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Here’s What Matters in What Musk Says: X Will Soon Stream Video To Spaces

Elon Musk’s Latest Move: Video Streaming Coming to X Spaces Elon Musk has announced that X, which was once known as Twitter, will stream video to Spaces, which is the live audio chat element of the social network. The functionality is scheduled to be released by X by the end of the year, but Musk […]

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PAP to collaborate with NIDA to train ex-agitators on ICT

Seeks Employment Opportunities For Ex-militants From Customs, Others The National Information Development Agency (NIDA) has proposed to grant a special concession to ex-Niger Delta agitators to train them on Information Communication and Technology (ICT) through scholarship. This was disclosed by the Director General of NIDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, while responding to the request by the

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Elon Musk Latest Tweet: New Twitter will strive to optimize unregretted user-minutes

Elon Musk on Friday tweeted that “New Twitter” will aim to optimize user minutes. This came a day after the new Twitter CEO announced that the microblogging platform has introduced “significant” server architecture changes in the backend that should make the overall Twitter experience much faster. This is part of the changes Musk has been

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Will Twitter, PayPal and Walmart compete to launch America’s super app?

Tim Harned is a Managing Director at Progress Partners. He has a more than 30-year career in M&A and capital advisory, during which he has executed strategic transactions for Fortune 500 and early-stage companies. Ever since Elon Musk’s “be careful what you wish for” acquisition of Twitter, speculation about America’s first homegrown “super app” has

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BlockFi files for bankruptcy – how contagious will FTX’s downfall become?

Crypto lending platform BlockFi filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, just a few weeks after once-major crypto exchange FTX did the same. While BlockFi has been struggling to stay afloat for months now (and was even potentially going to be acquired by FTX), this latest filing signals that the bankruptcy contagion may run deeper

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Hustle Academy: Google graduates 5000 entrepreneurs

Technology giant, Google today held graduation events in Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa to celebrate 5000 business owners who have completed its Hustle Academy training programme. At the events, Google also announced a new speaker series in which successful African entrepreneurs share lessons and advice, furthering its commitment to helping entrepreneurs and small businesses thrive.

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Amazon Web Services Launches DataZone, a new ML-based data management service

At its re-invent conference, AWS today announced Amazon DataZone, a new data management service that can help enterprises catalog, discover, share and — most importantly — govern their data. The nifty part here is that AWS is using machine learning to help businesses build these data catalogs and generate the metadata to make it searchable.

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Are Google and iHeartMedia willing to pay $9.4M to settle FTC charges for ‘deceptive’ Pixel 4 radio ads?

The Federal Trade Commission this week announced that it has settled lawsuits against Google and iHeartMedia relating to “deceptive endorsements” of the Pixel 4 phone. According to a statement issued by the FTC, nearly 29,000 ads were aired featuring radio personalities. The suit notes specifically that the promoters in question never used the handset, in

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