Yehia El Amine

Yehia is an investigative journalist and editor with extensive experience in the news industry as well as digital content creation across the board. He strives to bring the human element to his writing.

Analysis: Can Reddit Talk beat Clubhouse at its own game?

In a sort of domino effect, popular discussion and content platform Reddit announced on Tuesday a first look into its new audio tool called “Reddit Talk” to be integrated within its subreddits, in a bid to increase user real-time engagement. While Reddit Talk does have similarities to Clubhouse, the layout of the tool has a […]

Domestic mobile money transfer values to grow to $3.4 trillion by 2025

Online migration has been at the center of the worldwide news cycle since the COVID-19 outbreak, with companies and institutions from almost every walk of life taking their business to the digital realm. The societal impact of technology’s rapid acceleration caused by the pandemic will raise and answer many questions regarding how humans will choose […]

Cybersecurity market to reach $300bn by 2027

The beginning of April was considered the worst week for social media firms across the aisle, as news headlines as far as the finger can scroll were swamped with news of billions of user accounts were leaked on a hacker forum for sale. Leaks affected social networking giants such as Facebook, popular audio drop-in app […]

Huawei to invest more than $1 billion to develop electric vehicles

Chinese tech titan Huawei is aiming to invest one billion dollars to research self-driving and electric vehicles (EV) technologies, as the company aims to take on market leader Tesla Inc. and rival Xiaomi. Speaking to industry analysts in Shenzhen earlier this week, rotating chairman Eric Xu said that the telecom giant will team up with […]

Clubhouse CEO pushes back against user data leaks targeting app

Paul Davison, CEO of the popular drop-in audio app Clubhouse, pushed back on Sunday against reports that personal user data from the platform had been leaked online. Late last week, CyberNews reported that an SQL database containing 1.3 million scraped Clubhouse user records leaked for free on a popular hacker forum. The database consisted of […]

UK launches new tech watchdog to boost competition against Big Tech

The UK government launched on Wednesday a new tech watchdog that will help make sure tech giants, such as Facebook and Google, cannot exploit their market dominance to crowd out competition and stifle innovation. The Digital Markets Unit (DMU), based in the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), will oversee plans to give consumers more choice […]