Facebook on Thursday 28th of October 2021 announced the rebranding of the company with the name Meta. CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta at the Connect 2021. He said that Meta brings together the apps and technologies under one new company brand. The apps names still remain the same, such as Facebook. “Meta’s focus will be […]
Continue ReadingOutrightly dissatisfied with the standard of work done on some rural feeder roads, the Adamawa State House of Assembly Standing Committee on Rural Infrastructure and Community Development has queried a Chinese construction company handling the rehabilitation of some rural roads in the state. The House Committee which was furious about the nature of work so […]
Continue ReadingThe latest report to warn that surveillance capitalism is out of control — and ‘free’ digital services can in fact be very costly to people’s privacy and rights — comes courtesy of the Norwegian Consumer Council which has published an analysis of how popular apps are sharing user data with the behavioral ad industry. It […]
Continue ReadingXerox Holdings Corp is considering making a cash-and-stock offer for personal computer maker HP Inc at a premium to its market value of about $27 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Xerox’s board discussed the possibility on Tuesday, the newspaper said here, citing people familiar with the matter. There is no guarantee that Xerox […]
Continue ReadingCulture is the bedrock of societies anywhere in the globe. You can’t do without culture in a workplace or companies. IT is not left out in this essential ideal of a society. Culture can be described as collective art and manifestation of human intellectual achievement or ideas, customs and social behaviour of a particular people […]
Continue ReadingThe Thomas Cook Group collapsed as a long existing travel company on the 23rd of September 2019 after it ceased trading and entered liquidation. Around 9,000 UK staff and 21,000 worldwide were left without jobs and 600,000 customers left abroad, triggering the UK’s largest peacetime repatriation. The company had a week earlier asked HM […]
Continue ReadingIN AN ATRIUM designed to evoke ancient Greece—ringed by stone columns and six towering approximations of the Caryatids—it was fitting that Ren Zhengfei, chief executive of Huawei, should extend an olive branch to the West: a piece of his company. The palatial edifice on Huawei’s sprawling campus in Shenzhen houses an exhibition hall proudly displaying […]
Continue ReadingFacebook may soon add a pay wall for news content from premium publishers. The company’s news partnerships head Campbell Brown told publishers at an industry event in New York this week that the company is getting ready to test news subscriptions as early as this fall. Brown’s remarks were first reported by The Street Wednesday, […]
Continue ReadingA French court today ruled that Google is not liable for $1.3 billion in back taxes, passing judgement on a suit filed last year. The courts stated the company didn’t have a “permanent establishment” in France to justify the large amount of money. The company’s legal revenue-shifting scheme means that, despite employing about 700 people […]
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