Nigeria's government has set June 17, 2026 as the launch date for its Digital Switch Over (DSO), officially beginning the country's transition from analogue to digital television broadcasting more than a decade after missing the ITU's 2015 deadline for African nations. Information and National Orientation... Read More

TikTok has more active users in Uganda than any other social media platform, according to the Uganda Communications Commission's Q1 2026 Market Performance Report (PDF). As of March 2026, TikTok had 10.8 million subscribers — ahead of WhatsApp at 9.9 million and YouTube at 6.5... Read More

The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) is blocking portal access for taxpayers who have not replaced their Tax Identification Number (TIN) with a National Identification Number (NIN) — or a Business Registration Number (BRN) for companies and non-individual entities. The requirement comes from Section 4 of... Read More

Spotify is adding a new format to its app: narrated long-form magazine articles, produced by the company's in-house Spotify Audiobooks team and available starting today in markets where audiobooks are supported. This was announced at Spotify newsroom. The initial library has over 650 articles in... Read More

Apple is building native support for Google Cast into iOS 27, Bloomberg reports — a change driven by the European Union's Digital Markets Act rather than anything Apple chose to do on its own. Today, iOS supports only AirPlay as a built-in system-level streaming protocol.... Read More