TikTok has pushed a new safety update to its app that allows parents to take more control of their teenager’s accounts, as social media companies come under increasing pressure to make their platforms safer for children. The company said Tuesday that its “Family Pairing” feature now enables parents to turn off comments on their children’s...
Year: <span>2020</span>
Post
Post
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni is Under Pressure for Missing Vaccine Payment
South Africa’s main opposition party will file a complaint against finance minister Tito Mboweni for allegedly misleading the legislature about the country’s payment to sign up to the global Covax programme, which is to procure and distribute Covid-19 vaccines. The Democratic Alliance will submit the complaint to parliament’s ethics committee after Mboweni told lawmakers that the government...
Post
Periscope Announces the App Will Shut Down in March 2021
Periscope bids its users goodbye! The live video streaming app, acquired by Twitter before its launch in 2015, announced they will discontinue the separate mobile app by March 2021. “We want to be transparent about why we’re making this decision, especially to those of you who are active and passionate users of Periscope today,” the...
Post
Some Tips on How to Approach 2021 by Mark Sham
Today’s message is all about how to approach 2021! I think most people have reached a point where 2020 has tired them out, and all they want is the year to end. But in my mind, it’s not like 2021 is magically going to be much better unless we learn from 2020, and then take...
Post
Spotify’s Plans to make profit after huge Investments in Podcasts Industry
Since 2019, Spotify has spent hundreds of millions of dollars investing in podcasts. Now it needs to show investors that bet will pay off. Spotify’s podcast library has been bolstered by high-profile deals like its acquisitions of Gimlet Media, Anchor, Parcast and the Ringer. It also gained the exclusive rights to Joe Rogan’s podcast, worth an estimated $100...
Post
Latest Biz News: MTN under Pressure to Audit Nigerian Users, SA Misses Vaccine Payment Deadline + More
Manuel wins against the EFF The Supreme Court of Appeal also upheld a high court finding that the EFF’s statements about former finance minister Trevor Manuel were “false, defamatory and unlawful”. The EFF issued false claims that Manuel oversaw a “corrupt” process to appoint new SARS commissioner Edward Kieswetter. Netflix appoints Zim billionaire to its board Netflix...
Post
Zimbabwean Billionaire Strive Masiyiwa Joined Netflix board
Netflix says it has appointed Zimbabwean telecoms billionaire Strive Masiyiwa to its board. According to financial news publication Quartz Africa, Masiyiwa is the founder of Econet Group, which has operations and investments in 29 countries in Africa and beyond. These include Econet Wireless, Zimbabwe’s leading mobile operator, Liquid Telecom, the pan-African broadband company, and its subsidiary...
Post
Tech Giant Amazon Unveils Self-driving Robotaxi Amazon Zoox
Amazon’s self-driving vehicle company, Zoox, is taking the wraps off of its first robotaxi. Zoox on Monday debuted an electric, fully driverless vehicle that’s built for ride hailing. It’s a “carriage-style” car, which means that passengers face each other and there’s no space for a driver or passenger seat, since there’s no steering wheel. It has space...
Post
Petrol Price is set to Increase in January – Reports
The Central Energy Fund has published its mid-month fuel price data, pointing to an increase in petrol and diesel prices for January 2021. The CEF data shows an under-recovery across the board, with prices expected to rise between 30 and 33 cents per litre for diesel, and 51 to 52 cents per litre for diesel....
Post
Bitcoin Continue with its Surge as It Breaks New Ground
Bitcoin breached the $20,000 level for the first time in history Wednesday, as crypto enthusiasts pointed to increased demand from institutional investors for the red-hot digital currency. The world’s most-valuable virtual currency traded 5.6% higher to a price of around $20,600, according to market data from Coin Metrics, taking its year-to-date gains to more than 180%. Bitcoin has...