Sourced from TheTechieGuy (https://thetechieguy.com/) MTN Nigeria has published its financial year results – ending December 2020 – which reveal an increase of 12.2 million mobile subscribers to total 76.5 million. The telco also recorded: Active data users increased by 7.4 million to 32.6 million Service revenue increased by 14.7% to Continue Reading
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Luno Reaches 7 Million Users Milestone – Tempemail
South African-founded Luno has officially recorded seven million customers (wallets) – just seven weeks after reaching the milestone of six million customers. The business believes this growth is due to the simplicity of its online and mobile platforms, offering education, bank-grade security and self-regulation. It is actively working with regulators and Continue Reading
Sony Ships 4.5 Million PlayStation 5 Consoles Worldwide – Tempemail
Sony has revealed that it shipped 4.5 million PlayStation 5 consoles across the world in 2020. According to The Verge, this number highlights the company’s ability to mass-produce the console, even though it has been extremely difficult to buy since its launch in November. Sony PS5 System Specs and Features As previously Continue Reading
Data Breach Exposes 1.6 Million Jobless Claims Filed in the Washington State – Tempemail
The Office of the Washington State Auditor (SAO) on Monday said it’s investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerability in Continue Reading
MTN Donates $25 million to the African Union’s COVID-19 vaccination programme – Tempemail
Sourced from TheTechieGuy (https://thetechieguy.com/) MTN is donating $25 million to support the African Union’s COVID-19 vaccination programme. This is expected to secure up to seven million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for health workers across the continent, which will contribute to the vaccination initiative of the Africa Centres for Disease Continue Reading
$1 Million for African Students to Start their British Studies Online – Apply Today with Unicaf – Tempemail
Tuition fees have burdened many young people financially and pushed others to abandon their dreams as the high cost was discouraging. Without a doubt, a scholarship is one way to earn a degree and start your career debt-free. Many talented but disadvantaged students get to study in western universities with Continue Reading
Telegram Reaches 500 Million User Milestone – Tempemail
Image sourced from The Independent Telegram has officially surpassed 500 million users – this comes after more than 25 million people downloaded the platform in the last 72 hours. “Twenty-five million users have joined Telegram in the last 72 hours. 38% of them are from Asia, 27% from Europe, 21% Continue Reading
Ticketmaster To Pay $10 Million Fine For Hacking A Rival Company – Tempemail
Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million fine after being charged with illegally accessing computer systems of a competitor repeatedly between 2013 and 2015 in an attempt to “cut [the company] off at the knees.” A subsidiary of Live Nation, the California-based ticket sales and distribution company used the Continue Reading
A Huge Dataset of 20 Million Malware Samples Released Online – Tempemail
Cybersecurity firms Sophos and ReversingLabs on Monday jointly released the first-ever production-scale malware research dataset to be made available to the general public that aims to build effective defenses and drive industry-wide improvements in security detection and response. “SoReL-20M” (short for Sophos-ReversingLabs – 20 Million), as it’s called, is a Continue Reading
Among Us: the video game that has shot 100 million players into outer space | Games
If “sus” and “vent” mean nothing to you, then you’ve somehow missed out on the smash-hit multiplayer game Among Us. But with numbers playing the online game heading towards 100 million, maybe you’ll find out before Christmas how good you are at being an “impostor” . For the uninitiated, Among Continue Reading