Spotify, the Swedish audio streaming service that is home to over 50 million songs and over 2 million podcasts, is finally available in several African countries. The announcement was made by Spotify’s CEO, Daniel Ek, during the company’s Stream On event on the 22nd of February. Prior to this, the platform was only available in […]
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has hinted that he’s partnered with rapper and Tidal chief Jay Z to create a new endowment to fund Bitcoin development starting in Africa and India. This project which is called ₿trust will be launched with an injection of 500 Bitcoin currently valued at $23.6 million. It would be run without […]
The idea of compiling the world’s knowledge into a single location started before Dennis Diderot created the modern encyclopedia in the 18th Century. Centuries after, riding on the growing popularity and potential of the world wide web, Jimmy Wales and Lary Sanger gave the idea of an encyclopedia new breath in January 2001. Wikipedia was […]
Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari (78 years) could become the first African leader to take Covid-19 vaccine as there are reports that he and Vice President, Yemi Osinbanjo, are expected to take their vaccine shots by February on live television. This publicized act is meant to increase acceptance amongst Nigerian citizens to take the vaccine. Last […]
In the past few days, millions of Whatsapp users around the world received a notification saying that by February 8, 2021, its users must accept some new terms and privacy policies or stand losing access to their Whatsapp accounts. With around 2.5 billion users worldwide, WhatsApp is by far the most popular messaging app in […]
On the 1st of December, many Africans like myself received an email from Wave Accounting that it’s pulling out from all countries outside North America. Wave Accounting is a Toronto-based company that provides free invoicing & accounting software. Founded in 2009, Wave has over 3.5 million users all around the world. In 2019, it was […]