Technology

Netflix reported a big profit increase this year, partly because of cracking down on password sharing. They gained 9.3 million new subscribers, reaching almost 270 million in total. Their profits rose to over $2.3 billion in the first quarter. Revenue ...

  Telecom operator, Globacom, has launched two more enterprise business products, Glo Fibre to the Home and Fibre to the Business, with unmatched data speed and service experience. Glo Fibre to the Home and Fibre to the Business are Internet ...

  First City Monument Bank has reaffirmed its commitment to sustainable manufacturing by financing the newly inaugurated dried fruit manufacturing plant of Nature’s Bounty Health Products Limited in Abeokuta, Ogun State. A statement from the firm, which trades as ReelFruit, ...

Elon Musk has announced he’ll be visiting India to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, though the date hasn’t been specified yet. The Tesla CEO is expected to unveil significant investment plans for the country soon.   India recently slashed import ...

Instagram, owned by Meta, is taking steps to shield users from unsolicited nude photos. The app will now automatically blur such images in direct messages (DMs), using AI to identify and obscure genitals. This feature aims to combat “intimate image ...

The Premier League will introduce semi-automated offside technology from next season, in the hope of reducing the time it takes to make VAR decisions The system will use camera footage and tracking software to calculate the position of players at ...

Barring any last-minute change of mind, all subscribers with four lines and above whose SIM registration data failed to match their National Identity Number, NIN, data, will be barred today   This is as the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has ...

  Lawyers as well as Small and Medium-sized Enterprises have voiced concerns that disconnecting telephone lines not linked to National Identification Numbers will exacerbate the economic challenges currently facing Nigerians. Telcos are expected to bar unlinked phone lines on Friday ...

  Data consumption reached 721,522 terabytes, the highest monthly consumption ever recorded, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission. Data obtained on Tuesday from the regulator’s website showed that this record surpassed December 2023, which stood at 713,200 terabytes. Active Internet ...

  Access Bank Plc unveiled an offline banking platform, 901.ng on Friday, to provide customers with an additional channel to carry out their transactions and boost financial inclusion in the country. Financial inclusion in Nigeria has increased to 74 per ...

  The Federal Government has issued a call for a unified effort among West African nations to protect shared telecommunications infrastructure, following a recent internet outage that affected the region. The Executive Vice Chairman of the NCC Aminu Maida, made ...

The US Justice Department reveals that seven Chinese individuals have been charged with a major cyber-attack scheme, impacting millions of Americans and targeting government officials, businesses, and critics of China globally. The US Justice Department revealed a shocking cyber-attack by ...

  Providus Bank has said it will host the Providus Hive Fest, from March 30 to April 1, 2024, to celebrate creativity, culture, and community. According to the bank, the exhibition, which will take place at the Balmoral Centre in ...

Meta’s Facebook, Messenger and Instagram apps have suddenly stopped working for the third time in a month, leaving millions unable to access their accounts The outage was first reported at around 10:45am ET, and has affected users in the UK, ...

  The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says voice and data services affected by undersea cable cuts along the Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal coasts have been restored In a Monday statement, the NCC Director of Public Affairs, Rueben Muoka, said that ...

  A real estate company, Pelican Valley Nigeria Limited, has installed industrial solar streetlights in all its estates in Ogun State. The Chief Executive Officer of Pelican Valley Nigeria Ltd, Dr Babatunde Adeyemo, in a statement, disclosed that at least ...

  Dangote Cement has donated leather works starter packs to 30 beneficiaries of the 2023 community youths empowerment programme organised in partnership with Industrial Training Funds in Ogun State. The Director of Dangote Cement Plc, Ibese plant, Mr Nawabuddin Azad, ...

  MTN Nigeria has said the network connectivity disruptions experienced by its customers were due to damage to an overseas undersea cable. The telecom operator disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. The PUNCH gathered that the glitch seemed to have ...

Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that his social media company X is considering getting rid of likes and repost figures on posts He made the comment to attendees of the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference. The move, his ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission has said telecommunication companies that fail to comply with the directive to block Subscriber Identity Module cards not linked to National Identification Numbers will face sanctions. The Director of Public Affairs, NCC, Reuben Mouka, told The PUNCH on ...

Egypt has defeated Nigeria and other neighboring countries to be crowned country with fastest internet speed, according to the Speedtest Global Index by Ookla Nigeria is ranked 23rd. The Speedtest Global Index compares internet speed data from around the world on a monthly ...

  Many Glo subscribers in Abuja, Warri and Lagos were overjoyed when the digital solutions provider presented them with business class return tickets to Europe (Lagos-Paris-London-Lagos). According to a statement sent to Saturday Beats, Glo subscribers only have to recharge ...

Ivory Coast have climbed 10 places in the Fifa world rankings   This comes shortly after the country won the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. Runners-up, Nigeria also moved up 14 spots. The Super Eagles are now 28th despite losing ...

  The highly anticipated Samsung Galaxy AI smartphone is now available at Gloworld—telecoms giant, Globacom’s retail shops spread across the country. A statement sent to Saturday PUNCH stated that while the telco’s customers who pre-ordered the phones had been receiving ...

Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC), Dr Aminu Maida, has warned that SIMs not linked to National Identity Number (NIN) will be deactivated by the end of February   He also reaffirmed the commission’s collaboration with the ...