The founder of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg says the company has introduced a new WhatsApp feature with the ability to screen share during video calls. A consulting firm managing Meta in Nigeria, AT3 Resources said Zuckerberg announced this development on his Facebook page on Tuesday. It said that the latest update offered users the ability to share their screens in real …

Managing Director/CEO of 9 Payment Service Bank (9PSB), Branka Mracajac has reiterated that the firm, as an enabler, provides products and services via robust and scalable Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for fintechs to innovate and scale up in a cost-effective manner. In his keynote address at the second Nigeria Fintech Forum recently, Mracajac, who was represented by acting Head of …

Co-founder/CEO of Nigeria’s biggest technology hub, Co-Creation Hub, Bosun Tijani has been included in the second batch of the ministerial nominees by President Bola Tinubu. Tijani is a Nigeria-British entrepreneur born on 20th July 1977. He has a Diploma in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Jos, which he earned between 1996 and …

US tech giant Apple is being targeted by a class action lawsuit seeking over $1 billion in damages from developers angry about the high price it charges to market apps to users of its products, organisers said Tuesday. The lawsuit was launched by competition professor Sean Ennis at the University of East Anglia on behalf of 1,500 British app developers. …

Twitter’s owner Elon Musk and its new CEO Linda Yaccarino said Sunday that the social media network would ditch its bird logo, be rebranded with the name X and move quickly into payments, banking and commerce. Founded in 2006, Twitter takes its name from the sound of birds chattering, and it has used avian branding since its early days, when …

Nigeria is on the verge of mass-producing electric vehicles as part of measures to shift attention away from the rising cost of fuel. Already, the Federal Government is expected to ratify the Electric Vehicle (EV) Development Plan in the coming weeks. At a workshop in Abuja on Thursday, the Director-General of the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Mr. …

Twitter has lost roughly half of its advertising revenue, according to owner Elon Musk, since he bought the social media platform for $44 billion last October. Musk, who has been outspoken about the difficulties facing the company, broke the figures in a tweet response to a user who was giving suggestions on financing for the platform. “We’re still negative cash …

The United States Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI to determine if its hugely popular ChatGPT app harms consumers by generating false information and whether its technology mishandles user data. Microsoft-backed OpenAI was notified of the investigation in a 20-page questionnaire in which the company is asked to describe incidents in which users were falsely disparaged and share any company …

Elon Musk on Wednesday launched his own artificial intelligence company, xAI, as he seeks to compete with OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT — a program he accuses of being politically biased and irresponsible. The xAI website said the Tesla tycoon would run the company separately from his other companies but that the technology developed would benefit those businesses, including Twitter. …

The Federal Government through Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said that it is determined to bridge the digital skills gap between industries and schools. This is as the Executive Secretary, TETFund, Mr. Sonny Echono said the government has drafted a policy to ensure that students in higher institutions acquire digital skills before graduation. At the 2023 Train the Trainer …