T-Mobile Breach Hits 53 Million Customers As Probe Finds Wider Impact
T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) said on Friday an ongoing investigation into a data breach revealed that hackers accessed personal information of an…
Day: August 20, 2021
‘Twilight’ Investor Sentenced To Five Years Prison In Fraud Case
A technology entrepreneur who invested in the studio behind the “Twilight” films was sentenced to five years in prison on…
China’s SenseTime Says Daily Users Of Its Augmented Reality Tech Number 100 Mln
China’s SenseTime, which sells augmented reality technology to other companies, has seen global daily active users of that tech grow…
Nvidia’s $40 Bln Deal For ARM Dealt Blow By UK Regulator
Nvidia Corp’s (NVDA.O) planned $40 billion acquisition of British chip designer ARM hit a major hurdle on Friday after a UK regulator…
Fed Chair Powell To Speak On ‘Economic Outlook’ Next Week
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will speak on “the economic outlook” at next week’s Jackson Hole, Wyoming symposium, the central…
Microsoft Invests $5 Mln In SoftBank-Backed Oyo
Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) has invested $5 million in SoftBank-backed Oyo, according to a regulatory filing, ahead of the Indian hotel chain’s plan…
Deere Lifts 2021 Forecast On Solid Demand For Farm, Construction Equipment
Deere & Co (DE.N) on Friday raised its full-year earnings forecast after quarterly profit topped Wall Street estimates on the back of…
EFCC Asks Banks To Report Fraudulent Election Financing, Forex Malpractices
Abdulrasheed Bawa, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has asked banks to collaborate with the agency in…
Customs Illegally Engaging Soldiers For Operations — Senator
Senator Francis Fadahunsi, has disclosed that officials of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, going out on field operations are accompanied…
30% Frontier Exploration Not From NNPC Profit… Energy Analyst Clarifies Five Misconceptions In PIA
The signing into law of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by President Muhammadu Buhari has continued to elicit different reactions from…
Digital Economy: MDAs Generate N1.054tr
The Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy and its departments and agencies have collectively generated a total of N1.05…
Oil Steadies But Set To Slump For The Week On Delta Anxiety
Oil prices came off three-month lows on Friday but were on track for a weekly decline of around 6% as new…
‘Lack Of Converted Gas Vehicles Might Undermine NGEP’
Without an active conversion industry for vehicles and other machinery, the core mandate of the Nigerian Gas Expansion Programme (NGEP)…
Oil Up, But Set For Weekly Decline As COVID-19 Continues To Restrict Fuel Demand
Oil was up Friday morning in Asia, climbing up from three-month lows. However, the black liquid was set for a weekly…
Twitter Agrees To Seven Out Of Ten Demands – Nigerian Govt
The Federal Government says from the 10 demands put forward to lift Twitter suspension, the microblogging and social networking platform…
Nigeria: 20 Years On: Telcos Attain 297m Phone Lines, Fail On Financial Inclusion, Security
Despite opportunities the telecommunications revolutions have offered the country this 20 years, especially with 297 million telephone lines connected, insecurity…
US Dollar Surrenders Gains Despite FOMC Minutes Taper Talk
EUR/USD rebounds and USD/JPY pivots lower. This follows the release of FOMC minutes just now, which seems to have disappointed Fed hawks. The…
Canadian Dollar Slumps To 6-Month Low As Risk Aversion Climbs
The Canadian dollar fell on Thursday for a fourth day against its broadly stronger U.S. counterpart, as investors worried that…
Internet Of Things (IOT) Adoption Rising Across Industries In Nigeria, Says Expert
The number of companies across the different sectors of the Nigerian economy adopting emerging technologies like the internet of things…
Nigerian Currency Depreciates Further To N520/$1
The Naira weakened for a second trading session at the unregulated segment of the foreign exchange (forex) market on Thursday,…
Lawmakers Fume Over FG’s Plan To Borrow N5.62tn, Tackle MDAs Hiding Revenue
The House of Representatives yesterday expressed displeasure over the way some Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) conceal their revenues, thereby…
Stop Borrowing Dollars, Borrow Sense: Naira On Its Way To A Thousand To A Dollar
Suddenly the naira shot through to five hundred and twenty five to the dollar at the unencumbered parallel market after…
Pounds Falls To One-Month Low As Edgy Investors Buy Dollars
Sterling touched a new one-month low against a robust dollar on Friday and also slipped to a one-month low against…
Kyari Urges Greenfield Refinery To End Product Importation
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has urged members of the Board…
Facebook Launches VR Remote Work App
Facebook on Thursday launched a test of a new virtual-reality remote work app where users of the company’s Oculus Quest…
Shippers Going Bankrupt, Unable To Repay Loans’
President, Shippers Association of Lagos (SAL), Rev. Jonathan Nicol has said that Nigerian shippers are going bankrupt, as they are unable…
Stocks Drop, But One Seasonal Stock Could Weather A Fall Downturn
Travel stocks have taken a hit this week as fears over the delta variant grow. As of Thursday’s close, hotel…
Hong Kong Bourse to Start Offering China A Share Index Futures
Hong Kong’s exchange was cleared to start offering long awaited A share index futures contracts, giving global investors a new…
Buhari Sign New Law To Overhaul Oil Industry
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law long-awaited legislation to overhaul the oil and gas industry in Africa’s biggest crude…
Malaysia Gets A New Prime Minister — The Country’s Third In 3 Years
Malaysia’s King Al-Sultan Abdullah has named Ismail Sabri Yaakob as the new prime minister, the palace said in a Friday…