Technology

American multinational technology company, Apple, has added the new iPad Air to its lineup of iPads, while updating the iPad mini. After about three and a half years of not updating the iPad mini, the company finally revised the model. The iPad mini and iPad Air respectively feature 7.9 inch and 10.5 inch retina displays and both support the!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…

Facebook Inc on Thursday struggled to restore its services fully after a 17-hour partial outage made the world’s largest social network inaccessible to users across the globe, driving a wave of online complaints. The number of reports on the crowd-sourced Down Detector website, one of the internet’s most used sources of numbers on outages,!-->!-->!-->…

Samsung has unveiled Galaxy Fold, a phone that opens into a tablet. The high-end smartphone features the world’s first 7.3-inch Infinity Flex Display, which folds into a compact device with a cover display. Galaxy Fold offers a powerful new way to multitask, watch videos, play games, and more. The Galaxy Fold launched on Wednesday in San…

Popular messaging platform Whatsapp owned by Facebook reportedly crashed worldwide over the past few hours. The development occurred just a few hours after whatsapp announced that it would be reducing the number of forwarded messages for users worldwide. However, it was observed that the app did not crash in Nigeria and many Nigerians have…

Ahead of the 2019 general elections, Facebook has announced that it will extend some of its political advertising rules and tools for curbing election interference to Nigeria. Facebook also said the advertising rules and tools will be extended to India, Ukraine and the European Union before significant votes in the next few months. Facebook’s…

Embattled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday he has no plans to resign, sounding defiant after a rough year for the social platform. “That’s not the plan,” Zuckerberg told CNN Business when asked if he would consider stepping down as chairman. He also defended Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, who has drawn…

Teleology has formally taken over control of Nigeria’s troubled telecommunication company, 9mobile, by appointing a new board of directors, headed by 54-year-old Nasiru Ado Bayero. Stephane Beuvelet will serve as the acting managing director, according to a statement by Mohammed Edewor, a new non-executive director of the new 9Mobile. The…

Four major U.S. public funds that hold shares in Facebook Inc on Wednesday proposed removing Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg as chairman following several high-profile scandals and said they hoped to gain backing from larger asset managers. State treasurers from Illinois, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, and New York City Comptroller Scott…

Hackers may have stolen information of 50 million Facebook account holders, the social media giant has disclosed on Friday. The company said in a statement this evening that the targeted accounts may have been taken over by hackers due to a security flaw. Facebook said it discovered in the course of the week that the hackers stole some…

Instagram said co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have resigned as chief executive officer and chief technical officer of the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook Inc, giving scant explanation for the move. The departures at Facebook’s fastest-growing revenue generator come just months after the exit of Jan Koum, co-founder of…