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Microsoft has launched Kaizala in Kenya, a mobile app designed for large group communication, work management, reporting and analytics integrated with Office 365. The app allows businesses to connect with large groups of people across their entire value chain, on a single platform on their mobile phone.

ICT resellers that want to thrive in a changing technology market need to be prepared to share risks with their customers and move towards consumption-based billing models that allow companies to spread their technology procurement costs over a longer period of time.

Nokia said its chief operating officer will leave the telecom network equipment maker, which is struggling in the face of a shrinking market and tough competition, after just eight months in the job.

A software fix Apple released to close a serious Mac security bug may not have fixed the problem on some machines.

A former Uber employee's description of spying on rivals and destroying evidence caused chaos in a San Francisco courtroom earlier this week.

An American inventor has called on government to develop bullet trains in Ghana to facilitate the movements of goods and services in the country.

A Canadian man has pleaded guilty to charges related to a 2014 hack attack at Yahoo, which affected 500 million user accounts.

A team of researchers at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa have made a major breakthrough in the field of biomedical engineering.

Hundreds of Amazon workers in Italy and Germany are on strike during one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

Facebook plans to let people see if they had "liked" pages created by "foreign actors" to spread propaganda during the US presidential election.

Omanhene of the New Juaben Traditional Area, Daasebre Professor Oti Boateng, has called for more aggressive push towards the use of space technology to drive the nation’s development.

Uber says it paid hackers $100,000, in 2016, after they stole data last year on 57 million of its users.

Ride-hailing app Uber is introducing new features to its app ahead of the holiday season. The company is introducing live location sharing feature which can help the rider as well as the driver of an Uber to easily find one another. Uber is targeting the upcoming holiday season with its new set of features.

A German regulator has banned the sale of smartwatches aimed at children, describing them as spying devices.

Bitcoin surged on Monday, recovering more than $1,000 after losing almost a third of its value in less than four days as traders bought back into the volatile cryptocurrency.

YouTube is to restrict the availability of videos showing children's characters in violent or sexual scenes if they are reported by viewers.

Sean Parker, Facebook’s founding president has unloaded his worries and criticisms of the network, saying he had no idea what he was doing at the time of its creation.

The University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) has developed an information system that will alert the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) to fire outbreaks for prompt response.

Twitter plans to increase the number of characters in tweets from 140 to 280 for the majority of users.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to step back into the years-long feud over patents between the world’s top smartphone makers, declining to hear Samsung’s (005930.KS) appeal of a lower court ruling that reinstated a jury award of about $120 million in favor of Apple(AAPL.O).

Afghanistan has sparked an outcry after it moved to block WhatsApp and Telegram messaging services.

Thousands of people formed queues outside stores in London, Tokyo, Sydney and around the world on Friday as eager buyers tried to get their hands on Apple’s most expensive smartphone to date, the hotly anticipated £999 iPhone X.

Twitter has published a new version of its rules, which it says will clarify its policies and how it enforces them.

Ghana and Rwanda would soon constitute a joint team to facilitate the process of using Information Communication Technology (ICT) to speed up the ongoing public sector reforms in Ghana.

Profits of the global social network giant – Facebook skyrocketed during the third quarter of the year. This was as a result of a massive rise in revenue during the period which exceeded $10 billion.

Bitcoin climbed to a new all-time high of $6,450 on Wednesday, boosted by bets the cryptocurrency could enter the financial mainstream after the world’s largest derivatives exchange operator said on Tuesday it would launch bitcoin futures.

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Apple has reportedly fired one of its engineers after his daughter posted a video of the iPhone X before the official launch.

WhatsApp and Facebook will be scrutinised by a data protection taskforce, after they were accused of "non-compliance" with regulations.