Infographic: Big tech companies are investing in Africa
Microsoft is also investing in Africa with the Microsoft Africa Development Center (ADC) and the Microsoft Africa Research Institute (MARI) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Microsoft is also investing in Africa with the Microsoft Africa Development Center (ADC) and the Microsoft Africa Research Institute (MARI) in Nairobi, Kenya.
Business Insider reports that 533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online. The report says that this personal data was leaked on a “low-level” hacking forum and posted for all to see.
The terms of service (ToS) put in place by Facebook ensure they can collect troves of data from their users and use it as they see fit.
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While the company’s Off-Facebook Activity tool isn’t exactly new (it was introduced back in August of last year), it is now available to Facebook users around the world.
If you’re new to Messenger, you’ll notice that you need a Facebook account to chat with friends and close connections,” a spokesperson said via email.”
According to Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane), the company is working on facial recognition identity verification by asking users to take a selfie looking in different directions.
The gray verification badge for businesses and organizations will be disappearing from Facebook pages on October 29th.
This is a pretty significant ruling and could spark some worldwide debate. As is expected, the laws in the European Union are not the same as the laws in other countries.
The privacy angle is the sensationalism of the moment. The media pushes this stuff daily and now we have innovation being impacted by it.
According to the FTC, the fine is the “largest ever imposed on any company for violating consumers’ privacy.”
Individuals should always think carefully and learn about Facebook’s cryptocurrency services in detail before taking action that could result in getting scammed.
Facebook intends for its cryptocurrency to replace paper money and even credit cards.
The Version Museum aims to catalog the visual evolution of some of the worlds most popular websites.
Companies like Facebook and Google often build in towns like this for the tax breaks and lower costs of doing business.
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While The Horn isn’t the first alternative to Facebook (check MeWe, Minds, and Mastodon — to name a few), it is sort of a different take.
Before and since the Cambridge Analytica situation there have been multiple privacy and data leaks which are seriously tarnishing the company’s reputation.
Yesterday we reported that CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg was making deals with app developers and 3rd parties in exchange for user data. According to … Read more…
Mark Zuckerberg made a lengthy blog post outlining how Facebook would be pivoting the platform to concentrate on user privacy.
Privacy and data security are becoming an increasing issue for users as hackers, bad actors, and malicious users are finding ways to exploit and abuse technology across the board.
MeWe is probably not for everyone but it is one of the options a lot of Google+ users are choosing.
We’ve covered MeWe for months and were probably one of the few technology sites to do so.
Zuckerberg notes in his blog post how the company has helped connect friends, communities and interests in what he calls a “digital town square.”
The data cartel is the advertising/technology behemoths that are Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
“Sharing information across apps on your iPhone or Android device is how mobile advertising works and is industry standard practice,” a Facebook spokesperson told The Hill.
This new software will not only be able to detect fake news but also hate speech.
Facebook compensated Snopes nearly US$100,000 in 2017 for work the service did for Facebook.