Month: August 2020

Telkom Kenya cancels merge with Bharti Airtel

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Telkom Kenya

Telkom Kenya cancels merge with Bharti Airtel Telkom Kenya said on Wednesday it was no longer looking to merge its business with the Kenyan unit of India’s Bharti Airtel, citing challenges in securing the required regulatory approvals for the deal reports Reuters. Bharti Airtel had said in February 2019 that its Airtel Networks Kenya unit had agreed to buy Telkom Kenya, the East African nation’s smallest operator in which the state still has a 40% shareholding after a majority stake was sold in 2007. The deal, whose terms have never…

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WhatsApp finds a way to curb fake news

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WhatsApp forwarding

WhatsApp finds a way to curb fake news WhatsApp making more changes to slow the spread of fake news among users and that’s why earlier this year it imposed a strict new limit on message forwarding. This feature means users who plan on forwarding a message that has been identified as “highly forwarded” will only be to send it to a single contact at a time. A “highly forwarded” message is defined as media that has been sent through a chain of five or more contacts. This isn’t the first time…

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Microsoft to continue exploring potential Tiktok deal

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Microsoft to continue exploring potential Tiktok deal Last Friday, reports emerged that Microsoft was in talks to purchase TikTok from the Beijing-based company ByteDance. The same day, Trump mentioned plans to ban the social media platform from operating in the U.S. This Sunday, Microsoft said in a statement that it is moving forward with talks to buy TikTok after speaking with President Trump, who has threatened to ban the popular video app in the U.S. “Microsoft fully appreciates the importance of addressing the President’s concerns. It is committed to acquiring…

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