Yahoo dismisses its COO after only 15 months; and with lots of cash

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.

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Microsoft to pay $2.6bn to Samsung and others to make Windows Phone

According to rumour from Mobile Review’s Eldar Murtazin, Microsoft has approached Samsung, Huawei, Sony and other smartphone manufacturers to give $1.2bn, $600m, $500m and $300m respectively to make Windows Phone 8 smartphones in 2014.

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Adobe add support for 3D printing to Photoshop

Adobe has revealed the addition of three features to the Photoshop CC, one of which is support for editing and printing of 3D models. Initially, Photoshop supported 3D but the features were limited for users.

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Google to acquire Nest Labs for $3.2 billion

Google Inc. has agreed a deal to buy home thermostat maker Nest Labs for a fee of $3.2 billion. Nest Labs was founded in 2011 by Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers who are both former employees of Apple Inc. and this has made the deal more interesting.

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Quotes for the Week: Larry Ellison (1944 - )

Larry Ellison is an American businessman and the co-founder of Oracle Corporation. Ellison has been the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Oracle since 1977 which makes him the longest serving CEO in Silicon valley’s history.

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Want a 1 million naira tablet? Panasonic has a surprise for you

At the ongoing Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2014 in Las Vegas, Panasonic has unveiled a mega 20-inch tablet that has two major unique features: screen size and an expensive price.

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Apple and Samsung CEOs agree to meet over patent disputes

A court injunction has revealed that the Chief Executive Officers of Samsung and Apple will meet for mediation over the patent disputes that will see Apple attempt to ban sales of Samsung smartphones and tablets in the U. S. in March.

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Get food delivered at your doorstep with Hellofood! (Sponsored Post)

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.

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The first iPhone was announced exactly 7 years ago

On this day in 2007, an announcement from the late Apple boss, Steve Jobs changed the future of smartphones and further cemented Jobs’ position as an innovator. He unveiled a single device which contained a cell phone, an iPod and an internet communicator. The device was named an iPhone.

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Samsung and LG bring new incredible TVs

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, many groundbreaking products have been revealed by different manufacturers but the steal of the show may have been Samsung and LG for their bendable TVs.

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Quotes for the Week: George Eastman (1854 - 1932)

George Eastman was an American inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. Eastman was popularly known for popularizing the use of film in photography and also founding the Eastman Kodak Company.

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What do you know about Nigeria’s Communication Satellites?

Nigerian communication satellites are being managed by the Nigerian Communication Satellite (NIGCOMSAT) Limited. The company was incorporated on the 4th of April, 2006 under the Federal Ministry of Information and Communications Technology.

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A happy new year to you all

Yes, this is 2014 and we are happy to see it. Last year had many stories in it and this year promises to bring better stories which we are prepared to bring to you when they occur.

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Samsung to make first ever smartphone chip with 4GB of RAM

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has developed the first 8Gb low-power double data rate 4 (LPDDR4) mobile DRAM. This chip can transmit 3.2Gbps over each of their electric connection, which is twice that of today’s DDR3 and also consumes 40 percent less power.

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Quotes for the Week: Walter Percy Chrysler (1875 - 1940)

Walter Chrysler was an American automotive executive and the founder of Chrysler Corporation. Chrysler went from being a machinist and railroad mechanic to building one of the biggest automobile companies in the world.

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Google is the most talked about company of the year 2013

Statistics from Dow Jones has revealed that Google is the most talked about company of the year 2013 after overtaking Apple which moved from first place last year to second place this year.

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Inventor of AK-47 assault rifle dies

The inventor of the most popular assault rifle has passed on after being in the intensive care in Izhevsk since November 17. Mikhail Kalashnikov’s invention has been credited for more deaths of human beings than any other weapon.

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Quotes for the Week: Pythagoras (570BC – 495BC)

Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher, mathematician and scientist. Pythagoras is popular for Pythagoras theorem in Mathematics. Yes, the one inside mathematical sets which we used mostly in secondary school and some are presently using.

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WhatsApp now has over 400 million monthly active users

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.

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Quotes for the Week: Aristotle (384BC – 322BC)

Aristotle is one of the fathers of philosophy and contributed to so many fields including science while he was alive. He had writings in many subjects which include physics, metaphysics, poetry, music, logic, politics, etc.

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What will Airtel gain from this move?

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.

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Apple agrees deal to bring iPhones to China Mobile

Reports from the Wall Street Journal have indicated that Apple has concluded a deal with China Mobile to bring iPhone 5S and 5C to the world’s largest telecommunications company for the first time.

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Nokia in the last decade, where are they now?

To most things in life, the rule of survival of the fittest applies to make competition and adaptation possible among people and even animals. Like Charles Darwin said, the strongest animal is not the one that survives, but the one that can adapt to changes better.

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Future: Amazon to use drones for delivery

Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos has revealed that the largest online retailer in the world is testing unmanned drones that would be used to deliver light products in a short period of time to customers.

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Quotes for the Week: Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855)

Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer and physicist who contributed a great deal to the field of science. He was popular for Gauss law which gave the relationship between flux through a closed surface and the enclosed source.

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