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

Transformify

Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain. Project/ Product Management.

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

In 2010 not "very smart" feature phones - handsets that are dumber than smartphones - comprised over 75 percent of the mobile market. One of the differentiators of Snaptu, is that the company chose the feature-phone market as its core audience. The acquisition is supposed to close in a few weeks. source: [link].

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Or in utility speak, they are transmission and we are last-mile distribution. Real-time information drives decisions about marketing spend on movie releases. Or the ability of the Center for Disease Control to be able to track pandemic distribution of viruses. Real time + location equals marketing opportunity.

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