Paystack Launches Apple Pay for International Transactions within Nigeria

By Adedapo Adesanya X, formerly known as Twitter, has announced plans to introduce voice and video calls to the platform. This is the latest move by the billionaire owner, Mr Elon Musk, to turn his app into what he calls an “everything app” modelled after China’s super app, WeChat. These features, when introduced, would place X in direct competition with WhatsApp, Telegram, and other social media apps offering the same services. Making its features unique, Mr Musk said users would not need phone numbers to make calls on X. According to the Twitter owner, the features would work on different

Here’s how we’ve made Search more helpful over 25 years — and had a little fun along the way, too. When Google first launched 25 years ago, it was far from the first search engine. But quickly, Google Search became known for our ability to help connect people to the exact information they were looking for, faster than they ever thought possible. Over the years, we’ve continued to innovate and make Google Search better every day. From creating entirely new ways to search, to helping millions of businesses connect with customers through search listings and ads (starting with a local

By Dipo Olowookere The trio of Computer Warehouse Group (CWG), Transcorp and FBN Holdings dominated the total equity turnover last week, accounting for 810.8 million shares worth N2.1 billion in 1,499 deals, contributing 43.65 per cent and 4.38 per cent to the total trading volume and value respectively. Business Post reports that in the week, investors traded 1.9 billion shares worth N47.5 billion in 20,861 deals compared with the 1.6 billion shares worth N32.7 billion traded in 22,607 deals a week earlier. A further breakdown indicated that financial stocks led the activity chart with 815.4 million units worth N7.1 billion

By Dipo Olowookere French motor giant, Groupe Renault, has announced singing a joint venture agreement with the Industrial Development & Renovation Organization of Iran (IDRO) and PARTO NEGIN NASEH Co, an importer of Renault products in Iran. The proposed joint venture company, of which Renault will be the majority shareholder, though with a first period of joint control with IDRO and PARTO NEGIN NASEH Co, will include an engineering and purchasing centre to support the development of local suppliers as well as a plant with an initial production capacity of 150,000 vehicles a year, supplementing Groupe Renault’s existing capacity of

By Aduragbemi Omiyale The 2022 edition of the NGX Made of Africa Awards, organised by the Nigerian Exchange (NGX) Limited, will take place on Tuesday, December 6, at the Civic Centre, Lagos. The hybrid event themed Innovation in Capital Markets: The Panacea for Exponential Growth will bring together key stakeholders in the capital market, a statement from the bourse said. Established in 2012 as NSE CEO Awards, the Made of Africa Awards offer winners a year-round marketing opportunity and a big morale-booster for institutions and individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the Nigerian capital market and exemplify the highest

By Dipo Olowookere Luno on Tuesday announced expanding into 35 new markets across Europe, and a $9 million Series B funding round led by London-based Balderton Capital, one of Europe’s leading venture capital firms. New investors AlphaCode and existing investors Digital Currency Group also participated in the round. This follows Luno’s $4 million Series A round, which was led by emerging market tech giant Naspers. Luno is one of the world’s most popular Bitcoin platforms, making it easy for people to buy, sell and learn about digital currencies. With a team of over 70 and offices in London, Singapore and

By Dipo Olowookere A new Chairman and CEO of Ford China has been announced by Ford Motor Company and he is Mr Jason Luo. Mr Luo will lead all of the company’s operations in Greater China including its import business, Lincoln, its passenger car joint venture Changan Ford, commercial vehicle investment in Jiangling Motors Corporation, and our operations in Taiwan. Mr Luo, 51, joins Ford from Key Safety Systems, the fastest growing company in the automotive safety market, where he was global president and CEO for the past 10 years. While at Key Safety Systems, he led the business transformation

By Adedapo Adesanya The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow seven million Nigerians to complete their voter registration. SERAP made the call in a statement on Sunday through its Deputy Director, Mr Kolawole Oluwadare, warning that the failure of the electoral body to grant this request could attract legal action. According to the rights group, INEC recently disclosed that out of 10,487,972 Nigerians who carried out their pre-registration online, only 3,444,378 completed the process at physical centres. SERAP believes that the right to vote is also the right to be

By Modupe Gbadeyanka Stakeholders in the real estate sector will on Saturday, May 6, 2023, gather at Metro Homes, Atlantic Layout, Lekki Gardens. Phase 4, Ajah, Lagos for the second edition of Realtors Hangout, a programme put together by a major player in the space, Metro & Castle. A statement from the organisers disclosed that the theme for this event is How To Become High Flyer in Real Estate Industry. They noted that experts, entrepreneurs, businessmen and women, intellectuals and customers would share ideas among themselves on the day of the workshop, and chart a course for the industry. The

By Modupe Gbadeyanka The data centre subsidiary of MainOne, MDXI, has obtained its Tier III Constructed Facility certification (TCCF) from the Uptime Institute, making it a firm in West Africa with the top five certifications in the industry, being TCCF, the PCI-DSS certification which certifies the data centre to process payment card information, the SAP Infrastructure Services license which certifies the Data Centre as ideal for running SAP applications and infrastructure, and ISO 27001 and 9001 certifications. This TCCF certification is awarded by the Uptime Institute as a performance-based evaluation of a data centre’s concurrently maintainable site infrastructure. Tier Certification