Saturday, May 21, 2016

President Buhari coming to Lagos on Monday, state govt advises residents on traffic diversions


The Lagos State Government will formally welcome President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, May 23, 2016 on a two-day working visit to the State. It will be President Buhari's first official visit to the state since he assumed office about a year ago. 
Buhari

A statement issued by the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, stated that this is the first time in about 15years that a sitting President will be visiting the State on a working visit and is a testimony to the landmark achievements in the last one year of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode as well as the good working relationship between Lagos State and the Federal Government.

 Ayorinde added that President Buhari during the visit, would formally commission the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) Rescue Unit in Cappa Oshodi built by the State Government to ensure prompt and swift response to emergency situations in the State. 
He said the President would thereafter commission the newly constructed Ago Palace Way in Okota, Isolo after which he will pay homage to the Oba of Lagos, His Royal Majesty, Oba Babatunde Rilwanu Aremu Akiolu at the Iga Iduganran, Lagos Island.
 
The Commissioner disclosed further that the President would later in the day be hosted to a reception rally by the State Government at the Tafawa Balewa Square, (TBS) Lagos where he will also commission and hand over security equipment and vehicles contributed by the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode-led administration to securities agencies to beef up security in the state.
 
The release added that activities for the first day of the President’s visit would be rounded up with a State Banquet in his honour at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island.  
 
The President will on Tuesday participate as the Special Guest of Honour at a breakfast session with Corporate Lagos to be hosted by Governor Ambode at the Lagos State House, Marina, after which he will have a short session with the public service at the State House, Alausa-Ikeja.
 

The Commissioner quoted Governor Akinwunmi Ambode as being joyous over this landmark presidential visit to the State that contributed so much to his emergence as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.  
He added that Lagosians are looking forward with excitement to receive the President in the State, just as he urged residents to bear with law enforcement agents and traffic control authorities who will effect road diversions in some of the routes that the President motorcade will pass through during the visit.
 
SIGNED
STEVE AYORINDE
COMMISSIONER FOR INFORMATION AND STRATEGY
LAGOS STATE 
MAY 21, 2016.

Friday, May 20, 2016

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Friday, May 13, 2016

Tyga Breaks Silence On Kylie Jenner Breakup

Tyga’s relationships have always been stormy ones. His on-again-off-again romance with Blac Chyna produced a son but also recriminations when they broke up. And then he began dating the then-17-year-old Kylie Jenner.

Kylie and Tyga never seemed a perfect match, not the least of which was due to the fact that she was a minor when they reportedly began their romance. The most notable blow-up centred around Tyga’s text messaging relationship with a 14-year-old aspiring musician. His relationship with soon-to-be Kardashian Blac Chyna has also been consistently subtweety and bizarre.

But their relationship is reportedly no more. Multiple outlets reported that they broke up just before the Met Gala earlier in May. So far those have just been rumors, but Tyga confirmed them in an interview with E! News.

“I’m good, you know?” he said of his mental state after their breakup. “Just another day and working hard and trying to get to that next level and achieve big things and evolve.”

Kylie, for her part, is handling the breakup via cryptic Snapchats and hanging out at her mum’s house

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

How 2 Stanford grads made a hot new app that soared past Facebook in the App Store — while being falsely accused of sex trafficking

(Down to Lunch)
Joseph Lau, left, and Nikil Viswanathan of Down to Lunch.

When Nikil Viswanathan first saw the allegations rolling in on social media, he couldn't believe his eyes. Hundreds of people were accusing his app of being used for human trafficking and urging others to never download it.

Viswanathan is the cocreator of Down to Lunch, a simple meet-up app that has become wildly popular on college campuses. The app, which helps people spontaneously "lunch," "chill," or even "blaze" with friends, peaked at No. 2 on the iPhone download charts in the US in April (it has since settled into the 40-to-50 range).

The app's rapid rise to fame represents the Silicon Valley dream story. But a string of product woes and a bizarre social-media attack that branded the app a tool for people to kidnap teens show the double-edged sword of the internet "virality" driving today's tech boom.


 The start

Stanford graduates Viswanathan and Joseph Lau built Down to Lunch last year to try to recreate the experience of living in their freshman-year dorms, where it seemed so easy to run into someone and get lunch, play basketball, or do whatever.

Viswanathan had tried five previous times to recreate this time of life (three times with Lau), but Down to Lunch was the one that finally started to stick, he tells Business Insider.

Here's how it works.
 




(Down to Lunch) Down to Lunch's simple interface.
The app lets you declare you are "down" for a specific activity — lunch for example — and then with a tap send a notification out to all your friends nearby. They can join the "event" if they are free, and then you can chat about the details. It's a way of spontaneously hanging out when everyone has busy schedules, Viswanathan says.

When Viswanathan began to work in tech after college, he noticed that he would constantly run into old friends and they would swap the refrain, "Hey, we should get lunch sometime." The problem was that "sometime" was in the nebulous future, and it would never actually get done. And when Viswanathan did have a free moment during work hours, he would start texting friends to see who else was free only to give up after a few "sorry, busy" rejections.
The theory behind Down to Lunch was that it might help Viswanathan actually have lunch with his non-work friends for a change.



The rise

After being released to the public about a year ago, the app started to pick up steam at colleges — starting at the University of Georgia.
At first, Viswanathan acknowledges, he was surprised. He and Lau had built the app in a day and hadn’t spent much time perfecting it.
"The product was barely functional," Viswanathan says bluntly. He acknowledges that even today the app can be a buggy mess. But college kids loved the concept, and even with its hobbled utility it spread to university after university. As their app gained popularity, the pair thought about stopping new users from joining. The two-man team was unprepared to scale the app and knew the product needed serious work. One of their advisers told them to just ride the wave, so they hired a small team to try to keep up and begin to improve it.

The human-trafficking attack

Then, out of the blue, the human-trafficking accusations erupted. Viswanathan says they started from a few App Store "reviews," which were screenshotted and passed around by high-follower Twitter accounts. The reviews were mainly made up of outlandish tales of people lured by strangers using Down to Lunch.
Here's one:
I tapped the [Down to Lunch] button and I was innocently going to Panera Bread when I see a strange man with a trench coat and sunglasses right in front of me in line. It was really strange. I sat down and expected a few friends to show up. I examine this weirdo in the trench coat out of the corner of my eye. He was sitting at a table with a middle aged female, and two middle aged men …
This particular review ends with the girl running away from these people after they try to get her into a van using the promise of a "premium edition" camera.
Viswanathan doesn't know who started what he describes as a "smear campaign," but he suspects a competitor paid thousands of dollars for it. The accusations got a particular boost after being tweeted by parody accounts like Dory, which can sometimes charge hundreds of dollars for a single post
(Down to Lunch) The "Dory" account sharing a review.
When Viswanathan saw these reviews, he thought Down to Lunch users would immediately know they were fake. There are many places you can meet anonymous strangers on the internet, but Down to Lunch isn't really one of them. Down to Lunch lets you interact only with people whose phone number you have in your address book and who have your phone number in theirs, Viswanathan says. In fact, the inability to find friends from places like your Facebook is actually a common complaint from users.
But Viswanathan soon realized his initial assumption was wrong: People didn't immediately conclude that the reviews were fake. The reviews spread like wildfire on social media, and the app lost 90% of its user growth in less than 48 hours.
When Viswanathan spoke with a crisis PR representative, she asked her daughter, a student at Dartmouth, about the app. "Oh yeah, it's used for human trafficking," the daughter replied.
Viswanathan says he has been contacted by law enforcement in multiple states about the posts. Kirsta Melton, the leader of the human-trafficking division of the Texas attorney general's office, told The New York Times that she "looked into the app and found no evidence supporting the allegations."
As various organizations (including the myth debunker Snopes) looked into it, Viswanathan and his team started to make some headway against the accusations. Apple and Google took down many of the reviews, and some of the Twitter accounts that had tweeted them began to disappear.
The app surged in popularity again, reaching No. 2 in the App Store in mid-April.


The spam question

But that didn't mean the end of Viswanathan's problems. As people began to invite their friends to join that app, many on Twitter complained about spam. In early April, Down to Lunch introduced a feature that let people send invites to their entire address book. Viswanathan disabled it as soon as he heard complaints.
But people on social media still grumbled that they were getting unwanted invites from their friends (though it was the friend's choice to send the invite). A man named Matthew Warciak has even filed a class-action lawsuit against Down to Lunch in Illinois, the Chicago Tribune reports.
"Nikil obtained the recipient's phone numbers by scraping its users' contact lists and sending unauthorized text messages to the phones of thousands of consumers across the country," the lawsuit alleges.
Viswanathan gave Business Insider this statement about the lawsuit:
The claim is wrong on multiple fronts, and we're really saddened to see someone so upset about being invited to the app by friends. Users can only invite friends one by one, and the invite action is completely user initiated — there is absolutely no automated messaging. After getting DTL, users loved the app, and wanted a super simple way to get all their friends on the app so they could use it to hang out. The invite system was built to only to do that.

Can't stop the buzz

But these setbacks haven't stopped top Silicon Valley venture capitalists from sniffing around. When Business Insider employees joined the app, we noticed that most of our contacts who were already using it were venture capitalists.
Indeed, during a phone conversation with Business Insider, Viswanathan had to step away for a few minutes. A venture capitalist had shown up unannounced at his office, Viswanathan said.



The Down to Lunch team.
Viswanathan's story shows the agony and ecstasy of going viral on the internet. Viswanathan rushes to show me all the positive feedback he has gotten from college students across the country (he has his own cellphone number on the app, a decision he says has him receiving hundreds or even thousands of texts a day).

But the app's popularity (and notoriety) has made it slip out of his control. Viswanathan is open about the technical shortcomings of the app. His team is struggling to deal with the scale, and with how to fix a prototype that can be buggy (sometimes to the point of annoying users). And even though the app has become popular despite the human-trafficking fiasco, the fake reviews keep popping up again and again with a vengeance, he says.
What Viswanathan hopes will save Down to Lunch is a winning concept. People want an easy way to arrange a hangout on the fly, he says. That's why the app has grown so much despite the failings in the product and the PR nightmare.
Viswanathan, as is typical in the tech industry, has grand ambitions for the app. He wants it to become a platform to let you know what your friends are up to in real-time. But for now, the problems of the moment are more pressing. He says he has barely slept in three days. The team is just trying to make sure Down to Lunch is in a place where it can capitalize on the momentum, and not squander it

FORBES CEO Michael S. Perlis IS ON THE BREAKING NEWS



Do you know that Michael S. Perlis is an American business executive who currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes Media LLC. He has previously worked for Playboy, SoftBank Capital, and Ziff Davis. Mike has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes since December 1, 2010


ACADEMICS

Perlis attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1976 with a BA in communications. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors of Syracuse's Newhouse School of Public Communications.

Career

Perlis began his career in media in Camden, Maine as co-founder of New England Publications.
He later worked as publisher for International Data Group before moving on to Rodale Press Inc. to serves as publisher of Runner's World, Bicycling, Active Sports Network, and other magazines.In September 1985, Rodale Press named Perlis as publisher of Runner's World magazine,a globally circulated monthly magazine for runners published by Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States.After Rodale Press acquired the George A. Hirsch magazine Runner from CBS Magazines in January 1987 and merged it into Runner's World magazine, Perlis was replaced as publisher of Runner's World magazine by Hirsch.In 1989, Perlis left Rodale to work for Playboy Publishing Group.Succeeding Hugh Hefner as publisher, Perlis was responsible for all publishing and related product activity worldwide, helping launch the companies' new media initiative that included playboy.com. From 1996-1998 he served as President and Chief Operating Officer at TVSM before accepting a role as President and Chief Executive Officer of Ziff Davis Media Inc.



Perlis' transition to the venture capital industry came in 2000, when he accepted a role as partner of Softbank Capital, a Massachusetts based technology and telecom focused group.

He returned to the media industry in late 2010, accepting the President and CEO role at Forbes Media. At Forbes, Perlis has focused on the brand's digital footprint, overseeing the magazine's digital growth to over 30 million unique users a month.


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