BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The European Commission (EU) has ruled that Ireland should recover up to €13bn (£11bn) from the US giant Apple in back taxes. The Commission handed down the ruling after concluding its three years investigation. It held that Irish’s tax benefits were illegal. EU held that Ireland enabled Apple to pay […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – One of the foremost social media, Facebook FB has overhauled the users’ feature on its site to make posts more automated after claims of left-wing bias. FB’s 1.7 billion users see news stories and topics picked using a mixture of AI and human input. With the modification, the company stated […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Young Nigerian animator, Roye Okupe’s prominence is soaring as he has been featured on the popular American news site – Washington Post just as his second work arrived the country. The Computer Scientist gained the distinct media mentioning over his a comic book company, YouNeek Studios. Okupe arrived in the […]
BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Trending social medium – WhatsApp has announced its readiness to begin sharing of more data with the Facebook as well as start allowing some companies to send messages to users. The development makes it the first time WhatsApp will change its privacy policy since its debut by Facebook in 2014. […]
ABUJA, NIGERIA (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – President Muhammadu Buhari has requested the Senate to confirm nominees into positions of Chairman, Executive Commissioner, and Non-Executive Commissioners of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The nomination was contained in a statement issued Tuesday the president’s spokesperson, Mr. Femi Adeshina. In a letter dated August 2, 2016, sent to President of […]
The Federal Government (FG) has announced that about 200,000 television households in Jos, the Plateau State capital, will receive free Set-Top Boxes (STBs) for the Pilot Scheme of the Digital Switch Over (DSO) on April 30, 2016. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, drpped the hint Friday when he led members of the […]
By Ayo Balogun, Lagos BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it has extended to Friday the deadline given to MTN to pay a N1.04 Trillion fine slammed on the company following its failure to deactivate 5.2 million unregistered SIM cards on its network. Mr. Tony Ojobo, NCC’s Director of Public […]
While other smartphone makers continue to focus on megapixel counts with their new cameras, Apple is reportedly taking a different approach with the iPhone 6. Samsung’s Galaxy S5 will likely feature a 16-megapixel camera compared to the 13-megapixel unit on the S4. Sony’s recent high-end smartphones feature 20.7-megapixel cameras. And then there’s Nokia’s flagship Lumia […]
