The Apple executive leading design for the iPhone and smartwatch, Tang Tan, is leaving the company in February, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. This marks the second departure of an iPhone executive after Bloomberg News reported on Dec. 6, that Steve Hotelling who oversaw iPhone screen and touch ID...
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Payment24 Unveils Cloud Switch: A New Generation Integrated Cloud-Based Payment Product
Payment24, the global payments platform provider specialising in payment and loyalty solutions, has launched a ground-breaking all-encompassing financial payments product – Payment24 Cloud Switch. This revolutionary cloud-based payment solution expertly serves the unique needs of acquiring banks, fuel retailers, merchants, and retailers, and dramatically decreases the time to market for businesses wanting to upgrade their transaction...
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What is data encryption?
A quick primer into the technology that forms the bedrock of data security. Keeping information from unauthorised eyes is a practice as old as recording information. Regents would add their seal into wax to stop snoops from reading orders. Warring nations spend great expense and effort to break the codes of their opponents. And in...
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MTN Group appoints Selorm Adadevoh as Group Chief Commercial Officer
The economy is not as bad as some people claim to be, people are making money and career progress in some companies. MTN Group has announced the appointment of Selorm Adadevoh as new Group Chief Commercial Officer, starting from 1 April 2024. Adadevoh takes the reign from Shulte-Bockum who held the position for seven years. ...
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Former Peloton executive and Twitter CMO joins Verizon as VP and Chief Marketing Officer
Telecommunications giant Verizon appointed Leslie Berland as VP and Chief Marketing Officer effective 9 January 2024. Berland will lead all aspects of Verizon’s global brand and marketing strategy, including marketing activation and creative, marketing effectiveness, consumer insights, media buying and strategic partnerships. She takes over the CMO role from Diego Scotti, who exited Verizon earlier...
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Tidal, music streaming service lays off 10% of its workforce
Jay Z’s former streaming platform Tidal announced that it is laying off 10% of their staff members representing about 40 staff who have been let go. “We can confirm, as part of Block and its recent announcement to cap the number of employees at the company to focus on business growth, Tidal has carefully considered...
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Siemens Healthineers appoints Vivek Kanade as new Head for its Middle East and Africa operations
Siemens Healthineers, one of the world’s leading medical technology companies, announced the appointment of Vivek Kanade as the new Head for the company’s business/operations in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). The appointment, effective 4 December 2023, follows the company’s decision to unite its operations across the Middle East and the African continent with the...
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Twitch shut down its business operations in Korea due to ‘prohibitively expensive’
Not every country is going to roll out a red carpet for some of the tech companies to succeed, once they notice you are a threat and challenger brand to some of their companies they will make it difficult for you to operate your business. Twitch, the popular video streaming service has announced it is...
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WhatsApp to roll out photos and videos feature to preserve original quality
Meta’s WhatsApp to roll out a new feature that allows users to send photos and videos as documents to preserve their original quality. The new feature is in the testing phase, currently available to a limited number of users. According to WABetaInfo, the feature has been in beta testing for approximately a month, during which only...
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TikTok in-app ticketing feature with Ticketmaster is now available 20 countries
After successful launch and run in the US market, TikTok and Ticketmaster are expanding their partnership into other 20 markets. TikTok users will be able to purchase event tickets without leaving the platform, that’s another clever way by both parties to keep their users and music fans engaged. The social media platform announced that the...