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The chairman of a major Zimbabwean retailer has officially left. Herbert Nkala retired from OK Zimbabwe Limited after thirteen years on the board, seven as chairman. His departure was announced back in June and took effect after the annual general meeting. The company, which holds over thirty...

That plugin company Sinevibes just made Skew version 2.0 completely free. It is a nonlinear reverse delay effect for Mac, Windows, and Linux. The plugin records incoming audio into a buffer, playing it back in reversed chunks that sync to your project tempo. It uses a triple-playhead design...

Got another mix utility for the plugin folder. A developer called In The Mix released Bandwidth, a stereo widening plugin. It runs on both Mac and Windows systems. The introductory price is twenty-seven British pounds. It promises very precise control over a track's stereo image with full mono...

Another vocal tuning plugin just hit the market. DoublePi Technologies released Vovious for Mac and Windows. It costs 229 dollars. The company claims it uses a new audio algorithm for more natural results. It works as a standard VST3, AAX, or AU plugin, with extra integration for ARA2. The...

Some developer just dropped a new free drum plugin. Justin Ehrlichman released JDrummer, an open source VST3 for Windows and Linux. It runs on the JUCE framework. The plugin comes with twenty-nine different SoundFont drum kits right out of the box, covering acoustic, electronic, and specialty...

The US government is threatening European tech and service firms with potential fees and restrictions. Officials from the US Trade Representative's office named nine specific companies that could face retaliation. The list includes Spotify, along with major firms like SAP, Siemens, DHL, and the...

The O2 Arena in London had a massive year. The venue hosted 239 shows in 2025, a nineteen percent jump, selling nearly 2.9 million tickets. AEG, the operator, said this set new records for events and attendance. Radiohead's four-night run drew over 22,000 people per show, exceeding capacity...

YouTube is pulling its data from Billboard's charts. Lyor Cohen, YouTube's music boss, announced the platform will stop providing US streaming numbers after mid-January. This ends a partnership that started over ten years ago. The move is a direct response to Billboard's recent tweak to its...

Global music copyright value hit a new record last year, according to an industry economist. That total reached 47.2 billion dollars in 2024, with most of that money coming from recorded music. The figure grew by a little over five percent from the prior year. The report from Will Page notes...

Billboard is changing its chart math again. Starting in mid-January, streams will count for more when calculating album sales. The main shift gives more chart influence to people using free, ad-supported streaming tiers. The new formula reduces the number of streams needed to equal one album...

Margo Price just inked a deal with Warner Chappell Music. The singer-songwriter signed a global publishing agreement with the company's Nashville branch. Her frequent creative partner Jeremy Ivey also got an administration deal there. Price's latest album, Hard Headed Woman, scored two Grammy...

Dude in Zimbabwe tried to fake his way into nursing school. Jonathan Mukwena, a twenty-year-old from Chiredzi, got slapped with a 350 dollar fine. He will go to jail for three months if he does not pay. A Bulawayo magistrate named Beverly Madzikatire hit him with the penalties for fraud and...

A Zimbabwean businesswoman and author has published a memoir about her life since divorcing five years ago. Theodora Madzinga-Chinembiri's book details her experience after a nineteen-year marriage ended. The 46-year-old mother of four says she wrote it to push society, especially religious...

Vodafone Oman just rolled out a new loyalty scheme called Wafi. It skips the usual points system to give customers instant rewards. The program works directly inside the existing My Vodafone app, offering deals from partner brands in categories like food and shopping. A company exec said the...

Nigeria's push for digital control is focusing on keeping data inside the country. Recent outages on global platforms have shown the risks of relying on foreign servers, which can break financial systems and weaken security. Storing data abroad leaves institutions exposed to outside policies...

Airtel Money users in Kenya can now pay for Showmax subscriptions directly through their mobile wallets. The partnership lets customers sign up for or renew any of the streaming service's plans, including its entertainment and Premier League packages, using their phone balance. The move makes...

Chad is hosting a regional meeting focused on internet backbone mapping and digital money services. The four-day workshop, organized by the local telecom regulator ARCEP Chad alongside a Central African regulatory body and a UN agency, brings together officials and operators from multiple...

A Zambian government tech unit is starting a program to spread digital skills training across different ministries. Their institute brought in thirteen officials from departments like defense, justice, and finance for an orientation. The goal is to make these officers instructors who can manage...

Zambian tech leaders told a room of executives that adopting AI is a national necessity, comparing it to basic infrastructure like power. The briefing by the Ministry of Technology and Science, run with a firm called Pranary, pushed for enterprise-level AI deployment next year. Minister Felix...

Service issues in Abuja are being blamed on a diesel shortage. The telecom regulator NCC says supply problems from a fuel suppliers group have hit a key infrastructure company, IHS Nigeria. That company provides power to many Airtel and MTN cell towers, causing outages. The commission states it...