EU tells social media giants, Google, to do more for users

Europe’s justice commissioner told Facebook, Twitter, and Google on Thursday to do more to bring their user terms in line with EU law, ramping up pressure on the tech giants after their efforts were deemed too little. According to Thompson Reuters, the European Union executive and consumer protection authorities said the three companies have only […]

Nigerian Stock Exchange website ranks best in Africa

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) website has been ranked the highest stock exchange website in Africa. Alexa, an Amazon Company, said in a statement issued by NSE on Wednesday in Lagos that latest Alexa rankings placed NSE website (www.nse.com.ng) among the top 100,000 most popular websites in the world. It places NSE website ahead of […]

Africa’s internet economy needs more data servers on the continent

The internet is a good thing for Africa. But it could be an even better thing. This is the subtext of an Internet Society report, out this month, titled Promoting the African Internet Economy. The economic case for the internet in Africa is unsurprisingly strong, but the report points out that there’s still plenty of […]

Africa set to top 1bn mobile Internet connections in 5 years

Africa’s mobile internet connections are set to double in the next five years, a study showed on Monday, thanks to affordable smartphones and the roll-out of high-speed networks. A report by research and consulting firm Ovum in London estimates that mobile broadband connections will rise from 419 million at the end of this year to […]

China Internet industry investment posts double-digit growth in Q3

China’s Internet industry saw double-digit year-on-year growth in investment in the third quarter. Investment in the industry reached 6 billion U.S. dollars in the third quarter, up 22.2 percent from a year earlier, according to a report released by China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, however, the number was down […]

Africa ‘must embrace online learning’ to meet demand for degrees

After more than a decade of working in UK higher education – and growing increasingly exasperated by its strained relationship with the Home Office over the importance of international students – Kevin Andrews decided to leave. “I was completely disenchanted with UK higher education. I thought: ‘I’m going to go off and do something a […]

Google changes ad policies to end YouTube crisis

Two weeks into a YouTube advertising boycott over hateful videos, Google is taking more steps to curb a crisis that escalated further than the company anticipated. Alphabet Inc.’s main division is introducing a new system that lets outside firms verify ad quality standards on its video service while expanding its definitions of offensive content. A […]

Google redesigns mobile search app with personalized ‘feed’

Google on Wednesday announced an overhaul of its search app for mobile phones to include a personalized feed of links about hobbies, travel, sports, and other topics, a move that puts the search company into more direct competition with social networks such as Facebook. Google, the world’s largest search engine and a unit of Alphabet […]