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Accelerate, Ascend, and Advance Your Managerial and Leadership Capabilities

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I am Ndubuisi Ekekwe. I coordinate this amazing program we call Tekedia Mini-MBA. It is one of the most fascinating management programs in continental Africa. In our edition 2, we have co-learners from 30 countries. With the support of business leaders from more than 30 glocal leading companies, including Shell, KPMG, Queen’s University, Microsoft, NNPC, Infoprive, Flutterwave, Coca Cola, Gig Logistics, Jobberman, etc, we are nurturing innovators and project champions. 

We provide a 360-degree management program. For example, in our Lab #1, our members are mastering how to write Business Concept Note or Business Investment Brief where workers can seek approval from Executive Management to fund innovation. We also developed a one-page business plan to help demonstrate how that project would work, financially. Of course, founders and entrepreneurs find great moments in our program. We help them sharpen their business insights besides the mastery of the critical nexus of innovation, execution and growth.

Accelerate, Advance, and Ascend your managerial and leadership capabilities with Tekedia Institute. Class begins Aug 10. Early bird benefits end Aug 7th. Register today and join us.

https://www.tekedia.com/mini-mba-3/

Google Announces New 5G Phones As WhatsApp Introduces Online Search Feature

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Google announced it is releasing three new pixel phones: Pixel 4A, which is available for preorder now and cost $349; next is pixel 5 with 5G that will be available this fall; and there is the pixel 4A 5G that will also be ready for shipping this fall at the cost of $499.

The company said the new phones will be available in the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and Australia.

Coronavirus crisis has forced Google to push back the release date of pixel 5 and pixel 4A 5G until later in the year.

The new release appears like a way to counter Apple’s iPhone SE with cheaper devices equipped with the 5G capacity. Google has a pattern of introducing cheaper versions of its own Android smartphones midway through the year.

No details of the new phones have been released; Google said it will give updates soon. But Independent reported that the Pixel 4A sacrifices a number of the specifications found in the more expensive, higher-end Pixel 4. Its polycarbonate body means the phone cannot include wireless charging, and includes a fingerprint sensor rahte rthan facial recognition.

But it retains a number of features from the old phone, including the same camera lens technology, with additional storage capacity. It also brings a new design, with the front-facing camera placed in a punched out hole in the top of the screen, rather than the forehead that has become a fixture of recent handsets.

Google said the phones have increased speed designed to “make streaming videos, downloading content and playing games on Stadia or other platforms faster and smoother.”

The competition to produce 5G enabled smartphones is rising as 5G rollout continues. Apple is expected to launch its first 5G iphone models in the fall as part of its 2020 phone release.

Google seems to be wooing consumers with price as indications point that Apple will keep its future phone prices below $1,000.

The Verge noted that the most important aspect of Pixel 4A is the price: $349, which is $50 less than both the base-level iphone SE and last year’s Pixel 3A. Competition in the sub-$500 price is increasing, and both Google and Apple appear to be using it to keep consumers in the operating systems.

Meanwhile, WhatsApp is adding a search feature to enable users to fact-check stories. The outbreak of coronavirus has exposed how social media platforms enable the spread of misinformation, and the instant message app is not an exemption.

Now it is rolling out a feature that will allow people to search for information on Google to ascertain if the messages frequently shared are true.

According to Android police, when a WhatsApp message has been forwarded many times, the app will display a special icon to let users know the message did not originate from the sender.

The app is testing a method to double-check messages suspected to originate from a third party and has been repeatedly shared, by tapping the magnifying glass button in the chat. The feature will upload the message via the user’s default browser without WhatsApp itself reading the content.

The new feature is being launched in Brazil, Italy, Ireland, Mexico, Spain, UK and the US. But it will not label messages to be true or false directly – it will allow users to research the content online to see if it’s true.

Facebook and its subsidiaries have been particularly under intense pressure to curtail the amount of misinformation on its platforms. The social media giant seems to have woken up to the call as more posts on its platform get labeled for fact-checking, and others get removed for being outright lies.

The new WhatsApp fact-checking shows that Facebook is extending the pattern to other social media platforms under its wing.

AutoBoom:  Sowing Digital Seeds – An Imperative for Growth, but?

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Did you know that your comment on Blog post, Facebook post, Twitter arguments are all digital seeds, that may be used to judge you in no long time? Be careful what you write online, the Internet Never Forgets.

They said we are eyeing the future where Digital Transformation will take over seamlessly,  but a Technology enthusiast would laugh and tell you that we are already in the age of Digital Transformation. The seed was sown right from the time the internet became a reality. 

The question spreads through; 

  1. What are you using your Digital Seeds to do right now?
  2. Are you planting digitally, at all at all?
  3. Where are you planting your digital seeds, on Tekedia.com just like I am doing or where exactly?
  4. What is your goal with your digital seed; to become an innovative data center for the future generation or just a future outdated fashionista?
  5. If you were opportune to be the seed, what type of seed would you be; the Apple that changed the mind of Eve or the $1.84 Trillion a piece Apple that has disrupted all records? Na you sabi!

Will you argue that, the reason, most of the renowned and college taught inventors, finders, research brains and even crowned princes were mostly the western is because they started planting their Digital Seed right on time, knowing that those seeds will germinate into something beyond the earthly cloud (Google Cloud, AWS, Salesforce, SAP et al). If there is no argument, then let me not tweet again, let us Face this book and express what’s up in our minds below.

Case in the court of mind:

Mike Tyson is looking for healing just like all of us and our acceptance of who he is now is the healing he yearns for, but may not appear so vivid. It is not the Saturday, September 12, 2020 Mike Tyson x Roy Jones Jr.  fight or the next million dollar deal, or to be called the lion again, he is already one, but his jungle is somehow lonely. If you see him, give him a pat on the shoulder and tell him to calm down, all is well. He sowed his today fruit as a seed a long time ago, and must be man enough to reap it. Or do you argue my stance once again.

In one of my articles: The Data War and The Two Men To Rule The World published on Tekedia.com on October 5, 2017.

Excerpt reads: 

“I am scared of a day I will have to wait for another man to feed me, approve my movement and communication. A day this man will have to decide what I will do and not do. This is no longer a quote or assumption, it is now a reality. Imagine the future.

The Rockefellers & Rothschild amongst a few others controlled the economy when the Tech Generated Data were small compared to today. Looking at the moment, you will observe that there are a good number of social and media platforms and many concepts which, if you pay a keen interest on them, you will understand as a person, that to some extent you are no longer in charge of your personal data/information and maybe life”.

I made what will be called an assertion three (3) years ago about the age of data outburst and possible war of interest; which in your conscious mind, it is the reality now. History is the sperm of life, don’t play with it. It is called one name, but they come in millions, but only one or two will survive the race. That is what the internet is like today. One comment on one website, ten other websites will copy your name. So be careful with what you throw around the world wide web, this one is bigger than Lekki beach!.

But, 

  1. Shall we because the grease of the internet is too slippery and we should not wear our slippers when crossing the other side? 
  2. Shall we because the internet does not forget things, and not express ourselves for the world to see?

So many people have, because the internet is stealing their data and refusing to even share their views on issues bothering their country, hence making themselves slave to whatever the mermaid influenced politicians agrees on in their own selfish interest; they end up saying.. Ahh, I better have only a twitter account, and not put my picture on Facebook. 

This same person will still use Google Photo to save his or her pictures, even the oldest ones that are really showing their real face before Money made them fine bobo. 

See! Just mind what you sow on the internet, because this digital seed, in or without your consent, even just inside your phone memory is not secured at all. Or better still, become bold enough to man up to whatever the future has to offer, consequently to your digital explosions. If you do not know how to manage this, then use a trump hat and cover it. 

If you can’t control the digital seed, then be man enough to say, ahh that was me back then, OG. develop a sense of humour to address it as those days we were boys. Those days we were the hottest girls in town, that way, your conscience will have a building block. 

  1. If na yahoo you de do, yahoo with pride (I no de celebrate yahoo)
  2. If na Garri you de market, Market with pride
  3. If na pastor you de, pastor with pride
  4. If na sovereignty you de sell, sell with pride
  5. Anything you de do, do with pride.

AutoBoom:  Sowing Digital Seeds – An Imperative for Growth, but

If you sow the right digital seed, on time and in the right digital garden, it has the potential of making you a star, that is why the topic is; Automatic Boom. but if you sow the wrong see, it may not playback immediately, but it will surely shower Automatic Doom. make your choices right, while you still can!

Thank you for taking the time to read, share with your colleagues, maybe the note they need to think differently before they log in again. 

Warehouse Aggregator, Symplifix, Is Looking for Anchor Partners Across Nigeria

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On-demand warehouse pioneer, Symplifix, led by the Ejike Ekwenibe, has closed its early stage capital round and has raised the balance of the required funds for its operations.

Symplifix is a digital marketplace which uses data and technology to aggregate grain dryers, silos, cold rooms and warehouses which it offers to its community of users on a pay as you use basis at very affordable rates. 

Symplifix is currently looking for anchor partners in various locations in Nigeria as it prepares to launch operations in a few weeks.

Do you own a grain dryer, silo, cold room or warehouse? Do you wish to earn more passive income from your equipment and warehouses? The company wants to read from you. It wants you to get listed on our optimized ecosystem.

Here is the contact:

info@symplifix.com

07041000710

The Leverageable Factors of BIG Tech

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Google Facebook Apple Amazon

“When Google bought YouTube, they could compete against the dominant player in video, which was the cable industry. When Amazon bought Whole Foods, they could compete against Kroger’s and Walmart. When Facebook bought WhatsApp, we could compete against telcos who used to charge 10 cents a text message, but not anymore.Now people can watch video, get groceries delivered, and send private messages for free. That’s competition. New companies are created all the time, all over the world. And history shows that if we don’t keep innovating, someone will replace every company here today.” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO

Zuckerberg defends tech

The leverageable factors within tech should not make tech firms look like bad eggs. Walmart has private labels and to make those calls, it possibly gets some people into a room to discuss options. That Amazon uses AI to make the decision should not make it an evil company. Nearly all the “bad” tricks we see in big techs happen in our traditional industries. The only difference is that digital technologies have weaponized the efficiency of execution exponentially. So, instead of Walmart understanding just 60% of why ABS Butter will do well as Walmart Butter private label, Amazon could get to 99% on why Amazon Butter will thrive. Focusing on outcomes alone will diminish innovation!