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Airtel Africa has teed off operation in its recently licensed Nigerian payment service bank unit SmartCash PSB, the wireless operator said in a note to the Nigerian Exchange on Thursday. SmartCash PSB joins 9PSB, the payments subsidiary of telecom firm Etisalat, as the second telco-run PSB to launch in Africa’s largest economy, with Momo PSB (owned by MTN Nigeria) and Money Master PSB (owned by Globacom) expected to join the fray any moment soon. For a start, services will be offered at…

New Zealand's Parliamentary Service -- which provides administrative and operational support to the country's members of parliament -- has completed a transition of key information technology systems from on-premise operation into a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environment. Parliamentary Service's new TechnologyOne SaaS system went live in early February and comes off the back of the…

Shadow is adding a new subscription tier to its cloud gaming service with access to the equivalent of Nvidia and AMD’s latest generation of graphics cards for an additional $14.99 a month. The new Power Upgrade tier is an optional add-on to Shadow’s existing $29.99 subscription service, bringing the total cost to a little under $45. Alongside it, the company is announcing an expansion to more countries, a new online storage service, and a service that makes its cloud-based machines available to professional users.…

Microsoft, which had been fined EUR 1.6 billion (roughly Rs. 13,066 crore) by EU antitrust regulators, will revise its licensing terms and allow cloud service providers to better compete in response to complaints, its president Brad Smith said on Wednesday.The company was taking the first step but not the last to address the concerns, Smith told a conference organised by think tank Bruegel in Brussels.Microsoft wants to listen and act on the complaints, he said."It really starts by giving more options to European cloud…

Yo dawg, I heard you like subscriptions… Following on from yesterday’s update on the revamped PlayStation Plus service, publisher Ubisoft has announced that it plans to bring its own paid subscription service, Ubisoft+, to PlayStation platforms. The service, already available on PC, Stadia, and Luna devices, includes over 100 titles from the Ubisoft catalog, including games from the Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, and Watch Dogs franchises. The paid service also includes classics from Ubisoft’s past,…

Naomi Judd was celebrated with words and soaring music at a public memorial service Sunday that ended with her daughter Wynonna announcing that a tour planned for later this year would go on. “Tonight is a celebration, and at the same time I can’t put into words how devastated I am,” Wynonna Judd said. “I miss her so much. “After a lot of thought, I’m going to have to honor her and do this tour. I’m just going to have to,” she said to applause and cheers at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. “Tonight, as we close,…

WhatsApp will within weeks roll out cashback rewards to lure more Indians to its peer-to-peer payments service and is testing similar incentives for merchant payments, two sources said, as the company seeks to compete with rivals including Google.The latest move comes days after WhatsApp won regulatory approval to more than double its payments offering to 100 million users in India, its biggest market with more than half a billion users overall.WhatsApp will before the end of May launch the cashback offer of up to Rs. 33…

Amazon Prime Video launched a movie rental service in India on Thursday, starting with the likes of The Batman, Scream, Moonfall, The Matrix Resurrections, and Spider-Man: No Way Home. At prices ranging from Rs. 99 to Rs. 499, Prime members can rent movies in high-definition (HD) or Ultra HD 4K.Alongside, Prime Video promised to release more than 40 original series, and movies over the next two years.The world's second-most populous nation with a population of nearly 1.4 billion, India is a valuable market for Amazon and…

Microsoft appears to be currently testing an additional security layer for the Edge browser called Edge Secure Network, which offers a built-in VPN powered by Cloudflare. The new layer of security and privacy to the browsing service was recently spotted on the support page of Microsoft's website. With a detailed introduction of the Microsoft Edge Secure Network feature, the support page also mentions ways in which it provides additional security. For now, there's no telling when the feature will arrive.The Microsoft Edge…

Twitter has posted about half a dozen new open positions for its in the works subscription service, and this time the new roles include two that are specifically for iOS engineers. Last summer we saw Twitter accidentally publicly revealed its new Gryphon team that’s working on a subscription product in a job listing before quickly redacting the mention of a subscription. Update: We’ve also found subscriptions roles like “Senior Software Engineer, Backend – Subscriptions, positions for Android along with the iOS…