TikTok faces a potential shutdown in the U.S. after Saturday, April 5, if its Chinese parent company doesn’t reach an agreement to sell a controlling interest in the hugely popular video app. Will TikTok go dark? With just days to go before the deadline set by President Trump, it’s not clear what will happen next…
Elon Musk announced on Friday that he has sold social media site X to his own xAI artificial intelligence company in a $33 billion all-stock deal. Both companies are privately held, which means they are not required to disclose their finances to the public. Musk said in a post on X that the move will…
A major outage of Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) on Saturday has left tens of thousands of gamers unable to access online services, stores and multimedia apps. “We are aware some users might be currently experiencing issues with PSN,” PlayStation said on its social media platforms, confirming users’ mounting complaints around the globe. Reports of connectivity…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the request by telecom operators for tariff adjustments in the telecoms industry.The approval, which is a 50 percent hike in telecoms tariff, is coming when different telecoms subscribers’ groups are kicking against any tariff hike that will further impoverish telecoms subscribers, especially small business owners whose offices and…
TikTok has restored access to its app after President-elect Donald Trump said he would issue an executive order on Monday to delay banning the Chinese-owned social media app. Trump, whose inauguration is at noon ET on Monday, also said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social that he wants the U.S. to own half…
Mark Zuckerberg has slammed tech giant Apple for lackluster innovation efforts and “random rules” in a lengthy podcast interview on Friday. Zuckerberg said in an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, “On the one hand, the iPhone has been great, because now pretty much everyone in the world has a phone, and that’s kind of…
Facebook and Instagram owner Meta is scrapping its third-party fact-checking program and replacing it with Community Notes written by users similar to the model used by X. Meta will start in the U.S. by ending its fact-checking program with independent third parties. The company said it decided to end the program because expert fact-checkers had their…
