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Hong Kong (CNN Business) The United Kingdom could undermine an American-led campaign to keep Chinese tech company Huawei out of super-fast 5G mobile networks around the world. The National Cyber Security Centre, part of the UK intelligence service, has concluded that there are ways to limit the risks of using Huawei to build next-generation wireless networks, according to  a report  by the Financial Times. Huawei, the world's biggest maker of telecommunications equipment, has been on the defensive in recent months as the US government has pushed for the company's technology to be banned, alleging that it could be used by China for spying. Australia and New Zealand have already blocked mobile carriers from using Huawei for 5G networks, and other governments, including the United Kingdom, are reviewing the situation. Huawei has strenuously denied that its equipment poses any security risk and has  criticized moves to shut it out of networks  as "irresponsible...

London  UK lawmakers have accused Facebook of violating data privacy and competition laws in a report on social media disinformation that also says CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed "contempt" toward parliament by not appearing before them. Mark Zuckerberg The UK Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee said in a report published Monday that a trove of internal Facebook emails it reviewed demonstrated that the social media platform had "intentionally and knowingly" violated both data privacy and competition laws. The  cache of documents  reviewed by the committee, some of which include correspondence between Zuckerberg and company executives, stem from a lawsuit filed in California against  Facebook   ( FB ) . The committee obtained the documents late last year from a small app company called Six4Three that is behind the suit. According to the committee, the documents show that Facebook was "willing to override its users' privacy settings in order t...

Jumba refu la Britam Tower lililopo jijini Nairobi nchini Kenya limepokea tuzo inayopewa majumba marefu duniani ya Emporis Skyscraper Award. Ni jumba la pekee barani Afrika kushiriki katika tuzo hiyo miongoni mwa majumba 10 bora duniani katika historia ya tuzo hiyo ya miaka kumi na tisa. Hatua hiyo inalifanya jumba hilo lililojengwa na kampuni ya Britam Properties Limited kuwa jumba refu zaidi katika eneo la Afrika mashariki na kati , likiwa na urefu wa mita 200. Britam Tower lilichunguzwa pamoja na mengine mengi barani Ulaya, Asia na Marekani ambayo yalishirikisha Generali Tower mjini Milan, jumba la Chicago's 150 North Riverside na lile la Riverpoint. Nafasi ya kwanza ilichukuliwa na jumba la Lotte World Tower mjini Seoul, Korea Kusini. Tuzo ya The Emporis Skyscraper ni tuzo maarufu duniani miongoni mwa ujenzi wa majumba marefu. Washindi huchaguliwa na jopo la wataalam wa usanifu kutoka kila pembe duniani , huku majumba yelioteuliwa kuwania tuzo hiyo yakishinda kwa vi...

African Development Bank to present 2019 African Economic Outlook at 32nd AU Summit The theme for this year’s African Economic Outlook is “Integration for Africa’s Economic Prosperity”   ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, February 4, 2019/ -- From: 8/02/2019 To:  8/02/2019 Location:  Medium Conference Hall, AU Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The African Development Bank ( www.AfDB.org ) will present the 2019 edition of its flagship African Economic Outlook (AEO) ( https://bit.ly/2Djcpf8 ) report on the sidelines of the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Friday, 8 February, 2019, from 8.30 -12 noon. The theme for this year’s African Economic Outlook ( https://bit.ly/2Djcpf8 ) is “ Integration for Africa’s Economic Prosperity .” The annual report highlights economic prospects and projections for the continent as a whole and for each of the 54 countries. It offers short- and medium-term forecasts on the mai...

Over $10 billon of Africa telecom, media and technology (TMT) infrastructure initial public offering (IPO) and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals predicted in 2019 as investor appetite and valuations grow TMT Finance exclusively reported last week on the US$1bn sale of South African datacentre firm Teraco Data Environments to US private equity firm Berkshire Partners LONDON, United Kingdom, February 4, 2019/ -- TMT (telecom, media and technology) infrastructure mergers, acquisitions and fundraising in Africa is predicted to continue growing in 2019, as investment news provider TMT Finance ( www.TMTFinance.com ) predicts that transactions for the year will exceed $10 billion, due to increasing dealflow across the region and appetite from global industry and investors. TMT Finance exclusively reported last week on the US$1bn sale of South African datacentre firm Teraco Data Environments to US private equity firm Berkshire Partners. Teraco was reporte...

Leo tunaanza kwa kuiangazia kampuni ya utengenezaji vifaa vya kielektroniki ya Apple ambayo mwishoni mwa mwaka jana 2018 imeingiza sokoni simu kadha wa kadha ikiwamo iPhone XR ambayo ndiyo imepata nafasi ya kuangaziwa kwenye Jicho la Teknolojia.   iPhone XR ni muendeleo wa kutoa bidhaa bora kwa wateja wa bidhaa za Apple walioko kote duninia. Kwani kampuni hiyo imekuwa na sifa hiyo ya kutengeneza bidhaa zenye kuaminika zaidi hususan simu zake za iPhone. Sifa kuu za iPhone XR Kuna sababu nyingi za wewe kumiliki simu hii, kwanza kabisa ni teknolojia yake ya usalama yaani Face Id ambayo hii inakuwezesha kufungua simu yako kwa kutumia uso wako tu huku ikiwa na kamera maalumu ya kukutambua. Hii inamaana kwamba mtu mwingine hawezi kufungua simu yako mbali na wewe jambo ambalo limeleta mapinduzi makubwa. Lakini sifa kuu nyingine ni kwamba betri ya iPhone XR inakaa na chaji kwa saa 25 kama utakuwa ni mtu wa kuperuzi mtandaoni basi unaweza kutumia siku nzima bila kuhitaji ...