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• Nigerian activist, Falana has filed $5 million suit against Meta Platforms Inc.

• SoftBank is planning to invest $40 billion in OpenAI according to CNBC's David Faber

• Sacked Meta employees used meal funds to purchase things other than food, had meals delivered to their homes

• Huawei is gradually making an inroad into the Nigerian banking sector, a development that is becoming more worrisome, according to reports

• Apple vs Huawei Market Competition - Apple iPhone 16 Facing Challenges in China Market Against Huawei's Trifold Mate XT, According to Analysts
Does Amazon Pay allow direct transfers to Nigerian bank accounts? - International Online Payments Q and A

• Does Amazon Pay allow direct transfers to Nigerian bank accounts? - International Online Payments Q and A

• Intel is slashing 15 percent of its staff as part of a $10 billion plan to reduce costs

• United States Government is suing TikTok and ByteDance for violating children’s privacy law

• CrowdStrike is being sued by its shareholders after a faulty software update by the cybersecurity firm

• OpenAI's ChatGPT is testing "SearchGPT" to challenge Google's market-dominating search engine

• CrowdStrike’s cybersecurity software outage affected an estimated 8.5 million Windows devices

• Global IT Outage - More than 42,000 flights were delayed and over 4,700 cancelled worldwide

• Global Smartphone Shipments Report - Samsung, which overtook Apple in Q1, maintained the top position in Q2 2024

• European Union has accused Microsoft of breaching antitrust rules with the "abusive" bundling of its Teams

• U.S. has banned Kaspersky cybersecurity company from selling its products in the United States

• Amazon is facing $1.3 billion lawsuit from British retailers over misused of data to boost market share and profits

• German software giant SAP has agreed to buy WalkMe in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.5 billion

• Google has unveiled an AI-enhanced version of Search, along with a lot of promises

• Microsoft is closing down its Africa Development Centre in the continent's most populous nation Nigeria

• Software giant, Microsoft, has rolled out passkeys as password attacks surged to 4,000 per second

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