Author: Akin Naphtal

The leading Internet provider of Azerbaijan, CityNet has made the Internet connection of its individual and corporate clients faster and higher quality, according to a reports, citing the company. The company for the first time in Azerbaijan has created the necessary infrastructure for the implementation of XGPON technology. CityNet services users will benefit from the fast Internet connection at up to 10 Gbps speed thanks to XGPON. Customers will be able to enjoy video calls, online movies, games, and other features using uninterrupted and high-quality Internet. READ ALSO: TELUS strengthens its cybersecurity portfolio as Norton’s exclusive breach response provider in…

Bloom, a zero-commission stock investing tool for teenage investors, reached 1 million downloads after launching in February 2022. The startup founded by Allan Maman and Sam Yang provides a brokerage account and teaches those aged 13 and older how to build wealth through interactive lessons on investing, stocks and finance. So far, users have taken over 10 million lessons, Maman said. If Maman’s name looks familiar, that is because he is credited with making a better version of the fidget spinner that helped the devices go viral. Yang, who took Bloom through Y Combinator in the Winter 2021 batch, previously…

TELUS has announced that it will be the official Canadian breach response provider for Norton1, a leading consumer cyber safety brand of Gen™, delivering support to employees and customers of organizations affected by data breaches. This marks an expansion of the incident response services offered by TELUS, providing businesses with a diverse range of solutions to help minimize the impacts of a data breach. As cybercrime rates rise and the demand for solutions increases, TELUS Online Security goes beyond standalone identity monitoring services in the market by helping businesses offer their employees and customers breach response and remediation plans that…

Opera has announced that its native browser generative AI tool, Aria, has passed one million users since launch. The company launched the AI tool in May and made it available to all Android users by the end of June. The company says, Aria does not rely on a homegrown language model, instead, Opera teamed up with OpenAI to leverage GPT technology. If you have not been keeping up with developments, GPT is the model used by ChatGPT and is largely seen as the language model that kicked off the generative AI revolution. Commenting on Aria’s adoption, Opera co-CEO Lin Song…

Telecom operator Bharti Airtel is looking to garner a major share in enterprise communication services segment of small and medium businesses with its new Airtel IQ Reach platform, a senior company official was quoted recently. Airtel’s communications platform as a service (CPaas) Airtel IQ Reach will enable small and medium businesses to engage with target customers with prepaid pay-as-you-go plans. According to the company’s Business, Head – Digital Products & Services, Abhishek Biswal, said; ”About 20-25 per cent of target message market is small and medium businesses for promotion. That is the market which we would like to go after…

Sparkle has signed an agreement with Genoa Data Internet eXchange (Ge-DIX), a non-profit consortium of interconnection services, to establish an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) at Sparkle’s Genoa Digital Hub data centre. Ge-DIX was founded by the Municipality of Genoa and Liguria Digitale in a partnership with Piedmont-based Internet Exchange, TOP-IX and TLC companies BBBell, Fastweb, Retelit Irideos and Rocket Way. Its aim is to become a preferred data traffic exchange for Internet service providers. Through a physical network access point, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who land their Internet networks in Genoa can interconnect directly with each other and exchange traffic…

Global professional services firm KPMG has collaborated with American software company ServiceNow to help its client automate their finance and supply chain workflows. KPMG and ServiceNow’s partnership dates back more than a decade, where they jointly created new offerings in areas such as information technology, human resources, risk and cybersecurity, and environmental, social and governance (ESG) to cater to their global clientele. The extended partnership combines KPMG’s business expertise with ServiceNow’s technology, especially their recently announced AI-powered finance and supply chain workflows to streamline the existing procurement and supply chain systems of clients, while helping them reduce costs and increasing…

The dwindling Crypto exchange landscape recently experienced a boost as the Chief Executive Officer of Tradefada, Mr. Oluwaseun Dania, announced the backing of PATRICIA Technologies with a significant investment. According to the announcement, the amount of the investment was undisclosed, it was revealed through a recent LinkedIn post by the CEO, Dania. He noted that the investment in PATRICIA Technologies, a standout name among Africa’s premier crypto exchanges, is a pointer to the confidence investors have in Africa’s leading crypto exchanges. Following the post, he lauded Patricia Technologies for its unparalleled innovation and commendable representation of Nigeria and Africa on…

Amazon’s cloud unit AWS has expanded its generative artificial intelligence platform called Bedrock with the introduction of new foundational models (FM) from AI startups like Anthropic (Claude 2 model) and Stability AI (Stable Diffusion XL 1.0). The platform has also onboarded Cohere as an FM provider. The announcement was made at AWS Summit New York on July 26. Bedrock platform was launched in April as a new low code capability for easily building generative AI applications. Customers can use Bedrock to build and scale generative AI applications by accessing application programming interface (API). The new expansion will allow customers to…

South African mobile operator MTN has launched a new mobile plan in partnership with Disney+. MTN will offer a bundle to its customers who sign up for a Disney+ Mobile Plan at the cost of R49. If customers pay for the bundle with their airtime or add it to their monthly bill, they will get 500MB of free streaming data per month, the operator said. MTN said customers will also be able to get a Disney+ mobile entertainment pass that will include 2GB of streaming data for R59 per month. The Disney+ Mobile Plan with MTN offers the same access…