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Social media companies are deliberately addicting users to their products for financial gain, Silicon Valley insiders have told the BBC's Panorama programme. 

Privacy on WhatsApp is a serious matter. But anybody can add an extra security layer to their profile by taking a few steps. If you would like to hide your personal data and avoid being exposed to other users, we’ll help you out with a few tricks for staying offline on WhatsApp. 

We've seen people across Africa do amazing things with the internet and technology—for themselves, their communities and the world. Over the past 10 years in which Google has had offices in Africa, we've been excited to be a part of that transformation.

US-born Ghanaian marketing guru, Bozoma Saint John has left his role as the Chief Brand Officer of Uber.

A US court has ordered South Korea's Samsung Electronics pay $539m (£403m) in damages for copying features of Apple's original iPhone.

WhatsApp has added support for playing Instagram and Facebook videos within the app.

Protecting your privacy online can be difficult. If you use Google, Bing, Yahoo, or any other search engine that records your IP address and search terms, there are some things — many things, it turns out — that you really shouldn’t search.

Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy at the centre of the Facebook data-sharing scandal, is shutting down.

Technology has brought about many things such as the rapid rise of Websites.

Perhaps the fiercest phone war that exists in the 21st century is between iPhone and Samsung.

In the smartphone industry, competition and hatred has existed between Samsung and Apple phones; Android vs iOS and so do we now have Infinix vs Tecno.

Infinix seems to be the taste and preference of many smartphone users in Ghana.

WhatsApp is now the easiest application that connects mobile phone users without much stress.

Facebook has started asking European and Canadian users to let it use facial recognition technology to identify them in photos and videos.

State-sponsored Russian hackers are actively seeking to hijack essential internet hardware, US and UK intelligence agencies say.

iPhone iOS is a mobile operating system created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its hardware.

Apple may be known as a fruit but in the technological world, it is one of the most powerful brands you can get.

Android users are very common as most view the operating system as a bedrock on which most smartphones operate.

WhatsApp seems to be the order of the day for many social media users.There are over a billion WhatsApp users worldwide right now.

Two female students of the George Grant University of Mines and Technology, UMAT in Tarkwa in the Western Region, have developed an alcohol detection and engine locking system for cars which is aimed at curbing drink-driving.

Facebook has suspended a Canadian data firm that played a key role in the campaign for the UK to leave the EU.

Smartphone use is on the rise as technology has improved with many Ghanaians shifting from the use of analogue phones also known as "Yams" to the use of smartphones.

Despite the turmoil that continues to surround his company, Mark Zuckerberg has insisted he is still the best person to lead Facebook.

Theresa May has replaced her Blackberry mobile device with an iPhone.

Huawei's latest smartphone can take photos in near-dark conditions without using its flash or a tripod.

In a proposal sent to the Unicode Consortium the nonprofit organization that sets the global standard for emojis the company is advocating for 13 new additions.

Toyota has become the first major auto maker to halt tests of autonomous cars after a woman was struck and killed by a self-driving Uber vehicle.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal has done immense damage to the brand, sources across the company believe.

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned by a UK parliamentary committee to give evidence about the use of personal data by Cambridge Analytica.

The chief executive of a company that created highly-secure smartphones allegedly used by some of the world's most notorious criminals has been indicted.