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N42bn Debt: Bank Recharge Channels Via USSD Unavailable – MTN
Mobile network operator, MTN Nigeria, has announced that bank recharge channels through Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) services are currently unavailable to customers.
According to ThePunch, the telecommunication giants…
Elon Musk Says Tesla Now Accepts Bitcoin As Payment For Cars
Tesla CEO, Elon Musk has late Tuesday announced that it is now possible to buy Tesla vehicles in the United States with bitcoin.
The announcement comes less than a month after the automaker revealed that it had bought $1.5 billion worth…
Ex-Google Employee, Dave Girouard Becomes Billionaire In 24 Hours
Forbes has announced Upstart Holdings’ co-founder and CEO, Dave Girouard, who is an ex-Google employee, as the latest tech expert to become a billionaire.
The company’s shares reportedly increased by a whopping 89% on a single day…
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Sells First-Ever Tweet For $2.9 Million As An NFT
Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey has sold his first-ever published tweet for $2.9 million dollars as an Non-Fungible Token (NFT) on Monday.
The tweet, which said, "just setting up my twttr," was published on March 21, 2006. It has been shared…
WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Down For Thousands Of Users Worldwide
If you have been trying to access your WhatsApp, Instagram or Facebook account, then you're not alone - the social media applications are down for several users worldwide.
Many users took to Twitter to share their complains, asking what…
Facebook Rolls Out Instagram Lite That Uses Less Data In Sub-Saharan Africa
Facebook has announced the launch of Instagram Lite, a lightweight version of the original app for Android which uses less data and works well across all network conditions, in Sub-Saharan Africa and other emerging markets.
Instagram is…
Flutterwave And PayPal Partner To Allow African Merchants Accept, Make Payments
Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, has on Tuesday announced a new collaboration with global payment leader, PayPal to enable customers of the latter globally to pay African merchants in the continent through…
Audio Cassette Tape Inventor, Lou Ottens Dies At 94
Louis Ottens, a Dutch engineer credited with inventing audio cassette tape and helped develop the compact disc decades later, has died at 94.
The engineer died in his hometown of Duizel last weekend, his family announced on Tuesday but…
Nigerian Payments Startup, Flutterwave Raises $170 Million, Now Valued At Over $1 Billion
Nigerian payments startup, Flutterwave has raised $170 million in a Series C funding round, the largest amount ever secured by an African tech startup.
Series C financing (also known as series C round or series C funding) is one of the…
Jack Dorsey’s Square Buys Majority Stake In Jay-Z’s Tidal Music Streaming Platform
Square, a payment platform founded by Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, has acquired a majority stake in Tidal, audio and video streaming service led by rapper, Jay-Z.
The financial company announced on Thursday that it is paying $297…
Google.org’s New Tracking Tool Leverages Global Health Stats To Tackle COVID-19
Google.org has joined hands with a consortium of COVID-19 researchers to announce the launch of Global.health, an open-access epidemiological data platform that enables experts to track disease spread in real-time and to forecast future…
Twitter To Launch ‘Super Follows’, New Feature That Allows Users Charge For Exclusive Content
Twitter has announced plans for a new feature called "super follows", which will enable users to charge and get paid for exclusive content.
The move comes as Twitter is branching out from advertising to find more ways to make money —…
Minister, Stakeholders Affirm Health Safety Of 5G
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has allayed the fears of Nigerians on the deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) technology in Nigeria, clarifying that there is no known scientific evidence till…
UAE Becomes First Arab Country To Reach Mars
United Arab Emirates has made history as the first Arab country to reach Mars, after a successful Emirates Mars mission named Hope probe.
The Emirates Mars mission reached the red planet at 7:42 p.m. Tuesday UAE time, and sent its…
Tesla Buys $1.5B In Bitcoin, May Accept It As Payment For Products In The Near Future
Electric car manufacturer, Tesla has disclosed that it has acquired $1.5 billion in bitcoin cryptocurrency, adding it could in the near future accept the coin as payment for its luxury cars.
Tesla filed its annual financial report with…