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The Google ‘My Business’ application has been updated to give business owners a tool that increases their chances of being discovered. It also allows users to share information via Maps & Search. “With this update, we hope to better connect you with potential customers in your service areas so consumers get the services they need and you find new customers,” Tom Pritchard, Product Lead, My Business, ET Telecom quoted Google in a blog post on Tuesday. ‘My Business’ app to allow users to share the service-areas and information about their business via Maps and Search, increasing their chances to be…

The launch of the digital declaration by the GSMA at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland yesterday received thumbs-up from over forty business leaders across the world. According to a press release by GSMA, the world leaders who have already committed to the declaration span several industry sectors and include representatives from: Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, China Telecom, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, IBM, KDDI, KT, LG Electronics, Mobile World Capital Barcelona, Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, Orange, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, SK Telecom, Sony Corporation, STC Group, Telefónica, Turkcell, Verizon, Vodafone and Xiaomi. The ‘Digital Declaration’ captures key principles that serve as a…

  Several Unity Schools from Nigeria will later this year compete with their global peers after excelling in last week’s 2-day annual First LEGO League Nigeria National Championship, which was hosted by the Base University, Abuja. Some of the schools that displayed their robotics ideas are Federal Govrnment College, Odogbolu; Federal Government Girls College – Ikot Obio Itong, Akwa Ibom State; Kings College Lagos and Oginigba Community Secondary School, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The FIRST LEGO League is an international program for 9- to 16-year-old children created in a partnership between FIRST and the LEGO Group in 1998 to get…

  Nigeria’s first On-demand health plan retailer, Healthpoint has announced plans to give free health insurance cover to widows and orphans across the country. A statement by Chief Executive Officer of Healthpoint, Mrs Kemi Ayinde said that the free health insurance coverage is part of the organization’s effort to promote inclusion, health in Africa, to redress health and social inequities among the populace by providing effective interventions for marginalized and excluded populations. Ayinde stated that the offer would provide free health insurance coverage for a number of widows and orphans for one year in accredited hospitals across the country. “This…

  By Martin Ekpeke Stakeholders in Nigeria’s higher institutions of learning have been urged to subscribe to Open Science, where they can easily collaborate and contribute to a repository of knowledge so that research data and processes are freely available under terms that can enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction. This call was made yesterday at the on-going Eko-Konnect Users Conference at the University of Lagos. Specifically, Librarians, Researchers and other Academians were told that Open Science has become a movement to promote the free sharing of knowledge, rather than restricted publications that are paid for. Delivering the lecture titled ‘Open…

The 2019 edition of the annual Nerds Unite conference will foster dialogue on game-changing technological breakthroughs in the areas of artificial intelligence, cloud and cybersecurity and technology start-ups, MainOne, the organizer has said. Speaking of the focus in a statement issued in Lagos by MainOne’s Head of Marketing, Tayo Ashiru, the organizer said over 500 of Africa’s most innovative technology minds, from 200 companies and 10 countries will convene in Lagos, Nigeria on February 8, 2019 for the annual Nerds Unite conference, a tech event targeted at MainOne’s global, enterprise and start-up eco-system. “Nerds Unite 2019 will be exciting, with…

By Yakubu Musa That broadband is now globally acclaimed as the major index of development in all aspects of human life is no an exaggeration. It’s, according to the ITU-UNESCO Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development the nervous system of today’s civilization, and its access is top priority for our technological society. There’s no gainsaying, therefore, the aspiration of many a nation today is to deploy available human and material resources to attain broadband success. It’s on this premise that we can surmise strategic importance and profound impact inherent in the recent indices of Nigeria’s broadband giant strides. Nigeria attained 30.9%…

Nigeria based Flutterwave has partnered global payment company, Visa to launch GetBarter, an application that allows consumers and merchants to make and accept payments locally and internationally. According to a statement in Lagos, Flutterwave explained that the GetBarter app is a lifestyle payment solution that operates globally with an initial user base in Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and South Africa. The statement, which was signed by Olugbenga Agboola, Chief Executive Officer of Flutterwave, noted that Visa cardholders will be able to initiate payments within the app and make online and mobile payments by attaching their card details to their GetBarter app…

  The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), yesterday in Abuja unveiled four policy document, which will ostensibly facilitate the attainment of the financial inclusion target of 80 percent by the year 2020. The four policy documents were unveiled by the CBN Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele at a national financial literacy stakeholders’ conference. They are the revised National Financial Inclusion Strategy, the Financial Literacy Framework, the Consumer Protection Framework and the Consumer Education Framework. “We are working very hard to attain the 2020’s 80 percent financial inclusion target. The idea is to reduce the number of eligible adult Nigerians that re…

By Satyajit Sinha IoT is in a continuous state of evolution and its definition is also shifting. In 2019, IoT is defined as: Connecting smart devices to the internet/cloud for transmission of data either from sensors or to actuators which can be monetized directly or indirectly within a secure zone, leading to an innovative solution most often with the help of post analysis transmitted data. The solution needs to either save human time or create ease of life. Furthermore, both AI and edge computing are rapidly intersecting with IoT and by the end of 2019, both will be an integral…