Beyonce’s ‘The Lion King’ Rakes-In $1.3 billion, Becomes the Highest-Grossing Animated Movie of All Time The Lion King remake has crossed $1.3 billion at the international box office, officially beating out Frozen’s $1.27 billion to become the top-grossing animated film of all time. Fans are happy with this news, especially Nigerians who feel […]
China Set To Launch Official Digital Currency After five years of development, China’s official digital currency “can now be said to be ready”, says Mu Changchun, deputy director at the Payment and Settlement Department of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC). Speaking at the China Finance 40 Forum on Saturday, Mu […]
Hellish Traffic: Life Inside The Worlds Worst Traffic Jam Lagos traffic is so snarled and gridlocked that a recent trip from the airport to Ajah, on Lagos Island — a journey shorter than 50 kilometers — took me eight hours. That was two hours longer than my flight from Istanbul […]
President Trump Pledges New $300 billion Tariff On iPhone, Sneakers and Toys From China President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will add a new tariff on $300 billion of Chinese-made products on September 1, which would effectively put a tax on all Chinese goods coming into the United States.”Trade […]
U.S. Lawmaker Wants Russia’s FaceApp Probed U.S. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer called on the FBI and the Federal Trade Commission to conduct a national security and privacy investigation into FaceApp, a face-editing photo app developed in Russia. The viral smartphone application, which has seen a new surge of popularity […]
Facebook’s Getting Slapped With a $5 Billion FTC Privacy Settlement The U.S. Federal Trade Commission approved a record privacy settlement against Facebook requiring the social media company to pay about $5 billion to resolve an investigation stemming from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The FTC’s settlement was approved by a […]
Google Doodle Honors Heart Surgeon René Favaloro, Who Pioneered Coronary Bypass Surgery René Favaloro, a pioneering Argentine heart surgeon, is being remembered with a Google Doodle for his contributions to coronary bypass surgery on what would have been his 96th birthday. Born in La Plata, Argentina, in 1923, Favaloro started his career […]
Millions Displaced After Monsoon Floods Hit India, Nepal and Bangladesh More than a hundred people have died and millions were forced to leave their homes as monsoon rains have devastated parts of India, Nepal and Bangladesh. At least three million people have been displaced in north and Northeast India, reports the BBC, […]
Boeing Set To Lose Biggest Planemaker Title As Deliveries Fall 37% Boeing Co is set to lose the title of being the world’s biggest planemaker after reporting a 37% drop in deliveries for the first half of the year due to the prolonged grounding of its best-selling MAX jets.Grounded Boeing […]
Melbourne will be the first city outside the US to host trials of Uber Air, a service the company describes as “aerial ridesharing” that will shuttle people from rooftop to rooftop for the price of an UberX. The company has flagged test flights will begin next year, with commercial operations to […]
Enterprise marketing solutions provider, Terragon has challenged African companies to leverage on Data Analytics revolutionising modern-day businesses to boost sales performance through data-driven insights. CEO of Terragon Group, Elo Umeh said that “it is extremely important for companies to be data-centric, as the understanding and utilisation of consumer insights in […]
Global Chief Economist of Renaissance Capital, Mr. Charles Robertson, and CEO Rencap Nigeria Mr. Temi Popoola called for more investment vehicles in the second term of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. They both shared their views in a recent interview with Proshare WebTV. Both analysts agreed that the investment climate in […]