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

Transformify

Kenya: Youth Fund Targets Young People in Business Start-Up Loans Plan. Facing a high unemployment rate among graduates, Kenya encourages entrepreneurship in an effort to create more jobs in the technology sector. Java EE, Java SE, PHP, and Javascript are the most common programming languages.

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25 Entrepreneurs Discuss The Technologies That Will Have the Biggest Impact On Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

We live in an era where technology goes hand in hand with business. It impacts the pace at which businesses grow and it remains interesting to see trends that will emerge from some of these technologies. 5G technology provides faster connectivity with decreased latency and battery usage. Photo Credit: Adam Fard.

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On technology commoditization

BeyondVC

If you ever wondered how Sun monetizes Java, I suggest reading Jonathan Schwartz’s (President of Sun) post on commoditization, standards, and Java. So I’d like to answer once and for all the question, “how does Sun monetize Java?” Despite that, we continue to see innovation and new business models.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. The hosted offering worked by having users place an “HTML-snippet” on their own website, which would retrieve the Java Applet from our servers and connect back to our servers. Very often what a startup’s business model is going to be is unclear.

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. So here is what we learned about the blockchain and DLT technology, brace yourself for the following disruptive talking points.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

Allot Communications -a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenue generation solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology. fring is based on a uniquely thin mobile centric technology that seamlessly merges internet rich communication dynamics within the native mobile environment.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Updated Business tools for Startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. t have time to learn iOS or Java during the weekend. Aptana Cloud (svn, IDE, php, java, rails etc…). Ad Serving Technology. Technology & Marketing Law Blog. Use Sendgrid!