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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 […]

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 […]