Technology

Facebook's seven-hour blackout that cost the company an estimated $100million in lost revenue alone was made worse because the staff were working from home, an insider has claimed. The global outage - which hit Facebook, Instagram,…

Pascal Oparada The global outage that affected Facebook products on Monday did not only cost the company over $7 billion in revenue but earned it a jab from other social media sites. According to reports, WhatsApp rival Telegram…

Babajide Okeowo The global outage suffered by Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp has cost Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of all three platforms major losses. The CEO lost around USD 7 billion and slipped to the 5th spot in the…

EU lawmakers are finally set to standardize charging ports for consumer electronics devices like smartphones and tablets — announcing a proposal today that, once adopted, will see the region settle on USB-C as a universal charging port for…

Twitter said Monday it will pay $809 million to settle a 2016 lawsuit alleging members of the social network’s leadership, including founder Jack Dorsey, provided misleading information to investors about slowing user growth. The suit…

Popular movie streaming platform, Netflix is offering a free mobile plan with about a quarter of its TV shows and movies in Kenya. This move is aimed at sparking growth in a key African market Reuters reported. Netflix hopes this free plan…

Social media giant, Facebook Friday announced that it would soon introduce its cryptocurrency wallet named Novi Digital Wallet saying the wallet would be tied to the Diem Blockchain system. David Marcus, Facebook’s financial services…

Pascal Oparada Early this year, Rite Foods, makers of Fearless energy drink took soft drinks giant, Cocoa Cola, to court over infringement on its brand identity for the energy drink. Rite Foods said Coca Cola has committed an infraction…

Nigeria is set to utilise its legal provisions that empower the Federal Government to collect taxes on profits made in the country by global technology and digital firms not based in the country, but with a significant…

Telecom giant, MTN, says the deadline given for subscribers to update their SIM registration records with the National Identification Number (NIN) is a welcome development. In a disclosure notice sent to the Nigerian Stock Exchange…