Meta today announced the launch of Facebook Business Coach, an innovative and easy-to-use tool for SMB owners in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and other English-speaking countries to learn more about how to expand their business online with Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The Facebook Business Coach, which is available on WhatsApp, is a free-to-use, low-cost educational …
YouTube today announced its decision to make the “dislike” count on videos private across its platform. The decision is likely to be controversial given the extent that it impacts the public’s visibility into a video’s reception. But YouTube believes the change will better protect its creators from harassment and reduce the threat of what it …
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Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg announced the social media giant will change the name of its holding company to Meta, to focus on building a metaverse. The name change was announced at the Facebook Connect augmented and virtual reality conference on Thursday when Zuckerberg described his vision for the metaverse as “a digital world constructed on …
The US has announced that it will reopen its borders to fully vaccinated travellers from 8 November. Under new rules announced by the White House, vaccinated people who have had a negative test in the 72 hours before travelling will be allowed to enter. The move marks the end of the tough restrictions that have …
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Africa startup connecting the continent’s software engineering talent to global companies has raised a $200 million Serie E investment from Japan tech investor SoftBank Group Corp. Andela is now valued at $1.5 billion and joins Senegal’s francophone focussed fintech Wave and Nigeria/US fintech Flutterwave as West Africa’s 2021 unicorn. This funding allows for investment in …
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Ethiopia’s incumbent Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been sworn in for a new five-year term following his party’s landslide victory in the June elections. Abiy, on Monday, took the oath of office, administered by Supreme Court Chief Justice Meaza Ashenafi, following similar oaths by the speaker and deputy speaker of the parliament’s lower house. Just …
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Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp touts privacy as its core feature. Facebook-owned WhatsApp, a messaging service used by billions of people around the world, isn’t as private as Facebook says it is. The service touts privacy at its core, and Facebook says it can’t read messages sent between users. But Facebook is reportedly paying teams of …
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The Duchess of Cornwall has been announced as patron of Nigeria’s first sexual assault referral center. Camilla, who has a long-standing commitment to highlighting the work of domestic abuse and sexual assault charities in the UK and overseas, described the Mirabel Centre in Lagos as a “truly trailblazing organization”. It was founded by Itoro Eze-Anaba …
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The University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and Igbinedion University, Okada in Edo State have partnered with an Irish aviation training company, Newcastle Aerodrome, to commence a degree program in Aviation Studies. The Vice-Chancellor of UNN, Prof. Charles Igwe, who was at the occasion, described the partnership as the best thing that had happened to him in …
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