Pinterest Narrows Ad Focus to Match Users’ Interest

Image bookmarking service Pinterest Inc. is scaling back the breadth of its advertising ambitions, focusing more on attracting dollars from retailers and consumer packaged-goods companies while de-emphasizing other marketing categories.

In a September letter to ad buyers reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, the company said it would no longer offer hands-on support, such as consultation from sales executives, to marketers outside the core areas of retail and consumer goods.

Twitter warns of Government 'hacking'

It is the first time that the social media company has issued such a warning.

Twitter emailed users to say that the hackers may have sought their email or IP addresses, or phone numbers, which it recently began collecting. 

The number of accounts affected by the suspected hack is unclear.

Battle between APC, PDP over $5.5bn NLNG Dividend

ABUJA—THE All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, asked the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to account for $5.5 billion realised from Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) since 2004.

 

In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also called on the Federal Government to urgently unravel what happened to the past Company Income Tax/Education tax as well as dividends paid to the Nigerian government by the NLNG, against the background of published reports that the funds were never paid into the Federation Account as they should have been.