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Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Friday rescued an alleged kidnapped Yahoo-Yahoo apprentice, Destiny Peter, 17, from an apartment in Mpape, Abuja. EFCC in a statement said Peter was rescued after he reached them on its official Twitter handle, on July 1, reporting how some internet fraudster kidnapped him and intended to use him for rituals. He was asked to send his location and the anti-graft agency immediately mobilized a team of detectives to the area… Source link

A Russian ballet performs in Tel Aviv, Russian products that bear the Russian flag can be found easily in Israeli supermarkets, Israel exports its vegetables to Russia, while Yango, part of the Russian giant Yandex Group, supplies Israelis with taxis and grocery deliveries. For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org Today Israel is the only Western country that does not exercise any sanctions against Russian entities or capital. However, financial limitations do exist. How… Source link

By Stuart A. Thompson, The New York Times Company On an episode of Joe Rogan’s popular podcast last year, he turned to a topic that has gripped right-wing communities and other Americans who feel skeptical about the pandemic: search engines. “If I wanted to find specific cases about people who died from vaccine-related injuries, I had to go to DuckDuckGo,” Rogan said, referring to the small, privacy-focused search engine. “I wasn’t finding them on Google.” Praise for DuckDuckGo… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]No more Yahoo Mail for mainland Chinese users  South China Morning Post Source link

Yandex NV YNDX reported fourth-quarter FY21 revenue growth of 54% year-on-year to $1.485 billion. Yandex is one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia. Revenues from Online advertising grew 26% Y/Y to RUB 48.4 billion, Taxi segment, excluding sales of goods, rose 86% Y/Y to RUB 32.9 billion, sales of goods increased 74% Y/Y to RUB 17.7 billion, and Other revenues grew 111% Y/Y to RUB 11.3 billion. The total cost of… Source link

Every month seems to bring a new salvo against Big Tech — the latest from three state attorneys general and the District’s Karl A. Racine (D). The lawsuit argues that Google has deceived customers into giving up sensitive data. Yet the problem is bigger than one company, and the solution can’t come only from the courts. The complaints filed in late January by the top enforcers in D.C., Indiana, Texas and Washington allege that the world’s largest search engine told users they could… Source link

Cryptocurrencies lost momentum on Thursday, tumbling sharply after the outcome of the Federal Reserve’s Wednesday Open Markets Committee meeting gave digital coins a fleeting boost. After briefly appearing to decouple from risk-sensitive stocks, Bitcoin (BTC-USD), Ethereum (ETH-USD) and its crypto cohorts ended Wednesday’s whipsaw session in the red, along with Wall Street. The reversal signaled the correlation with equities was not likely to end anytime soon, especially with the Fed poised… Source link

(For a Reuters live blog on U.S., UK and European stock markets, click LIVE/ or type LIVE/ in a news window.) * Netflix plunges, weighs on Disney, media stocks * S&P 500, Nasdaq have biggest weekly drops since March 2020 * Focus turning to Fed meeting for clarity on policy * Indexes down: Dow 1.3%, S&P 1.89%, Nasdaq 2.72% (Updates with further market data) By Lewis Krauskopf, Shreyashi Sanyal and Bansari Mayur Kamdar Jan 21 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes ended sharply lower on Friday as… Source link

LaMelo Ball‘s status as the youngest player in NBA history to record a triple-double lasted 358 days. The new holder is Oklahoma City Thunder rookie Josh Giddey, who continued a standout rookie year with a night to remember Sunday. Facing the Dallas Mavericks, Giddey posted 17 points, 14 assists and 13 rebounds at the age of 19 years and 84 days, 56 days younger than Ball on his record night. Giddey’s contributions weren’t enough for the 13-23 Thunder to avoid a 95-86 loss, but he upheld the… Source link

There is one undeniable NFL coaching commandment: You cannot hide from your own shortcomings. You can deny them. You can ignore them. You can redirect them toward others or even lie about them. But eventually, the on-field product and the culture off it get chiseled into the epitaph hanging above your permanent record. And whatever you personally did to facilitate both will ultimately define your reputation. Urban Meyer might come to see that someday. That day is not today. That’s what… Source link