Category: <span>Business</span>

The international auto company Hyndai Motor announced plans to develop and produce its own semiconductor chips. This move is part of the company to take the future in its own hands and to reduce the reliance of chipmakers.  Automakers and electronic manufactures sales fell flat due to shortage of chips across the world. Now these...

The Chinese government has asked Apple to remove Quran Majeed, a popular app for reading the Islamic religious text and other prayer-related information, in China, in compliance with Chinese authorities.  According to BBC, the latest developments comes as part of a bigger shift in the country to crack down on foreign content, or simply making...

Is the Ancient Art of Matchmaking Here to Replace Dating Apps? Finding that absolutely perfect person is a challenge. Unless you’re a character in a fairy tale, there isn’t a clear path to finding them or even the certainty that you’re settling on the right person.  But the solution we’ve all sort of agreed is the best one — online dating — is hardly...

TikTok removed 81 million videos for violating its community guidelines and terms of service on its platform between April 1 and June 30, 2021. This is part of the short video platform cleaning and getting its house in order. According to TikTok an average of 90 million videos posted or uploaded a each day.  In...

South African Tourism has appointed the global independent agency Brave Group, to run its Global Advocacy Programme for the next three years. The appointment comes at a critical time as the world slowly opens up to tourism again after being battered by the global pandemic worldwide. Brave Group reports, it will be partner with specialist...

Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has addressed staff members on the streamer’s controversial new Dave Chappelle stand-up special, “The Closer.” The firebrand comedian has drawn criticism from the LGBTQ+ community in recent days over several jokes, specifically around the “thin skin” of trans people and the effects of so-called “cancel culture.” Read the full memo from Ted Sarandos below: I...

The social media platform Reddit has hired Pali Bhat as the first chief product officer. Prior joining Reddit Bhat is the former vice-president of product and design at Google Cloud.  Part of Bhat’s mandate is overseeing Reddit’s product organization and leading the development of tools and features for the platform.  In his new role, Bhat...

YouTube announced new audio features on its platform. Now creators have the ability to enable auto-captions for any livestreams in English to make streams more accessible. Previously this feature was accessible to creators with 1K Plus subscribers.  The video platforms plans to expand live auto captions to all 13 supported captioning languages in the coming...

Instagram head Adam Mosseri came out to announce that IGTV was no longer a photo sharing app, the platform also decided to let go of it IGTV brand. According to Mosseri the platform is prioritising a shit into video to battle out with the new kid on the block TikTok.  Going forward video is going...

Tesla motors is in hot water, this comes after Owen Diaz, a former Black employee and contract elevator operator at Tesla, sued the Company saying he was discriminated against for being Black and even asked to return to Africa. As a result, a federal jury in San Francisco has ordered that Tesla pay Diaz $137...