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HiNOTE, App that Makes Text More Expressive

The medium is the message” is the common phrase, but entrepreneur Alexis Traina believes that messages, themselves – text messages to be exact – deserve attention, too. Traina is the CEO and co-founder of HiNOTE, an app that helps people create messages, set over personalized backdrops of anything from a tipped-over wine glass to a branded letterhead notebook page. The …

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Twitter to Purge Old Accounts – Elon Musk

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As Twitter purges inactive accounts on its platform, it may share some long-loved usernames, such as owner Elon Musk’s recent tweets. Although Twitter has been promising to recover more usernames for years, it has made little effort to do so, despite the introduction of a non-user account policy that requires Twitter users to register every 30 days. prevent the permanent …

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EU’s Regulatory Template for Nigeria

The European Union on Tuesday released a list of 19 companies that will be placed under stricter regulatory control through its Digital Service Act (DSA). The companies, including Facebook, Twitter, and 17 others, are classified as very large online platforms (VLOPs) or very large online search engines (VLOSEs) and will now be placed under closer monitoring by EU regulators. Other …

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Do You Know There are Laws That Govern Telecommunication Sector?

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The Nigerian telecommunications sector has become an area of priority to the government of Nigeria as it is a key driver of digital economic growth. The sector accounted for 15% of Nigeria’s real GDP in the second quarter of 2022. For the full year of 2021, the sector accounted for 12.6% of the economy Just like every other sector, the …

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How to Use eNaira Without Internet

The court also directed the CBN and the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System PLC

The  Central Bank of Nigeria has unveiled the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) code for its eNaira, indicating that Nigerians without internet-enabled phones can use eNaira for transactions. The decision by the apex bank to use the USSD as the offline channel for the eNaira was based on an understanding of the unique features of our economy, taking into account …

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