Susan Wojcicki has announced that she is stepping back from her role as the head of YouTube to focus on her family, her health, and personal projects. Wojcicki became CEO of YouTube nine years ago, taking over from Salar Kamangar. She will be succeeded by Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer, who first came to Google in 2007 with the acquisition of DoubleClick. Wojcicki joined Google 25 years ago, working in a number of roles. She managed, marketed and co-created Google Image Search, led Google’s first Video and Book search, as well as early parts of AdSense’s creation, worked on…
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Modern software companies rarely fail because of a lack of talent or funding. More often, they stall because their technology and their teams cannot scale in sync. With the increase in products, tightly coupled systems create bottlenecks that force engineering teams to move as one big, slow unit. Autonomy is the remedy: teams that can deliver end-to-end value without depending upon one another. It requires organizational vision and architectural discipline to create that. Habeeb Amode has built his career around that principle. As a software engineer known for shaping highly modular, service-oriented architectures, he believes that system design is inseparable…
HP Inc. has announced its new Z by HP high-performance workstation desktop lineup, engineered to change what is possible within complex, data-rich workflows. HP is advancing hybrid workforce management with the HP Anyware Remote System Controller, a device that gives IT departments the management capabilities to support high-performance devices from anywhere. The complex workflows in industries spanning media and entertainment, data science, and engineering mean increased time pressure and the need for more computing power to deliver faster results. They also highlight a need to iterate with remote teams and push creative boundaries to deliver more accurate results. The new…
In celebration of love and appreciation for its customers on Valentine’s Day, Zedvance Finance Limited, one of the leading consumer finance companies in Nigeria, organized a free heart check-up, medication, and sensitization programme for its new and existing customers across the country. The Valentine’s season campaign tagged ‘Don’t Forget Your Heart,’ was held from Monday, February 6th, to Tuesday, February 14th, 2023. Managing Director of Zedvance Finance, Mr. Ever Obi said the initiative was organized for its customers and the general public to create awareness of the importance of health checks and healthy living. “Valentine’s season provides us with another…
A petty trader, Mrs. Bolade Inuwa, has narrated how she was spared huge embarrassments and inconveniencies in the wake of the recent policy pronouncement on the redesign of select denominations of the national currency – the Naira. She specifically referenced how KongaPay, a mobile money wallet operated by Nigeria’s leading e-commerce giant, the Konga Group, came to her rescue. Nigerians from all walks of life have had to contend with severe difficulties in the wake of the announcement by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) which initially pegged January 31, 2023, as the deadline for the return of old series…
-As part of the partnership, Ericsson will implement its Product Take-Back Program, to handle Tigo Tanzania’s dismantled and obsolete equipment in an environmentally safe manner.
The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA has commenced the training of 75 farmers that are to be absorbed on the National Adopted Village for Smart Agriculture platform. The five days training which is holding at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State is aimed at improving the production and the productivity of every NITDA-adopted farmer on the NAVSA platform and also increasing their incomes. NITDA Director General, Kashifu Inuwa, who was represented by the team lead and Assistant Director, Digital Economy Development Director, Dr. Ayodele Bakare in his opening remarks disclosed that the project is designed to help the farmers…
Obelix 4.1.1 Alternative Finance Limited (Obelix), Nigeria’s SEC-regulated Crowdfunding Intermediary, has announced that it has fundraised N100 million from 9,324 registered small-ticket retail investors for 3 promising small and medium enterprises in just 10 days. With this, Obelix has successfully pioneered an alternative way of raising badly needed cash for SMEs operating in Nigeria. The investors were wholly from its waitlist of 42,545 early adopters. The average investment in the Private Notes was N10,725 with the smallest and biggest tickets being N1,200 and N20,000 respectively. The longest duration of the new asset class for individual investors is 90 days, with…
Flutterwave has obtained licenses to operate in Egypt as a payment service provider, thus allowing the company to start collecting and making local and international payments in the country. These licenses will allow Flutterwave to deploy Flutterwave for Business suite of products including store, payment links, invoices, and checkout in Egypt. Flutterwave is one of Africa’s leading fintechs, often cited as the most valuable startup in the region, and has been on an expansion drive lately, setting up operations in various markets. The firm recently entered the Ethiopian market, enabling users to send money to the country via cash pick-up…
Pan-African digital bank, Umba which acquired Kenya’s Daraja Microfinance Bank last year, has officially launched its operations in the country. The financial institution has been operating only in Nigeria but has its eyes set on several African markets. The move now enables Umba to offer full banking services in Kenya, including current accounts insured by the Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation (KDIC), interest-bearing savings accounts, fixed deposit accounts, lending, and payments. Umba was founded in 2018 by Irish entrepreneur Tiernan Kennedy and former Munster rugby player Barry O’Mahony. The startup aims to make it easier for consumers and SMEs to interact…