Facebook’s Chief Product Officer, Chris Cox, arguably the most important person at the company after Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, is leaving the company, Zuckerberg announced on Thursday. Cox’s departure comes as Facebook is …
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12 Twitter influencers, get suspended as Nigerian presidential election approaches
by Igbokwe Johnby Igbokwe JohnIn the wake of manipulation and the constant criticism of Facebook for its slack ways to combat fake news, gun control, explicit content, and the infamous Cambridge Analytica case and invasion of …
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Facebook partners Nigerian firm to intensify fight against fake news
by Igbokwe Johnby Igbokwe JohnFacebook has partnered Dubawa, a Nigerian Online platform, to intensify the fight against fake information in the country. Adaora Ikenze, Facebook’s Head of Public Policy for West and Central Africa …
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Elizabeth Kperrun Makes History As First Nigerian Female Nominated for Africa Engineering Prize
A mobile and web applications developer, Elizabeth Kperrun, has been shortlisted for the 2019 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, making her the first Nigerian female to be selected for the …
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Popular social media app and site Instagram is down  Around 8 am on Wednesday, October 3, 2018, popular social networking site, Instagram became inaccessible to its one billion users, with …
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NINTENDO – switch online service to launch in ‘second half of September’
by Igbokwe Johnby Igbokwe JohnNintendo has announced that its online subscription service will be launching in the latter half of next month. We’ve known that the paid subscription service for the Switch will be up …
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WhatsApp messages can be manipulated by hackers –Cybersecurity firm
by Igbokwe Johnby Igbokwe JohnResearchers at Israeli cybersecurity firm said Wednesday they had found a flaw in WhatsApp that could allow hackers to modify and send fake messages in the popular social messaging app. CheckPoint said …
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Facebook’s value was down by $111bn when Wall Street opened on Thursday, one of the most dramatic share price declines in history, after the social networking firm reported slowing growth …
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Search giant, Google, will make available free Wi-Fi facilities in about 200 sites in Lagos, and five other states in Nigeria between now and 2019. Within this period, about 10 …
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The European Commission on Wednesday fined Google a record 4.3 billion euros (five billion dollars) for breaching EU competition rules with its Android operating system for smartphones and tablets. The …

