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Twitter Inc. aims to start selling blue verification badges for user profiles as soon as next week, part of a plan by new owner Elon Musk to fight fake accounts …
Eskom has revealed that a section of the Kusile unit 1 flue gas duct has failed and could remain offline for months. The power utility explained that the duct is …
Elon Musk, Twitter’s new boss plans to make the ability to edit tweets free for all its users, Platformer’s Casey Newton reports. Newton has learnt that this is one of the …
Amazon.com Inc. shares fell on Tuesday, with the e-commerce and cloud-computing company closing below $1 trillion in market value for the first time since the early days of the Covid-19 …
Elon Musk consolidated his control of Twitter Inc. on Monday after the entire board was dismissed. Musk, 51, completed his purchase of Twitter last week for $44 billion and immediately …
Durban-based fintech company, iKhokha, has been awarded top honours at Mastercard’s EMEA EDGE Conference in Dubai. The Mastercard EDGE Conference brought together payment technology innovators and tech industry experts to …
Telkom plans to launch its consumer 5G products on 17 November 2022, spokespeople for the company have told MyBroadband. The network operator commercially launched its 5G network last week in partnership …
Huawei has doubled uptake of 5G network as demand rises among local telcos. Huawei says 12-telecom operators in 10-markets have adopted the technology over the last 3-years. Demand for fifth …
Nigeria’s biggest quoted oil and gas company Seplat Energy Thursday posted a net profit of N34 billion ($618.6 million) for the year to September, 144 per cent stronger than the …
Google has announced a significant upgrade for its Workspace Individual subscribers that will see their storage increased to 1TB at no extra cost. Currently, Workspace Individual subscribers receive the same allocation …
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