San Francisco, US | Xinhua | Meta’s Instagram announced on Wednesday the launch of its new social networking app Threads. As the company’s Twitter competitor, Threads allows Instagram users to authenticate with their existing credentials to post short updates, including photos, links, texts up to 500 characters and videos up …
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San Francisco, USA | Xinhua | Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on Friday that Linda Yaccarino, formerly NBC Universal’s top advertising sales executive, will be Twitter’s new CEO. Musk said in a tweet that Yaccarino will focus on business operations and he will focus on product design and new …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of State for Finance (General Duties) Henry Musasizi, has defended the proposal to impose a 5% tax on the gross income earned by international digital companies in Uganda. Musasizi alongside other officials from the Ministry of Finance appeared before Parliament’s Finance Committee …
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Beijing, China | Xinhua | After a series of “Twitter Files” over the weeks disclosing the U.S. government’s involvement in the social media company’s content moderation, the latest installment came as the fresh Twitter owner Elon Musk said Tuesday that the same is happening in “every social media company.” “Google frequently makes …
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San Francisco, U.S. | Xinhua | Twitter users voted with a majority in a weekend poll indicating that Elon Musk should step down as CEO of the social media company. Among the 17.5 million votes cast in Musk’s 12-hour poll, which closed early Monday, 57.5 percent were in favor of …
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Why Crypto, Twitter, and Meta’s best days appear to be behind them as Amazon, Apple limp along COMMENT | Roger McNamee | After a decade of unconstrained growth – when it seemed that a new billionaire was minted every day – the tech industry has finally hit a rough patch. Elon Musk’s …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan president, Yoweri Museveni has been named the third most influential African leader on Twitter. According to BCW’s Twiplomacy, a digital diplomacy initiative by the strategic communication agency, BCW Global in their 2022 World Leader Power Ranking report, Kenyan President William Ruto ranked 13 worldwide …
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San Francisco, USA | Xinhua | Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was reinstated on Saturday following the permanent ban in January 2021. New Twitter owner Elon Musk posted a one-day poll asking if Trump should be allowed back on the platform on Friday. Over 15 million people voted, with 51.8 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Former lawmakers have cautioned the Speaker of Parliament Anita Among against using her powers to suffocate debate aimed at reprimanding the first son, Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba over his ‘irritating’ Twitter posts. This comes a day after Mathias Mpuuga, the Leader of Opposition in Parliament raised …
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Military experts note growing capability of East Africa forces COVER STORY | Agencies & Independent Team | An article in one of South Africa’s top newspapers, the Mail & Guardian, has sparked renewed interest in the capabilities of armies in the East African region. The article was written against tweets made about …
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