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President Trump launched a new attack on Amazon on Thursday accusing the e-commerce giant of paying low taxes and keeping more retailers in the cities out of jobs. The Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos who also owns Amazon had recently run an editorial with the headline, "Trump gives comfort to racists" before the blistering tweet. It read: "I have stated my concerns with Amazon long before the Election. Unlike others, they pay little or no taxes and local governments, use our Postal System as their Delivery Boy (causing tremendous loss to the U.S.) and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business!" Trump claims that it"s Amazon"s fault that many retailers on the streets are struggling to make sales as many buyers turn to shop online, especially on Amazon, which is branded the largest e-commerce site. Times are changing, and the convenience that comes with shopping online cannot be over-emphasised. Online shopping accords users the benefit to

“The wind has blown and we have seen the rump of the fowl”. This Nigerian adage has taken its toll this time as a huge level of deception has been uncovered in the Nigeria Police Force. Nemesis has finally caught up with the looters of federal government funds as improved regulatory standards have been put in place. Earlier this week, after integrating the payroll of the Nigeria Police into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), the Federal Government of Nigeria has discovered 80,115 ghost officers on the force’s payroll. Before the integration, members of the Nigerian Police on the payroll stood at 371,800. But a subsequent audit from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation, showed it to be actually 291,685 with a gross salary of about ₦22.3 billion. Which was explained by Premium Times report . IPPIS was announced in November 2016 to automate the payroll of civil servants and flush out ghost workers, and it seems to be doing exactly that. IPPI

Konge gets a new CEO Konga, one of Nigeria"s fastest growing online shopping Malls that offer a third-party online marketplace as well as a first-party direct retail spanning various categories including consumer electronics, fashion, home appliances, books, children"s items, health care and personal care products. Konga’s CEO, Shola Adekoya stepped into office in 2016 when Konga founder and former CEO Sim Shagaya resigned from the company 2012. [caption id="attachment_10818" align="aligncenter" width="1276"]       Outgoing Konga CEo Shola Adekoya [/caption] Fast forward. Shola announced his exit from the ecommerce company. The announcement was made via a tweet from his personal handle on Twitter. The tweet reads; “Over to you Nick. Wishing you and @shopkonga all the best as I join the Konga Alumni. Thanks to all the current and ex-Konga staff that gave me their best towards building a great Konga while I was at the helm of affairs .” Formerly C

How often do you use GIF? It could be a way of expressing a feeling, a gesture or a remark. GIF is one of the basic tools most people add to their messages via social media platforms to help spice up their conversations. Google has added the GIF platform Tenor among it"s list of acquisitions owned by the company. Tenor, a four-year-old startup that attracts about 300 million people per month to its GIF search tool, where more than 12 billion search requests are made per month. It will continue to run under the Tenor brand within Google. Google stated that the startup will help Google Images and other products that use GIFs such as Gboard chat to help the search giant show users “the right GIFs in the moment” that matches the users mood. Google’s director of engineering Cathy Edwards said in a blog post. “Most people now use Google Images to find more information about a topic, and to help them communicate and express themselves— case in point, we see millions of searches for GIFs

Often times, we"ve had to go to places we rarely know - for that little drop-in visitation, or to close an important business deal. Places we know or perhaps have heard little or nothing about. With the help of maps, we"ve been able to avoid a couple of messy ‘lost puppy’ situations. Thanks to Google Maps, which seem to be the most useful invention of all times and to add an icing to the cake, it"s now available in 39 different languages. The update was announced today in a blog post by the company. Here is a brief list of the languages —Afrikaans, Danish, Filipino, Hebrew, Icelandic, Mongolian, Serbian, Slovak, Swahili, Turkish, Vietnamese, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Georgian, Hebrew, Icelandic, Indonesian, Kazakh, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Mongolian, Norwegian, Persian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbe

Today, there are lots of movie streaming apps and services to choose from and this dilemma makes it really hard to choose which apps to use when you want to watch a movie or TV show. Worry less, instead of using separate apps to see what movies and TV shows that are available, why not just use the Google Play Movies & TV App which allows android device users to stream any movie or TV show of their choice from any streaming App. With the updated Google Play Movies and TV services, you can now find out if certain movies or TV shows are available on a streaming service, not just through Google. For example, if you search for ‘This is Us’, you will see that you can buy it through Play Movies & TV and stream it through the NBC and Hulu apps. From there, you can tap it to take you to the ‘buy screen’ or to the app of your choice. Interestingly, you can also stream the content to your TV through Google Cast. Google proposed to support over a dozen streaming and TV apps, such as ABC, C

ITSM is a relatively new term, one that has become popular only in the last decade or so. Many people, even today, do not really understand what ITSM means and what it entails. For others, it might be too technical a concept to fully grasp, at least initially. What does ITSM mean to a layperson with minimal or no technical know-how? Is ITSM a concept that needs to be widely understood today? For what does ITSM stand? ITSM stands for Information Technology Service Management or IT Service Management. It refers to a collection of activities, products, and services that are contained in the IT services lifecycle. It refers to the effective management of all the components of IT services to ensure prompt and quality services and customer satisfaction. ITSM may also include policies and regulations specific to management of IT services. IT services include not just everyday customer support and problem resolution, but management of various services and processes from start to finish. Booki

Oculus Rift’s high end VR headset has been in the market for some time now and is one of the leading names in the space. With an improved Rift bundle, you can even do more than you would have imagined! Soak into the immersive with an unmatched Oculus experience like never before. To create the ultimate setup, quip yourself with some of these top accessories and get the benefits of a seamless VR performance. Here’s what you need to buy. Oculus ready PCs A number of Oculus ready PCs from Asus, Alienware, Dell, Cyberpower PC, Lenovo and more are already making enough news for being the compact VR support. At the Amazon store, for a best buy of $1000, you can get a superior VR setup ready with an Oculus Ready PC bundled with Rift and Touch controllers. All you need is the headset, a headphone, and the ultra-powerful PC. Read more:  See Dell’s New VR Ready Gaming Laptops Get your hands on the Oculus Ready PC separately with a number of capable desktop PCs from some of the top manufacturers

Guess its time for kids to own an iPad.  Before now Apple iPads are known to be expensive, but today during the education event held Lane Tech College Prep High School Chicago, Apple unveiled a new affordable iPad model that supports an Apple Pencil. The device is compatible with all new version of Apple’s word processing spreadsheet and presentation apps will be offered to schools for $299 ($329 for consumers). The new device will bring some of Apple"s high-end specs, like Retina display, Pencil support and A10 Fusion chips, to a lower-end device. It will also take the iPad back to its roots with new digital book creation features. At the event, CEO Tim Cook emphasised the company"s investments in community colleges, as well as expanded classes at Apple"s retail locations. Today, Apple has 200,000 apps made for education, according to Apple vice president of product marketing Greg Joswiak, who discussed the iPad. The New iPad apps are taking advantage of Apple"s au

The ride-hailing company gets suspended from state of Arizona.  After the unforeseen circumstances that happened earlier last week that caused a fatal accident which occurred at night and coincided with autonomous test driver Rafaela Vasquez looking down right before the moment of impact, left pedestrian 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg dead. It is likely the first death caused by a self-driving vehicle, and the aftermath of the event has been severe for Uber, with the company immediately suspending self-driving operations in the state amid a US National Transportation Safety Board investigation. The Tempe Police Department is also conducting an investigation, which will eventually be turned over to the Maricopa County Attorney’s office. In the light of the event, today the 12News which was reported by Bianca Buono explained via her twitter account that “ In light of the fatal Uber crash in Tempe, Governor Ducey sends this letter to Uber ordering the company to suspend its testing of auton

Indeed, it has been an incredible year, as there have been lots of rumours and news of a tablet running on Chrome OS for years now. But all that is behind us now as Acer has pulled out the first Chrome tablet and it"s called the Acer Chromebook Tab 10. Acer Chromebook Tab 10 is meant to rival the iPad, as it was just announced, while Apple is also supposed to announce a new low-cost model slated at the Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago which starts at 4pm BST (11am ET) Tuesday. The Tab 10 has a 9.7-inch, 2048x1536 display —with a 5MB front and 8MP rear-facing  cameras, an estimated nine hours of battery life, an OP1 Rockchip processor, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, a USB-C port, an internal memory space of 4GB , a Wireless Ac (2x2), Bluetooth 4.1 connectivity and is priced at $329 will be available  April 2018. The Tab 10 will likely have some advantages on whatever Apple introduces tomorrow. Though it may be more expensive, having an integrated, non-powered stylus will

[caption id="attachment_7725" align="alignnone" width="2060"]                                                                    Nigerian Central Bank, Abuja, Nigeria. Image shot 2007 [/caption] As part of the National Information Technology Development Agency"s move to ensure a threat-free cyberspace, the Central Bank of Nigeria was saddled with the responsibility to embark on a project aimed at restructuring the CBN"s Information and Communications Technology security and system"s infrastructure upgrade projects, Punch Nigeria reported. According to NITDA, the CBN embarked on this project to subdue cyber threats that have become a menace to financial institutions in the country. The Director-General of NITDA, Isa Pantami had earlier in the year rung the alarm on the danger of leaving loopholes for cyber-criminals to penetrate. He alerted the banking system, health sector, power and the transportation sectors of the risk of not tightening

Following the Facebook Inc. breach which saw over 50 million users" data inappropriately used by Cambridge Analytica, Apple Chief, Time Cook, and IBM Corp Chief have requested for an intense oversight on the external use of users" data, Reuters reported. Tim Cook, Apple boss, emphasised on the use of a well-crafted regulation, in line with what IBM Corp Chief, Virginia Rometty said. He noted that social network owners should be transparent with their terms and conditions. In retrospect, users should be in control of their data or information. During the three-day China Development Forum in Beijing, Tim Cook spoke on the necessity to review the regulations to prevent users from surprises in the future. He said: " It"s clear to me that something, some profound change in needed. I"m personally not a big fan of regulation because sometimes, regulations can have unexpected consequences to it; however, I think this certain situation is so dire and has become so large

It is no longer news that the ride-hailing giants has businesses in most part of the world including Southeast Asia , but the news is that Uber today Monday, signed a deal to sell its business  to SouthEast Grab ,  it"s rival in the region.  As part of the procurement, Uber will take a 27.5 percent stake in Grab, with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi joining Grab"s board. Grab will take over all of Uber"s businesses, including its ride-sharing, food delivery and payments and financial services in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, according to a statement. Asia isn"t the first place Uber is retreating. The ride-hailing company sold its operation in China to Didi Chuxing its rival, which is one of the country"s biggest ride sharing provider, in August 2016. Rumours about Grab’s acquisition have been swirling since Softbank an investor with Grabs confirmed its investment in Uber last December. Grab has raised more th

Emojis have become an interesting aspect to how many people communicate via social media messaging platforms and the demand for more diversity in the emoji world is loud and audible.  Apple has submitted a proposal to the Unicode consortium — the non-profit organisation that sets the global standard for emojis — advocating for 13 new additions to be represented. The proposed emojis interestingly include: a guide dog, hearing aid, prosthetic limbs, as well as people using canes and different types of wheelchairs. In the opening line of the proposal , Apple writes: “ Apple is requesting the addition of emoji to better represent individuals with disabilities. Currently, emoji provide a wide range of options, but may not represent the experiences of those with disabilities These new emojis have options for both males and females  taken into consideration without leaving out skin color tones. A summary  of the proposed emojis are represented below: Guide Dog With Harness A guide dog shown

Mark Zuckerberg has advertised on full-page US and UK newspapers to apologise for the recent data scandal his platform has caused. He admitted doing wrongly, at least. He said that Facebook could have prevented their data from being exploited by the British political consulting firm in 2014. " This was a breach of trust, and I am sorry ," he said in the ads. This means more than one thing. First, it proves Dave Lee wrong. He had earlier argued that " contrition has never been Mr. Zuckerberg"s strong point " because he did not officially apologise to the staff members who had been entangled in the scandal and to the affected users whose data were exploited. Secondly, he could be keeping to the end of his bargain because the social media firm is currently running at a loss. Last week, the firm lost about five million dollars. Elon Musk deleted all his firm"s pages on Facebook, sparing only two- the Boring company and the AI firm which he co-owns. The BBC rep

6 Vital Reasons Why Live Chat Is Beneficial For Your Business Growth Generate more qualified leads:   Live Chat software helps in connecting with users at the right time. With set contextual messages based on the pages the visitor visits you can establish an immediate connect. This helps in proactive lead generation depending on the conversation a user is having on the website. This sets the ball rolling for better customer engagement for businesses.   Targeted Messages   With a Live Chat software you can send targeted messages to visitors who abandon carts by capturing events like name and value of the item added to the cart and visitors who downloaded a case study by capturing events like name of the case study and the navigation path of the visitor. This helps businesses send proactive messages to the right visitor at the right time and help them in signing up for a trial. Better Conversations: Live Chat software helps you replace forms with bots that are conversational . With a

Samsung apparently wants to answer to everybody"s dream gadget. Over time, it has reversed its designs and features to suit the trend and keep the customers happy.   However, things have gone sour after the launch of the Samsung S9 as customers are complaining about their screens. It"s just a few weeks after the launch, but that"s not what is more overwhelming. The mobile phone retail price in New Zealand is over $1100!  The spec had undergone a camera tweak and a stylish super-slow-motion video. These features could set the bar for the Samsung S9 to set the bar for other Android phones for 2018. Nevertheless, it"s not as fantastic after all. The Daily Mail reports that official forums are flooded with complaints about "dead spots" on the screen. Some of the complaints read: "Does anyone else have issues with the Galaxy S9 touchscreen? I"ve got a few dead spots on the bottom half of my screen." "Getting a replacement phone shipped but d

This week has been a rocky one for Facebook after the scandal involved with the British political consulting firm which allegedly extracted the data of 50 million users on Facebook for shady purposes. Following this revelation, many people took to Twitter to announce that they would quit using the social network with the #deleteFacebook which went viral.  While many users decided to defend Facebook, it came as a shock that Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and SpaceX joins the bandwagon. The entire show started after Brian Acton, the co-founder of WhatsApp coined the #deleteFacebook hashtag on Twitter. It began as a dare game on Twitter but resulted in the significant news. The day the Federal Trade Commission opened an investigation into the case of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, Mr. Acton tweeted, "it"s time to #deleteFacebook." In response, Musk stated, "What"s Facebook?" It wasn"t sure if he was joking, but another tweeter decided to begin a truth and

Summary  Whether gardening’s a chore you put up with to keep your home looking good, or an activity that keeps you satisfied and relaxed, there are always things you can do or use to make things a bit easier. Case in point, sensors that tell you exactly when to water your plants and a hub that keeps track of the weather to conserve water.                                                                       Image Source: Pexels.com   Not everyone has a green thumb. For some reason, there are those who, for the life of us, can’t seem to keep anything alive. Well, this one’s for you. From sensors that keep everything in check, to smart gardens keeping your plants alive year-round, here are 5 gadgets that will make gardening a cinch. 1: GreenIQ Smart Garden Hub   Image Source: https://greeniq.com/ The GreenIQ Smart Garden Hub is your best friend when it comes to watering your plants. Long story short, it’s a smart sprinkler controller that adapts to the weather and automatically skips th

Google Chrome’s new update will come with one important feature: The option for blocking autoplay videos, which start on their own and often leave the user confused as to where exactly the sound is coming from. Google Chrome’s version 66 will also include changes to autoplay videos and although this feature was to roll out with chrome version 64 in January , but it didn"t and the company plan to roll it out with the latest version 66. In the Chrome v64 update, Google introduced a new feature that makes the difficult task of sharing long URLs easier. The browser now trims the unnecessary strings at the end of the URLs when you share them. For this, you don"t need to turn on any special setting; the browser automatically takes care of the junk at the end of long URLs. Google’s additional changes will allow mute autoplay videos that blast out of  your phone speaker while browsing.Google will delay this changes to chrome 66 , but it will appear on beta chrome channels ahead of

Want to send money to a friend Or a family member? Now Google Assistant can handle all your money transaction. Google"s assistant will be able to manage peer-to-peer money transfers using Google Pay on Android and iOS. People will be able to ask the assistant via voice or text for example "Hey Google, request $15 from Sam" or "Hey, Google, send Asher $20 for lunch today". The company explained in a blog post that the “Funds sent to Google Assistant can be received by any person in your contacts, even if the recipient doesn’t have Google Pay. People without Google Pay accounts can be guided through the Google Pay account creation process by Google Assistant when they ask to make their first payment. Users with the Google Pay app will receive a notification when a payment is received, a process that only takes a second to transfer”. In January, Google combined Android Pay and Google Wallet into a single service and called it called Google Pay. The Google Pay ap

Snapchat is introducing a new feature called Map Explore today that will help alert and update users about what’s happening on their Snap Map. The travel and location updates will also appear on the user’s snap Map when a friend clicks on a share location button it will automatically share the Friends location. The feature added will also show Explores updates for “Our Story snaps including breaking news and other events from all around the world. The new feature is an easier way for users to explore content on Snapchat based on location, which is a nifty tool if you want to see what’s happening elsewhere... or see when your friends are hanging out without you. Snapchat said in a statement that it"s introducing this tool to help make updates easier to be accessed by users, also added by the company  “We made Map Explore because we noticed that when you open the Map, you aren’t always sure where to start your journey. Meanwhile, if your friend is sharing their location on the map b