Black Friday: Outdated online listings may undermine retailers — Google
By Juliet Umeh Nigerian retailers preparing for Black Friday may lose ready-to-buy customers if their Google listings carry outdated opening hours, unanswered phone numbers or old product photographs. Google’s Director for East and West Africa, Olumide Balogun, gave the warning as Nigeria prepare for Black Friday and December festive shopping season. Black Friday falls on […]
COVID-19: Remodel businesses for contactless services – ICT Expert
An Information Communication Technology (ICT) expert, Mr Tunde Badmus, on Tuesday, advised businesses to remodel their style of service delivery to contactless form. Badmus, who gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, said Coronavirus (COVID-19) is the new reality and companies need to devise means of survival. […]
YouTube bans ‘medically unsubstantiated’ content from site
YouTube has started banning content that is in direct contradiction to the World Health Organization’s guidelines as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the United States. The Google-owned company also announced that it will be removing conspiracy theory videos that say that COVID-19 is directly linked to 5G cell service. Chief executive, Susan Wojcicki said […]
Jeff Bezos back managing Amazon’s day-to-day business during pandemic
Amazon’s globetrotting CEO Jeff Bezos has been pulled back into the company’s day-to-day operations by the coronavirus, according to a new report. The 56-year-old Bezos who in recent years has delegated management of his $1.2 trillion e-commerce juggernaut while he turned his focus to moonshot projects like his Blue Origin rocket company, has been forced […]
5G, COVID-19 and history without end
By Okoh Aihe As it was in 1961 so it is in 2020 and so it will ever……….. I am not one to complete the above doggerel verse, some kind of kindergarten psycho-babble; because its completion is trapped in a future that is not so inspiring and has very little to offer but which we […]
Girls in ICT Day: NITDA says sector needs more women, girls
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), says the country needs more women and girls to build careers in the ICT sector for fair representation and socio-economic development. Mrs Hadiza Umar, NITDA Head, Corporate Affairs and External Relations, said this in a statement issued on Thursday in Abuja to commemorate this year’s “Girls in ICT […]
