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Ways To Build A Professional Online Persona

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The following are some suggestions on how to build a professional online persona:

Presence: Open at least one social media or blog account.

Specialize: Define an area of interest and build around it. A five-minute online search should reveal what you represent. You need to differentiate yourself and showcase your core skills and unique capabilities to potential hiring managers.

Accuracy: Always remember that once that post goes online, you may not control who sees it. If you lie on your accomplishments, your classmate or co-worker is just an IP address away from challenging it. Make it accurate – always, otherwise, you will destroy your persona.

Comprehensive: While blog should be short, once in a while, develop comprehensive articles in your field and post them online. It could mean expanding a class project you worked on, adding more contents, and fully proving your expertise. Half-baked contents will not take you too far.

Judgment: What you post or share online defines who you are. Your profile defines you – values, interests and reliability. For employers, they want reliable team leaders and you must not offer less in your web personality.

Vertical Integration: Seek to connect with people ahead of you professionally while building a horizontally network.

Generosity: Share and exchange good ideas. Invite people to your network and be generous to promote good ideas from others. Write professional reviews on books, journals and articles. In no distant time, people will reward you.

Policy Matters: If you are working, ensure you adhere to policies on using the company’s name online. There is a threat that you could be a source of data leakage that can hurt competitiveness. Your profile must not be another portrait of your employer – you must be wise to separate both, where necessary.

Continuity: Professional online branding is a continuous work-in-progress that requires constant tune-ups of networks, contents and profiles. It must be constantly nurtured.

How Hadoop will unlock great value in African big data startups

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We mean it – the hottest area in technology now is data analytic. You can also call the players WANTS, just like Quants in the investment banking field. OK, they also go as Data Scientists. These are guys/fields that focus on crunching the massive data social media and new technologies are churning out minute by minute. Companies want to make sense of them – they truly want because without that capability, they cannot have intelligence on their products, websites and indeed all areas of their operations. Facebook will not improve with having a way to analyze data they get from millions of their users.

HP, EMC, Google, Microsoft, and a host of the tech giants are buying these companies. They are the pinnacle of mathematical finesse and analytical bravado. They crunch meaningless data sets and provide your information that no one ever imagined. The leader of this pack is Cloudera. We also have Informatica. There are many of them and Africa needs to get into this. This is brain work people and we need to connect quick and fast.

What do you need? You need to be very very good in mathematics and statistics. You need to be sound in machine learning and heuristic algorithm development.  If your statistics measures up very well, it is possible you can write these codes and easily be acquired by someone. The barrier of entry is very high because this is not the domain of hackers and lucky-software coders. You need to be very good and know the stuff.

To begin, you need to understand the open source engine that drives most of these companies. That engine is called Hadoop, after the toy elephant of the son of the man, Doug Cutting, that created it. Get to know Hadoop and if you think you are ready, email tekedia@fasmicro.com and let us discuss how this can work out. We have some Nigerians in U.S that want to get into Hadoop (they know the software but do not know the maths section. These are investors; we will connect you). They are looking for partners – first rated statisticians and mathematicians.

Apache Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data. Hadoop was inspired by Google’s MapReduce and Google File System (GFS) papers. Hadoop is a top-level Apache project being built and used by a global community of contributors,written in the Java programming language. Yahoo! has been the largest contributor to the project, and uses Hadoop extensively across its businesses. Hadoop was created by Doug Cutting,who named it after his son’s toy elephant.It was originally developed to support distribution for the Nutch search engine project. (wikipedia)

One key way to protect yourself on Android mobile devices in this new year

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For better or for worse, technology has penetrated on our planet Earth. It has served people in many ways, tinkering with a gadget and exploring its various functions is charming. The advent of smartphones has made the mobile phone experience even better. Smartphones are pet to their owners and accompany them everywhere they move. Using them is a smart experience and the perception that technology has made people dump is nullified.

 

Dangers from exploded applications:

Though their use is heavenly, but smartphones have certain societal pitfalls too. They have globalized the world abruptly and in many easy exquisite ways. Individuals from all strata and age can access it; the wrong is for the kids with tender age. They use it excessively without acknowledging its drawbacks.

The smartphone brings whole world at your virtual doorstep which is not feasible for kids. Interacting with people of all kinds make them vulnerable to prospect threats, all their childhood we teach them not to talk to strangers, but then giving them a smartphone that breaks all the protective shields and expose them to the volatile world is senseless.

 

StealthGenie an ultimate safe guard:

Whether you are a working parent or a house wife or guardian by any relation, you need to have absolute grip over the interactions they make. For that StealthGenie mobile spy software is essential. Kids are smart and a smarter software can only handle them. It is the software intelligence that sneaks into their mobile phones and extract out all the information necessary to be known by the guardian.

If you are worried about the traceability of your software, then the software ensures 100% undetectable functioning and presence. It will bring to you all the secret information that they were trying to hide and all the activities they do behind your back or due to your lack of technological knowledge.

The software is handy and works effectively without complaints or signs of its presence in the target phone. The investigator can easily sneak into any live conversations, while sitting away from the target phone and view all that what is happening on the online interface. The user interface is called the Member Area and it possesses all the relevant information you are thriving to get hands on. Information about the people they call, text, email and chat appears before you and you will be in a position to identify strangers and suspicious persons.

 

Protective shield from all threats:

By marking certain people’s contact numbers or email addresses as important, you can get alerts whenever they are contacted. Supporting the above feature is ‘Reverse Phone Look up’ this feature brings forth all the additional contact and personal information of that person you want to investigate about. Likewise the monitoring software allow the user to even specify words on the online interface, whenever those target words are found in any Email, Chat or SMS message, the user will get notified immediately.

Parents worried about the wandering habit of their children, do not need to mourn over the rebellious nature of their child, Geo Live Location Tracking enables them to see the live movement of their children and even allows drawing and mark boundaries over the Google map provided in the online interface. They can easily view the movement of their child and even gets alerts whenever a certain boundary is trespassed.

This is how the software helps in tackling whimsical children and makes a guardian’s life easy by providing all the surveillance about the kids and their telephonic activities and experimentations with new and old pals and strangers alike.

BitPesa to reduce remittance friction between African companies and Chinese partners

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BitPesa, through its website, is helping businesses in China and Africa to send instant payments in local currency directly from African bank accounts to Chinese bank accounts.

Users in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo can now send money directly to bank accounts in China. The remittance service offered by BitPesa is low-cost as it cuts conventional money transfer costs by up to 60%, according to the company.

The trade between China and Africa increased to more than $170 billion in 2013 according to the World Bank and is estimated to have hit $220 billion in 2016, as Chinese companies invest heavily in small businesses across the continent.

But until now, African companies had limited options for paying their Chinese suppliers in a swift and affordable way, according to BitPesa CEO Elizabeth Rossiello.

Now BiPesa plans to change that. BitPesa is based out of Kenya and has raised $4 million in capital.

BitPesa which was built as an infrastructure solution to meet the growing demand in this important corridor is now growing in demand as businesses increasingly rely on their technology to send or receive payments faster and cheaper than anywhere else.

BitPesa is driven about eliminating the middleman and middle currency in Africa-China trade and to help them connect directly. The company further hopes to expand, hoping Bitcoin to be embraced as a tool which connects the continent.

This company plans to turn Nigerian into an e-gaming hub

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NaijaBillionaire Limited recently unveiled its plan to create gaming experiences, enrich lives and add value to businesses and the environment through innovation, easy access, integrity, partnership and world class processes with the launch of the first billionaire gaming experiences in the country.

Speaking at the launch of the game in Lagos, Lai Labode, Director and Execution at Naijabillionaire affirmed that the jackpot, which is the company’s flagship game, is an electronic raffle (e-Raffle) game that would be played by electronically entering a purchased raffle ticket into a draw.

The eRaffle game, he said, would pay a whopping one billion Naira as its jackpot. Apart from the jackpot, every participant has a chance of winning something.

Adedotun Sulaiman, Chairman, NaijaBillionaire said, “It is an electronic wealth redistribution game designed for Nigerians.

A game that will create millionaires every month across the country.” He said that the company’s entry into the Nigerian gaming industry was aimed at introducing a truly national lottery, create wealth distribution game and establish Nigeria on the gaming global map”.

But they have to actually develop the software talents to making the games first.