Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and key executives are expected to present a plan later this month to the company’s board of directors to slice off unnecessary businesses and revamp capital spending, according to a source familiar with the matter, as they try to revive the once-dominant chipmaker’s fortunes. The plan will include ideas on how …
Intel CEO To Pitch Board On Plans To Shed Assets, Cut Costs, Source Says. Read More »
Apple’s partnership with India’s second-biggest telecoms firm will give the iPhone maker a sorely needed boost in a content market where it lags far behind the likes of Spotify and Walt Disney . The U.S. technology giant, working to boost revenue globally from services including apps, payments and media, is set to offer free music …
Apple Set For Music, TV Streaming Fight In India After Airtel Deal. Read More »
The SpaceX CEO also wants Starlink to provide emergency alerts for mobile users in dead zones, whether they sign up for the service or not. Elon Musk wants to offer free access to emergency services to people in cellular dead zones through SpaceX’s satellite internet service, Starlink. “This could help a lot of people if …
Elon Musk Proposes To Offer Free Starlink for People ‘Stranded in the Wilderness’. Read More »
Ghana on Thursday signed an agreement with a U.S. developer for a nuclear reactor using technology from NuScale Power SMR.N, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday, as the country seeks its first atomic power plant. Nuclear Power Ghana and Regnum Technology Group signed the agreement to deploy a NuScale VOYGR-12 small modular reactor, or SMR, …
Ghana Signs Agreement To Build Small NuScale Nuclear Reactor. Read More »
Social media giant X expects Brazil’s top court to order it to shut down, as a pitched legal battle plays out over compliance with local laws and owner Elon Musk’s insistence the platform is being punished for resisting censorship. The popular social media platform posted the announcement from its global affairs account, saying it expected …
X Braces For Brazil Shutdown As Musk Spat Intensifies. Read More »
The smartphone market in Nigeria is facing a significant slump, primarily due to economic difficulties and escalating prices. As inflation climbs and disposable incomes shrink, many Nigerians are struggling to afford new smartphones. In response to the decreasing demand for smartphones, device financing is becoming an increasingly appealing option. Canalys, a leading technology market analysis …
Alphabet’s Google is considering building a large data centre in Vietnam, a person briefed on the plans said, in what would be the first such investment by a big U.S. technology company in the Southeast Asian nation. Google is weighing setting up a “hyperscale” data centre close to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam’s southern economic …
Tom Kinyanjui, co-founder and CEO of Neural Labs Africa, a medical technology firm specializing in using artificial intelligence to enhance medical imaging diagnosis, emphasized the need for greater support for technology innovators from the African continent. According to Kinyanjui, this support is crucial for these innovators to fully realize their potential in advancing progress toward …
African Tech Innovators Deserve Greater Support to Thrive. Read More »
After a four-month delay, Wasoko, a Kenyan B2B e-commerce platform, has completed an all-stock merger with Egypt’s MaxAB. The merged entity will have a new name, which the company declined to share, citing a rebranding process which will soon begin. Daniel Yu and Belal El-Megharbel, the co-founders and CEOs of Wasoko and MaxAB, will jointly …
Sony is raising the price of its PlayStation 5 (PS5) games console in Japan by about 20%, it said on Tuesday, citing a difficult external environment including global economic fluctations. The console will cost 79,980 yen ($551) or 72,980 yen for a version without a disk drive from Sept. 2, the entertainment and technology conglomerate …
Sony to raise PlayStation 5 price by 20% in Japan. Read More »
