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Dropbox faces investor pressure to end founder control
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Dropbox removes unlimited plan for users

Dropbox is eliminating its unlimited plan because some users were exploiting it for activities like Bitcoin mining, pooling storage for personal use cases, and even reselling storage. Customers who purchase a Dropbox Advanced plan with three active licences will now receive 15TB of storage capacity shared by the team, according to a new modification. This […]

EU invests €3bn, generates 160,000 jobs in Nigeria yearly - Ambassador
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EU imposes new content regulations on Big Tech

The comprehensive Digital Services Act of the European Union imposes new regulations on content moderation, user privacy, and transparency, subjecting more than dozens of the largest tech companies in the world to intense scrutiny. In the EU, a number of internet giants, including Meta’s Facebook and Instagram platforms, Apple’s online App Store, and a few […]

Pinterest introduces safety features for young users
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Pinterest introduces safety features for young users

Pinterest on Monday unveiled a number of new security features designed to better safeguard young users of the service. “We’ve noted this multiple times that Gen Z is our fastest-growing demographic and our largest contributor to overall engagement, which means it’s not just a high growth rate on a small denominator. It’s our largest contributor […]

Snpachat expands more into AI with ‘Dreams’
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Snpachat expands more into AI with ‘Dreams’

Snapchat is getting ready to increase its generative AI expansion with a new generative AI tool named “Dreams.” According to discoveries from app researcher and developer Steve Moser, the company has been working on features that would let Snapchat users shoot or upload selfie photos that will enable the app to create fresh pictures of […]

South Africa to alter taxation laws for remote workers
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South Africa to alter taxation laws for remote workers

A draft of the proposed tax administration bill, which will attempt to alter how remote employees pay taxes, has been shared by South African Revenue Services. One of the suggested bills seeks to eliminate the distinction between remote and non-remote workers and to mandate pay-as-you-earn tax deductions by employers of remote employees based in South […]

Adobe founder John Warnock dies at 82
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Adobe founder John Warnock dies at 82

Co-founder of Photoshop creator, Adobe John Warnock, has passed away on Saturday at the age of 82, the business announced in a statement early on Sunday. His death’s cause wasn’t made public. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen wrote in an email to staff, “It is a sad day for the Adobe community and the industry for […]

Twiga fires 283 employees, cites tough business environment
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Twiga fires 283 employees, cites tough business environment

African e-commerce food distribution company, Twiga will reduce one-third of its 850 staff as the company undergoes operational restructuring as a result of challenging market conditions. Twiga has been “on a transformative path in the last few months to become a lean, agile, cost-efficient organisation,” according to the company’s CEO, Peter Njonjo, who spoke with […]

Logistics company Kobo360 names Cikü Mugambi new CEO
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Logistics company Kobo360 names Cikü Mugambi new CEO

Nigerian logistics company Kobo360 announced the appointment of Cikü Mugambi as the new CEO after its founding CEO Obi Ozor was named transport commissioner in Enugu. The company’s Board of Directors announced Mugambi, who was formerly the company’s COO as Ozor successor. After working with the International Finance Corporation, Next Billion Growth, and KPMG, Mugambi […]

Twitch enhances filtering tools to block sexual, violent content from livestream
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Twitch to introduce anti-harassment feature

Social network Twitch has announced that streamers will soon be able to prevent banned people from viewing their content. The new anti-harassment function will be included in Twitch’s blocking capabilities when it launches in the coming weeks, preventing barred users from seeing streams. The tool won’t be turned on by default when dealing with banned […]

CcHub CEO, Bosun Tijani has been appointed the minister of communications, innovation, and the digital economy.
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Tinubu names CcHub CEO Tijani communications, digital economy minister

CcHub CEO, Bosun Tijani has been appointed the minister of communications, innovation, and the digital economy. Tijani’s appointment was on the list of ministerial portfolios released on Wednesday. The 46-year-old CcHub CEO faced opposition from lawmakers over his scathing comments about Nigeria’s politics and politicians, but his nomination has signalled new heights for Nigeria’s tech […]

US DOJ probes Visa over antitrust issues
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US DOJ probes Visa over antitrust issues

The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a new investigation that Visa is charging retailers more for not adopting the payment company’s own tokenization technology, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday. Early in 2021, the DOJ launched an antitrust investigation into Visa to see whether it engages in anticompetitive behaviour in the debit card market. According […]

Opera integrates AI product Aria to iOS
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Opera integrates AI product Aria to iOS

Opera announced on Wednesday that Aria, its browser AI product created in partnership with OpenAI, will now be available for iOS. The AI solution had previously been made available on Opera for Android and Opera for desktop, where it has since surpassed 1 million users. The company says that Aria is now freely accessible on […]