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Africa’s Microchip Designers – Fasmicro Transistor Level Chip Design Services

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We are Fasmicro. We provide world-class advisory and consulting services on all areas of semiconductors and microelectronics. Contact us for setting up your microelectronics labs, institutes and academies. We help clients develop innovative designs and custom IPs at both system and components levels as well as coordinate manufacturing at international foundries. We have networks of partners in Taiwan, US, France and Canada for fabless contract manufacturing for chip and PCB. We also provide international partner intermediaries services and academic curricula development.

 

We enable local, state and federal governments across Africa to develop semiconductor and microelectronics strategies. We help you carry studies and a roadmap on how the diffusion of these technologies will help to advance your entity and transition it from dependence on minerals and hydrocarbons to be knowledge driven. Either you are planning a Technology Park or Technology Village, we will provide a winning idea.

 

We provide custom training on all areas of VLSI in both analog and digital systems. We have licensed CAD tools for VLSI designs and printed circuit board (PCB) education. We sell and support all major brands of FPGA boards such as Xilinx, Altera, etc. Our unique service provides free 2-day offsite training if a client buys CAD, FPGA/VHDL, Demo boards and labware from us. We also train on embedded systems and microprocessor programming and extend that knowledge to robotics. We are master coders on Microchip and Parallax microprocessor families. We cover from design physics to testing.

 

We supply and/or support all common microelectronics or semiconductor labware. These include microelectronics CAD tools, oscilloscope, function generators, meters, power supplies, silicon wafers, etc. Upon supply, our engineers will train your staff on how to use them. And we now offer transistor level design contracting

 

On the web: http://fasmicro.com

Tekedia REDESIGN – A Virtual Conference: Africa In Mobile + Cloud Era.

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In the last few years, most parts of the world have morphed into an electronically interdependent economic unit where a disruption in one marketplace affects the others. New technologies have emerged, transforming the ways we do business and, consequently, redesigning the world. Innovation in disruptive technologies pushes new and more agile firms to set new benchmarks, and forces established companies to incorporate evolving breakthroughs into their models or re-invent themselves to stay competitive.

Innovation thus remains a key driver in wealth creation, but the way it happens is changing as a result of new technologies, processes and tools. As social media networks advance, outsourcing ideas to the crowd has become common, while inter-company R&D that pools resources together is a new normal. From agriculture to print media, finance to mortgage and across sectors, industries, and disciplines, the world is being redesigned.

Two technologies that are playing major roles in this redesigning process are mobile and cloud computing.They continue to shape how new companies operate. A business without a mobile strategy will fail in this age because the future is mobile, just as today is mobile.  Aligning with mobile in this emerging change is cloud computing. It opens the opportunity for companies, irrespective of size, to access huge computing power which traditionally they cannot afford. So, with cloud computing and mobile systems,  global business has moved into  a new era.

In this conference, we will be discussing these two important topics in the context of Africa.  Right here on Tekedia.com on August 27, 2011.

The theme of the Virtual Conference is

 

Africa In Mobile + Cloud Era

 

 

You will watch feeds from experts and pros as they discuss the future on mobility and cloud computing and how that will affect Africa. No ticket, no travel, it is all in the cloud. We guess the best way to experience mobile and cloud is to do a conference in the domains of mobile and cloud!

 

 

Date: August 27, 2011

Time: We will start 3pm Lagos time or 10am New York Time for the video feeds.  Exclusive mobile and cloud focused articles will begin to appear on Tekedia from 5am Lagos time the same day.

 

We are inviting people with experience in this area. Send us contents. If you want to contribute, please send your video or audio to tekedia@fasmicro.com. If you cannot make a video or audio, please send us an article on this topic. We will dedicate that date simply to share insights in these very important topics and their huge implications for Africa.

 

This is going to be huge,   and we promise to offer you a good time.

 

 

Tekedia REDESIGN Organizers

tekedia@fasmicro.com

Tekedia.com

 

Wiping Corporate Fraud Via Whistleblowers And SEC in Africa

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SEC Nigeria

To strengthen corporate governance, especially in public traded companies, it may be time African Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or equivalents implement similar policies that their US counterpart has: Rewarding whistleblowers that bring to notice of the SEC corporate corruption and fraud.

US SEC used to give such whistleblowers 10% of any fine, but has increased it to 30% of all the money SEC collects, including ill-gotten profits. The increase was affected in the last US Financial Regulation Bill.

The challenge is that many SEC offices in Africa are not ready to actually use technology to mine data which could pile up if they introduce this policy. And there is fear that disgruntled ex-employees will intentionally file unfounded accusations just to force their ex-employers to waste money through legal fees.

Notwithstanding the drawbacks, this is a very important way to pursue since many African public firms have collapsed not because of environmental competition, rather corporate governance.  The near collapse of Nigerian banking sector was heavily due to the governance of the affected banks with bosses spending company funds irresponsibly. Could a deal with SEC that rewards whistleblowers have averted this? Possibly.

Also the destruction that took place in Transcorp could have been averted as the accountant might have reported the CEO who was forging documents and awarding contracts to his cronies in time. The motivation of being rewarded could become a potent tool in the hands of governments to sanitize African business scene and put public companies on alert to act responsibly or be penalized.

Sahara Experts Network – World Class Advisory Services For Investors Into SS Africa

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This message is from African Institution of Technology.

We now offer advisory services for businesses/people that want to invest in sub-Sahara Africa. We bring in-depth understanding of the region to provide actionable insights to our clients. As an organization that has visited more than 350 African campuses, government agencies, and SMEs, our perspectives are investable. We do not produce documents; we provide tools that will help you succeed in Africa. We have created many firms and seat on boards of different companies. We work with governments and see patterns before most people. And when we write, people read; recent book won publisher’s “Book of the Year” award and got into Thomson Reuters’ Citation Index. We approved Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing to translate our works into Chinese.

The core of this network will be our Founder. He is a company founder, a university professor, ex-banker, an advisor, an inventor (medical robot), an author, speaker, a distinguished engineer, holder of seven degrees with two doctoral and four master’s degrees in diverse areas as banking, finance, engineering, IT and admin. You cannot miss a multi-faceted perspective when he talks about technology, business and the future – all dots connected! He authored books on microelectronics, corrosion, and nanotechnology in the same period he consulted and authored a well received paper for African Union on Single Currency.

Our services are very affordable, for few hundreds dollars, we will speak with you on phone and/or develop an Progress Insight for you.

Contact me, Sam John, AFRIT COO, at info@afrit.org to get started.

 

 

Helios Towers Gets Multilinks From Telkom South Africa For $10m – Now, Can Sell Or Manage

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Helios Towers rents out towers so that telecommunication operators can provide network coverage and build. They do this largely in Africa with Nigeria as one of its big markets. Helios Towers is a division of a private equity firm founded by a Nigerian UK based Harvard graduate who also invested in First City Monument Bank before the crash. This company has quite a war chest under management. Tekedia confirms that Helios Investment Partners holds rights in Helios Towers as our previous report confirmed.

 

Visafone wanted to buy Multilinks but was blocked due to contractual arrangements Helios Towers had with Multilinks. That deal was culled off. Now South African Telkom noted that it has signed an agreement to sell off the CDMA company, Multilinks, to Helios Towers for a paltry $10m. This will enable Helios Towers to either manage Multilink or look for buyers. Helios Towers will have full control and ownership of the CDMA company.

 

The deal Telkom had with Multilinks is like the News Corp and Myspace. Telkom invested $410m over a three year span for 100% control of Multilinks.

 

Tekedia thinks that the best deal for Helios Towers is to sell Multilinks. Alternatively, it can merge with Starcomms which is also bleeding cash with no hope of getting over the competition. A merger though will be a temporary relief, the real deal will be outright sale of Multilinks.

 

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