NEWS

Teen who asked Wendy’s for nuggets breaks all-time retweet record

Nevada teen Carter Wilkerson has successfully ousted Ellen DeGeneres for the world record of the most retweeted tweet of all time. The title, previously held by DeGeneres at 3.4 million retweets, comes a little over a month after Wilkerson asked the Wendy’s Twitter account how many retweets he would need for a free year’s supply of chicken nuggets, and the company responded with “18 million.” (more…)

EVENTS

Canon EoS 5D Mark IV Launch in Lagos

At a Partner Dinner event held at the Renaissance Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos on the 3rd of May 2017, Canon in partnership with their Nigerian distributor, Jamaica Trading Company officially launched two hero products into the Nigerian market- the EOS 5D Mark IV camera and E-series of PIXMA printers – E474 and E414. Canon invited its end-users to experience the newly launched products and Canon’s wide range of portfolio. (more…)

TECH

$8000 A Month As An Intern These big tech companies pay their interns the most

So if you are living in Africa and your father or mother is a banker, medical doctor or lawyer, protect your ego by not reading this. But if your parents are teacher, pls don't even click for the sack of your sanity. lol. We went ahead and pulled the tech companies from the list, and among large tech companies, Facebook leads the pack with an average salary of $8,000 per month for interns. Quickly converting that into a yearly salary yields $96,000. It goes without saying, that figure is quite high. (more…)

TECH

Facebook Is letting you follow topics, not just Pages

Facebook gets a lot of flack for just reinforcing your world views in its News Feed echo chamber instead of challenging your opinions. That’s because you choose exactly which friends and Pages to follow, so liberals might skip Fox News or Breitbart while conservatives avoid The Atlantic and Huffington Post. But Facebook’s newest feature could bring a wider range of sources to your News Feeds. (more…)

TECH

Best #WhatsAppDown Tweets during the Outage

  Mark Zuckerrberg just proved that he owns you all!  Just imagine if Facebook was down for a week! WhatsApp was down for a while yesterday. (Update: WhatsApp is back. Outage lasted over 200mins) And people are reacting to the outage in hilarious ways on Twitter. As usual Twitter is always crazy, see below.. (more…)