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Africa Technology

AFDB pumps $20M into Africa’s renewable energy

Agency1 November 17, 2022 0 Comment

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group today approved an equity investment of $20m in Evolution Fund III, a pan-African clean and sustainable energy private equity fund that is mobilizing about...

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Business Technology World News

See what will happen days after FTX crypto exchange founder loses billionaire status wealth

Agency1 November 16, 2022 0 Comment

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX crypto exchange, has been on a tweet storm. On Tuesday, November 15, Bankman-Fried began sending out cryptic tweets after his exchange went up in flames and he lost...

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Technology

Google to pay $391.5m compensation fee over illegal tracking of user location

Agency1 November 15, 2022 0 Comment

Global internet giant, Google has been enmeshed in a legal battle after investigations revealed it illegally tracked users’ location data in 40 states in the US. According to the Associated Press, the investigations started with a 2018...

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Business Technology

NCC updates list of approved phones in Nigerian market, includes 5g phones

Agency1 November 15, 2022 0 Comment

The list of NCC-approved mobile phones in Nigeria has hit 1,891. The phones, ranging from different brands and models, are tested by Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), the country’s telecoms regulator, and are certified and...

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Technology World News

Bitcoin dormant for 11-years surfaces amidst crypto crisis

Agency1 November 15, 2022 0 Comment

As the world woke up to the crash of FTX, a crypto exchange platform based in the Bahamas, about 3,500 dormant bitcoins from a wallet created on October 7, 2011, moved for the first...

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National Technology

Lai Mohammed reveals FG is monitoring Twitter under Musk

Agency1 November 10, 2022 0 Comment

The federal government has said it is closely monitoring the activities of the popular micro-blogging, Twitter, following the recent ownership change of the platform, Daily Trust reported. Earlier, Elon Musk, American billionaire, took control...

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Technology

Breaking: Facebook owner Meta to lay off 11,000 staff

Akanji Philip November 9, 2022 0 Comment

Facebook owner Meta will lay off more than 11,000 of its staff in “the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history,” boss Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday. He said the cuts represented...

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Technology

MTN warns customers of 7-hour service interruption due to a system upgrade

Agency1 November 7, 2022 0 Comment

Mobile telecommunications giant, MTN Nigeria has announced some customers may experience service downtime for seven hours as it plans to effect a system upgrade. The network confirmed that its over 81 million telephony subscribers and 64.06...

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Business Job & Career Technology

Ex-Twitter CEO Jack reacts to Twitter Mass Lay offs

Agency1 November 7, 2022 0 Comment

Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s cofounder, apologized on Saturday, November 5, 2022, for growing the firm too fast, a day after the company sacked almost half its workforce under Elon Musk, the new owner. Dorsey said...

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Business Technology

Elon Musk Lays off Twitter staffs in Ghana

Agency1 November 5, 2022 0 Comment

One year after it opened an office in Ghana, its first in Africa, Twitter has laid off almost the entire workforce in the West African country in a massive global layoff which has hit...