Category: Business
Airtel Africa partners with WebEngage
Airtel Africa has partnered with WebEngage to drive its digital customer base management. Airtel is the second largest telecom service provider in Africa, with more than 60 million data users among a total of 150 million customers. The integrations will enable Airtel to monitor user service activities and in a highly personalized manner while retaining
Settling ‘tap-and-go’ probe
Apple Pay is used by hundreds of millions of iPhones and the conclusion of this long-running Brussels investigation comes at a time of particularly tense relationships between Apple and regulators. Apple is to conclude a long-running EU antitrust investigation into its mobile payments system and avoid a huge fine by making a series of concessions
Vladimir Putin visits North Korea
Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to North Korea on Tuesday for a summit with its reclusive leader Kim Jong Un − his first visit to the country in nearly a quarter of a century. Russia and North Korea were close allies during the Cold War. Relations cooled with the breakup of the Soviet Union. Putin
America fight against Huawei
Huawei has been under attack from America for over a decade. In 2012 the American authorities began claiming that China might use the firm for espionage. Another broadside was the indictment of the firm’s cfo (and Mr Ren’s daughter) in 2018 for violating sanctions on Iran. With most American firms barred from doing business with
China Advancement in Space Mission
The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) is a joint mission between the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the European Space Agency (ESA) that aims to deepen the understanding of the Sun-Earth connection by observing the dynamic interaction between the solar wind and the Earth’s magnetosphere. The development of in-orbit detectors for a
Probe into Cyberattacks in Ukraine
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) are investigating alleged Russian cyberattacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure as possible war crimes. The probe is examining attacks on infrastructure that endangered lives by disrupting power and water supplies, cutting connections to emergency responders or knocking out mobile data services that transmit air raid warnings. Does ICC have
SpaceX’s mega Starship Fourth test
SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket completed its first full test flight Thursday, returning to Earth without exploding after blasting off from Texas. SpaceX came close to avoiding explosions in March, but lost contact with the spacecraft as it careened out of space and blew up short of its goal. The booster also ruptured in flight, a
Training AI using Facebook and Instagram Data
Tech firms have been rushing to find fresh, multiformat data to build and improve models that can power chatbots, image generators and other buzzy AI products. Plans to use peoples’ public posts and images on Facebook and Instagram to train artificial intelligence (AI) tools belonging to parent company Meta have been attacked by digital rights
Boosting Japan’s falling birth rate
Japan’s capital Tokyo will launch its own dating app as part of government efforts to boost the plunging national birth rate. Stating one’s income is common on Japanese dating apps, but Tokyo will require a tax certificate slip to prove the annual salary. It’s not unusual for municipalities to organise matchmaking events in Japan, where
Russia’s answer to Musk’s Starlink
SpaceX’s Starlink satellites operate in low-Earth orbit and also use inter-satellite laser links to pass data between one another. This allows it to offer broad internet coverage around the world. Russia has been banned from using Starlink, though reports suggest that Russian forces are getting the company’s terminals through a complex black market and bringing