pictures for “sexuall…
Grab the second-gen Apple AirPods at Walmart for just $89, matching the lowest price we’ve seen for these earbuds. This model normally costs around $120 and doesn’t include the wireless charging case. This model of the ubiquitous white ear…
Have you ever had the itch to watch Twitch on Nintendo Switch? Available now as a free download on the Nintendo eShop, the Twitch app lets users watch both live and VOD content on the go in handheld mode, or on the big screen when the Swit…
Instagram really wants you to post Reels — they’ll even pay you up to $10,000 for one, if you’re lucky.
As TikTok surpasses the 1 billion monthly active users mark, competitor platforms like YouTube Shorts, Snapchat Spotlight and Instag…
Tecno Mobile, one of the top mobile phone brands in Africa and a major player worldwide is set to unveil another bold and groundbreaking TECNO Spark design - The TECNO Spark 8 series. The TECNO Spark series is one of the most sought after …
The second annual Sight Tech Global conference, a virtual, free event on December 1-2, will convene the world’s top experts on advanced technologies, notably AI, addressing accessibility and assistive tech for people who are blind or visua…
As investors continue to pour billions into super speedy on-demand grocery delivery — trying to dislodge the dominance of traditional supermarket giants via a hyper convenience lever (whipping up some local opposition to their 24/7 dark st…
The US Justice Department (DoJ) is suing ride-hailing app Uber over allegations it has been overcharging disabled people.
The DoJ claims Uber's "wait time" fees are discriminating against disabled passengers who need more than two minut…
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has sold around $5bn (£3.7bn) of shares in the electric carmaker.
It comes days after he asked his 63 million Twitter followers whether he should sell 10% of his stake in Tesla.
The company's shares fe…
Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced today the company has begun testing a new feature this week called “Take a Break,” which will allow users to remind themselves to take a break from using the app after either 10, 20 or 30 minutes, depe…
Fashion commerce firm Nykaa rose as much as 89% on its Indian market debut Wednesday, gaining a valuation of $13 billion in the nation’s first women-led unicorn listing.
Shares of FSN E-Commerce Ventures, which operates the Nykaa brand,…
The Duke of Sussex has said he warned Twitter boss Jack Dorsey about political unrest in the US - just a day before the deadly 6 January riots.
"I warned him his platform was allowing a coup to be staged," Prince Harry said at the RE:WI…
In February, Disha, a Nigeria-based platform that allows digital creators to curate, sell digital content, create portfolios and receive payments from their audience globally, announced that it was closing shop.
Before the news, Disha h…
After a challenging year for location-based virtual reality startups due to COVID-19, Sandbox VR, a location-based VR startup, is making a comeback with a plan to expand its operations further across the globe.
Sandbox VR aims to be an …
Mathpresso, the Seoul-based edtech company behind QANDA, an AI-based learning app for K-12 students, announced today it has added Google as a new investor.
Google’s undisclosed investment is not part of its Series C raised in June, the …
Internet-based sexual exploitation of minors in Kenya was found to be more rampant on Facebook than on any other site, according to the newly released Disrupting Harm report — making the tech giant’s platform exceedingly unsafe for childre…
Instagram earlier this year said it would explore the idea of creator subscriptions and was later spotted developing a feature that would offer exclusive Stories that were only visible to a creator’s subscriptions. Now, it seems, the compa…
Clubhouse hosts and moderators will have a fresh tool in their kit today. The company is pushing a new feature live on both its iOS and Android apps that will let creators record an audio room so that anyone who misses the action live can …
Apple says it won’t be closing down the App Store to developer submissions over the holidays, as it has in previous years. The policy change will be welcomed by developers who often fear that they’ll be blocked from being able to issue eme…
A teenager who went missing in the US has been found after she used hand signals that went viral on TikTok to show she was in danger.
The girl had been reported missing by her parents in North Carolina on Tuesday morning, and was spotte…
Unpacking the potential and the limitations of spectrum policies and the need for fresh innovation across the GCC and South African markets
There is a dire need to ensure that 5G spectrum policies in the GCC region and South Africa incl…
Sneaker fit startup, Neatsy.ai, has snagged $1 million in seed funding after a b2b pivot. Investors in the round include Cabra VC, Flyer One VC and some unnamed business angels.
The US startup, which was founded back in March 2019 by Ar…
Politeness doesn’t really amount to much when you’re programmed to get from point A to point B. But if robots are going to play an increased role in human society, questions arise around how precisely they’ll get along with the rest of us.…
JUMO, a South Africa- and London-based company that offers financial services to entrepreneurs and businesses in emerging markets, has raised $120 million in a new round of funding led by Fidelity Management & Research Company. The company…