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- 9 Dec 2020
Coronavirus, Joe Biden, Davido, Kobe Bryant Others Top Google 2020 Search Trend
Google on Wednesday listed Coronavirus, Joe Biden, Davido, Kobe Bryant, Pornstar martini recipe as the top trending search results in Nigeria for the year 2020. Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade.…
- 24 Apr 2024
Biden Signs Bill to Ban TikTok in the U.S
President Joe Biden signed a foreign aid package that includes a bill that would ban TikTok if China-based parent company ByteDance fails to divest the app within a year. The divest-or-ban bill is…
- 3 Nov 2020
Will Trump Shock the World Again?
By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM, Nearly four years ago, Donald Trump shocked the world by winning the US presidential election, pulling off one of the biggest political upsets in…
- 1 Oct 2020
Investors Little Moved by the Presidential Debate
By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXT, There is no doubt whoever becomes the next President of the United States of America will influence investor's decisions, but it seems we are no…
- 11 Jan 2021
Global Stocks Retreat from Record Highs; Dollar Extends Gains
By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM Equity markets kicked off 2021 on a solid footing. Investors clearly shrugged off the global surge in coronavirus cases and the US Capitol…
- 29 Jun 2020
More Market Volatility Ahead as Virus Spreads
By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM “Coronavirus deaths topped 500,000 worldwide”, is the first headline to grab investors’ attention this morning. The mission is unaccomplished and the…
- 5 Oct 2020
Trump’s Covid Infection Increases the Chance of Fiscal Stimulus
By Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist at FXTM President Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis caught markets by surprise on Friday and they sold off aggressively on the news, with the Dollar ticking higher…
- 15 Nov 2020
Rising Gold Prices Could Offer Nigeria Some Support- Otunuga
The call for the diversification of Nigeria's economy from mono-economy to a diversified one is getting more traction by the day, with the rising Gold prices; occasioned by the effects of COVID-19…
- 31 Mar 2024
OpenAI Unveils Voice-Cloning Tool
OpenAI on Friday revealed a voice-cloning tool it plans to keep tightly controlled until safeguards are in place to thwart audio fakes meant to dupe listeners. A model called “Voice Engine” can…
- 6 Nov 2020
Market Rally to Pause on Election Fatigue?
By Lukman Otunuga, Senior Research Analyst at FXTM It has been a momentous week defined by anticipation, tension and drama around the US presidential election. The outcome of this historic election…
- 19 Feb 2021
Stocks Continue to Wane Amid Higher Yields
By Han Tan, Market Analyst at FXTM Global risk sentiment remains poor, as investors continue contending with this week’s surge in Treasury yields, with 10-year yields above the psychologically…
- 30 Jun 2021
TikTok Removes 7m Underage Users
TikTok removed more than seven million accounts of users suspected of being under age 13 in the first three months of 2021, the popular social media operator said Wednesday in a transparency report.…
- 5 Jul 2021
Hackers Demand $70m after Kaseya Ransomware Attack
Hackers were on Monday demanding $70 million in bitcoin in exchange for data stolen during a “gargantuan” attack on a US IT company that has shuttered hundreds of Swedish supermarkets. AFP reported…
- 5 Jul 2021
CITN Helping FG Work on Tax Document for Tech Companies
Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN) is working on a policy and strategy document for the taxation of global tech companies in Nigeria. This is coming as 130 countries recently agreed on…
- 20 Jul 2021
China Says US Microsoft Hack Allegations ‘Fabricated’
China has denied allegations that it carried out a major cyber-attack against tech giant Microsoft. The US and other Western countries on Monday accused China of hacking Microsoft Exchange - a…
- 8 Aug 2021
FG Postpones Second Batch of COVID-19 Vaccination
Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 (PSC), on Sunday announced the postponement of the kick off of the second phase of vaccination for COVID-19. The second phase of the vaccination is to be…
- 1 Dec 2021
COVID’s Omicron Variant is High Risk — Here’s Are all You Need to Know
Researchers are still learning about Covid’s new omicron variant, but one expert has a stark prediction. “All the scientists I’ve talked to... are like, ‘This is not going to be good,’” Moderna CEO…
- 16 Nov 2022
Check Point Cybersecurity Predictions Expect More Global Attacks, Government Regulation, and Consolidation in 2023
Check Point® Software Technologies, a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, has released its cybersecurity predictions for 2023, detailing the key security challenges that…
- 14 Dec 2022
Pantami Signs Artemis Accords, Announces Space X Partnership @ the US-Africa Leaders’ Forum
Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, the honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, has signed the Artemis Accords on behalf of Nigeria. He also announced partnership with Space…
- 15 Dec 2022
Blinken, Tony Elumelu, Convene U.S. & African Entrepreneurs, Others for U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
About 300 entrepreneurs, investors, and celebrities took part in the opening reception for the US-Africa Leaders Summit, the investment-focused “Innovators Gathering”, honoring the influx of two-way…
- 10 Jan 2025
TikTok Announces Plans to Cease Operations in the U.S. by January 19, 2025
TikTok has officially announced plans to cease its operations in the United States by January 19, 2025. "Absent such relief, the Act will take effect on January 19, 2025," TikTok said in a Dec. 9…
- 28 Jan 2025
DeepSeek's Rise Causes Historic $589Bn Loss for Nvidia
US tech giant Nvidia saw its stock plummet nearly 17% on Monday, leading a sell-off across AI-related stocks after the Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek gained sudden prominence. Nvidia’s market value…
- 14 Feb 2025
TikTok Returns on Apple, Google US App Stores as Trump Delays Ban
TikTok returned to the U.S. app stores of Apple and Google on Thursday as President Donald Trump delayed a ban on the Chinese-owned social media app and assured the tech giants they would not be…
- 18 Mar 2025
Google to Buy Cybersecurity Company Wiz for $32Bn
Google said Tuesday it will acquire cloud security platform Wiz for $32 billion, citing the need for greater cybersecurity capacity as artificial intelligence embeds itself in technology…
- 24 Aug 2025
Intel–U.S. Partnership Reshapes Semiconductor Landscape with Historic Equity Agreement
Chipmaker, Intel has agreed to give the US government a 10 percent stake in its business, according to a joint announcement by the company and President Donald Trump. The deal follows Trump’s push…
- 3 Nov 2008
DStv Covers the U.S Presidential Elections
Now, after more than 18 months of debates, speeches, primaries and political rallies, the U.S. presidential campaign trail culminates on November 4. CNN and BBC World will be right there to bring…
- 28 Aug 2012
Facebook, CNN Unveil ‘Election Insights’ Real-time Tool
CNN, America’s most trusted source of news and information for the 2012 presidential campaigns, and Facebook have unveiled the Facebook-CNN Election Insights. This tool displays the real-time number…
- 14 Oct 2015
US Considers Visa Ban, Financial Sanctions on Alison-Madueke, Others
United States government is reportedly considering imposing a visa ban or financial sanctions against Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, ex-petroleum minister, and a dozen of her associates, government…
- 23 Jul 2020
Twitter Mulls Subscription Options as Ad Revenue Drops Sharply
Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday. The move comes as Twitter suffers a sharp…
- 30 Aug 2020
Cybersecurity And Risk Mitigation
By Austin Okere “Twitter hack: 130 accounts targeted in attack” was the screaming headline on the BBC’s website on July 17, 2020. Two days earlier, the social media site had admitted a major…