A Nigeria-born robotic engineer, Silas Adekunle has shut down Reach Robotics, the Bristol, United Kingdom-based consumer robotics company, that he co-founded a few years ago. Adekunle, who announce this decision on his LinkedIn account said…
Secondary school girls from the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia arrived in Washington D.C. this week to participate in the U.S. Department of State’s TechGirls exchange programme. Launched in 2012, the four-week programme aims…
Facebook Inc (FB.O) is planning to set up two new regional operations centres to focus on monitoring election-related content. The centres will be located in its Dublin and Singapore offices, the company said on Monday….
Telecommunications companies are a rarity in the stock market, their shares have exhibited characteristics of both income and growth stocks. For periods of several years, a company may enjoy its regulatory privileges like other utilities….
An investment expert, Femi Adekunle has said that many African countries have started to find answers to the challenges of financing the tech industry in Africa. This is just after a remarkable period of investment that saw…
Social media messaging giant, the WhatsApp is set to roll out a payments system to users across the regular version of its application within a week or so, according to Bloomberg. WhatsApp has partnered with…
Both Washington’s European allies and Tehran pledged on Tuesday to uphold the 2015 Iran nuclear deal despite President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out and reimpose sanctions. European leaders decried Trump’s decision…
A computer programme and a robot named Ada are helping the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) process immigration cases, newspaper Aftenposten reported on Thursday. “Depending on its type, a case today can remain in a…
Google has introduced new features for Gmail users which includes several new features designed to increase productivity and more security. Google made this known on its official blog (blog.google) on Friday. According to Google, among…
Before the advent of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), transactions were done manually and these were prompt to errors and delayed in time of delivery and to overcome these problems, information and communication technology (ICT)…