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Twitter Plans On Enforcing Merger After Elon Musk Threatened To Flake On The Acquisition
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Matt Cardy / Getty Friday (May 13), Elon Musk threatened to back out of the $44 billion acquisition of Twitter “until CEO Parag Agrawal publicly proves that less than 5% of users are bots or spam accounts.” The social media platform and one Bloomberg financial opinion writer call C A P. Tuesday (May.17), Twitter’s board made it abundantly clear to Elon Musk that it intends to go through with the deal and plans to “close the transaction and enforce the merger agreement,” the New York Times reports. Related Stories “The board and Mr. Musk agreed to a transaction at $54.20 per share,” Twitter’s board expressed in a statement shared by The New York Times. “We believe this agreement is in the best interest of all shareholders. We intend to close the transactio...
Crypto jobs market holding up despite tech industry cutbacks
The crypto job market shows few signs of slowing down despite high profile cases of staff layoffs and hiring freezes across big tech companies. In recent weeks, several major tech companies have announced a paring back of staff, citing a downturn in the traditional market and narrowing demand for products that had boomed during the pandemic. Recently announced hiring cuts include Twitter, Uber, Amazon and Robinhood. On Tuesday, movie streaming service Netflix terminated the roles of 150 mostly U.S.-based employees, amidst a slowdown in revenue growth. Earlier this month, Facebook parent company Meta instituted a hiring freeze for most of its mid and senior level positions after failing to meet revenue targets. A Netflix employee post on LinkedIn The crypto industry has not been total...
HHW Gaming: ‘Saints Row’ Preview Highlights A Lively Santo Ileso & Classic Silly Gameplay
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Deep Silver/ Volition Games / Saints Row Volition Games already showed off Saints Row’s expansive customization suite, now it’s time to focus on the gameplay, and yes, it’s still as silly as ever. Hip-Hop Wired Gaming’s Bernard Beanz Smalls saw roughly 50 minutes of gameplay from the highly anticipated reboot during a hands-off virtual preview. Related Stories Before we got to the action, we got a rundown of the game’s story with a more millennial spin. In the Saints Row reboot, the 3rd Street Saints is in its infancy. The crew features members of rival gangs led by The Boss, who become roommates and resort to crime to make ends meet. The preview went out of its way to show off a good mix of action, missions, side missions, customization, co-op play, and ...
HHW Gaming: 3 New PS5 Console Covers Are Dropping In June
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: PlayStation / PS5 Cover Plates Your boring white console is getting some more flavor with the addition of these new PS5 console covers. But it will cost you some coins. PlayStation has three new PS5 console covers — Starlight Blue, Galactic Purple, and Nova Pink — arriving June 17, announcing they are available for pre-order on PlayStation Direct. Related Stories The three new colors join the Cosmic Red and Midnight Black console covers previously released alongside the DualSense Controllers in the vibrant galaxy color options. Last year, PlayStation announced the color options but only released the Cosmic Red and Midnight Black plates. Source: Sony / PlayStation After the PS5 hit shelves, PlayStation obviously intended to allow users to change the ...
Digitalisation of Africa’s Airports Key to Safeguarding Economic Recovery, SITA says
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ICT Authority & Kodris Africa Collaborate to Implement Coding Curriculum in Kenya
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Disney+ Finally Arrives in South Africa
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Kenyan Government Seeks to Control Safaricom Call Charges
The Kenyan government wants to control the rates that Safaricom charges rivals for terminating calls on its network to protect small telecommunications firms. The new regulations set by the state seek to bar dominant telcos from making profits from mobile termination rates (MTRs). In this regard, Safaricom will now charge fees to cover only the costs of interconnecting calls from its competitors. MTRs, according to Business Daily, are the charges levied by a mobile service provider on other telecommunications service providers for terminating calls on its network. The Kenya Information and Communication (Interconnection) Regulations 2022 set the stage for the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) to control Safaricom’s rates of interconnecting calls. However, this will only happen if Safa...
Middle-Income Consumers Spend Up to 80% of their Monthly Salary in 5 Days, FNB says
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Utopia Against Censorship: Rescue Pill for Freedom Seekers
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Pick n Pay & Takealot Join Forces to Launch Grocery Deliveries
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Universal Music Partners With LimeWire 2.0 for Use of Its NFT Marketplace
LimeWire has signed a new partnership with Universal Music Group that will allow the record giant’s artists to use the NFT marketplace to sell and market music-focused NFTs, it was announced on Tuesday (May 17). This marks the first major-label partnership for the newly rebooted LimeWire, which relaunched as an NFT marketplace in March. Under the partnership, UMG will provide content licenses to LimeWire, enabling the marketplace to partner with UMG artists to sell audio recordings, audiovisual content, artwork, bonus tracks and more directly to fans. Collectibles from these artists can be purchased with a credit card, and the LimeWire platform will handle gas fees and “technical hurdles on behalf of its users,” according to a press release. Originally founded as a peer-to-peer file-sharin...
