Pan-African Financial Institution, United Bank for Africa (UBA) who recently clinched the Euromoney awards as the Best Digital Bank in Africa, is once again asserting itself as a pace setter, moving in leaps and bounds in unchartered territory. UBA’s chat banker, Leo has launched in pilot mode on WhatsApp and will be fully available to […]
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United Bank for Africa Plc and Guaranty Trust Bank Plc have extended their banking services to a social media platform, WhatsApp. UBA, in a statement on Wednesday, said its chat banker, Leo, was launched in a pilot mode on WhatsApp and would be fully available to customers by September 1, 2018. It said customers would […]
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The Federal Government has joined major technology companies, including Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, others, to deploy resources and technology to fight fake news. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this briefing and stakeholders meeting with online publishers/social media influencers on the national campaign against fake news in Lagos, yesterday. He said: “The […]
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Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp messenger suffered a temporary outage in India and many other countries, according to reports from multiple users on Facebook and Twitter on Friday. Users in countries ranging from Brazil and Russia to Vietnam and Myanmar reported on social media that WhatsApp was down in their countries. The extent of the outage and […]
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Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, now owned by Facebook Inc, will leave the messaging service company to start a new foundation, he said in a Facebook post on Tuesday. Acton spent eight years with WhatsApp, which Facebook bought in 2014 for $19 billion in cash and stock. A Stanford alumnus, Acton co-founded WhatsApp with Ukrainian […]
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Facebook Inc is gearing up to make money from WhatsApp, the messaging service used by more than a billion people every day, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. WhatsApp is testing features that would allow businesses to chat with their clients on the app, according to the report. (http://on.wsj.com/2eBw3UA) It has started a pilot […]
Read More Social media giant; Facebook Inc. is set to be penalised by EU antitrust regulators for allegedly providing misleading data related to its WhatsApp acquisition three years ago, a person familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The move by the European Commission will come after a six-month investigation and is expected to be a stiff […]
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Technology companies must cooperate more with law enforcement agencies and should stop offering a “secret place for terrorists to communicate” using encrypted messages, British interior minister Amber Rudd said on Sunday. Local media have reported that British-born Khalid Masood sent an encrypted message moments before killing four people last week by ploughing his car into […]
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With the economic crisis in the country hitting businesses hard, telecommunication firms are opting for drastic measures to boost revenue, OZIOMA UBABUKOH writes Telecoms companies in the country are hoping to address concerns over revenue loss from international calls and hit a revenue target of N20tn by blocking subscribers from accessing Skype and other Over-the-Top […]
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One normally starts thinking about security only when it gets compromised. But the services you normally use put in a lot of effort to keep you and your data secure. Here’s a quick rundown of the steps you need to follow to secure your online presence. 1. TWITTER: Apart from changing your password often, one […]
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The blockade has shocked Facebook, which owns Whatsapp and led to benefits for competitors like Telegram. A Brazilian judge has banned WhatsApp in the country for 48 hours, starting this morning at 2:00am. According to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg, whose company owns WhatsApp, more than 100 million Brazilians access the service, which is the single […]
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