With at least 81 countries racing to develop own their Central Bank Digital Currencies, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announced today it will launch its digital currency eNaira in a couple of days from now. The news was first reported […]
On Monday, Taiwan said that China sent a record-smashing 52 PLA jets to breach its southwest defense zone. For two consecutive days, China has violated Taiwan’s airspace by flying military jets into Taiwan’s air defense zone unannounced. Last Friday, China […]
The smart TV market is heating up, with Comcast now wants to take over European living rooms as it currently does in the United States. Today, Comcast unveiled a broadband-powered TV to let U.K. users access TV without a satellite […]
Most employees hate the annual performance evaluations. 66% of the employees were strongly dissatisfied with the performance evaluations they received in their organizations, according to a piece published in Harvard Business Review, citing a survey of Fortune 1,000 companies done by the […]
German automotive industry supplier ZF Friedrichshafen AG announced today it will invest in UK-based autonomous vehicle software startup Oxbotica to jointly develop driving systems for pod-like shuttles which will be able to transport people and goods, according to Reuters, citing reports […]
Text messaging service provider TextMagic, a UK tech startup that has never raised external capital, plans to conduct an initial public offering (IPO) of its shares this year. The shares will trade on First North Tallinn, an alternative market within […]
If there is one lesson we learned from this pandemic, it is that remote work is critical to the existence of any business. The pandemic has now accelerated the future of remote work. Before the pandemic began in February 2020, […]
Twitter on Wednesday announced it has agreed to sell its MoPub mobile advertising network to mobile ad startup AppLovin for $1.05 billion in cash. Twitter purchased MoPub in September 2013 for a reported $350 million. In a statement, Twitter said it […]
Another day, another hacking news. This time it’s Amazon’s video streaming service Twitch that was hacked Wednesday in a cyber breach that exposed details on payments to gamers, content creators, future product plans, and an unreleased product from Amazon Game Studios. The anonymous […]
There’s a lot of buzz about edge computing in recent years. Edge computing is a distributed computing framework that brings enterprise applications closer to data sources such as IoT devices or local edge servers. But one aspect of edge computing that receives […]
When Google CEO Sundar Pichai visited Lagos, Nigeria for the first time in 2017, he announced the company’s plans to train 10 million Africans in digital skills over the next 5 years. He also announced Google’s Launchpad accelerator for African startups. […]
New York tech startups have seen a jump in funding activity since the beginning of the year. In 2020 alone, venture-capital firms pumped $5.8 billion into New York City enterprise-technology startups, with startups developing cybersecurity, robotics artificial intelligence, and machine […]
In August 2020, we wrote about Bill Gates after an unearthed video showed him talking about using new vaccines for population control. However, it didn’t take long before the fact-checkers called the video misinformation and fake news. Fast forward a little […]
When it comes to studying, your entire success depends on your conscious intellectual activity, which is also often referred to as cognitive ability. Students of all ages rely on their cognitive ability a lot while being at school, college or […]
On January 7, Elon Musk became the world’s richest person with a net worth of more than $185 billion, surpassing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. But it didn’t take long Bezos reclaimed his title as the world’s richest person after he leapfrogged […]
Over the years, the growing complexities of first and last-mile delivery often shift the focus away from middle-mile delivery operations. As the name implies, middle mile delivery or middle mile logistics is the shipment of goods and parcels from a […]
In January 2020, we wrote about Tesla after the world’s largest electric vehicle maker faced a lawsuit alleging racism for the use of the ‘N-word’ at Elon Musk’s California factory. It all started in November 2008 when over two dozen […]
The growing popularity of cryptocurrencies and NFTs has led to the creation of the new creator economy. In 2021 alone, the creator economy has seen a record $1.3B in funding, according to CB Insights. During the same time, we’ve also seen […]
In 2021, there will be an estimated 1.9 million new cancer cases diagnosed and 608,570 cancer deaths in the United States, according to data from the American Cancer Society. As such, early cancer detection and screening is critical in reversing […]
Yesterday, we wrote about Facebook whistleblower after the former Facebook employee unmasked herself as the source behind damaging leaks about the social media giant. Frances Haugen, 37, came forward on America’s top-rated news show 60 Minutes Sunday night. The former Facebook data […]
