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Orange Côte d’Ivoire Launches “Ma Box” App to Enhance Home Internet Experience
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Social Tech

Social tech provides commentaries on how tech is influencing the lifestyle of Africans and everything in-between.

Users who paid for the Twitter Blue subscription can now access the highly awaited edit button function.

Twitter now lets you add topics to Spaces

Twitter is adding another feature, “Topics” to Spaces. Topics will allow hosts to add tags to their Spaces to help users find their audio rooms…

By: Africa Innovation Watch

Final Details Await Trump-Xi Meeting Bessent noted that while the framework is in place, the final details of the deal will be determined during a scheduled meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping on Friday. The outcome of the discussions could mark a turning point in both U.S.-China trade relations and the future of TikTok’s global operations, which have been closely watched by regulators, investors, and millions of users worldwide.

TikTok reaches one billion monthly active users worldwide

Video sharing platform, TikTok surpassed 1 billion monthly active users worldwide this summer, a 45% increase since July 2020, according to Reuters….

By: Africa Innovation Watch

FG

FG expresses reservations, engages Facebook on WhatsApp updated privacy policy

The Federal Government has expressed its reservations over the new updated privacy policy that WhatsApp will share information of its users with Facebook, which is…

By: Africa Innovation Watch

Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook and Instagram to let users hide ‘likes’ on posts

This week, Facebook will start publicly rolling out the option to hide ‘likes’ on posts across Facebook and Instagram….

By: Africa Innovation Watch

Just after the acquisition in October, billionaire Elon Musk has steadily pared back its workforce from about 7,500 employees as he sought to reduce costs. On his first at the office, the billionaire fired several of the company’s senior executives following the closure of his recent transaction. Among those recently fired are the CEO, Parag Agrawal; the CFO, Ned Segal; the Head of Legal, Policy, and Trust, Vijaya Gadde; and the General Counsel, Sean Edgett.

#TwitterBan: No Reps Committee report to National Assembly, over 10 days later

published despite that its due date has passed. The Nigerian legislature is also yet to call the Minister as it said it would. The uncertainty…

By: Africa Innovation Watch

Facebook

Facebook will now warn users of pages that constantly share fake news

In an attempt to curb misinformation on its platform, Facebook is launching new ways to inform people if they’re interacting with content that’s been rated…

By: Africa Innovation Watch

Gmail and other Google services get restored after massive outage

Gmail and other Google services are now up and running after a major technological outage, which affected the server of the technology giant at noon…

By: Africa Innovation Watch

The fast-growing public listed American social media company – Snap Inc., plans to release new functionality to its Snapchat app in order to enable popular videos that would be termed as Spotlight, and further disclosed it will pay $1 million per day to the creators of high performing videos.

Snap to pay video creators $1 million daily

The fast-growing public listed American social media company – Snap Inc., plans to release new functionality to its Snapchat app in order to enable popular…

By: Africa Innovation Watch

Twitter labels 38% of President Trump’s tweets since Tuesday ‘misleading’

Twitter has labeled 38% of 29 tweets and retweets in three days with warnings that said he made misleading claims about the electoral process….

By: Africa Innovation Watch

#EndSARS: Why Twitter topped Facebook during police brutality protests that went viral

Nigerian youths had been protesting for over 2 weeks, calling for an end to police brutality with the #EndSARS hashtag on numerous social media channels…

By: Africa Innovation Watch

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