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Zoho hits 100m users milestone
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Zoho hits 100m users milestone

Leading global technology company Zoho announced on Tuesday that it now serves 100 million users across its 55+ business applications. The company disclosed that it is the first bootstrapped SaaS company to accomplish this feat. This expansion follows the company’s $1 billion revenue milestone last year. The co-founder and CEO of Zoho Corp., Sridhar Vembu, […]

Tinder explores redesign, features to boost engagement
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Russian court fines Tinder over refusal to localize user data

The Match Group, the parent company of dating app Tinder and the live streaming service Twitch, has been fined by the Russian Justice on Monday for refusing to locate the servers containing the personal information of Russian users in Russia. According to judicial sources, Justice of the Peace Timur Vajrameyev of Moscow’s 422nd District penalized […]

Call of Duty monitors hate speech with AI
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Call of Duty monitors hate speech with AI

Call of Duty, a shooter computer game, has begun utilising AI to keep an eye out for hate speech during online matches. The moderator tool, which makes use of machine learning technology, can recognise harassment and offensive language in real-time, according to publisher Activision. According to Michael Vance, chief technical officer of Activision, it will […]

Canva suffers global outage, locks out millions of users
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Canva suffers global outage, locks out millions of users

The picture and video editing platform Canva has encountered a downtime for users all over the world. According to data from outage tracker, DownDetector, the reports of the outage which started by 1:00PM have spiked to more than 700. In response to the outage, Canva appealed to users via their X handle to exercise patience […]

Substack expands video tools, adds livestream clip sharing
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Substack launches AI-powered tools to aid podcasting

Substack is launching new AI-powered tools, the business announced on Wednesday to aid the making of podcasts on the platform simpler. “We’ve done this all using cutting-edge AI tools, and it reflects our philosophy of not thinking that this AI stuff is ever going to take the place of work done by writers and creators—but […]

WordPress launches 100-year domain plan
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WordPress launches 100-year domain plan

WordPress is now offering domains with a 100-year domain for sale for users who want their projects to outlive them. In a blog post, the twenty-year-old company stated that this 100-year plan is perfect for families to preserve their history online and for founders to chronicle the development of their business. “Whether it’s giving a […]

New Zealand imposes on digital services
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New Zealand imposes on digital services

New Zealand on Tuesday said that starting in 2025, it would enact laws imposing a digital services tax on major international corporations. This comes after discussions at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development failed to reach an agreement on a global deployment. More than 140 nations are expected to begin implementing the 2021 agreement […]

Walt Disney bets on cricket on smartphone to woe subscribers
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Walt Disney bets on cricket on smartphone to woe subscribers

Walt Disney hopes to turn around the fortunes of its streaming business in India by providing free cricket on smartphones. The company is hoping that this move will increase advertising revenue and lessen the effects of a customer exodus. For the year ending in March 2022, the India streaming business, which by number of subscribers […]

FG seeks AI experts for technological innovation
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FG seeks AI experts for technological innovation

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Innovations, and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani  is seeking the expertise of Nigerians and foreigners with experience in AI to help the creation of a better plan for encouraging technological innovation. “We’re curating a list of the top researchers of Nigerian descent from all over the world to join us in co-creating […]

Visa to launch contactless payments in Kenya
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Visa to launch contactless payments in Kenya

Visa is collaborating with regional banks and fintech firms in order to introduce contactless payments in Kenya. Customers will be able to make purchases without using a card or physical wallet. Customers can utilise the Thales-powered service to make in-store purchases using their banking app by tapping their Near-field communication-enabled smartphones at any contactless payment […]

Russian tech billionaire Volozh begs EU to lift sanctions
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Russian tech billionaire Volozh begs EU to lift sanctions

A Russian tech billionaire, Arkady Volozh, has officially requested the lifting of sanctions after denouncing Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The Russian oligarch demanded that the EU ease its sanctions against him after denouncing Putin’s war. Days after calling the battle “barbaric,” Arkady Volozh made the call, according to the Financial Times. The tech billionaire […]