TECHNOLOGY

Taxify, an Estonian ride-hailing company aiming to take on Uber in emerging markets, will invest millions of euros in East Africa in the next five years with a strategy focused on motorised rickshaws and motorcycles, it said on Thursday. The company, which already operates in five cities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania and will continue to offer regular car rides, ...

MTN Ghana has partnered with the Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communication (GIFEC) to re-launch the Rural Telephony Project in Ghana. In effect, President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, launched the project, in Abenaso, in the Eastern Region, meant to connect the town and surrounding communities with ICT facilities and telecommunication services. The project, which is aimed at providing fast and ...

Snapchat is often name-dropped as being the must-have app for Millennials and their younger Generation Z cohorts, but new figures are causing concern that it could already have peaked… Snapchat is often name-dropped as being the must-have app for Millennials and their younger Generation Z cohorts, but new figures are causing concern that it could already have peaked. For the ...

Apple has become the world’s first public company to be worth $1 trillion. The iPhone maker’s market value reached the figure in late morning trading in New York as its shares rose to a new record high above $207. The stock has been rising since Tuesday when it reported better than expected results for the three months to June. Apple’s ...

Mobile network operator, AirtelTigo has become the first service provider to launch data bundles with “no expiry” for new and existing pre-paid customers in the country. With ‘Big Time Data Bundles’, customers will be able to get more data value than anywhere else for ¢1, ¢2, ¢5 and ¢10. The bundles will also enable customers to access their social media ...

In March, YouTube revealed that it was releasing a dark mode for its mobile apps, starting with its iOS version. Now, Android users are beginning to get the feature on their apps. YouTube added a dark mode to its desktop site last year, and the company says that it became one of the most requested features for its apps. 9to5Google ...

Google launched a network of free Wi-Fi hotspots in Nigeria on Thursday, part of its effort to increase its presence in Africa’s most populous nation. The U.S. technology firm owned by Alphabet Inc has partnered with Nigerian fibre cable network provider 21st Century to provide its public Wi-Fi service, Google Station, in six places in the commercial capital Lagos, including ...

Artificial intelligence is now being used to diagnose a common eye disease. The device, called IDx-DR, uses software and a retinal camera to take images of a patient’s retina. It then uses an artificial intelligence algorithm to evaluate the images and effectively diagnose diabetic retinopathy, a diabetes complication that can lead to blindness. Developers hope this new device will make ...

ark Zuckerberg’s fortune tanked by more than $16 billion on Wednesday in the wake of Facebook’s second-quarter financial results, which fell short of analysts’ expectations. Shares in the California-based social-networking platform plummeted by as much as 24 percent following the filing this week, swiftly wiping up to $140 billion from the company’s market value. According to the Financial Times, the ...

In one niche corner of the cryptocurrency world, an ethical debate is raging. The topic of contention is not exchange rates or squabbles over which virtual money is king, but so-called “assassination markets” where users can place bets on the likelihood of celebrity deaths. So far, U.S. president Donald Trump, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, actor Betty White and senator John ...