The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has instituted a lawsuit against the Federal Government over plans to monitor WhatsApp activities of the citizenry. This was...
Facebook has blamed the almost eight hours shutdown of its social media platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram on October 4, on the company’s engineers. The tech...
There’s a popular adage in Nigeria saying, “Follow the person that knows road” but when the guide is missing, what happens? Many Nigerians were in this...
Facebook Founder, Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth fell by 5.21 percent at the end of trading on Monday following the crash of his social media companies, Facebook,...
Facebook and two other social media apps under its platform – WhatsApp and Instagram – crashed on Monday, leaving more than three billion users across the...
This line-up of stories will help you discover the latest happenings around the tech world, today. 1. Facebook to block Taliban’s WhatsApp accounts American social media...
In order to redress the grievances of striking doctors in the country, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to use...
Claim: A viral message shared on WhatsApp claims all vaccinated people will die in two years. Source: While people, including religious leaders have been condemning the...
These latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. WhatsApp gives users ultimatum to accept new policy Facebook-owned messenger, Whatsapp,...
These latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Zambia’s PremierCredit secures $650 000 investment PremierCredit, a Zambia-based online microlending...
The Katsina State government has banned the use of WhatsApp in all schools in the state, and also the use of Facebook by civil servants in...
These latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. WhatsApp to launch features to support local SMEs Mark Zuckerberg’s instant...
These latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Nigeria’s Dochase launches WhatsApp chatbot-as-a-service In a bid to drive more...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. WhatsApp launches on-demand payment gateway on platform Facebook-owned messaging service...
Owners of the social media messaging app, WhatsApp, have introduced new restrictions on the number of viral messages users can forward by 70%. This means that...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. Google bans use of Zoom by employees over privacy concerns...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. South African govt orders all country domains to link its...
These 5 latest stories from the tech space will keep you updated with trends today. 1. WhatsApp builds new feature to help fact-check messages Social messaging...
As part of the efforts to halt the spread of fake news surrounding coronavirus, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said it was partnering with Whatsapp...
Instant messaging platform, Whatsapp, has recorded an addition of 500 million new users in 2 years, raising its bar to 2 billion users. While Whatsapp becomes...
Recently, the rivalry between 6 years old Telegram and the Mark Zuckerberg-owned Whatsapp has become intense. The heat of this competition has remarkably been instrumental to...
Norwegian-owned startup, OPay is reportedly set to compete with WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger with an instant messaging feature — Friends — which allows real-time conversations between...
Social messaging application, WhatsApp will stop working on millions of phones in the next couple of months as the company withdraws support for some older mobile...
A researcher has released details of a WhatsApp remote code execution (RCE) flaw it is claimed could be used to compromise not only the app, but...
Social media platforms based in the US, including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been challenged to sell social media platforms WhatsApp and Instagram to prove his seriousness about user data privacy. Zuckerberg was reportedly...
There is growing concern about the potential for the message and media sharing platform WhatsApp to undermine democracy in a number of countries across the world...
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back up again after being down for around 9-10 hours globally. Facebook informed via a tweet that it has finally managed...
I believe we all have that one family member who thinks that he or she has the right to intrude into your schedule and order you...
Facebook-owned Whatsapp experienced a short global outage few minutes to midnight on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, with several users affected. Billions of WhatsApp users on Android,...
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton has called himself a “sell-out” for allowing Facebook to buy his company, adding that selling WhatsApp users’ privacy “to a larger benefit”...
In its determination to curb the menace of vote buying in the 2019 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has said it is considering...
WhatsApp said it will soon begin to charge business users for sending marketing and customer service messages. This would be its first move at charging users...
India’s government has asked WhatsApp to take urgent steps to prevent the spread of rumours following a series of deadly mob attacks. At least 20 people...
Millions of people have just been banned from using Whatsapp in the UK. Until now, users had to be at least 13 years old to use...
BlackBerry Limited, the Canadian enterprise software company that used to sell smartphones, filed a lawsuit today against Facebook, alleging that the social network and its WhatsApp...
Last week, an official-looking version of the popular WhatsApp messaging application for Android appeared on the Google Play Store, and more than one million users were...
Telecoms companies in the country are hoping to address concerns over revenue loss from international calls and hit a revenue target of N20tn by blocking subscribers...
Facebook has started to introduce a setting to its “Messenger” app that provides users with end-to-end encryption, meaning messages can only be read on the device...
Kizza Besigye, a key opposition figure in Uganda has been slammed with treason charges after declaring himself president and challenging the election victory of veteran leader...
In a bid to boost visibility, social media giants, Twitter is switching from social networking to news. Following yet another quarter of sluggish user growth, Twitter...
Instant messaging platform Whatsapp has initiated a non-stop encryption for users who’ll be happy to know that everything they do on the app is now protected. “From now...
The fast rising use of communication Apps like WhatsApp and Skype, offering free calls and messaging using the Internet is eating deep into projected revenue earnings...
