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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

What are the drivers behind these figures and why Africa is so polarized when it comes to skills development and unemployment rates? Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. thanks to the well-developed tourism industry.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. The SimpleGeo API will provide you access to these services.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so.

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Face.com Gets $4.3 Million from Russian Yandex and Rhodium

VC Cafe

million in Israel’s Face.com , a startup developing face recognition technology. TheMarker reports that since opening its API in May this year, Face has seen 5,000 developers use its technology on the cloud, with no need for installations. We’re excited and very proud to have the support from our investors.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

Yes, social networks of 2010 have much better usability, have better developed 3rd-party platforms and many more people are connected. It had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users, which actually was slightly smaller in December 2007 then MySpace was. then bought GeoCities for $3.6 Enter Facebook.

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5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups

blog.adaptiveblue.com

Click Allow Click Install Now After downloading, Restart Firefox 5 Infrastructure Tips for Startups by Alex on December 18, 2007 · 13 comments Even 5 years ago an approach to infrastructure in a startup would have been different. Google Analytics is packed with features, but more importantly it has an API.

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Google VP: Here's How to Get Bought By Us

mashable.com

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. billion in April 2007. Google bought web 2.0 Slide.com. DoubleClick.