South African mobile telecom firm MTN Group Limited announced on Monday that it will be the first company to join the metaverse league by acquiring land in Africarare, unleashing African innovation, and connecting the continent to the global digital economy. In October 2021, Africarare marked its presence in South Africa as the continent’s first Virtual […]
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Daryn Kara-Ali has worked in the technology media space for three years. She is Inside Telecom’s Managing Editor. A digital and print news platform and magazine specializing in technology and telecoms. Her self-taught expertise has helped her manage and create a wide range of informative pieces covering all aspects of the tech industry, with content democratizing the industry, generally on a worldwide scale and specifically in the UAE. Daryn has solidly worked on driving a robust, informative culture of innovation around the tech and telecom space on a broad scale, be it digitally or physically, through Inside Telecom’s print magazine, focusing on the UAE. Her efforts and robust professional background fueled her to push herself to take her work to the next level.
Video-focused short video platform, TikTok, announced on Monday its latest alteration to its video length, with an update increasing the video length upload from three minutes to ten minutes, as it the platform enters a media battle with Russian state media in EU. The ByteDance owned company told Gizmodo in a statement that this alteration will deliver […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the six African countries would obtain technology to tool them with the needed means to produce their own COVID-19 vaccines. In an effort to minimize global reliance on vaccine manufacturing from companies outside the continent, the WHO added Egypt, Tunisia, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and South Africa would have […]
NBC News reported on Thursday that U.S. President Joe Biden was presented with an initial list “of options” to conduct significant cyberattacks against Russian infrastructure as a retaliation to President Vladimir Putin’s military campaign on Ukraine. According to the news agency, “two U.S. intelligence, one Western intelligence official and another person briefed on the matter say […]
Meta Properties chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg held on Wednesday a comprehensive presentation with the company’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) team to address its future endeavors in “Building the Metaverse with AI.” Presented on the company’s official Facebook page, Meta’s AI Lab proposition highlighted how “through the power of artificial intelligence, we will enable a […]
In the latest maneuver to exhibit the public and politicians its effort to minimize its damaging effect on users, Instagram has once more upped its minimum daily screen time limit to 30 minutes, from the previous 10 to 15 minutes. According to TechCrunch, one user revealed that the social networking application is demanding a reconfiguration of its […]
Russia’s probable invasion of its neighboring country, Ukraine, has reached the cryptocurrency market as decentralized assets’ valuation crashed with escalated tensions, resulting in cryptocurrency investors offloading their assets to safeguard their portfolios before any risky price fall. On Friday, U.S. President Joe Biden revealed that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin decided to take control of Ukraine, […]
On Thursday, chip manufacturing giant Intel announced it would be releasing its first-generation Discrete laptop GPU in the upcoming weeks, without specifying the actual release date, reassuring it will be available in the market in 2022’s first quarter (Q1). The release will be synchronized with the date of the 12th-generation Intel H-series notebooks, with some […]
Famous music streaming platform, Spotify, is seeking the expansion of its podcast branch with the acquisition of two podcast tech platforms, Chartable and Podsights, in an announcement made on Wednesday. While the final acquisition price has yet to be released, the acquisition step marks as a first towards the first significant buy-out the Swedish company […]
In a report released by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, Africa could be taking the lead in securing whopping funding exceeding $90 billion by 2030 for tech startups, once policymakers drive growth by trailing essential reforms. The British institute estimated in its report a business-as-usual scenario compared to an enhanced policy-environment scenario by […]