Facebook Inc is no longer allowing pre-installation of its apps on Huawei phones, the latest blow for the Chinese tech giant as it struggles to keep its business afloat in the face of a U.S. ban on its purchase of American parts and software. Customers who already have Huawei phones …
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Nigeria plans establishment of Council to regulate social media use
The National Council on Information (NCI) has recommended the “setting up of a Council to regulate the use of social media in Nigeria”. The recommendation is contained in a communique issued at the end of Extraordinary Meeting of NCI on Hate Speeches, Fake News and National Unity held on Friday …
Read More »Six WhatsApp scams to avoid
Created in 2009 as an alternative to text messaging, WhatsApp is today one of the world’s most popular instant messaging services with more than one billion users in 180 countries. According to a May 2016 report from a research firm, SimilarWeb, WhatsApp is the top chat app in 109 countries, …
Read More »Facebook records 1.3bn users daily – Zuckerberg
Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has said the social media platform has 1.3 billion daily active users as at the first quarter of this year. Zuckerberg said on his Facebook page on Wednesday, that users increased by 18 per cent on yearly basis. He said the Monthly Active Users (MAUs) was …
Read More »No More Whatsapp, Facebook For BlackBerry Users
Social media and instant messaging applications Facebook and Whatsapp will no longer be available to users of Blackberry, Nokia and Windows phones by the end of 2016.Whatsapp, an instant messaging application owned by Facebook, was the first to make the announcement after it celebrated the seventh year of it’s existence …
Read More »Being Nigerian on the Social Media
By Dotun Olutoke Interestingly, the inspiration for this piece floated in my mind after reading Bayo Olupohunda’s expressive piece titled “Buharists, Wailing Wailers and a Divided Nation.” The article which appeared on Naij.com in the early hours of Wednesday, 6th January, 2016 points in an instructive manner to the dangers …
Read More »Billionaire loses $6bn in one day to make him the 5th Richest man in the World (See Full List)
Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos lost $6 billion in one day after his company’s share price fell 11 percent. Well this didn’t make him broke, it only made him Fifth richest man in the world with $49.2 billion even though he slipped from fourth place to fifth on Forbes’s rich list. …
Read More »Jega, Card reader caused PDP’s defeat, not Jonathan, says Okupe
A former Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, has said former President Goodluck Jonathan did not cause the defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last general elections. He said rather, the PDP’s loss was caused by the immediate past Chairman of …
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