VentureBuilder, which is focused on scaling African-owned and managed off-grid solar enterprises, launched today to expand energy access to underserved populations in Africa. VentureBuilder’s launch will enable it to pioneer ...
Facebook has expanded its third-party fact-checking program to 10 African countries including: Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon and Senegal. In partnership with Agence France-Presse (AFP), the France 24 Observers, Pesa Check and Dubawa, this programme forms ...
Earlier this year, Facebook launched group stories on its platform but the social media giant soon removed the feature after it wasn't very well received by users. The social media ...
Facebook, in partnership with Teleperformance, has announced the opening of its first Small Business Group (SBG) Operations Centre in Lagos, Nigeria. The centre will provide outsourced support to advertisers across ...
Facebook Accelerator, Nigeria, in partnership with Co-Creation Hub has commenced season two of its programme aimed at supporting and empowering students and entrepreneurs to build locally relevant solutions using advanced ...
Facebook on Monday announced the acquisition of CTRL Labs, a New York startup that builds technology that can help your electronic device read your brain waves. The startup will join ...
Is Facebook equipped to handle far more intimate personal data after their previous privacy scandals? Facebook Dating, which has existed in other countries since last year, went live in the US ...
Facebook may soon start hiding like counts on News Feed posts to help improve the mental health of its users by protecting them from envy and dissuade them from self-censorship. The ...
Facebook on Wednesday announced it would tighten some of its rules around political advertising ahead of the 2020 presidential election by adding new requirements for political ad buyers, requiring those ...
Earlier this month, we shared with you that Facebook is adding its name to Instagram and WhatsApp, and would soon call them “Instagram from Facebook” and “WhatsApp from Facebook”. For WhatsApp, this change ...
Facebook has updated its Group privacy settings and added admin controls for group safety because it wants to make it easier for users to understand its Group privacy settings. The ...
Apple’s next operating system update has taken privacy to be a renewed focus. One new feature in iOS 13 that seems centered on user privacy could have sweeping consequences for messaging and ...
Instagram and WhatsApp are about to be renamed as Facebook tries to be clearer about its ownership of the two services. The two services will be renamed "Instagram from Facebook" ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday announced charges against Facebook Inc. for making misleading disclosures regarding the risk of misuse of Facebook user data. For more than two years, ...
Facebook Inc will pay a $5 billion penalty to the Federal Trade Commission and to adhere to restrictions and a modified corporate structure to hold it accountable after it was ...
Global payments firm Adyen has partnered with pan-African payments firm Cellulant to offer its global merchants access to key local payment methods in major African markets. The deal will see ...
Facebook is using artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to address large-scale social, health and infrastructure challenges in sub Saharan Africa such as rural electrification in Tanzania to vaccinating people ...
Facebook admitted that over 600 million customers’ passwords were stored in text format insecurely since 2012, but the social media giant claims to have moved fast and fixed the problem. ...
President Uhuru Kenyatta's Facebook and Twitter accounts were taken down account of "unauthorized access", according to reports from State House Kenya after an anti-corruption tweet went south. "All official social ...
MainOne is building a metro fiber infrastructure project in two states of Nigeria, with support from Facebook to connect more people to broadband internet. The approximately 750 km terrestrial fiber ...
Facebook recently opened a new content review centre in Nairobi, Kenya. In partnership with Samasource – one of the largest digital employers in East Africa. With the deal Nairobi will ...
Facebook is opening its first sub-Saharan Africa content review centre in Nairobi. It is expected to provide jobs to a diverse group of 100, who speak several languages, including Somali, ...
Celulant, has built an Augmented Reality (AR) Facebook Messenger bot to help customers discover, try out products before they buy in a move expected to provide simple and convenient payment experiences in partnership with ...
Senditoo, a UK-based money remittance firm has launched its Artificial Intelligent Bot that will make sending top up to over 140 countries faster, cheaper and more effective using Facebook Messenger. ...
Facebook has launched a third-party fact-checking program in Kenya to help online users evaluate the accuracy of the news. The program is expected to curb the spread of misinformation, commonly ...
Facebook.com has announced the names of 116 people worldwide who have been selected to join the Facebook Community Leadership Program. Around a dozen African community leaders have been selected to ...
Social media giant Facebook has warned that it will hold back its planned investment in Uganda's infrastructure due to the country's recent imposition of tax on the use of social ...
UBA Group has unveiled chat banking in Kenya, making the country the latest to unveil the service among its 20 African subsidiaries. The service dubbed ‘LEO’ rides on Facebook Messenger, ...
The African Development Bank, together with partners – The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook have launched the Coding for Employment Program to prepare Africa’s youth for tomorrow’s jobs and unleashes the next ...
Facebook has partnered with CcHub to launch NG_Hub in Lagos, Nigeria - its first flagship community hub space in Africa, in a move expected to bring together developers, start-ups, and the ...
