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  Kampala Uganda; Africa Internet Group is today connecting its companies into Jumia’s ecosystem with a new vision, "Expand your horizons". The new Jumia ecosystem will give access to products and services from its 9 leading platforms. After 4 years of successfully establishing and growing its online services as leaders in their markets, Africa Internet Group, now Jumia, has become the N°1 E-commerce platform in Africa. “We founded our companies with a very strong belief: Internet can improve people’s lives in Africa. Uniting all services allows us to better help our customers fulfill their daily aspirations. This is all possible because people connect to our platform to access those services and products in an environment that we have designed for them, addressing their needs and expectations on quality, choice, price, trust and convenience.” said Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara , founders and co-CEOs of Jumia. People can now find on Jumia all their needs...

  By Mwebya Fred: According to the LinkedIn global lists, here are the top 8 talent attractors where the world wants to work now. 1. Apple (Consumer electronics) Last year, Apple introduced a novel benefit, doling out restricted stock to the majority of its more than 100,000 employees. That’s not unusual in the tech world, but it’s nearly unheard of in retail — workers who now make up 30 percent of Apple’s staff. Not surprisingly, Apple has sky-high retention at Apple Stores: 81 percent, according to retail chief Angela Ahrendts. But it’s Apple’s “transformative” products that account for the “essence of employee satisfaction,” HR chief Denise Young Smith said. While even CEO Tim Cook (above) jokes that Apple has “more secrecy here than the CIA,” ex-employees gush on LinkedIn about talented co-workers and great flexibility. The company’s diversifying, too: It hired 11,000 women during a recent 12-month period, a 65 percent increase. 2. Salesforce (Internet) ...

By Mwebya Fred: If you own a small business, you need geographical targeting (geo-targeting). This allows you to target a specific audience geographically (city, state or town, or even country), then it is imperative you have a ‘local’ PPC( Pay Per Click), SEO (Search Engine Optimization) ,and even social media strategy that focuses on geo-targeting. Google’s special feature to Geo-Location, where IP addresses of websites are assigned a geographic location to effectively filter search results. So How Does Geo-Targeting Affect Your Business? Let’s explain geographical targeting with an example. Let’s just say, you own a restaurant in Kampala, Uganda, and your target audience is ‘anyone living in Kampala’. In fact, you want to be listed as one of the top restaurants in Kampala, so what would be the ideal course of action? You would need to get your restaurant registered in Google Places (rebranded as ‘Google My Business’ a while ago) and start implementing local o...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Microsoft just surprised everyone with its plans to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in cash. While many financial analysts will be inspecting the details more closely, a lot of onlookers simply want to know... why? Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has sent an internal memo to staff about the LinkedIn acquisition, and it attempts to answer why the company is interested in the social networking giant. There are many businesses in Africa and around the world that are likely to merge or even completely buy off another business. The Microsoft’s Nadella hints that LinkedIn will help play into its Office software in the future. One feature will be LinkedIn's newsfeed "that serves up articles based on the project you are working on and Office suggesting an expert to connect with via LinkedIn to help with a task you're trying to complete." Nadella sees a future where LinkedIn can be more intelligent and feed into Office 365. "New opportun...

By Mwebya Fred: With the recent upper margin purchase of LinkedIn by Microsoft, a lot of questions have been raised most especially that of “who will buy twitter?” I have thought out the above question and here in this article I will share why I think Apple has 70% chance of buying twitter compared to 30% by Google. However we also need to explore if twitter as a company is ready for takeover. Despite its lack of success at growing its audience – its daily users were recently surpassed by Snapchat – Twitter has a loyal and dedicated audience of around 400m users and is a veritable hosepipe of information and analytical insights. But last year it lost its CEO Dick Costolo, saw the return of Jack Dorsey and has been peddling fast to make sure it is on top of trends such as video and photo content. But it has seen significant leadership departures and has yet to deliver a user interface that cuts through the fast moving Twittersphere to make discernible sense. Twitter’s l...

LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner   Its with mixed feelings that I write this piece. First and foremost I am very much impressed by the progress that the social media platforms have registered since 2000. To make a little more sense is the higher price that these platforms are given, it clearly indicates that the future of businesses has to blend with these social web applications. When the news broke that Microsoft was buying LinkedIn at $26.2B , it fully confirmed my doubts that indeed social media is not a passing fad.   First of all congratulations to the entire LinkedIn team headed by CEO Jeff Weiner  that has built a platform from scratch to now one of the biggest acquisitions that Microsoft has acquired in years. You all need to agree that LinkedIn has invested a lot of time and money in making the platform survive up to this day though it was very clear that their profitable years in business were numbered due to numerous challenges tha...

Here is a Recap of the words that made Mohammad Ali a great global citizen both within and outside the ring. The fights "To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the USA won the medal of gold. The Greeks said you're better than the Cassius of old." After winning Olympic light-heavyweight gold medal at the 1960 Games in Rome. "Hey Floyd - I seen you! Someday I'm gonna whup you! Don't you forget, I am the greatest!" To then-world heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson during the 1960 Olympic Games. "Archie's been living off the fat of the land; I'm here to give him his pension plan." Before fighting the venerable Archie Moore. "Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking lessons. The man needs boxing lessons. And since he's gonna fight me, he needs falling lessons." Before fighting world heavyweight champio...

"We shall get noticed by our actions" is the quote that can fairly open up this small article that I have been thinking about from the time the demise of the world's Greatest Muhammad Ali hit the media.  I am still thanking God for having enabled me to live and read about a selfless man who did not brag about his superiority achievements in sports but lowered himself to serve the common man in his society. Having been born in the 1940's before the era of the internet but had influence that reached almost all corners of the earth,  I have no doubt that his actions were actually more prominent than the current day internet. There absolutely no doubt that the world and the coming generation are going to miss Muhammad Ali's physical presence but his actions shall speak to many generations to come. I know God gave to the world such a great gift so that many of us that have lived to see him may learn from his example and make the world a better place.  Gone t...