Facebook is now taking on Zoom‘s market more directly by bringing Rooms to its Slack competitor, Workplace. It’s basically Messenger Rooms for work. The feature set for Workplace Rooms is very similar to Messenger Rooms. The calls support up to 50 participants, and there isn’t a limit on their duration. Though the creator needs a workplace account, other participants need only click on the share link. And you can lock rooms to prevent zoombombing (roombombing?) as well. Facebook says as of March, its Workplace service now had 5 million paying users, an increase of 2 million from October. That…
Author: DigitalTimesNG
By Aliyu YAKUBU America’s Jeff Bezos, the founder of e-commerce giant, Amazon, is becoming a trillionaire in the midst of COVID-19 global pandemic. This is both good and bad news. Good news because it is the reward of foresight and tenacity. Bad news because, in the midst of the same pandemic, his e-commerce counterparts in Nigeria are counting losses. The difference is not in the business dexterity of Bezos, nor in the poor marketing skills of the Nigerian counterparts. The difference, unfortunately, is how the two governments reacted to the pandemic and its attendant lockdown. While the US government…
Composite e-commerce giant, Konga has signed a partnership with Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) which will see the latter leverage Konga’s e-commerce engine in reaching millions of consumers across the country with the various products in the Coca-Cola stable. Nigerian Bottling Company is a top FMCG and manufacturer of Coca-Cola brands in Nigeria which includes: Coke, Coke Zero, Fanta, Sprite, Five Alive, Schweppes, Eva water and Monster Energy drink, among others. These products, among others, will be placed in the hands of many more consumers across Nigeria via Konga’s composite retail and delivery platforms. The products can be accessed online…
Following on the heels of a recent similar decision by the Ekiti State Governor, the Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodimma has signed an Executive Order reducing the Right of Way (RoW) of telecommunication companies in the state. The Executive Order No. 002, 2020 will see the right of way of telecoms operators in the state slashed from N4500 to N145 per metre as stipulated by a federal government policy. DigitalTimesNG gathered that the development was contained in a statement signed by the State Commissioner for Information, Mr Declan Emelumba. The Commissioner explained that the reduction was a…
Fidelity Bank Plc on Wednesday donated N10 million to the Plateau State Government COVID-19 Trust Fund. The Regional Head, North Central, of the bank, Mr Sadi Zawuya, while making the presentation at Government House Jos, commended Gov Simon Lalong for his commitment to combating the disease in Plateau. “We want to appreciate and commend the state governor for his efforts in the combat of COVID-19, and on behalf of the board and management of Fidelity, we donate the sum of N10 million. “We previously made a donation of N250 million to the federal government and deem it fit to…
Season 5 Premiere set for July 2020 Auditions to now hold online and start Wednesday, May 20 Following the success of the fourth season of the biggest and most viewed event on African television, Big Brother Naija, MultiChoice Nigeria has announced that the fifth season of the show will premiere in July 2020. For its fifth season, the BBNaija show will run an online audition process starting Wednesday, May 20 till Saturday, May 30, 2020. Potential contestants are expected to record a two-minute video of themselves stating why they should be picked to be a Housemate in season 5 of Big…
CommsMEA caught up with Chafic Traboulsi, vice president and head of networks at Ericsson Middle East and Africa, to find out how GCC nations can take the next step down the road to realising its full 5G potential……DigitalTimesNG reproduces the interview… As operators look to ramp up their 5G offering, how important is spectrum sharing technology going to be? With 5G networks going live and consumers getting their hands on the first 5G devices, user expectations are high. Communications service providers need to make the best use of their spectrum assets and utilise each band’s performance characteristics to support…
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says it has partnered with Airtel Africa to provide access to remote learning for children in 13 sub-Saharan countries. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Fayaz King, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director, Field Results, who made the disclosure on Wednesday, said they would also provide cash assistance for their families via mobile cash transfers. King said that UNICEF and Airtel Africa would use mobile technology to benefit an estimated 133 million school-age children currently affected by school closures in 13 countries across sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic. “The partnership…
PayPal has launched payment by QR codes in the UK and 27 other markets around the world, providing a touch-free way for businesses to receive payments and for consumers to make purchases during Covid-19. From local takeaway coffee shops to selling secondhand goods – the rollout of the QR code functionality in the PayPal app allows customers to buy or sell in in-person, without the need to exchange cash or key in PIN codes, according to a report in finhextra.com. John Kunze, SVP of branded experiences, PayPal, says: “The rollout of QR codes for buyers and sellers not only incorporates…
Facebook Tuesday revealed it’s rolling out a major update called Shops that would effectively turn Facebook and Instagram pages into digital storefronts, and the company is pitching it for small businesses. CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the new feature during a Livestream. A Shop would function on a business‘s page or profile, from which a customer could browse their collection of goods. A business could, in theory, have their whole shopping mechanism on Facebook. Shops will be supported by third-party software like Shopify and BigCommerce, and businesses will also be able to implement customer loyalty programs in the future. According to Facebook, setting up…