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In the first part of this blog post, I discussed Making Money Online: Getting paid by cheque and explained why you should avoid getting paid by cheque where and when possible. In this blog post, I will be highlighting another means of getting paid online: Paypal.
There are several forms of ecurrencies. There are digital gold [...]
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What is InterSwitch about? According to their website:
InterSwitch Limited is an electronic transaction switching and payment processing company with a business footprint that covers the provision of shared, integrated message broker solutions for financial transactions, e-commerce, telecoms value-added services and e-billing in the Nigerian environment.
Most of the local debit/ATM cards issued in Nigeria are linked [...]
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I do not know why the government or its agencies do not call the erring Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Nigeria to order. Perhaps, the federal government and state government institutions, the regulatory body Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the federal and state legislature(s) and other leading institutions in Nigeria are all connected to the Internet [...]
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The web was ablaze (still is) yesterday with news about Microsoft’s latest unsolicited offer to buy web portal giant Yahoo! for a whopping $44.6 billion in cash and shares. According to BBC News, the offer, contained in a letter to Yahoo’s board, is 62% above Yahoo’s closing share price on Thursday.
I am not entirely surprised [...]
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Scam emails have been circulating the Internet for sometime now, attempting to trick people into entering their bank account login details into a fake version of their financial institution’s website. This criminal activity is known in Internet security circles as Phishing. To drive-home the point, I am quoting Wikipedia’s accurate description of Phishing:
In computing, phishing [...]
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