IBM CEO Virginia Rometty To Step Down Virginia Rometty will step down as IBM’s CEO, the company announced Thursday, and Arvind Krishna, IBM’s senior vice president of cloud and cognitive software, will replace her. Rometty will stay on as executive chairman until the end of the year and then retire […]
Month: January 2020
Mark Zuckerberg’s Net Worth Drops $5 Billion After Facebook Results Shake Investors Facebook stock dropped more than 5% Thursday morning after the company posted fourth-quarter earnings that beat analyst revenue expectations but showed a steep rise in expenses on the year. The company reported revenue rose 25% to $21.1 billion, beating Refinitiv […]
Rihanna’s Former Chinatown Penthouse Is Back On The Market For $15.95 Million A Chinatown penthouse once rented by Rihanna is for sale once again, this time asking for $15.95 million. The listing has been on and off the market for more than a decade. Its price has fluctuated from $13.995 […]
Facebook To Build ‘Eye OS’, Its Own Operating System To Ditch Google Much of Facebook’s hardware relies on the mercy of Google and its operating system that’s used widely across billions of devices. Facebook is no longer happy about depending on its competition for some of the most important components […]
Yahoo To Pay 500 million Users $117,500,000 For Data Breach Yahoo is sending out a reminder to its over 3 billion users worldwide for a litigation against the company over data breach by malicious actors who gained access to about 500 million users login details and other personal details. According […]
Nigerian Government Approves N33,000 Allowance For Corp Members Current and upcoming NYSC members now have every reason to celebrate because the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Director-General (DG), Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has confirmed that the FG, in line with the new Minimum Wage, has approved N33,000 allowance for Corps members. The […]
NAACP Awards 2020 Full List Of Nominees In celebration of Black Excellence, NAACP Image Awards has released its star-studded nomination list for the 51st Award which will air on Saturday, February 22. The NAACP Image Awards honours the accomplishments of people of colour in the fields of television, music, literature, and film […]
Dinosaur That Lived 125million Years Ago Unearthed At The Base Of A Cliff A fossilised tail from a dinosaur that roamed the world 125million years ago has been discovered at the bottom of a crumbling cliff on the Isle of Wight. The fossilised remains of the the dinosaur — believed […]
Pastor Says Coronavirus Is Plague Sent By God, Blames Parents ‘Transgendering’ Children A right-wing evangelical pastor has claimed the coronavirus is God’s ‘death angel’ and says parents ‘transgendering little children’ and ‘the filth on our TVs and our movies’ are to blame for the outbreak. Christian Pastor Rick Wiles, who […]
BBC News Set To Slash 250 Jobs In Bid To Save £80m The BBC is expected to slash 250 jobs from its news division as it prepares to announce cuts today in a drive to save £80million. Plans to axe Victoria Derbyshire’s BBC Two programme have already been leaked, with […]
Airbus To Pay $3.2m To The UK, US and France To Settle Bribery and Corruption Probe Airbus will pay an estimated £2.5billion in penalties to the UK, US and France to settle a long-running corruption probe. Europe’s biggest plane maker has been investigated by Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) since […]
Saudi Telecom To Buy Vodafone, Egypt For $2.39 billion Vodafone Group PLC said Wednesday that it has agreed to sell its 55% stake in its Egypt unit to Saudi Telecom Co. for $2.39 billion. Both parties have signed a memorandum of understanding for the sale of Vodafone’s shareholding, the U.K. […]