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StarHub and Antstream Arcade enter exclusive partnership for Singapore customers

London-based retro game streaming service Antstream Arcade today announced an exclusive partnership with StarHub, a leading provider of communication, entertainment and digital solutions in Singapore, to enable customers to experience supercharged gaming with zero lag on StarHub’s first-to-market 5G service. This tie-up between StarHub and Antstream Arcade is the first such partnership in the Asia Pacific […]

Secretive Palantir lifts veil before Wall Street stock sale

BOSTON (AP) — Palantir Technologies Inc., a data-mining company with deep ties to U.S. intelligence and military agencies, has shed a good deal of its trademark secrecy about its business in filing for a Wall Street stock offering. Like many other tech companies, it will be going public without ever turning a profit. In filings […]

Fintech to facilitate more financial transactions in Pakistan

Financial technology (Fintech) aims to compete with traditional financial methods to deliver more efficient services. Fintech’s worth is estimated to be $4.7 trillion in 2020 and around 12,000 Fintech startups have opened worldwide, though a significant impact was felt in the marketplace with the Coronavirus. This is the case with Pakistan, which has an economy […]

Telecom customers in the UK received £20.7 m in compensation under Ofcom scheme

Telecommunications customers around the world have been suffering from poor services. However, under the scheme proposed by the UK telecom regulator Ofcom, broadband and landline customers who suffered from poor service have received £20.7 m in compensation payments between July and December 2019, according to The Guardian. Companies automatically pay out £8 for each day […]

Oman’s telecom sector - a fast-growing and competitive market

In the past few years, the Sultanate of Oman has been considered as the most progressive telecom market in the Middle East for its liberalization and promotion of competition. Oman has a total of 16 telecom service providers operating under 3 categories. The competition between the telecom operators has engendered significant growth for different sectors […]

Apple reaches $2 trillion market value as tech fortunes soar

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Apple has become the first U.S. company to boast a market value of $2 trillion as technology continues to reshape a world where smartphones are like appendages and digital services are like instruments orchestrating people’s lives. The iPhone maker reached the $2 trillion milestone in Wednesday’s early stock market trading when […]

Covid-19 pandemic makes UK SMEs vulnerable to cyberattacks

The United Kingdom is already vulnerable to cyberattacks. A study conducted by Specops on cybercrimes between 2006 and 2020 shows that the country is the second most targeted by significant cyberattacks. In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, many companies have shifted their businesses online in response to the lockdown measures. A significant number of UK […]

A US WeChat ban could hurt many in America, not just China

For millions of people in the U.S. who use the Chinese app WeChat, it’s a lifeline to friends, family, customers and business contacts in China. That lifeline is now under attack by an executive order from President Donald Trump that could ban the app in the U.S. as early as mid-September, potentially severing vital relationships. […]

Tajikistan’s capital welcomes 5G technology with Tcell

New technologies drive development across sectors but in order to figure out whether or not they are efficient and credible, a process is implemented to put wireless technology or innovative products on trial before launching them officially. Tcell, a Tajik operator, activated its first 5G base stations in the city of Dushanbe, after receiving a […]

Angolan billionaire Isabel Dos Santos resigned from Unitel Telecom

On August 11, 2020, Angolan Billionaire Isabel dos Santos decided to leave her position on the board of the country’s leading telecommunications operator- Unitel Telecom. This decision came out amid ongoing tensions between Unitel board members. In her resignation statement, dos Santos who holds a 25% stake in the company, said, “After 20 years dedicated […]