As part of its Africa Day celebrations on 25 May, Meta today announced the return of its global campaign ‘Made by Africa, Loved by the World’, which was first launched in 2021. Aimed at amplifying the voices and stories of people and businesses from across Africa that are impacting the […]
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Africa No Filter and Meta announce a new fund to improve Virtual Reality in Africa’s storytelling
Africa No Filter, a narrative change organisation, and Meta have announced a partnership to launch “Future Africa: Telling Stories, Building Worlds” program, aimed at boosting the use of Virtual Reality in Africa’s storytelling. Supporting Extended Reality storytellers to develop new and compelling content about Africa, the program will provide grants […]
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Meta fuels SMB growth with ‘Good Ideas Deserve to Be Found’ campaign in Nigeria
Meta, today announced the launch of the ‘Good IdeasDeserve To Be Found’ campaign to spotlight the inspiring stories of the people behind the businesses who are using Meta technologies to achieve a social purpose and do impactful things across several industries. Through this campaign, Meta aims to fuel the growth […]
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Meta launches Business Coach tool on WhatsApp to help SMBs in Africa grow online
Today, Meta announced the launch of Facebook Business Coach, an innovative and easily-accessible way for owners of small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya and other English speaking countries to learn more about how to grow their business online with Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The Facebook Business […]
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Facebook to hire 10,000 people to work on Metaverse
Facebook is planning to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to develop a so-called metaverse. A metaverse is an online world where people can game, work and communicate in a virtual environment, often using VR headsets. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been a leading voice on the concept. The […]
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How Facebook is expanding connectivity to get 1 billion people online
Facebook has announced new connectivity technologies that will bring the next billion people online and enhance existing infrastructure projects. Since 2013, Facebook Connectivity has helped bring more than 500M people online to a faster internet and now aims to enable affordable, high-quality connectivity for the next billion people with emerging […]
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Nigeria loses N247.61bn in 100 days of Twitter ban
The Twitter ban in Nigeria has extended to 100 days, and in that time frame the nation has lost N247.61bn. The Federal Government had on June 4 suspended Twitter after the social media platform deleted a tweet by the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Consequently, telcos on June 5 blocked […]
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Facebook, Big Cabal Media, and Comic Republic launch #NoFalseNewsZone campaign to minimise the spread of false news in Nigeria
Facebook, Big Cabal Media, and Comic Republic, has announced the launch of #NoFalseNewsZone, an educational campaign focused on helping people identify false news and educate them on the actions to take to help minimise its spread in Nigeria. “At Facebook, we are committed to the wellbeing of the individuals and […]
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Facebook Set to Launch Novi Digital Wallet
One of Facebook’s executives has stated that the company is said to launch its digital wallet, Novi, that is built with Diem, a blockchain-focused payment system. He also noted that the company is currently working on regulatory procedures. The executive, David Marcus revealed this earlier yesterday in a blog. He wrote extensively highlighting […]
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Facebook unveils virtual reality ‘workrooms’
Facebook on Thursday unveiled technology for “workrooms,” allowing remote collaboration for people using its Oculus virtual reality gear. The “Horizon Workrooms” project allows users to switch back and forth from virtual reality to web conferencing to adapt to different situations. “Workrooms is our flagship collaboration experience that lets people come […]