Meta boosts budget to build AI products
The company believes that every business will have an AI with which customers can interact to purchase things and receive service.
Samuel Mungadze
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Cameroon strengthens police capacity to combat cybercrime
The three-day training started yesterday with an examination of Cameroon's ICT ecosystem in the coastal city of Limbe.
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Uganda imposes new tech tax on foreign firms
Foreign-owned tech companies in Uganda will pay 5% of their income to the government.
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Kenya gov’t vows to leave social media alone despite Facebook fracas
Government has assured market it will not interfere with any social media site ahead of elections, despite a showdown between the NCIC and Facebook.
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Former Facebook moderator takes legal action against Meta
Daniel Motaung details his position during Real Facebook Oversight Board webinar.
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Apple’s privacy requirements hurt local advertisers
Balancing the consumer’s right to privacy with the ability of businesses to accurately target consumers with relevant information and advertising is getting more complicated says Niamh NicLiam, Head of Business Partnerships at Incubeta.
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Facebook becomes member of digital identity alliance
The social media giant joins the ID2020 Alliance, as it looks to build on standards for digital identity that are secure and privacy-centric.
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Digify Africa, Facebook offer free digital skills via WhatsApp
Skills development initiative Digify Africa collaborates with Facebook to offer a WhatsApp learning platform to provide African youth with digital skills.
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Liquid, Facebook team up to construct fibre corridor
The network will help create a digital corridor from the Atlantic Ocean through the Congo Rainforest to East Africa, and onto the Indian Ocean.
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Eutelsat, Facebook augment WiFi connectivity project in Africa
The satellite operator builds up its use of Express WiFi, to provide broadband services via satellite across several Sub-Saharan Africa countries.
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Facebook’s climate change info hub now in SA, Nigeria
The Climate Science Information Centre will connect users in Sub-Saharan Africa to resources from climate change organisations.
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Facebook blocks Uganda accounts ahead of elections
Social network cites Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour.