YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Casablanca is also one of the largest financial centres in North Africa, as Morocco is a key participant in the Maghreb agreement that facilitates trade with its neighbours: Algeria, Libya, Mauritania and Tunisia. In an area of outstanding natural beauty on Morocco’s Atlantic coastline, the emerging new city of Victoria is set to promote cultural diversity and twenty-first-century amenities.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

The group is about 22 people; managing directors, partners and COO’s of major investments firms in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, and Tunisia. Turnaround / buyout investing is of particular interest to the delegates for several reasons: The Maghreb is an important buy-out market due to the first generation transition since independence and also due to privatization of seized assets by governments in Tunisia and Libya. Localisation du Maghreb (Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Tunisia. A tourism-oriented country in the past, now Tunisia focuses on education, skills development, and technology. 70% of Africa’s population is under the age of 25 shaping one of the largest untapped talent pools in the world. At the same time, 75% of all university graduates in Kenya and Nigeria are likely to be unemployed for up to 5 years after graduation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

As in Tunisia , Egypt , Syria & Iran. I recently wrote a post about the open nature of Twitter and why I’m long on its future. I know it’s easier to write “horse race&# stories about who’s signing up more users, raising more funding or who’s “hot&# lately. But something more nuanced is at hand that is worth debating – is the future of the Internet & global communications more open or more closed?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Whatever their eventual path and outcomes – I would argue that their impact on Iran, Tunisia & Egypt – and frankly on the way that we as a society communicate now – has rendered them one of the most important technologies of the past decade. This article originally appeared on Silicon Alley Insider.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

And while the concept of Tunisia and Egypt being ‘Twitter” revolutions is over-stated, it is true that easy media connectivity has greatly accelerated organized action on long-held social and political discontents.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Facebook’s collaboration with Snaptu at m.fb.snaptu.com/f enabled FB to power its users in emerging markets with low smartphone penetration including: Dialog (Sri Lanka) Life (Ukraine) Play (Poland) StarHub (Singapore) STC (Saudi Arabia) Three (Hong Kong) Tunisiana (Tunisia) Viva (Dominican Republic) Vodafone (Romania) Mobilicity (Canada) Reliance (India) Telcel (Mexico) TIM (Brazil) Vivacom (Bulgaria).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Or just the sheer power of people being able to self organize as they have done in Egypt, Iran or Tunisia. Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time.

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