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- 20 May 2021
EsrowLock, Anambra Tech Firm among Winners of $100m Facebook Grant
EscrowLock, start-up tech firm, has emerged among winners of the $100 million global business grant from Facebook Inc, the world’s largest social media company. Facebook Inc. had late last year…
- 14 Apr 2014
Facebook to Provide Mobile Payment Services
Facebook Inc is preparing to join the mobile-payments race with remittances and electronic-money services on the social network, the Financial Times reported, citing several people involved in…
- 12 Jan 2017
Facebook Launches ‘Journalism Project’
Facebook Inc has launched its "Journalism Project", as the world's biggest social media network looks to deepen its relationship with news organizations. The launch comes less than a week after the…
- 25 Feb 2015
Facebook Records 2m Active Advertisers, Mostly Small Businesses
Facebook Inc said that its active advertisers rose to 2 million, a 33 percent increase from the 1.5 million it had in July 2014. The vast majority of the advertisers, defined as those that have…
- 13 Sept 2021
Ray-Ban, Facebook Launch ‘Ray-Ban Stories’ Smart Glasses
Facebook, Inc. and Ray-Ban releases the next generation of smart glasses, Ray-Ban Stories. The highly anticipated collaboration brings forward a new way to seamlessly capture, share and listen…
- 10 Dec 2014
Instagram Crosses 300m Users, Edges Past Twitter
Facebook Inc's photo-sharing service, Instagram, said it had more than 300 million users, sharing over 70 million photos and videos each day. Microblogging service Twitter Inc has 284 million active…
- 26 May 2016
Microsoft, Facebook to Build Transatlantic Subsea Cable
Microsoft Corp and Facebook Inc have agreed to jointly build a subsea cable across the Atlantic Ocean to meet growing demand for high-speed cloud and online services. The construction of the new…
- 9 Jan 2018
Apple Says iPhones Addiction Profitable
Apple Inc investors on Tuesday shrugged off concerns raised by two shareholders about kids getting hooked on iPhones, saying that for now a little addiction might not be a bad thing for profits.…
- 17 Sept 2015
Facebook's New Ad Service to Charge Only After Full-Scroll
Facebook Inc said it would launch a service that will let advertisers pay for ads only when they are scrolled through from top to bottom on its news feed. The new service, called "100 percent in-view…
- 21 Feb 2017
TransferWise Partner Facebook to Launches International Money Transfers
Money transfer company TransferWise has launched a new service that allows users to send money internationally through Facebook Inc's chat application, as competition in the digital payments…
- 16 Mar 2016
Instagram to Ditch Chronological User Feed for 'Interest' Based One
Facebook Inc's picture-sharing app Instagram said it is reshuffling feeds to display curated content that users would 'care' about first. The sequence of posts would be based on the likelihood of…
- 21 Jan 2019
WhatsApp Limits Text Forwards to Five Recipients to Curb Rumors
Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger service is globally limiting the number of times a user can forward a message to five, in a bid to fight “misinformation and rumors”, company executives said on…
- 4 May 2015
Nigerians Firms Fret over Google Fi, Facebook Drones
Information Technology (IT) experts in Nigeria have waxed worriedly over Project Fi and solar-powered drone, so called new services by Google Inc. and Facebook respectively warning that such gigantic…
- 27 Mar 2013
Mobile Ads to Push Twitter Ad Revenue to $1Bn
Twitter will generate nearly $1 billion in ad revenue next year due to a surge in mobile advertising on its Web microblogging service, according to a report released yesterday. Mobile ads will…
- 31 Dec 2015
Microsoft to Warn email Users of Suspected Hacking by Governments
Microsoft Corp said it will begin warning users of its consumer services including Outlook.com email when the company suspects that a government has been trying to hack into their accounts. The…
- 28 Mar 2017
Facebook's Messenger App to Allow Live Location-Sharing
Facebook yesterday added a feature to its Messenger app to allow users to share their locations, the company said, ramping up competition with tools offered by Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google…
- 26 Mar 2018
Twitter Joins Facebook to Ban Cryptocurrency Adverts On Its Platform
Twitter Inc is to ban most advertising of cryptocurrencies on its platform, joining Facebook and Google in a clampdown on the nascent industry, the company said in a statement. The San…
- 16 Jul 2014
Microsoft to Overtake Yahoo in Global Digital ad Share
Microsoft Corp is expected to surpass Yahoo Inc for the first time in the $140.2 billion worldwide digital advertising market, according to estimates by research firm eMarketer released on Tuesday.…
- 8 Feb 2016
Twitter Suspends over 125,000 Accounts for 'Promoting Terrorist Acts'
Twitter Inc has shut down more than 125,000 terrorism-related accounts since the middle of 2015, most of them linked to the Islamic State group, the company said in a blog post over the weekend.…
- 10 Jul 2026
EU warns Meta over addictive Facebook, Instagram designs, threatens fines
European Union has warned Meta Platforms Inc. that it could face a significant financial penalty unless it changes what regulators describe as the “addictive design” features of Facebook and…
- 19 Jul 2024
FCCPC Slams $220m Fine on WhatsApp, Facebook over ‘discriminatory practices’ in Nigeria
Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) has imposed a $220,000,000 penalty on Meta Platforms Incorporated over alleged discriminatory practices against Nigerian data and…
- 27 Mar 2016
Microsoft Meets Private Equity over Yahoo Deal
Microsoft Corp executives are in early talks with potential Yahoo Inc investors about contributing to financing to buy the troubled Internet company, a person familiar with the situation said. …
- 30 Oct 2018
Why Only Truly Indigenous E-Commerce Companies Are Champions
By Dr. Ajit Sigh, international trade lawyer spoke in Lagos on a short visit to Nigeria By midday on Tuesday September 4th 2018, a remarkable development,whose reverberations are still felt today,…
- 20 Mar 2018
Google Launches News Initiative to Combat Fake News
Google is launching the Google News Initiative, to weed out fake news online and during breaking news situations, it said in a blog post on Tuesday. The Google app logo is seen on a smartphone in…
- 19 Jul 2024
Court Strikes Out FG’s N30b Illegal Ads Suit Against Meta
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has dismissed the N30 billion alleged illegal advertisement lawsuit instituted against Meta Platforms Incorporated (owners of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp…
- 4 May 2015
LinkedIn Shocks Social Media Investors
Shares of LinkedIn Corp, operator of the most popular social network for professionals, fell 20 percent in early trading on Friday, wiping out more than $6 billion of market value, after the company…
- 8 Mar 2020
Facebook Celebrates Female Achievers across SSA on International Women’s Day
As part of its ongoing celebration of International Women’s Day, and under the banner of this year’s theme #EachforEqual, Facebook honours women from across Africa who have been using their voices to…
- 3 Jun 2015
Instagram Moves to Open Platform to Advertisers
Instagram said that it is taking steps to make its ads available to all types of businesses, not just hand-selected brands. Starting in June, Instagram this year is rolling out to advertisers the…
- 21 Feb 2015
YouTube to Release Kids App Next Week
YouTube is releasing a new app for children next week, called YouTube Kids, which will run on smartphones and tablets and focus on kid-appropriate content. The free app from Google Inc's online video…
- 30 Dec 2015
Twitter Clarifies Rules on Banned Content, Abusive Behaviour
Twitter Inc has clarified its definition of abusive behaviour that will prompt it to delete accounts, banning "hateful conduct" that promotes violence against specific groups. The social media…