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  • Google to discontinue popular service

    Google to discontinue popular service

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    Google has announced, starting March 30, 2019, it will discontinue its uniform resource locator (url) shortener service, goo.gle, while beginning a transition process March 30, 2018, to replacing it with Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL). The Internet giant announced the development in a blog post, while stressing that it will turn down support for goo.gl url…

  • Internet users in Nigeria record marginal increase in January

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    Internet users in the country increase to 100.2 million in January, from 98.4 million in December 2017, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has said. The NCC made this disclosure in its Monthly Internet Subscribers Data for January 2018 on its website on Tuesday in Abuja. The data showed a marginal increase of 1.9 million new…

  • Google pays content publishers N4.5 trillion in ads

    Google pays content publishers N4.5 trillion in ads

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    Google’s Director of Sustainable Ads, Scott Spencer, has revealed the internet giant paid content publishers on its advertising network, who use AdSense to monetize their website, a total sum of N4.5 trillion in the year 2017. Scott made this known in a statement pledging the search giant commitment to make the advertising ecosystem work for…

  • Internet fraud: EFCC arraigns N10 million 419 suspect

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    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned a suspected Internet fraudster, Ogungbile Oluwaseun, before Justice O. A. Williams of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja. TheNewsGuru reports Oluwaseun was arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on unauthorized access to computer materials to the tune of Ten Million Naira (N10,000,000.00). According…

  • Incoming German Minister to open talks with Google, Facebook

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    Dorothee Baer, Germany’s incoming minister with responsibility for digital policy says she will push social media giants to make users’ information feeds more diverse and timely to avoid creating “echo chambers” for the like-minded. Companies such as Facebook have come under pressure from regulators around the world as evidence has emerged of how the recirculation…

  • Cryptocurrency scam on Twitter: “We are on it” – Jack Dorsey

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    As the issue of copying verified Twitter accounts to trick cryptocurrency users is becoming increasingly prevalent, the microblogging company has said that it is working to curb the rise of these copycat handles. Company CEO Jack Dorsey on Tuesday replied to a tweet that complained about the ongoing cryptocurrency scam on Twitter in which several…

  • NCC to open up 60 GHz band ‘for people to talk without Internet or cell phones’

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    The Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) says it in the process of opening up a 60 GHz Band, also known as the V-band, for the deployment of Amateur Radio Services. The NCC Executive Vice-Chairman, Prof. Umar Danbatta, made this known on Tuesday at a stakeholders’ consultative forum in Lagos. Amateur Radio (ham radio) is a popular…

  • Internet registrar decries low dotNG domain name registration

    Internet registrar decries low dotNG domain name registration

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    The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) has registered only about 100,000 .ng domain names since its inception in 2007. The President of NiRA, Mr Sunday Afolayan, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that Nigeria had yet to be where it should, in terms of .ng domain name. NAN reports that the .ng…

  • Cybercrime costs $600 billion annually – McAfee

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    Fuelled by growing sophistication of hackers and proliferation of criminal marketplaces and cryptocurrencies, the annual cost of cybercrime has hit $600 billion worldwide, researchers said Wednesday. A report by the security firm McAfee with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies found theft of intellectual property represents about one-fourth of the cost of cybercrime in…

  • Cyber-warfare impact: UN Chief urges global rules

    Cyber-warfare impact: UN Chief urges global rules

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    United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for global rules to minimize the impact of electronic warfare on civilians as massive cyber-attacks look likely to become the first salvoes in future wars. Computer hackers, many of them believed to be state-sponsored groups, last year disrupted multinational firms, ports and public services on…