Category: Internet
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Google Meet to limit meetings on free plans after September 30
Google has announced that after September 30, free versions of its premium video conferencing solution for schools and businesses, Meet will be limited to meetings no longer than 60 minutes. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports a Google’s spokesperson told The Verge in an email, “We don’t have anything to communicate regarding changes to the promo and advanced…
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Twitter suspends Kiddwaya’s account
Microblogging and social networking service, Twitter has suspended the account of Terseer Kiddwaya, one of the housemates of the just concluded 5th season of the Big Brother Nigeria (BBNaija) reality TV show. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) confirmed the development on Sunday after lockdown housemate, Olamilekan Agbeleshe, popularly known as Laycon pipped Dorathy to win the 2020 edition…
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Bottled-water businessman dethrones Jack Ma to become China’s richest person
Zhong Shanshan, a bottled-water and vaccine tycoon added almost $52 billion to his fortune this year, dethroning Alibaba’s founder, Jack Ma to become the richest person in China. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Shanshan’s net worth reached $58.7 billion on Wednesday, $2 billion more than Jack Ma’s net worth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Shanshan is…
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Twitter restores accounts locked, suspended by mistake
Microblogging and social networking service, Twitter said it has restored accounts that were mistakenly locked, suspended or limited on the platform. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports this is coming hours after some users reported delay in tweets showing up on timelines as well as accounts being locked by mistake. Twitter acknowledged that some accounts were locked, suspended…
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YouTube ‘premium music gbedu’ with top Nigerian stars begins on Monday
YouTube on Friday said it would be celebrating some Nigerian music stars and their fans during the virtual YouTube Music Week starting on Monday. Adetutu Laditan, Google Product Marketing Manager said in a statement that the virtual hangouts with top Nigerian music stars would take place over four days next week. She said that megastars…
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NCC alerts Nigerians to phishing scams, e-Frauds
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has alerted Nigerians on the increasing incidents of fraud across various platforms, especially social media networks, urging them to protect their accounts against such frauds. NCC Director, Public Affairs, Dr Ikechukwu Adinde, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. He said that the warning was in line with…
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Facebook to ban new political ads in week before U.S. elections
Facebook Chief Executive, Mark Zuckerberg said his company would not allow new political advertisements to run on the platform in the week before the U.S. presidential election. The company will, however, allow ads that began running before the final week to remain. And Zuckerberg did not say that Facebook would stop allowing politicians to run…
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Facebook bans India’s ruling party leader over hate speech violations
Facebook has banned a politician from India’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the centre of allegations that the social media giant did not apply hate speech rules to members of the ruling party. “We have banned Raja Singh from Facebook for violating our policy prohibiting those that promote or engage in violence and…
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Twitter account of India’s Modi hacked
The official Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website was hacked early on Thursday, the social media company has confirmed. A series of tweets were sent from the account asking its followers to donate cryptocurrency to the prime minister’s relief fund. Twitter said it was aware of the activity and had taken…
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Classic Facebook ends in September
Classic Facebook, the old web design of Facebook, will no longer be available starting in September, the social media firm has said. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Facebook has started notifying users of the development globally, saying every user will have the new design from next month. “We’ve made improvements to the new Facebook.com and we’re excited…