Alphabet Inc’s Google has struck at least 24 deals with big app developers to stop them from competing with its Play Store, including an agreement to pay Activision Blizzard Inc about $360 million over three years, according to a court filing on Thursday. Google also agreed in 2020 to pay Tencent Holdings Ltd’s Riot Games […]
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Cyberattacks are no longer phantom ghosts that come to haunt enterprises once in a blue moon. Today, cybercrimes have gained momentum and are luring, targeting, and attacking enterprises worldwide, and with that increase comes a heightened need to further optimize cyber security trends in financial services. The third quarter (Q3) of 2022 witnessed a rise […]
Digital technologies have brought myriad new opportunities to all corners of the world. The telecommunication industry has spread its wings and landed on every continent, including Africa. Like in other parts of the world, telecommunications in Africa faces several challenges, i.e., high costs, difficulty reaching populated rural areas, government vs. private sector disputes over infrastructure, […]
Our factories are not what they once were. Modern and future factories are and will be filled with unmanned vehicles, IoT sensors for supply chain management, industrial augmented reality, and more. Every stage of the production process is being impacted by technology, from sophisticated robots in factories to computer vision in warehouses. The future factory […]
As customers withdrew billions of dollars from crypto exchange FTX one frantic Sunday this month, founder Sam Bankman-Fried worked the phones in a futile bid to raise $7 billion in emergency funds. Hunkered in his Bahamas apartment, Bankman-Fried toiled through the night, calling some of the world’s biggest investors, including Sequoia Capital, Apollo Global Management […]
In 1998, Mountasser Hachem founded Monty Holding, which has since become a giant in the telco sector, achieving unprecedented global penetration. His first go-to-market company was Monty Mobile, adapting various cutting-edge technologies to provide 4G and 5G wireless solutions and value added services, Messaging, Omnichannel, eSIM, and many other solutions which have been greeted enthusiastically […]
Elon Musk’s resume is ever-growing. At 51 years old, his finger is in many pies: SpaceX, Tesla, Inc, Neuralink, OpenAI, the Musk Foundation, and, most recently, Twitter, Inc. The Elon Musk Updates tells us one thing for sure: he currently is the most interesting man in the cyberspace. From selling shares worth billions of dollars […]
Amazon.com Inc is planning to lay off around 10,000 employees in corporate and technology roles beginning this week, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday, in what would amount to its biggest such reduction to date. The cuts, earlier reported by the New York Times, would represent about 3 percent of Amazon’s corporate […]
As a digital nomad, no one knows better than you about your equipment needs, as they highly depend on the location you chose to temporarily set up shop. It would be best if you treat your equipment as investments: some may not be cheap, but you are guaranteed better quality. Hence, excellent portable electronic chargers […]
Tensions between China and the United States are pushing some manufacturer companies to talk about moving some of their supply chain away from Taiwan as well, although it’s “incremental,” the head of Taiwan’s most important smartphone chip design firm told Reuters over the weekend. Some of the “very large (equipment manufacturers) will require their chip […]