Digital media
Google Hit With Record $2.7bn EU Fine
Google has been fined 2.42bn euros ($2.7bn; £2.1bn) by the European Commission after it ruled the company had abused...
China Orders Halt To Video Streaming On Major Websites
China's media oversight body announced Thursday that it has ordered three prominent Internet companies to terminate...
Facebook Offers Indian Women Tools To Protect Privacy
Facebook has introduced new security features for women using the social media platform in India, including the ability...
WhatsApp Rises As A Major Force In News Media
WhatsApp is becoming one of the prevailing ways people discover and discuss news, according to a study. But use of the...
Gov’t To Extend ICT Education To Deprived Areas In Ghana
Government is committed to providing schools in deprived communities with functional Information and Communication...
Google Pledges To Tackle YouTube Terror Videos
Google has unveiled four measures it will use to tackle the spread of terror-related material online. Among the...
Bonn Hosts Thousands At Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum
The tenth Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum will today kick off in Bonn, Germany. Per Second News correspondent reports...
Ex-Yahoo Boss Marissa Mayer Insists Yahoo Mail Is ‘excellent’
Fresh off her $23million severance payment from her former employer Yahoo, ex-CEO Marissa Mayer joked on Wednesday that...
Ex-Yahoo Boss Marissa Mayer Insists Yahoo Mail Is ‘excellent’
Fresh off her $23million severance payment from her former employer Yahoo, ex-CEO Marissa Mayer joked on Wednesday that...
Thai Police Bust 400,000 SIM Card Chinese ‘click Farm’
Three Chinese men were detained in Thailand on Tuesday after police discovered they were running a 'click farm' from a...
Sri Lanka Train Deaths Prompt Selfie Crackdown
Sri Lankan railway authorities announced a crackdown on selfies on Tuesday after a 12-year-old boy was decapitated and...
‘Assassin’s Creed’ Heading For Egypt To Reignite Gamers
Ubisoft's blockbuster "Assassin's Creed" video game is heading for Egypt, taking the serial's storyline back to an...
To Snoop Or Not To Snoop
I begin with the proposition that a great relationship is a transparent relationship, where both of you are open books....
A Plus Returns To Facebook; Says He’s Not Accepting People With ‘ayigbe’ Names
After having his account deactivated by Facebook because of verification of his name, Kwame A Plus has returned to...
Internet, Social Media Back In Ethiopia After Block
Ethiopia re-activated cellphone data services and unexpectedly allowed access to social media sites that had been...
Yahoo-Verizon Deal Set To Close June 13
Yahoo shareholders voted Thursday to back the sale of the company's internet business to Verizon, clearing the way for...
Ethiopia Mobile Internet Still Off After A Week
Ethiopians were still unable to surf the web via mobile networks on Tuesday, despite government claims the nationwide...
How Musicians Can Make Money On YouTube
Over the past couple of years, YouTube has undeniably become a growing force in Africa. Indeed, YouTube reported in a...
YouTube Clarifies ‘hate Speech’ Rules
YouTube has clarified its rules on hate speech to enable video-makers to know which content it considers to be...