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Top 5 Stories Of The Day | Trade Union Congress Threatens to Shut Down the Economy Against Cybersecurity Levy

Across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, these are the five top Nigerian news stories you shouldn’t miss. Trade Union Congress (TUC) threatens to shut down the economy against Cybersecurity Levy The Trade Union Congress (TUC) of Nigeria has announced that it would shut down the economy if the Nigerian government did not... Read More

Cybersecurity levy, dollar, economy, inflation, microsoft, naira, nigeria, Nigerian News, Politics, Trade Union Congress

Playstation 5: Will video gaming become the ‘new normal’ for sports lovers?

by Onakoya Toluwanimi Social media went into a frenzy when Sony released a demo video, earlier this week, displaying sneak peeks of the graphics of the highly anticipated PS5. The latest edition of the Playstation series is projected to be the most powerful gaming console yet. Nigerian men wasted no time in tweeting jokes about great... Read More

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October 16, 2019

Adebola Williams announced as Special Guest Faculty at the fourth season of the Lagos Public Relations Summit

Adebola Williams, co-founder of RED| For Africa will be a special guest faculty at the fourth season of the Lagos Digital Public Relations Summit themed, ‘Upping Your Versatility In Digital Public Relations.’ Hosted by the Lagos State chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations, the summit is set to hold on the 16th -17th October 2019... Read More

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The YNaija Cover – the 17th of April

Follow the links to read the stories on YNaija: The Big 5: Atiku to call Microsoft, IBM experts as witnesses for INEC servers claim; Buhari rallies APC reps for Assembly leadership battle | Other top stories Dr. Oby Ezekwesili was slut-shamed by Segalink in 2014, and now she’s given us proof showing how... Read More

#BBOG, #EndSARS, #PoliceReformBill, APC, atiku abubakar, Chibok girls, IBM, INEC, Madam Oby, microsoft, Muhammadu Buhari, Oby Ezekwesili, PDP, Segalink, Segun Awosanya, YCover, Yomi Shogunle

September 28, 2018

Access Bank and Microsoft partner to improve banking security in Africa

Access Bank, Nigeria’s leading commercial bank, has partnered with global technology giant, Microsoft to improve security and banking experience for customers in Nigeria and Africa, as both companies accentuated their commitment to providing custom made products and services that addresses pressing challenges in the banking industry in Africa. This was announced at a meeting... Read More

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Herbert Wigwe

September 26, 2018

Herbert Wigwe to meet Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella to discuss technology in banking

Herbert Wigwe, the Group Managing Director, Access Bank Plc. will meet with Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella this Thursday, September 27, 2018. The two chief executive officers are set to discuss issues regarding how financial institutions can further strengthen banking security and provide valued added services on digital platforms, leveraging on technology. Among other things, Herbert... Read More

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February 10, 2018

Microsoft and The Future Project reward young entrepreneurs at the Accelerate Labs Demo Day in Lagos

Microsoft Nigeria, in partnership with The Future Project, rewarded budding Nigerian entrepreneurs at the Demo Day held in Lagos on Saturday, 3 February, 2018, as participants in the initiative were provided opportunities to pitch their ideas and business projects to business executives and officials at the event. With over 150 participants registered for the first... Read More

Accelerate Labs, entrepreneurs, microsoft, The Future Project

September 12, 2017

Companies, educational institutions move to defend DACA recipients

In defense of employees and students caught in the DACA program rescinding, leading corporations and colleges and universities are mobilizing to protect recipients of the program which was instituted by the Obama administration and allows undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as minors to pursue work permit, The Hill reports. President Trump announced the winding... Read More

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September 6, 2017

The Future Project and Microsoft Nigeria launch Accelerate LABS to support Nigerian startups

The Future Project, in partnership with Microsoft Nigeria, has officially announced the launch of Accelerate LABS, an initiative to bolster the country’s economic development through enterprise development and technology incubation. Themed ‘Activating Small and Medium Scale Enterprises’, the goal of the project is to equip 2,500 youths across the six geo-political zones in Nigeria through... Read More

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Jeff Bezos’ reign as world’s richest man only lasted hours

It was earlier reported that Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos was the world’s richest man, displacing Microsoft’s Bill Gates, but the reign only lasted for a couple of hours. Bezos has become the richest man with a $90.6 billion net worth when market only opened on Thursday. According to Forbes, Amazon stock climbed another 1.3% to an... Read More

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is now the richest man in the world

Amazon founder and owner of Washington Post, Jeff Bezos becomes the richest man in the world. He now overtakes Bill Gates. A 1 percent pop in the shares of Amazon.com, was enough to bump Bezos over the wealth of Gates, according to a real-time list of billionaires by Forbes.com, which has tallied the fortunes of the uber-rich for... Read More

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Microsoft Paint ‘enthusiasts’ have afterall saved it from extinction

Full-time lovers of Microsoft Paint have stormed the internet and saved probably one of the greatest Windows program ever, as Microsoft has announced that it would now be available on the Windows Store. Following the company’s announcement that the program is now deprecated, meaning that it is “not in active development and might be removed in... Read More

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Microsoft to kill Paint in new update, after 32 years

Microsoft’s next Windows 10 update, called the Autumn (or Fall in the US) Creators Update, will bring a variety of new features. However, your long-standing favourite software, Microsoft Paint, is going off. Paint was introduced on the Windows 1.0 in 1985, and would be one of the first graphics editors used by many and became a... Read More

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Opinion: Microsoft, stop the Word discrimination

by Idowu Joshua Words, like human beings, hate to be discriminated against. This is because they, like human beings also, have dignity. There is no form of discrimination in human history that does not have at the heart of it, the use of words that encourage the decimation of other people. Racial discrimination. Ethnic discrimination.... Read More

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The YNaija Cover this morning – the 19th of May

Follow these links to read our cover stories and analysis on YNaija this morning: How Ifeanyi Ubah stole N11bn PMS, NNPC tells court 5 thoughts on Kevin McCarthy’s “joke” about Putin paying Trump Microsoft to launch datacentre in Africa to boost economy

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Microsoft to launch datacentre in Africa to boost economy

by Omoleye Omoruyi Software giant, Microsoft, has announced plans to establish datacenter in Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. This announcement continues the on ongoing investments in Africa, where organizations are using currently available cloud and mobile services as a platform for innovation in health care, agriculture, education, and entrepreneurship. The new investment is expected to provide highly... Read More

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How a 22-year-old saved the world from the worst cyber attack ever

by Soma Oj. While it’s cool that we are swooning over Emmanuel Macron, the 39-year-old who has just become the biggest threat to Justin Trudeau’s existence as the most attractive world leader – yes, he’s also the French President but you get what we mean. While it’s also cool that the more introspective amongst us... Read More

Thinking Through

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November 3, 2016

Code2Earn training continues in Uyo, Abeokuta, and Port Harcourt

As part of our goal to get one million fingers coding by 2017, Aiki Nigeria continues its training on coding and entrepreneurship. In the last quarter, Code2Earn training has held at different locations covering Zamfara, Port-Harcourt, Uyo, and Abeokuta. To cover as many locations as possible and train more young people, The Future Project has... Read More

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October 27, 2016

The YNaija Tracklist: $2.2b arms cash: Military rejects Jonathan’s claim | Nigeria to begin production of vaccines | Police arrest eight suspected kidnappers in Lagos

From the papers this morning – a Tracklist. How House on The Rock Abuja Pastor, Goodheart Ekwueme resigned on the altar (WATCH) – YNaija Police arrest banker for hiring assassins to kill ex-husband – YNaija $2.2b arms cash: Military rejects Jonathan’s claim – The Nation Nigeria to begin production of vaccines – Leadership Police arrest... Read More

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October 26, 2016

The Media Blog: People of God, please which one is Bing TV?

So we we minding our business when we saw this in the press release for Innoson Group’s latest investment – in Cable TV infrastructure, in collaboration with some Chinese people: “Also, an investment of $100 million to establish technology-based Direct-To-Home Digital Bing Television Stations in Nigeria, among others.” Digital Bing? Digital Bing? We have never... Read More

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September 22, 2016

Lagos NIPR to deepen communicators’ skill-set with Digital PR Summit

Lagos State Chapter, the flagship branch of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) has unveiled plans to deepen the skill-set of communication and media practitioners in new media with Lagos Digital PR Summit; first of its king in Sub Saharan Africa. In partnership with Microsoft, Google, TrendWatching, Red Media Africa and other leading corporate... Read More

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After ‘tricking’ users into upgrade, Microsoft has now repented

by Chi Ibe Over the past few days, the world has been mad at Microsoft for forcing people to upgrade to Windows 10. It did this by flipping the functions of the pop-up window. Instead of clicking to cancelling, users who clicked yes were made to agree to the upgrade. After the outcry, the company... Read More

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November 24, 2015

First impressions: Microsoft surface Pro 4 (VIDEO)

The Microsoft Surface Pro 4 runs Windows 10 and turns from a tablet into a full powered laptop while running all of your desktop software.

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January 14, 2015

How low can they go? Microsoft just unveiled a 15k Lumia smartphone

by Muyiwa Matuluko Remember the Nokia 215? That ultra low-cost pseudo-smartphone Microsoft announced last week? It could browse the internet, connect to services like Facebook and Twitter (it can’t use WhatsApp though, bummer) and yet cost below 6k. If you thought that was an absolute steal, Microsoft just pulled another “miracle”. Well, two. Meet the Lumia 435... Read More

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January 5, 2015

This is the new Nokia 215 || It can browse the internet, and will cost less than N6,000

by Muyiwa Matuluko In a move that indicates continued preference of “Nokia” brand name for its featurephone line, despite having rebranded the smartphone line to just “Lumia”, Microsoft has launched yet another affordable internet enabled featurephone – the Nokia 215. Like it’s predecessors in the 30+ featurephone series – Nokia 220 and 225 – the Nokia... Read More

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December 30, 2014

Microsoft might be working on an Internet Explorer replacement

by Muyiwa Matuluko Microsoft’s Internet Explorer must hold the record for the world’s most popular, yet equally most hated browser. So much so that the Redmond based technology company is allegedly working on a replacement. According to reports, when Windows 10 launches (probably in 2015), it will come installed with 2 browsers – Internet Explorer... Read More

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December 8, 2014

For the records: Chude Jideonwo’s speech at The Future Africa Awards 2014

by Chude Jideonwo In March next year, I will finally turn 30. I can’t wait for that day to come. More importantly it will be 15 years since I started my work career, and all of that 15 years has been focused on the youth. At least 10 of it, specifically on youth development. In... Read More

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November 29, 2014

Join others for the Microsoft Mobility Summit Exhibition in Lagos [DETAILS]

by Akan Ido The Microsoft Mobility Summit, an event to introduce tech savvy individuals to the Microsoft mobile-first and cloud-first world will be taking place in Lagos next week. The summit which will start by 1pm on Wednesday, December 3, at The Harbor Point, 4 Wilmot Road, Off Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island, Lagos, promises to... Read More

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September 25, 2014

Expect “Windows 9” next week

by Emma Chidiogo Microsoft is expected to announce its next flagship Operating System, Windows 9, next week at the September 30 press event. The September 30th event has been described by Microsoft as “what’s next for Windows [including] information geared toward technical and enterprise customers”. Alain Crozier, Microsoft France President, said on Tuesday that the... Read More

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September 13, 2014

Have a sneak-peek of Microsoft’s Windows 9 [WATCH]

by Emma Chidiogo A few days ago, we brought you a report on the possible new features of Microsoft’s next Operating System, Windows 9. However, a new video which surfaced on the internet today, has further confirmed that the Windows 9 will have virtual desktop (multi-desktops). Virtual desktop simply means a PC user will have... Read More

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