Quotes for the Week: Eric Schmidt (1955 - )

Eric Schmidt was the former CEO and current Chairman of Google Inc. He was the Chief Executive Officer of the internet giant from 2001 to 2011 when Larry Page came on board. He is now the Chairman and he’s one of the richest men in the United States with an estimated net worth of $9.3 billion (according to Forbes).

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Sony unveils Xperia Z2

Sony has announced a successor to its flagship Xperia Z1 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. It is not a total overhaul but it has made some important improvements to Xperia Z1.

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Samsung unveils Galaxy S5

Samsung has unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, Samsung Galaxy S5 as it continues the chain of its highly successful Galaxy S series of smartphones. This is one of the most highly anticipated smartphone of the year and it is certain to generate a lot of buzz in the coming days.

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Nokia unveil android smartphones X, X+ and XL for the low end market

Nokia has announced its first set of android smartphones at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona, Spain on the 24th of February, 2014. The smartphones run on android operating system that has been heavily modified to fit into Nokia’s and Microsoft standard.

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Quotes for the Week: Amar Gopal Bose (1929 - 2013)

Amar Bose was a Bengali American academic and entrepreneur. He was an electrical engineer and sound engineer, and a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for over 45 years. He was also the founder and chairman of Bose Corporation, a company that specialize in audio equipment.

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Ever seen the longest and tallest suspension bridge in the world?

The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is the longest and tallest bridge in the world. Apart from these, the magnificent piece of engineering has other numerous features that qualify it to be a marvel.

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What does Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp mean for social media and messaging?

 After Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $16 billion, many began thinking about what could be Facebook’s motive apart from the obvious fact that WhatsApp is a rapidly growing company and the effect it would have on social media and internet messaging.

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Facebook acquires Whatsapp for $19 billion

The mega social media giant has announced the acquisition of messaging app Whatsapp for a price of $19 billion. $4 billion will be paid in cash, $16 billion in Facebook shares and $3 billion in vesting restricted stock units.

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Google to hold its I/O conference in June

Google’s senior vice president in charge of android and chrome, Sundar Pichai has announced on Wednesday that Google’s I/O developer conference will be coming up in 126 days time on June 25 – 26 at San Francisco.

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Challenges facing e-commerce in Nigeria

When Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994, he had a clear vision to create the biggest market place on the internet. Today, that dream has come to fulfillment. With a market capitalization of about $165 billion, Amazon is clearly the biggest marketplace online. This has been followed by other e-commerce websites especially in other countries.

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Konga wants to be the ultimate marketplace in Nigeria

Konga has revealed that a year after it unveiled it Konga Mall, it is moving forward by incorporating more features into its new project which will be coming very soon: Konga Marketplace.

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Quotes for the Week: Douglas Engelbart (1925 - 2013)

Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor. He was also an early computer and internet pioneer. His work on human-computer interaction led him to the invention of the computer mouse, development of hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to graphical user interfaces (GUIs).

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Android continued its rise in shipments in 2013

Google owned android operating system has come to become the most popular operating system in smartphone and that status was further buffered in 2013 with android accounting for almost 80% of smartphone shipments.

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Nokia unveiling its first Android smartphone this month

When it was first announced that Microsoft was buying Nokia, it was thought this it will be an acquisition that will be aimed towards the development of the Windows Phone OS (operating system) platform to increase its share in the smartphone market but that may be untrue if new reports are to be believed.

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Quotes for the Week: Sergey Brin (1973 - )

Sergey Brin is an American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur who co-founded the biggest internet company, Google Inc. Sergey Brin was born in Russia and moved to the U.S. at the age of six.

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Will Twitter ever challenge Facebook?

Twitter released its earnings call on the 4th of February and its market capitalization has fell about 25% from about $36 billion to $27 billion in an occurrence that showed investors were losing faith rapidly in the second largest social network.

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Mobile data usage had an 81% increase in 2013

The latest release by Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) has revealed that data usage by mobile devices increased from 820 petabytes in a month in 2012 to 1.5 exabytes in a month in 2013. It went further to forecast that this will increase to 15 exabytes in a month by 2018.

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Sony dumps its PC business

Japanese technology company, Sony has announced it will be selling its Vaio PC business to  for the sum of $490 million. It also added that this will see 5,000 workers lose their jobs by the end of its fiscal year in March, 2015.

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What can we expect from Nadella as Microsoft’s CEO?

The search for a new Chief Executive Officer began in August, 2013 after former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer revealed that he will be leaving his post within the next 12 months when Microsoft would have appointed a new Chief Executive.

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And the new Microsoft’s CEO is…

Microsoft has announced a new Chief Executive Officer to take over the affairs of the software giant. A new Chairman of the board of director has also been chosen as Bill Gates steps down and become technology advisor.

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RLG to produce 5,000 mobile phones daily in Osun plant

RLG has revealed that about 5,000 mobile phones and 2,500 laptops will be produced daily in its newly built $50 million plant located in Ilesha in the State of Osun. The plant named RLG & Adulawo Tech City will also provide both direct and indirect employment to about 10,000 people.

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Nigeria Innovation Cluster Mapping Project

A project being managed by the African Institution of Technology (AFRIT) is planning to embark on a project that would seek to discover where innovations are happening in the suburban areas of the country and provide data that would help policy makers and private organizations in improving innovations around the country.

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Apple could pay up to $840 million over e-book conspiracy

Apple’s shady e-books deal with publishers could see the world’s largest technology company pay up to $840 million in damages, in a case of the State attorneys and consumers versus Apple.

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Quotes for the week: Google's Larry Page (1973 - )

Larry Page is an internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of technology giant Google Inc. Larry Page has been the Chief Executive Officer of Google since 2011 when he succeeded Eric Schmidt.

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Nadella to become the next CEO of Microsoft? Gates to step down as Chairman?

Bloomberg has reported that Microsoft’s board is preparing to make Satya Nadella the next CEO of the software company after five months of search for a new CEO. It also claimed that its sources say that Bill Gates could cease to be the Chairman of the board of the company.

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