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Award-winning technologist ,  Ade Abayomi Olufeko also known as Feks, continues to be invited  by policy makers and private institutions in the African diaspora around the world.  He recently received the 2018 NABF "Young entrepreneur achievement award" in Tampa Florida, United States. He addressed and audience of 200 strong entrepreneurs and professionals of different background on situational ethics and the need for more empathy through action in Nigeria. He also advocated for women entrepreneurship and the youth. His award was presented by the forum's CEO Kenneth Kunle Shobola, elder statesman and senior politician Mohammed Shaaba Lafiagi, and Nigerian-British Business Forum head Afolabi Andu. He shared the podium with juggernauts in attendance such as; Mohammed Shaaba Lafiagi, Ben Murray-Bruce, president aspirant Fela Durotoye, Former governor Peter Obi, Media pioneer Biodun Shobanjo and other subject matter experts providing dynamic frameworks for cha...

Facebook plans to double its staff working on reviewing and deleting illegal material in an effort to further crack down on hate speech and terrorist propaganda, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said in Brussels on Tuesday. During her first ever speech in the capital of the European Union, Sandberg aimed to demonstrate her company’s willingness to cooperate with the bloc, where the company has run into troubles due to the EU’s strict standards on data protection and illegal hate speech. “We have not done enough to stop the abuse of our technology.. “We have done a lot to maximize the benefits of our platforms, but we need to do more to minimize the negatives,” she said. Sandberg noted that Facebook was already employing 10,000 people working on safety and security issues and added that the company will double the number to 20,000 by the end of this year to better monitor and eliminate illegal material posted online. She said the issue was “complicated”...

About 23 million Germans fell victims to Cybercrimes in 2017, representing 38 per cent of adults, who were regularly online, the U.S. computer security company Norton by Symantec said on Tuesday. The company put the total damage caused at almost 2.2 billion Euros (2.7 billion dollars). Norton said identity theft, attacks with ransom software and credit card fraud were the main crimes. The company undertakes an annual study of cybercrime, taking in 20 countries in 2017. According to the company, 978 million users suffered criminal damage. The study found “astonishing parallels’’ in the victims, most of whom were average uses, who were relatively skilled, but showed “a certain carelessness’’ when online. “Many people behave with dangerous carelessness,’’ Norton manager Nick Shaw said. According to the study, seven per cent of German users were hit by ransomware, where their own data is blocked and a ransom is demanded for its release. According to Norton, around one in ...

The Society for the Promotion of People’s Rights, an NGO, has called on the Nigerian Federal Government to set up special recycling plants for electronic scrap materials as a means of  protecting the environment. The President of the organisation, Williams Osaze, made the call in Abuja on Monday. He said that electronic waste was dangerous and harmful to human beings and the environment. He said that the establishment the recycling plants would facilitate efforts to sort out electronic waste into usable and non-usable components. Osaze said that nearly 75 per cent of old electronic items in the country continued to be stored in households because of the dearth of recycling options. He noted that old electronic devices contained toxic substances such as lead, mercury, cadmium and chromium. He, therefore, underscored the need for proper processing and recycling of electronic waste so as to ensure that the toxic materials were not released into the environment. Osaze said...

Electron Native: Web designer urges business owners to create websi... : A web designer,  Abiodun Oluwatosin,   said on Friday that creating website address for a Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can serve as...

A web designer,  Abiodun Oluwatosin,   said on Friday that creating website address for a Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) can serve as a bridge between them and their target audience.  Oluwatosin made this known in Abuja. He said to make their businesses more visible, SMEs should obtain website addresses that would bridge the gap between them and their target audience. “With the trend of things in the world now, every individual and small business has one thing or the other to do on the web and it makes it a good tool to reach reasonable number of people at very little cost. “It is necessary for start-ups to own their websites as it is far better and cheaper than the traditional means of reaching out to their clients. “SMEs can leverage on this for their clients to see them out there because it could be very expensive to do the traditional radio and television publication. “But with the website, it is a room for you to bridge the cyber optic level to attra...

Electron Native: Nokia signs its first official 5G equipment deal i... : Finland’s Nokia said on Friday it signed its first major deal to supply new 5G wireless radio base stations to Japanese telecom operator, ...