Companies

• Uber, Bolt Drivers Set Date For Strike Action

  3 months ago - by Ridwan Yusuf

  Some Uber and Bolt e-cab drivers in Lagos on Saturday asked the e-hailing companies to immediately increase fares being charged by the operators, fail...

• Visa To Accept Cryptocurrency For Transactions

  3 months ago - by Adedayo Babatunde

  American multinational financial services corporation, Visa Inc on Monday announced that it will permit the use of the cryptocurrency USD Co...

• Uber Launches Electric Vehicle Option For Customers

  3 months ago - by Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe

  Uber has announced that customers will now be able to request an electric vehicle for the first time as the ride-hailing app looks to become fully ele...

• Amazon Being Sued Over Missed Lunch Breaks

  3 months ago - by Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe

  Amazon Inc. is facing a lawsuit with claims that a fulfillment centre in California wasn't providing requisite meal breaks for the employees. T...

• Google To Create 10,000 Jobs With $7 billion Investment

  4 months ago - by Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe

  Alphabet Inc's Google announced a $7 billion investment in the U.S. that will create at least 10,000 new jobs this year as it resumes spending in ...

• Wikipedia Wants To Make Google, Apple, Others Pay For Its Information

  4 months ago - by Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe

  Wikipedia has announced a new commercial service called Wikimedia Enterprise, with which it will begin to deliver content directly to&n...

• Huawei To Begin Charging Royalty Rates For 5G

  4 months ago - by Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe

  Huawei Technologies Co. on Tuesday announced royalty rates for the use of its 5G phone technology for the first time in a move its chief legal of...

• Facebook Signs Deal To Pay News Corp For Content

  4 months ago - by Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe

  Three weeks after the government passed laws that would make digital giants help cover the costs of journalism, News Corp and Facebook have reached pa...

• Volkswagen Unveils Plan To Overtake Tesla

  4 months ago - by Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe

  Volkswagen AG has revealed plans to become the world's biggest electric automaker by building six battery factories in Europe — operati...

• Big Tech Feud: Microsoft Joins Forces With Newspapers To Fight Google

  4 months ago - by Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe

  Microsoft and Google entered an open feud on Friday over their practices and treatment of news outlets in a battle between antitrust targets of p...

• Facebook Moves To Have Antitrust Case Dismissed

  4 months ago - by Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe

  Facebook Inc. is seeking to have its federal antitrust suits by the FTC and state attorneys general thrown out, arguing that enforcers failed to show ...

• OPay Announces Over $2 billion Gross Transaction In December 2020

  4 months ago - by Jide Alawode

  OPay's executive team disclosed Wednesday that the mobile payment platform grew its total gross transaction value on its platform 4.5 times to ove...

• Farmcrowdy Leaves Crowdfunding Space As Crowdyvest Enters Fintech Industry

  4 months ago - by Jide Alawode

  Farmcrowdy, Nigeria's foremost Agricultural startup that enables people in the city to invest in farming has left the crowdfunding space. Farmc...

• PayPal Acquires Crypto Storage Firm Curv

  4 months ago - by Oluwatosin Ogunjuyigbe

  PayPal has been reported to be processing the acquisition of Curv, a crypto custody company that uses technology to power the secure storage...

• Google Names Exec To Oversee Responsible AI Research After Staff Unrest

  5 months ago - by Lawrence Agbo

  Alphabet Inc’s Google on Thursday named Marian Croak, one of its few Black executives, to oversee research on responsible Artificial Intelligenc...