Few would have predicted that short video loops of Kanye West or cats furiously typing on laptops would be the final straw for competition regulators. Yet on Tuesday, the U.K. ordered Meta Inc.’s Facebook to sell Giphy, the animated file search engine it bought for $315 million in 2020, in part because the deal would attract […]Read More
The Minister of Power, Mr Abubakar Aliyu, has assured the Republic of Chad of Nigeria’s continuous interaction on power interconnection. Mr Odutayo Oluseyi, Assistant Director, Press, Ministry of Power, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday quoted Aliyu as saying this while receiving the Chadian Ambassador, H.E Abakar Chahaimi, in his office. According to the […]Read More
Twitter’s chief executive officer, Jack Dorsey, announced Monday that he has resigned from the microblogging company. Mr Dorsey disclosed this in a post on his official handle. “Not sure anyone has heard but, I resigned from Twitter,” his tweet reads. “I’ve decided to leave Twitter because I believe the company is ready to move on […]Read More
The social network platform which rose to prominence over two decades ago announced Thursday that it is renaming itself. The Mark Zuckerberg company will now be known as Meta, a nod to its future digital frontier Metaverse, a fusion of different digital worlds. Speaking at a virtual event to showcase Facebook’s technological plans for the future, […]Read More
As part of measures to make technical and vocational education interesting to the public, Lagos State Technical and Vocational Education Board (LASTVEB) has partnered with SLOT and Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to train 130 participants in Computer and Mobile Phone Repairs at Government Technical College, Agidingbi. The Executive Secretary of LASTVEB, Ms. Moronke […]Read More
The Nigerian Government Thursday said telecommunications companies will resume registration, activation and replacement of SIM cards on April 19, months after the process was halted. But the registration will follow the new policy guidlines approved by the government, a spokesman for Isa Ali Pantanmi, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy said in a statement. […]Read More
New statistics from the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has revealed that Nigeria and some 17 countries in Africa are already testing 5G capability on the continent. Information gathered by Connecting Africa shows that, in early February 2020, “there are 24 operators in 18 African countries that are evaluating/testing/trialling/deploying 5G” and of those operators, eight […]Read More
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed telecommunication companies in the nation to suspend sale, registration and activation of new Subscriber Identity Module (popularly known as SIM card). ADVERTISING This was noted in a press statement by the Commission’s Director, Public Affairs, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, on Wednesday. Adinde stated that the instruction was in line […]Read More
Facebook on Monday said it has created a new unit devoted to financial services to harmonize payment systems on its platform. The new group, called Facebook Financial, will be headed by e-commerce veteran David Marcus, who was a president at PayPal before joining the leading social network six years ago. Marcus is one of the […]Read More
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Friday promised to review the social network’s policies that led to its decision to not moderate controversial messages posted by US President Donald Trump. The outrage was sparked when Zuckerberg said Facebook would not remove or flag Trump’s recent posts that appeared to encourage violence against those protesting police […]Read More
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