Virgin Money to Closes 31 of its Branches as the majority of its clients move into online banking Richard Branson’s Virgin Money UK plans to close almost one 31 of 162 branches in the coming months as more customers shift to online banking. The British bank said the latest lender to cut back its high-street...
Month: <span>October 2021</span>
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Mastercard Enters Buy now, Pay later Market with Latest Offering
Mastercard launched a buy now, pay later service, tapping into a market that is threatening to chip away at the dominance of credit cards as a main source of payments. The buy now, pay later sector was fast tracked during the COVID-19 pandemic as cash-strapped shoppers were attracted to the service due to the ease...
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Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back Online after 6 Hours of Outage
Facebook Inc. suffered a devastating outage that shut out many of its 2.7 billion global users, idled some of the company’s employees and prompted a public apology from the chief technology officer. Users around the world were unable for hours Monday to access Facebook’s family of social-media apps, including the main social network, photo-sharing app...
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Mark Zuckerberg Loses $7 Billion in Hours as Facebook Stock Falls – Report
Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has fallen by nearly $7 billion in a few hours, knocking him down a notch on the list of the world’s richest people, after a whistleblower came forward and outages took Facebook Inc.’s flagship products offline. A selloff sent the social-media giant’s stock plummeting around 5% on Monday, adding to a drop of about...
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Facebook Apologises for WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram Outage as Users Unable to Access the Platforms
Facebook Group has issued an apology following global reports of people having problems accessing its platforms, including, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. This comes after users across the world reported that those two services and Facebook itself have all reportedly crashed, with users saying they are unable to send or receive messages, and their feeds are...
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Nigerian President says Twitter ban can be Lifted if the Company set up a Local Office and Pays Taxes
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari announced that the current twitter ban can be lifted however they must meet certain conditions. While the president speaking to the nation during the country’s 61st Independence Day anniversary. President Buhari, acknowledged the fact that Twitter is used to disseminate information. Still, he warned about bad actors who misuse the platform to “organise,...
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Clubhouse Introduces new Soundbite features Clips, Replays and Universal Search
Clubhouse unveiled four new features on their platform, those features include Clips, Replay, Universal Search and spatial audio. All those new features are currently available on both Android and iOS. All of these features are launched, except for Replay, which roll out in this month October. The audio social media company reports, these additions will...
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South Korean SK Broadband Lay a Charge against Netflix for Bandwidth Usage Fees
The South Korean internet service provider SK Broadband has filed a counterclaim against the streaming giant Netflix to demand payment for the bandwidth the streaming platform has used for the last three years. Netflix responded about the claims raised against them, the company’s spokesperson said “We will review the claim that SK Broadband has filed...
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Voodoo, French Mobile Gaming firm Acquired Beach Bum, Israeli Game Studio
French company Voodoo bought Beach Bum, a game studio based in Israel. The company specialised in card games and tabletop. The details of the deal are not clear as they’re in both cash, shares and some retention bonuses. A reliable souce told TechCrunch, “Voodoo could be paying a few hundred million dollars in total. Beach...
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Newzroom Afrika to cover Team South Africa activities at Dubai Expo
Newzroom Afrika will report live from Expo 2020 Dubai. The channel will focus on the South African activities at the Expo, broadcasting directly from the state-of-the-art TV studio located at the South African pavilion. South Africa will participate in the Expo from October 2021 to March 2022, to promote the country as an investment destination....