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

Transformify

Most young people can’t afford to study abroad without government subsidies or scholarships. It is not surprising that the countries with low unemployment rates have adopted programs encouraging continuous education, industry diversification, and skills development. It is not a surprise that the unemployment rate is 5.20%.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. But Java is certainly core to the innovation. The Apache Software Foundation can hardly keep up with the pipeline of cool new technologies.

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

Lets look at RabbitMQ for example – which though written in Erlang was acquired by SpringSource as a messaging engine to underpin a Java-based programming model. But Java is certainly core to the innovation. The Apache Software Foundation can hardly keep up with the pipeline of cool new technologies.

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Why The SBIC Doesn’t Work For Venture Capital Anymore

Feld Thoughts

The article starts off saying that “Matthew Varilek has traveled across the state, proselytizing the potential benefits of the Small Business Investment Company Program.” Matthew, if you really want to have a deep discussion about why the SBIC program isn’t effective for VC funds anymore, feel free to give me a shout.

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On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

Ben's Blog

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Conformity Adds $3M More to Series A

Austin Startup

Conformity , creators of the first suite of on-demand solutions to enable organizations to centrally govern and manage users of software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud applications, today announced it has secured an additional $3 million in Series A financing led by Guggenheim Venture Partners. CrunchBase Information. Conformity.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace.