MultiChoice said it is delighted to bring back the hugely popular Step Up campaign offer to its DStv and GOtv customers this January. The Step Up campaign offer gives all active and disconnected DStv Compact, Confam and Yanga customers the opportunity to pay for a package a step above their current package and get a boost to view programming on the next higher package. While customers on GOtv Jolli and Jinja can upgrade to enjoy GOtv Max for less at a special discount of N2,999 instead of N3,600 per month, all the upgrades are scheduled to happen within 48 hours…
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PayPal Holding Inc has become the first foreign operator with 100% control of a payment platform in China. According to Chinese government data, this comes as the U.S. fintech giant eyes a bigger foothold in a booming market for online payments. Reuters reports that PayPal acquired the 30% stake it doesn’t already own in China’s GoPay, formally known as Guofubao Information Technology Co., on Dec. 31, 2020, according to shareholder data from the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System. Financial details weren’t disclosed in the data, according to Reuters. The stake purchase came a year after PayPal bought a 70%…
Mweb, which is owned by Dimension Data, has been put on the market with Standard Bank running the process, MyBroadband reports. Mweb is one of South Africa’s oldest and best-known Internet service providers which offer a range of products, including fibre, LTE, ADSL, VoIP, and hosting. The ISP was founded in 1997 and quickly gained traction through its Big Black Box dial-up offering. Over the years it added new connectivity services, including ADSL in 2003, iBurst and 3G in 2006, and fibre-to-the-home in 2014. Mweb also shook up the broadband market in South Africa when it launched affordable uncapped ADSL…
By Elvis EROMOSELE The COVID-19 pandemic is not letting up. It continues to race and rage across the globe. With 92 million cases and almost two million deaths, one expects every hand to be on deck to curb the spread. The World Health Organisation (WHO) advises that if COVID-19 is spreading in your community, stay safe by taking some simple precautions, such as physical distancing, wearing a mask, keeping rooms well ventilated, avoiding crowds, cleaning your hands, and coughing into a bent elbow or tissue. Yet, in Nigeria, where the second wave is blossoming, crowds have besieged National Identity Management Commission…
WhatsApp this week published an FAQ clarifying the terms of its updated privacy policy and responding to concerns that the firm behind the text-messaging app shares personal information with parent company Facebook. WhatsApp noted the update doesn’t affect the privacy of messages with friends and family, and instead relates to messaging businesses through the platform, according to a report by CNET. The company also said the update “provides further transparency about how we collect and use data.” WhatsApp emphasized that neither it nor Facebook can see users’ private messages or hear their calls, noting that it also doesn’t keep logs of who people message or call, can’t see…
President Donald Trump has been banned from uploading videos on YouTube “in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence”, the platform said. YouTube, which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, said it had removed new content from the president’s channel on Tuesday for violating its policies, according to a report in Sky News. Trump will be unable to upload anything “for a minimum of seven days,” a spokesperson said. 1/ After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating our policies. It…
TradeDepot, the Business to Business (B2B) eCommerce platform for consumer goods in Africa, has released new insights from its market data that highlights the trends that will shape Nigeria’s retail sector in 2021. TradeDepot said in the report that the impact of the pandemic, rising inflation, border closures and other issues drove significant changes in behaviour for retailers, distributors and manufacturers in 2020. As the sector settles into the new year, TradeDepot predicts that some of the main trends that shaped 2020 – particularly smaller packaging for consumer goods and increased spending on food and essential goods due to dwindling…
Kaspersky experts expect growing economic turbulence along with the impact of COVID-19 to contribute to an increase in cybercrime across South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria this year. “Even though every country globally has had to deal with the pandemic in its own way, developing economies across Africa have been especially hard hit by national lockdowns and limited business activity. “And thanks to the increased connectedness of people, the rise in unemployment will not only see a spike in traditional crime, but this will also extend to the digital environment – something we are already seeing,” says Lehan van den Heever,…
Samsung Nigeria, Tuesday, launched brand new additions to the Galaxy A series- the Galaxy A12, A02s and A02 devices into the Nigerian boisterous mobile phone market. The launch also witnessed the introduction of the face of Galaxy A series, Joseph Akinwale Akinfenwa AKA Joeboy. The Galaxy A12 device, for instance, comes with a stylish rear quad camera design that features a 48MP main camera. Together with the 6.5-inch large display and 5,000mAh massive battery, the Galaxy A12 is the affordable device that offers an incredibly wide array of features Nigerians want. Iretiogo Oke, Head of Marketing at Samsung Nigeria said,…
International media reports say that Ford and Nissan are scaling back production in response to semiconductor shortages. Ford is idling an SUV factory in Louisville, Kentucky this week, moving up downtime previously scheduled for later in 2021. Nissan, meanwhile, is reducing output at its Oppama plant in Japan. CNBC, ABC News and The Verge report that other brands may face trouble as well. Volkswagen said in December that it was altering production in China, Europe and North America in light of the shortage. Fiat Chrysler and Toyota have also talked about production issues. GM hasn’t had to cut production, spokesman David Barnas told CNBC, but…