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Private equity firm BC Partners is reportedly the frontrunner to buy US communications firm CenturyLink’s data centre network.

Google and Facebook are among the backers of a new 12,800 kilometre subsea cable between Los Angeles and Hong Kong which will be highest capacity transpacific connection to date.

The end is in sight for Google’s seven wilderness years in China. With none of the theatrics that accompanied its voluntary withdrawal from the country due to web-search censorship in January 2010, Google is now firmly on a path not only to return to China but also to potentially seize a spot alongside Apple as one of the most profitable tech companies there.

Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej died on Thursday (Oct 13), said the Royal Household Bureau. He was 88. "His Majesty has passed away peacefully at Siriraj Hospital," the palace said in a statement in Thai, adding that the king died at 3.52pm local time.

Microsoft has delivered its monthly Patch Tuesday update that includes fixes for the usual suspects such as Internet Explorer, Edge and Microsoft Office.

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The Chief Executive Officer, Etisalat Nigeria, Matthew Willsher, who announced the new service roll-out, said the latest offering demonstrates the telco’s unwavering commitment to deliver superior customer experience to its subscribers.

CRITICS of the night raid in some judges’ homes got an official reply yesterday. It was all part of an investigation, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) Abubakar Malami (SAN), said. The Department of State Services (DSS) arrested some judges after storming their homes at night last weekend. The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) condemned the raids, which the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) described as “saddening” and “unfortunate”. Malami argued that the judges’ fate was mere investigation of criminal allegations.

Detectives found a Rolls Royce in the fleet of about 15 cars of one of the seven judges under investigation by the Department of State Services (DSS), The Reporter learnt yesterday.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and United Bank for Africa (UBA) have agreed to a new N20.89billion (60 million euro) lending programme to support private sector-driven growth across Nigeria. The DEAL is said to represent the EIB’s largest loan to UBA, and will allow UBA provide longer-term loans than currently available, to private companies in the country.

In an effort to capture the African air transport market, Rwand Air newly acquired Airbus 330-200 on Monday landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The aircraft flew in passengers from the Kigali, the capital of the East African country ; its major hub into Lagos, its hub for West Africa.

One got a bribe in a department store. Another travelled to Ghana, Niger Republic and Benin Republic to collect bribe, a security source alleged. It is all in a bid to explain the controversial sting operations in which some judges were arrested at the weekend.

In a bid to cushion the effects of economic recession in the country, the Lagos State Government has perfected plans to introduce monthly payment plan on its Home Ownership Mortgage Schemes popularly called Lagos HOMS across the State.

Russia is taking another step to reduce dependence on Oracle Corp.,  Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. technologies in the country’s $3 billion software market amid political tensions with the U.S.

Samsung will acquire artificial intelligence (AI) platform Viv in a bid to take on the likes of Microsoft’s Cortana and Apple’s Siri virtual assistants. The Viv AI system was created by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham who all created Siri before Apple snapped it up in 2010. This means Samsung has the opportunity to gain an insight into the programming behind Siri, and gives it a route into AI tech for its smartphones and tablets; an area it has not been prolific in when compared to the likes of Google and Facebook.

Abubakar Bukola Saraki 2 hrs  ·  We Welcome the Development  # WorkContinues Senate President, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki and his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu today described the verdict of the High Court of Federal Capital Territory dismissing the charges of forgery of the Senate Standing Orders 2015 and their subsequent discharge as a welcome development and a vindication of their position from the beginning of the case that they are innocent of the accusations leveled against them. In a statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Senate President on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, the presiding officers of the upper chamber of the National Assembly said the court decision was consistent with their position that the case lacked any merit and that the charge of forgery of the Senate rule filed against them can never be substantiated by any fact. The two men described the case as a "politically-induced distraction" which came at ...

Google has patched a massive 78 Android vulnerabilities in its latest security bulletin for the mobile operating system. The search engine giant began rolling out monthly updates to fix Android flaws back in August 2015, as part of its efforts to improve Android’s patchy security reputation. It also said there was two patch levels associated with the latest update, designed to help OEMs select the most appropriate patches for them. Android Patches “Alongside the bulletin, we have released a security update to Nexus devices through an over-the-air (OTA) update,” said Google. “This bulletin has two security patch level strings to provide Android partners with the flexibility to more quickly fix a subset of vulnerabilities that are similar across all Android devices.” The first patch level (2016-10-01) seems to fix flaws with core Android services and drivers to do with things such as APIs, Wi-Fi, GPS and other components. The second patch level (2016-10-05) addresses iss...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware are set to join forces, despite being former rivals in the cloud computing arena. Fortune reported that the two companies are due to announce their partnership next week, in spite of VMware chief executive Patrick Gelsinger describing AWS as the mortal enemy of his company.

Microsoft will open Azure data centres in France to expand the reach of its cloud platform in Europe. The first French data centre will have availability staring from 2017, with Paris its likely location. Microsoft already has regions in the  UK, Germany and Ireland and he move stems from the $3 billion Microsoft has invested so far in bringing its cloud infrastructure to Europe.

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has fined Benin and Port Harcourt electricity distribution companies N6.220 million over failure to comply with the decisions of Forum Offices rulings in complaints filed by their respective customers.

The House of Representatives on Thursday moved to recover $458 million looted in Nigeria and forfeited to the United States government.

The Senate on Thursday launched investigation into activities of the Presidential Amnesty programmes with the aim of ascertaining how the N330 billion accumulated budget of the programme was spent.

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is set to become the next head of the United Nations after he emerged on Wednesday as the favoured candidate among UN Security Council members.

Norway's right-wing government on Wednesday announced plans to ban the full-face Islamic veil from classrooms and university lecture halls.

Hurricane Matthew has left at least 23 people dead in Haiti, a toll likely to climb as authorities re-establish contact with the hardest-hit areas where the damage is "catastrophic," officials said.

Six people have been killed and 27 others rescued in an Al-Shabaab attack at Bulla public works in Mandera, Governor Ali Roba has confirmed.

Lagos State government on Wednesday warned truck and other articulated vehicle drivers to stop intimidation of other motorists while on the road. The government also vowed to intensify sensitisation of motorists and enforce the Lagos Traffic Law 2012 to ensure accident-free ’ember’ months.‎ The Chief Executive Officer of Lagos State Drivers Institute, Mr Philip Ogunlade, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA Comptroller for the Lagos East Senatorial District, Mrs Lateefat Giwa ‎gave the warning at a sensitisation workshop for drivers held in various parks for Tipper and commercial vehicle drivers in Ogolonto, Agric, Sabo, and Odongunya, all in Ikorodu area of the state. Ogunlade who also vowed that the state government would ‎ensure that drivers attend the Lagos State Drivers’ Institute, LASDRI across the state to get training and re-training once in a year, said that human error was responsible for most road accidents recorded in the state. He added that the age...

Group under the auspices of Northern Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN) has called for voluntary resignation of Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele within the next 21 days or do something to put the nation’s economy on the right track.

Google says it can bring the power of artificial intelligence to everyone by combining its hardware and software and shows off Google Assistant-powered Pixel smartphone and Home appliance. Google says artificial intelligence (AI) will enable the era of ‘always on’ computing and that it will combine hardware and software development to take full advantage of the development.

Questions are raised over how private Apple’s services really are. Apple keeps logs of the phone numbers its users have contacted through its Message app, and may share them and other sensitive metadata with the police.

Bank of America to collaborate with Microsoft on Blockchain to ‘transform’ financial transactions. The Microsoft Azure announcements keep coming after the Bank of America agreed to collaborate on blockchain technology to “fuel the transformation of trade finance transacting”.