Apple CEO Tim Cook comes out: 'I'm proud to be gay'

Apple CEO Tim Cook came out Thursday, acknowledging publicly for the first time that he is gay.

"Let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me," he wrote in a column in Bloomberg Businessweek.

In his column, the Apple (AAPL, Tech30) chief said that he had tried to maintain "a basic level of privacy." But he said he decided that desire for privacy was stopping him from working for the benefit of others.

China: Facebook not banned, but must follow the rules

China may be blocking access to Facebook, but that doesn't mean the social media network can't one day enter the country, as long as it follows the rules, a top government official said on Thursday.
Lu Wei, the director of China's State Internet Information Office, made the comment at a press conference after media outlets had previously reported him saying that Facebook would never be allowed in the country.

"The media claimed that I said 'it would absolutely impossible.' Today, I can tell you that this news is fake," he said, according to a government transcript of his comments.

NIGERIA RANKED THIRD IN THE WORLD FOR CYBER-CRIME, SAYS SURVEY

A computer crime as well as cyber survey conducted recently indicated that Nigeria is the most internet fraudulent country in Africa. Besides, the same report further stated that the giant of Africa is ranked third among others identified with cyber fraud and computer crime in the world.

Police vs cartels in the high-tech battle to stop cybercrime

Cybercrime costs the global economy an estimated $400 billion a year, and as it grows in scale and sophistication, law enforcement is having to do the same.

The U.S. secret service helped prevent over $1 billion in fraud losses from cybercrime last year, but it is up against skilled and organized international crime networks.

EFCC Arrests 2 Undergraduates, Six Others Over Internet Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested two undergraduate Internet scammers and six other fraudsters at the upscale 1004 Housing Estate, Victoria Island, Lagos. One of the undergraduate, Hope Olusegun, a 25 year-old indigene of Okene, Kogi State, claims to be a student of Computer Science at the Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University, Malaysia. He was arrested by operatives of EFCC over allegations of fraud and internet scam.

Facebook forced to reinstate image of breastfeeding mum after photograph goes viral

Facebook has been forced to reinstate an image of a mother breastfeeding her severely premature baby for the first time after the photograph went viral and attracted thousands of supporters.

IBM and Twitter combine on big data in your pocket

Twitter is lending the weight of its daily communications to IBM, which will in turn provide data to its enterprise customers.

Twitter provides a "tsunami" of data and comment each day, according to Alistair Rennie, general manager for business analytics at IBM, who said that if it's good enough for him, it's good enough for everybody.

Etisalat Is Nigeria’s Fastest Growing Mobile Operator

Though Etisalat is considered the youngest operator in Nigeria’s competitive telecommunication market, which houses MTN, Africa’s largest mobile operator, the UAE-based operator has been nurturing a steady growth in subscriber base during its six-year reign, climbing to 20 million users last month. This is an 18 percent growt from 2013 year ending figures.