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📺 Apple TV App Launches on Android: A Strategic Move or a Necessary Concession?
📲 GTBank Eliminates Processing Fees on POS Transactions to Support SMEs
🗼MTN Nigeria apologizes for 200% Data Price hike
📱Apple Replaces Baidu With Alibaba For iPhone AI Partnership
📱Elon Musk's X Settles Trump Lawsuit for $10 Million Amid Social Media Reckoning |
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| | | | | 📺 VIDEO STREAMING | Apple TV App Launches on Android: A Strategic Move or a Necessary Concession? | | In a surprising yet strategic expansion, Apple has officially launched the Apple TV app on Android mobile devices, including phones, tablets, and foldables. This marks a significant shift for Apple, a company traditionally known for keeping its services tightly integrated within its ecosystem. The move allows Android users to access Apple TV+ original content, Major League Soccer (MLS) Season Pass, and Friday Night Baseball, bringing Apple's premium streaming offerings to a broader audience.......…continue reading |
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| This isn't traditional business news | | Welcome to Morning Brew—the free newsletter designed to keep you in the know on the business news impacting your career, company, and life—in a way you didn't know you needed. | Note: this isn't traditional business news. Morning Brew's approach cuts through the noise and bore of classic business media, opting for short writeups, witty jokes, and above all—presenting the facts. | Save time, actually enjoy business news, and join over 4 million professionals reading daily. | Check it out | | | | | 📲 BANKING | GTBank Eliminates Processing Fees on POS Transactions to Support SMEs | | In a move aimed at empowering businesses and reducing operational costs, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) has announced the removal of processing fees on all GTBank POS terminals. This initiative, which took effect on Tuesday, 11 February 2025, ensures that merchants using GTBank POS terminals will no longer incur Merchant Service Charges (MSC) when accepting payments. | This decision reinforces GTBank's commitment to supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by providing cost-effective payment solutions. By eliminating transaction fees, the bank is helping businesses maximize revenue, enhance customer experience, and drive business growth......…continue reading |
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| | | | | 🗼TELECOMS | MTN Nigeria apologizes for 200% Data Price hike | | MTN Nigeria has apologized to its customers following widespread backlash over a sudden 200% increase in the price of its 15GB data bundle. | The company initially raised the cost of the 15GB weekly plan from ₦2,000 to ₦6,000 as part of a broader tariff adjustment. However, after facing significant public outcry, MTN issued a statement acknowledging the abrupt nature of the change and expressing regret for the inconvenience caused.......…continue reading |
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| | | | | 📱DEVICES | Apple Replaces Baidu With Alibaba For iPhone AI Partnership | | In a shocking move, Apple has announced a new partnership with Alibaba Group, replacing its longtime collaboration with Baidu for iPhone artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. | Apple has teamed up with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. to create and deploy artificial intelligence features for iPhone users in China as part of an effort to increase its market share in that country. By utilizing Alibaba's vast customer data and technological know-how, this partnership should improve the user experience by offering more individualized and regionalized offerings. | The collaboration follows Apple's earlier AI development relationship with Baidu Inc., which ended in unsatisfactory progress. Media reports last year suggested Apple approached Baidu as a possible partner to bring Apple's iPhone's AI services to China. Yet, Apple is now considering Baidu's competitors, particularly Alibaba, to support Apple Intelligence in China......…continue reading |
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| | | | | 📱SOCIAL MEDIA | Elon Musk's X Settles Trump Lawsuit for $10 Million Amid Social Media Reckoning | | Elon Musk's social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), has agreed to a $10 million settlement in response to a lawsuit filed by former U.S. President Donald Trump, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The lawsuit, which stemmed from Trump's suspension following the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, marks another chapter in the ongoing battle between social media giants and political figures over online speech and censorship. | The settlement with X follows a similar move by Meta Platforms, which last month agreed to pay $25 million to resolve a lawsuit filed by Trump. The former president had originally sued Twitter (now X), Facebook, Alphabet (Google's parent company), and their former CEOs in July 2021, arguing that they unlawfully silenced conservative viewpoints by suspending his accounts.....…continue reading |
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| | | | | OPPORTUNITIES | Applications are now open for the latest edition of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP), designed to support startups through comprehensive training, mentorship, and a funding opportunity of US$5,000 Deadline = 1st Mar 2025……..continue reading Global payment card network Visa has announced the opening of applications for the fourth edition of its biannual Africa Fintech Accelerator. Deadline = 15th March 2025…….continue reading
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