Google on Wednesday announced the selection of 22 media innovators to receive $2.1 million in funding through the second Google News Initiative (GNI) Innovation Challenge for Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey.
Read more: Google offers 22 media innovators $2.1m funding for 2nd GNI Innovation Challenge
France’s competition regulator has fined Google 500 million euros (592 million dollars) in a dispute over copyright law.
Read more: Google fined €500m for breach of French copyright law
Numerous websites were unavailable Tuesday after an apparent widespread outage at the cloud service company Fastly.
Read more: Top websites begin to work again after Fastly-linked outage
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has expressed delight over the quality and variety of service provided at Transcorp’s digital hospitality platform, “Aura.’’
Read more: Osinbajo delighted over Transcorp’s hospitality app, “Aura’’
China has blocked cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi) accounts and influencers from Sina Weibo, which is the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
Read more: China flexes anti-crypto muscle, blocks crytpo influencers on Weibo
Smile Identity on Thursday announced that it had secured US$7 million in Series A funding to pursue it mission of making it easy for Africans to prove their identity online, by unifying identity verification and Know Your Customer (KYC) compliance infrastructure across Africa.
Read more: Smile Identity secures $7m for identity verification across Africa
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has refuted the story making the round on the social media that the Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama said the Federal Government has given condition for the lifting of the operations of Twitter in Nigeria.
Read more: FG denies placing any condition for lifting of Twitter ban
Nigeria has the third highest mobile subscriptions additions in the first quarter of 2021 globally, says the latest mobility report by multinational telecommunications company, Ericsson.
Read more: Nigeria has 3rd highest mobile subscription addition globally — Report
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urges Nigerians talented in the development of social media/software applications to seize the opportunity of the suspension of Twitter operations in the country to develop homegrown applications that can rival existing social media platforms and meet the need of Nigerians.
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) will no more enjoy liability protection against user-generated content in India as the U.S. micro blogging giant has failed to comply with new IT rules.
Read more: Twitter loses immunity over user generated content in India
Twitter has announced the launch of the initial iteration of Twitter Blue, the company’s first foray into a subscription service model which will provide access to “exclusive features and perks.”
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that they have initiated the process for the review of existing licensing structure in the Nigerian telecommunications industry.
A tweet by President Muhammadu Buhari's threatening to treat Nigerians “misbehaving” in “the language they understand” has been deleted by Twitter.
Read more: Twitter deletes Buhari’s tweet on 'dealing with South Easterners'
As the suspension of Twitter gets into the second week, the Federal Government is yet to release conditions for the reversal of the indefinite suspension despite claiming to be in talks with the social media company, The Guardian reports.
Read more: Twitter, Facebook undecided on FG’s licensing order
The National Information Development Agency, NITDA has called for caution over a file-encrypting ransomware, IGVM, which restricts access to data.
Read more: NITDA raises alarm over money-extorting ransomware IGVM
President Muhammadu Buhari has received a Made-in-Nigeria cellphone at the State House in Abuja.
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is committed to supporting the development of indigenous content that will bring digital solutions for the nation.
Read more: NITDA focused on indigenous content, digital solutions for Nigeria - DG
