A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers sent Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter on Thursday expressing concern that the company is failing to prevent illicit drug advertisements from running on its platform. The House members cited recent reports from The Wall Street Journal and the nonprofit Tech Transparency Project, which uncovered a flood of ads …
This means driver partners will now have the ability to dictate a chat message instead of typing it, and the Bolt app will transcribe it to text, translate the text to the rider’s preferred language, and send it as a regular chat message to the rider. This enables driver partners to communicate more easily with …
Bolt Upgrades Driver App Chat With The Ability To Translate Speech-To-Text. Read More »
TikTok told a federal appeals court, opens new tab on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Justice has misstated the social media app’s ties to China, urging the court to overturn a law requiring China-based ByteDance to sell TikTok’s U.S. assets or face a ban. TikTok, which has sued to overturn the law, said the …
TikTok Disputes US Claims On China Ties In Court Appeal. Read More »
MTN Nigeria, the country’s biggest telco, has renewed its lease agreement with tower infrastructure provider IHS Towers, ending a two-year boardroom tussle between the two companies. The new deal will see IHS manage MTN networks sites beyond the initial September 2023 deadline. The renegotiation comes eleven months after MTN selected American Towers Corporation (ATC) to …
MTN Nigeria Renegotiates Tower Lease With IHS and ATC, Quashes Conflict Rumors. Read More »
Russian internet monitoring services reported a mass outage on the availability of video hosting site YouTube on Thursday as Russian authorities step up criticism of the platform. Russian internet monitoring service Sboi.rf said there had been thousands of glitches reported about YouTube in Russia. Users said they could only access YouTube via virtual private networks …
Mass YouTube Outage Reported In Russia Amid Escalating Official Criticism. Read More »
Google is facing a bigger threat from Sam Altman’s OpenAI even as it awaits a decision on how antitrust regulators in Washington plan to level the playing field in the internet search business. A US ruling on Monday, which found that Google built an illegal search monopoly, is being considered a big win for regulators. …
Analysis-OpenAI Is A Bigger Threat to Google Than US Regulators. Read More »
Flutterwave, a prominent payments technology company, has received an Enhanced Category Payment Service Provider license from the Bank of Ghana. This development marks a significant expansion of the company’s operations in Africa and enables it to offer a wide array of payment services in the country. Ghana has emerged as an attractive market for Flutterwave’s …
Flutterwave Expands Digital Payment Services in Ghana with New License. Read More »
John Schulman, one of the co-founders of artificial intelligence company OpenAI, has left the ChatGPT maker for rival Anthropic, he said in a post on social media platform X late Monday. “This choice stems from my desire to deepen my focus on AI alignment, and to start a new chapter of my career where I …
OpenAI Co-founder John Schulman Leaves ChatGPT Maker For Rival Anthropic. Read More »
A judge in the United States has ruled that Google spent billions of dollars to create an illegal monopoly for its search engine, exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation. Monday’s landmark decision that Google broke antitrust law marks the first major success for US authorities taking on the dominance of Big Tech, …
Google Has Illegal Monopoly Over Internet Search, US Judge Rules. Read More »
MTN Group’s Ghana operations said last week that it has met the West African country’s localisation requirements for its 4G licence. MTN Ghana announced its results for the six-month period ending June 30, 2024, telling shareholders of the significant milestone. “By the end of the second quarter, the level of local ownership of Scancom PLC …
MTN Group Crosses Localisation Milestone In Ghana. Read More »
