Loy Okezie

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Technology Writer and Editor at TechLoy

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Articles

Starlink's Indian license is a green light to provide satellite internet services

2 weeks ago | techloy.com | Loy Okezie

One thing about Elon Musk is that between his public spats and his rocket launches, he's still conquering new frontiers. Last week, while Musk was busy feuding with, well, you know who, he was likely finalising a licensing deal to bring Starlink, his satellite internet service, to India.
WhatsApp now has an iPad app (15 years later)

1 month ago | techloy.com | Loy Okezie

iPad users have patiently (or maybe impatiently) waited for a dedicated WhatsApp app for almost fifteen looooooong years. Before now, users have had to rely on the clumsy WhatsApp web version within a web browser, allowing access through a web interface linked to their phones – which makes the tablet experience for the most-used messaging app worldwide, to put it bluntly, poor.
Goodbye, Skype ☹️

Feb 28, 2025 | techloy.com | Loy Okezie |Kelechi Edeh |Oyinebiladou Omemu

I don’t know how to say this, but…it’s sad to see Skype go. It feels like saying goodbye to an old friend that you’ll probably never see again. I remember when I began using Skype actively. It think it was, err…circa 2013. It was the OG video call platform. From catching up on a project or a PR campaign with an industry colleague to those late night chats with friends across continents, the iconic "Skype ringtone" became a sonic time capsule. Oh, those nostalgic feelings.
Meta’s ad business remains a cash cow-but its Reality Labs division dropped the ball

Jan 31, 2025 | techloy.com | Emmanuel Oyedeji |Loy Okezie

Meta crushed it in 2024, finishing the year super strong, with its ads business doing exceptionally well, its social media apps booming, and the company making some big moves in AI, VR and AR. Let's look at the insane numbers: Last year's fourth-quarter revenue was up a massive 21% to $48.4 billion, and for the whole year, it was up 22% to $164.5 billion.
China’s AI tactics? Win with less

Jan 31, 2025 | techloy.com | Oyinebiladou Omemu |David Adubiina |Kelechi Edeh |Loy Okezie

Who needs billion-dollar budgets for AI when you can do it for seven figures? That’s the question DeepSeek threw at Silicon Valley—and well, the rest of the world. The Chinese AI startup stunned the world after building a low-cost AI model using less technologically advanced chips that topped app downloads on the App Store —at a fraction of OpenAI’s budget.
o3 mini model is bringing lightweight AI reasoning soon

Jan 22, 2025 | techloy.com | Emmanuel Oyedeji |Loy Okezie |Kelechi Edeh

If you think that the o1 model is pretty cool – handling seriously tough stuff like coding, math, science, and even passing OpenAI's research engineer coding interviews at an exceptional 90-100% success rate – wait until the o3 mini model launches. We hear that it is coming in a "couple of weeks" for both API developers and ChatGPT users, according to Sam Altman, OpenAI's top dog. While the details are still sketchy, the o3 mini model is positioned as a smaller sibling to the larger o3 model.
Netflix posts record subscriber growth and revenue in Q4 2024

Jan 22, 2025 | techloy.com | Kelechi Edeh |Louis Eriakha |David Adubiina |Loy Okezie

Netflix just wrapped up its biggest quarter ever, adding 19 million new subscribers between October and December 2024—its largest single-quarter gain to date. That surge pushed its total global subscriber base to 302 million, fueling a 16% jump in revenue to $10.25 billion compared to the same period in 2023. Its net profit also nearly doubled to $1.9 billion, exceeding Wall Street expectations and reinforcing Netflix’s dominance in the streaming industry.
Google makes Gemini AI available for free to Workspace users

Jan 20, 2025 | techloy.com | Louis Eriakha |David Adubiina |Loy Okezie

Google has been on a roll lately with how much it’s been updating its Workspace suite. Not long ago, the company started rolling out its Gemini AI to its productivity apps like Doc and Sheets, enabling users to carry out tasks quicker like converting entire documents into different formats, summarising emails, and accessing all their files in Google One Drive through the Gemini app.
President-elect Donald Trump delays the TikTok ban from going into effect

Jan 19, 2025 | techloy.com | Loy Okezie |David Adubiina |Louis Eriakha

TikTok might have gone dark for less than 24 hours, and President-elect Donald Trump already misses those dance challenges. It seems that he isn't quite ready to say goodbye to his...err...favorite app yet.
7 ByteDance apps that have been shut down in the U.S.

Jan 19, 2025 | techloy.com | Loy Okezie |David Adubiina |Louis Eriakha |Emmanuel Oyedeji

It's no longer news that TikTok shut down its app and operations in the United States on Sunday, January 19, 2025. But, what most people don't know is that other apps owned and operated by its Chinese parent company, ByteDance – though not currently facing imminent bans – are now temporarily unavailable in the country since they share fundamental security concerns by association.