Sony Music has said sorry to pop star Britney Spears, after an official Twitter account suggested the pop star had died. The entertainment firm quickly removed the hoax tweets, saying its global...
One of Netflix Inc's (NFLX. O) Twitter accounts was hacked on Wednesday by an entity calling itself "OurMine". Several mocking tweets were sent from the Netflix US Twitter account (@netflix)....
The National Communications Authority (NCA) the thebftonline.com has gathered has begun the process to end the unsolicited calls and messages through telecom companies operating in the country. This...
Regulator of the telecom industry, the National Communications Authority (NCA) has initiated moves aimed at clamping down on the continuous rise of unsolicited messages and calls via mobile networks...
National Communications Authority (NCA) has begun a public consultation process to amend and tighten the existing Unsolicited Electronic Communication (UEC) Code of Conduct. If successful, the move...
In the wake of the US elections, with the rise of the “alt-right” blamed for the easy ride the far right have had on social media, Twitter is eager to prove that it can police its own borders....
A 15-month report on short message service (SMS) and mobile data use in the country indicates SMS use declined year-on-year as mobile data consumption more than doubled same period. The report is...
Twitter has announced new ways for users to tackle abusive messages and hateful content on its platform. The “mute” button, which enables users to not see tweets from individual accounts, is...
President Barack Obama on Sunday mocked Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump for having his Twitter access taken away by his campaign staff, who hope to minimize the real estate mogul’s...
Twitter is cutting its staff by 9% after a widely rumored sale process appears to have come to nothing. The layoffs are expected to impact about 350 employees across sales, partnerships and marketing...
An estimated 1 in every 17 adults claim to have sex addiction and each year thousands seek treatment. In my humble opinion- it has become something politicians and celebrities have thrown around to...
Seven-year-old Bana Alabed tweeted a photo a week ago, sitting at a desk with a book, her doll in the background. "Good afternoon from Aleppo," the caption read. "I'm reading to forget the war."...
A civil society group, Excellent Ghana, is demanding apology from mobile telecommunication operators in the country for the persistent unsolicited text messages they have been sending to subscribers....
Mobile Web Ghana will host a live Twitter chat with recent 2016 Mandela Washington fellows to share their experiences with the public from September 26 – 29, 2016. The public can follow the...
Twitter is finally, at long last, relaxing its 140 character limit with a move it should have made years ago. The company today announced that most things that aren’t plain old text or emojis will...
When push comes to shove and a simple text becomes a hundred, what do you do? Use these steps on how to get someone to stop texting you. FINALLY. Almost everyone who owns a cell phone has received...
