Social media analysts tagged Twitter, “the new yahoo of social media”, following its poor and disappointing second quarter report as its stock tumbled by 14%. The influential social network is slowly receding that it had to cut its revenue projection for the next quarter to between $590M and $610M. In…
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With the steady rise in the use of performance-enhancing drugs among athletes, Halo Neuroscience, have adopted technology to develop brain-altering headphone that will improve training. The Halo headphone use pulses of energy to prime the brain, powering athletes’ most effective training. Some of the athletes using the headphone are Hafsatu…
Myntra, a subsidiary of Flipkart has bought Rocket Internet’s Jabong for 70 million dollars in cash to become India’s No 1 e-commerce marketplace. Jabong which was once a big player in India’s online retailing industry has crashed due to difficult times and low sales. Interestingly, this sale is coming on the…
Artem Vaulin, the alleged owner of Kick Ass Torrents (KAT), the world’s largest torrent site has been arrested in Ukraine. The 30-year-old has been charged with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and two counts of criminal copyright infringement. KAT which is an important platform to…
Who is to blame for The Nigeria Football Federation’s (NFF) goof? The (NFF) or The Media? Since Paul Le Guen who was recently announced by the Nigeria Football Federation as the technical adviser of the Super Eagles rejected the offer, football stakeholders have engaged in a heated argument on who to blame.…
The Nigerian Football Federation has named Former Olympique Lyonnais’s coach Paul Le Guen and Salisu Yusuf as the new handlers of the Super Eagles. While Le Guen is the technical adviser, Yusuf is the Chief Coach. The French Man will be assisted by coach Imama Amapakabo Alloy Agu who will be…
It is no longer news that there was an attempted coup in Turkey when suspected military plotters tried to topple President Tayyip Erdogan. Fortunately for Erdogan, the coup failed, thanks to social media which the president employed to reach out to his supporters despite its blackout. Erdogan addressed the country…
Euro 2016 has come and gone. Portugal proved football pundits wrong as they won the championship. As a result of their hard-earned victory, they got the world talking particularly on twitter. Twitter was up to the task as it tracked fans Euro 2016 conversions and recently shared some amazing stats related to…
Good news for twitter users who loves posting GIFs as the social media network has increased their GIF size from 5 MB to 15 MB. This change is only for users who post the GIFs from their personal computer as it is yet to be extended to smartphones. The change was…
The Kardashians are always making headlines not for the money but for their Television show, intriguing relationship scandals, and breakups. However, Kim Kardashian West seem to be reigning in the big bucks as her Mobile Game app-Kim Kardashian: Hollywood has been downloaded roughly 45 Million times and has generated around million…
More than 10 million Android devices have been infected by HummingBad Malware according to cyber security firm Check Point. The HummingBad Malware can take over your android smartphone or tablet in order to steal and sell sensitive user data from emails, to contacts, and banking information and this is only possible…
After weeks of speculation, Nigerian International Striker, Ahmed Musa has finally signed for Leicester City for a club-record fee of around £16 million on a four-deal. Leicester City won the English Premier League against all odds last season. Musa leaves CSKA Moskow of Russia which he joined in 2012 after scoring…
Many Nigerians now use smartphones. These smartphones give users unlimited access to the World Wide Web as data cost is now affordable due to the competition among telecommunication companies. Smartphones perform different functions including banking. It has been made easy without any doubt. Today, queues in banking halls are getting fewer…
The series of court actions against Apple in China is unending as the tech giant is being sued by an arm of China’s State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) over a propaganda video from 1994. According to reports, a SAFRT subsidiary-the Movie Satellite Channel Program Production…
Africa is no doubt the next big thing as well as the new frontier for everyone including tech giants like Apple, Google, Microsoft, IBM among others. This is why a desperate onrush by European countries, America, and China to acquire their share has been activated. People have described it as the second scramble for…
Apple has dominated the Smartphone market with its sophisticated and stylish iPhones. Perhaps, it is time for the tech giant to step up their game Google is planning to manufacture its own Android phones. According to reports, Google is in talks with mobile phone manufacturers to make Google-branded phones which…
An unprecedented attempt to make affordable smartphones available to the rural Indian market has finally being achieved with the arrival of the Freedom 251 smartphone, regarded as the world cheapest smartphone. This phone will be available for persons who pre-ordered the device as from June 30th. Manufactured by Ringing Bells Pvt…
It will be mixed feelings for the executives of BlackBerry as they reported a 35% drop in their first quarter revenue and at the same time announced the launch of BlackBerry Radar; its new end-to-end asset tracking system. The Canadian telecommunication and wireless firm formerly-known-as Research In Motion Limited said it…
A made in China computer named Sunway Taihu Light has been declared the world’s fastest computer according to a report on the Top500 list of Supercomputers released at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) being held in Frankfurt, Germany. With the Supercomputer’s technology locally sourced, the Sunway Taihu Light takes the top spot from another Chinese…
Social media can be used for the good, the bad and the ugly. News report from Algeria reveals the bad side of social media as the government in the North African country has temporarily blocked Facebook and Twitter as well as 3G services after an examination intended to qualify successful candidates for higher education…