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Zenvus Loci – Showcase to Partners and Major Distributors

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Our partners and major distributors are now having access to Zenvus Loci. Reach out to our team if your partnership has been completed. Loci is a disposable or reusable package GPS that you can put in a briefcase, cargo, personnel, etc and monitor in real time its location. We see opportunities in tracking the specific cargoes (not just the trucks), ecommerce shipments, security guards, equipment on transit, law enforcement (police, army, etc), human (child, oil workers, etc), luggage (individuals shipping via buses, personal air travel luggage, etc), vehicles (no installation), etc. It is cheaper than anything in the market and it is rechargeable with USB.

 

The Platform Nigeria is Tomorrow – May 1 2019

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Tomorrow is the date – May 1.”The Platform Nigeria is a highly respected organic movement, conducting a series of impactful intellectual events that have transformed the minds and lives of hundreds of thousands of people, thus propelling them to new levels of operation.”

Meet The Speakers

1. Ibukun Awosika

The Chairman, Board of Directors, First Bank of Nigeria. She is also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Chair Centre Group.

2. Segun Adeniyi

The Chairman of the Editorial board of THISDAY newspapers.

3. Sarah Lacy

Founder, Editor-in-chief, and Chief executive officer of PandoDaily?, a web publication that offers technology news, analysis, and commentaries about Silicon Valley-based startups.

4. Dr. Ndubuisi Ekekwe

Founder and The President of the African Institution of Technology

5. Dr. Anil Gupta

Is a Professor of ?Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society and  Academy of International Business. He is also the Michael Dingman Chair in Strategy, Globalization, and Entrepreneurship at the Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland.

6. Ndidi Nwuneli

The Managing partner of Sahel Consulting and Founder of LEAP Africa

7. Dr. Biodun Adedipe

Founder and Chief Consultant of B. Adedipe Associates Limited, a firm of management and financial consultants.

The best time to prepare for a new job is when you are not looking for a job!

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The best time to prepare for a new job is when you are not looking for a job! Unless you are industry aware in your sector, most hiring managers will give up after 60 seconds during interviews. Looking for tech /strategy job? Read my blog Tekedia.com, Techcrunch, etc. Business job? Businessday, Bloomberg, Fortune, etc. Other areas? Find great platforms that deepen your insights and perspectives.

Do less Facebook cat videos and gossips! Do not think you can use 24 hours to prepare for interviews in a serious companies.

I read The Economist, Fortune, Bloomberg Businessweek, and Forbes (US) with subscriptions paid for years ahead. To work with the top leaders of the world, you must be informed to be exciting to occupy a section of the atoms around them. Because you have no money, the only thing you can command they cannot quickly ramp up is deep personal knowledge base.

The best entertainment to rich people is telling them how to make more money! Unless you have core, they will discover when you are pretending you can help them. Deepen your insights and perspectives through focused and sustained accumulation of knowledge.

The Defective $32 Million Website Design

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This is simply unbelievable: Hertz paid Accenture $32 million for web design, and bad things then happened. Yes, the rental car company is claiming that after paying Accenture $32 million to make a website that the consulting firm could not deliver the product. Hertz now wants its money back. It reads like fiction for Accenture to be accused of such! I mean to be sued for the inability to make a decent website?

Car rental giant Hertz is suing over a website redesign from hell.

The US corporation hired monster management consultancy firm Accenture in August 2016 to completely revamp its online presence. The new site was due to go live in December 2017. But a failure to get on top of things led to a delay to January 2018, and then a second delay to April 2018 which was then also missed, we’re told.

As Hertz endured the delays, it found itself immersed in a nightmare: a product and design that apparently didn’t do half of what was specified and still wasn’t finished. “By that point, Hertz no longer had any confidence that Accenture was capable of completing the project, and Hertz terminated Accenture,” the car rental company complained in a lawsuit [PDF] lodged against Accenture in New York this month.

Hertz is suing for the $32m it paid Accenture in fees to get to that aborted stage, and it wants more millions to cover the cost of fixing the mess. “Accenture never delivered a functional website or mobile app,” Hertz claimed.

Accenture told El Reg on Tuesday this week it believes Hertz’s lawsuit is “without merit.”

Among the most mind-boggling allegations in Hertz’s filed complaint is that Accenture didn’t incorporate a responsive design, in which webpages automatically resize to accommodate the visitor’s screen size whether they are using a phone, tablet, desktop, or laptop.

That has been standard website practice for years and was even included in the contract that was signed, but the boffins at Accenture decided that only desktop and mobile versions were needed, according to Hertz. When the rental giant’s execs asked where the tablet version was, Accenture “demanded hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional fees to deliver the promised medium-sized layout.”

It actually gets worse.

But this gives us a window into what it costs to have those great websites we like to shop, and patronize, in top leading global companies. Your $500 budget in Lagos will not cut it!

The Brilliance of Paypal’s $500 Million Planned Investment in Uber

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It is a slam dunk on the brilliance of the move – Paypal investing $500 million in Uber through the planned IPO. Uber needs a solid payment processor to win new markets and territories as it transmutes to become a super-app while Paypal needs a platform where people are buying and paying regularly. The one-off payment structure is stale; Uber offers the future that will drive processing volume for Paypal.

Online payments company PayPal plans to invest $500 million in Uber Technologies as the ride-hailing firm unveiled terms for its initial public offering on Friday, Refinitiv IFR reported.

PayPal will invest in Uber through a concurrent private placement at the IPO price, IFR reported on Thursday, citing sources.

A financial services component is important to Uber as it works to expand into a “superapp” of logistics and transportation services.

Superapps are applications where customers go for a range of services, such as transportation, shopping and payments. Such companies can be much more lucrative than those that offer just one core business or service.

If Paypal assumes the default payment gateway for processing Uber payments in most leading global markets, it will be a big win. Uber runs 14 million trips a day, with most paid with a credit card. Simply, if Paypal takes processing those charges, any investment in Uber will return a win, even if Uber stock tanks! That is why the planned Paypal investment in Uber is a brilliant one.