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IDC Predictions 2014 as 3rd Platform Battle for Dominance Heats Up

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International Data Corporation (IDC) has announced a series of complimentary Web conferences to present IDC’s Top 10 Predictions for 2014.

Beginning December 3, 2013 and continuing through February 2014, thought leaders from IDC and IDC’s Insights business units will join forces to highlight the most dynamic issues and trends across industries and technologies.

The goal of the Predictions Web conferences is to arm IT decision makers, across industries, with unparalleled insight into the industry drivers, challenges, and solutions that will help them capitalize on new opportunities and make the most informed business decisions in the year ahead.

The series will kick off with IDC’s annual Worldwide ICT Industry Predictions, featuring Frank Gens, Senior Vice President & Chief Analyst at IDC. For the past several years, IDC has predicted and chronicled the IT industry’s massive and disruptive shift to the 3rd Platform for innovation and growth, built on the four technology “pillars” of cloud, mobile, big data and analytics, and social technologies.

The IT industry’s major players are battling ever more intensely for leadership – or in some cases, just for survival – in this new IT marketplace. IDC’s worldwide team of analysts will highlight the trends and events that will define these leadership battles in the coming year and shape the future of the global IT market for the next two decades.

This Web conference – “Battles for Dominance – and Survival – on the 3rd Platform” – will be held on Tuesday, December 3rd at 12:00 pm U.S. Eastern time.

The IDC Insights Web conference series will continue on Wednesday, December 4th at 11:00 am U.S. Eastern time with an IDC CIO Agenda Web conference where IDC analysts will explore high-level issues affecting CIOs and IT executives.

Later that day, IDC will host a cross-industry discussion led by Meredith Whalen, Senior Vice President, IDC Insights and Vertical Markets Research.

The presentation will feature a panel of research vice presidents from the six industries that comprise IDC Insights (energy, financial, government, health, manufacturing and retail). The IDC Insights Web conferences will continue into January, focusing on specific technology and industry-related issues covering worldwide and regional markets.


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Transcorp Hotels Delivers Stellar H1 Results, Declares Over ₦1Bn Dividend

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Transcorp Hotels Plc has delivered a stellar performance in the first half of 2025, recording a 60% year-on-year surge in revenue to ₦47.57 billion, up from ₦29.72 billion in H1 2024. Gross profit climbed 71% to ₦36.21 billion, maintaining a strong 76% margin despite inflation and operational headwinds.

The hospitality giant, a subsidiary of Transnational Corporation Plc, also announced an interim dividend payout of ₦1.024 billion — offering ₦0.10 per 50 kobo ordinary share to shareholders.

In a bold move, the company unveiled Nigeria’s largest corporate venue — the 5,000-seat Transcorp Centre — staking its claim as the new leader in event hospitality. Chairman Emmanuel Nnorom described the results as proof of Transcorp Hotels’ transformative strategies and unwavering investor commitment. MD/CEO Uzo Oshogwe attributed the success to relentless execution and a resilient business model.

Transcorp Hotels, renowned for iconic assets like Transcorp Hilton Abuja and its digital platform Aura, says it isn’t just leading Nigeria’s hospitality sector — it’s redefining excellence across Africa.


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Microsoft Servers Hacked by Chinese Groups

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Chinese “threat actors” have hacked Microsoft’s SharePoint document software servers and targeted the data of the businesses using it, the firm has said.

Microsoft Servers Hacked by Chinese Groups

 

China state-backed Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon as well as China-based Storm-2603 were said to have “exploited vulnerabilities” in on-premises SharePoint servers, the kind used by firms, but not in its cloud-based service.

The US tech giant has released security updates in response and has advised all on-premises SharePoint server customers to install them.

“Investigations into other actors also using these exploits are still ongoing,” Microsoft said in a statement.

The firm said it had “high confidence” the hackers would continue to target systems which have not installed its security updates.

It added that it would update its website blog with more information as its investigation continues.

Microsoft said it had observed attacks in which hackers had sent a request to a SharePoint server “enabling the theft of the key material by threat actors”.

Charles Carmakal, chief technology officer at Mandiant Consulting firm, a division of Google Cloud, told reporter, it was “aware of several victims in several different sectors across a number of global geographies”.

Carmakal said it appeared that governments and businesses that use SharePoint on their sites were the primary target.

A number of adversaries who stole material encoded by cryptography were then able to regain ongoing access to the victims’ SharePoint data, he said.

“This was exploited in a very broad way, very opportunistically before a patch was made available. That’s why this is significant,” Carmakal said.

Carmakal said the “China-nexus actor” was deploying techniques similar to previous campaigns associated with Beijing.

Microsoft said Linen Typhoon had “focused on stealing intellectual property, primarily targeting organizations related to government, defence, strategic planning, and human rights” for 13 years.

It added that Violet Typhoon had been “dedicated to espionage”, primarily targeting former government and military staff, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, higher education, the media, the financial sector and the health sector in the US, Europe, and East Asia.

Meanwhile, Storm-2603 was “assessed with medium confidence to be a China-based threat actor”.

 

 

 


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NIMC Warns Nigerians of Fake NIN Website

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National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has issued a public warning that it is not associated with NINcard.com.

NIMC Warns Nigerians of Fake NIN Website

According to the commission, the website has been circulating online to offer services for Nigerians seeking National Identification Number (NIN) services.

NIMC, in a post on its official X account on Wednesday, said, “NINcard.com is not in anyway affiliated to NIMC. Stay vigilant!”

The warning was accompanied by screenshots of fake payment receipts and OTP request pages from the website, both of which were boldly stamped “FAKE” by NIMC to alert the public.


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