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).
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Friday, February 21, 2014
What does Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp mean for social media and messaging?
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 6:39 AM
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.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Facebook acquires Whatsapp for $19 billion
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 7:07 AM
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.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Challenges facing e-commerce in Nigeria
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 5:06 AM
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.
Posted in e-commerce, internet, jumia, konga
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Konga wants to be the ultimate marketplace in Nigeria
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 8:16 AM
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.
Posted in e-commerce, internet, konga
Friday, February 7, 2014
Will Twitter ever challenge Facebook?
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 7:51 PM
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.
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Mobile data usage had an 81% increase in 2013
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 4:30 PM
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.
Posted in Gadgets, internet, Smartphones, Tablets
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
And the new Microsoft’s CEO is…
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 12:03 AM
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.
Posted in internet, Microsoft, PC, technology, windows
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Apple could pay up to $840 million over e-book conspiracy
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 8:45 PM
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.
Monday, January 27, 2014
Facebook could lose 80 percent of users by 2017 says researchers
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 12:45 AM
Researchers
at Princeton University has predicted that the most popular social network
site, Facebook could see a mass exodus of up to 80% of its users between 2015
and 2017.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Sorry, you’ll now see less text posts from Facebook pages
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 8:59 PM
Facebook has revealed
through its Product Manager, News Feed Ranking, Chris Turitzin in a blog post
that users of Facebook will see less of text updates from pages and more text
updates from their friends. It was also revealed that other types of contents
from pages could get more rank in the news feed than before.
Friday, January 17, 2014
Yahoo dismisses its COO after only 15 months; and with lots of cash
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 9:44 PM
Yahoo has
announced that its Chief Operating Officer Henrique De Castro has left the
company after working with the company for only 15 months. De Castro was the
major hire of CEO Marissa Mayer after he took over in 2012.
Friday, January 10, 2014
Get food delivered at your doorstep with Hellofood! (Sponsored Post)
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 2:49 PM
Hellofood is
an African company that brings convenience in the way we take food today.
Hellofood, based in about 7 African countries including Nigeria is well
equipped to take care of your food needs.
Posted in internet
Saturday, December 21, 2013
WhatsApp now has over 400 million monthly active users
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 4:36 AM
In the mobile
messaging battle which we can say WhatsApp is leading, WhatsApp has further
given data supporting its leadership in mobile messaging. WhatsApp has revealed
that it now has over 400 million active users per month.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
What will Airtel gain from this move?
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 5:31 AM
Over the past
week, Airtel Nigeria sent a text message to its users notifying them that its
blackberry data subscription will stop working on phones that are not
blackberry from the 3rd of December onwards.
Friday, November 22, 2013
What the most important component of a smartphone does
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 4:33 AM
Over the past
few years, mobile phone usage has been gradually moving from feature phones to
smartphones and it is no surprise that smartphones now have more sales than
feature phones worldwide.
Posted in Apple, internet, Samsung, Smartphones
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Instagram now on Windows Phone
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 11:08 AM
After a year
and eight months that Instagram debuted on Android, the photo sharing app is
now available on the Windows Phone Store for users on the Windows Phone
platform.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Yahoo to encrypt all user data by 2014 – CEO
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 5:43 AM
Yahoo CEO
Marissa Mayer has revealed in a blog post on the official Yahoo Tumblr page
that the company will extend its high security layer to all its products to
continue to secure information of users from spying eyes and to consolidate
users’ trust.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Facebook Page or Group? Different purposes...
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 2:29 AM
Undoubtedly,
Facebook is now the biggest social media site around and the ultimate place to
meet people you care about online. Apart from interpersonal activities on the
social site, Facebook has also made it possible for people with the same
interests to discuss and receive information about their interests.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Snapchat rejects Facebook’s $3bn offer
Posted by Olumide Samuel on 6:16 AM
According to
reports from the Wall Street Journal, growing messaging service, Snapchat has
spurned a $3 billion acquisition offer from the biggest social media site,
Facebook.
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