Heading in to the G20 summit, Facebook is on notice from powerful regulators including the Fed chief that its ambitious plans for a global crypto-currency face piercing scrutiny.

An Iyaganku Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ibadan, yesterday ordered that four men accused of strangling a woman to death be remanded in Agodi Prison...

Facebook revealed it may impose message forwarding limits in its Messenger app to curb the spread of content, which can incite violence, duplicating a move...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) yesterday arrested one Adah Eche for fraudulently upgrading his scores in the recent Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) from 153 to 290. Eche, 19, allegedly engaged some fraudsters through Facebook and Whatsapp platforms, having come across an advertisement that claimed to upgrade 2019 JAMB results. The arrested candidate,…

Justin Smith is the CEO of Bloomberg Media Group. Last week, he was on a short visit to Lagos to seek participation of Nigerian business leaders at the second edition of the New Economy Forum slated for November 20 to 22, 2019. He spoke with MARGARET MWANTOK about Bloomberg’s media intervention programmes in Africa. Excerpts.…

Bitcoin surged to a near 16-month high above $11,000 Monday, overshadowing showings across stock, foreign exchange and commodity markets, with investors looking ahead to the week's G20 summit.

Facebook is leaping into the world of cryptocurrency with its own digital money, designed to let people save, send or spend money as easily as firing off text messages.

Facebook is set Tuesday to unveil a bid to bring cryptocurrency payments into the mainstream, reportedly with the endorsement of governments and financial giants.

Social media giants, Facebook will once again begin paying people to monitor their phone’s activities through a new application called Study. Study will monitor which other applications are installed on a person’s phone, the time spent on them, your location, additional data, among other things. Facebook says it won’t see any specific content including messages,…

Facebook chat platform, WhatsApp, will take legal action against users who send too many messages from December 7, 2019.   The company hoped to put a stop to the abuse of the service by spammers, who send huge number of messages to particular users, it said.   Such rules are banned in its terms, and…

US President Donald Trump took to Twitter once again Sunday to accuse the messaging platform of gagging conservative voices -- a "Giant Mistake!" that he said runs counter to freedom of expression.

A Polish court held a first hearing Wednesday in a case brought against Facebook by a historian who claims the tech giant engaged in "censorship" by suspending accounts that had posted about a nationalist rally in Warsaw.