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Tekedia Company Of The Day – SlimTrader

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Name: SlimTrader

Website: SlimTrader.com

Reason: Facilitates easier transactions through mobility

Rating: 4.1

Comment: One of the early companies that got into the mobile business in Africa. The diffusion of its services remains poor in most African villages. To have real impact, it needs scale to affect more lives and the people it wants to help.

 

(For rating, we evaluate four factors: Originality of idea, African Relevance, Design and Execution, and Business Sustainability. Our scale is from 1 to 5 with 1 lowest and 5 Highest. A  company with 5 scored high in the aggregate of the four factors. A rating of 1 means the company needs to work harder ).

 

Tekedia Today’s Pick is a new product from Tekedia. It was introduced on June 25, 2011. It evaluates products and services in the domain of Africa. Only African-based companies qualify. Everyday, we will select One Company and rate it.  We are not just evaluating the website, we are looking at the business aspect and sustainability.

 

Visit Tekedia.com every 5am Lagos time for the day’s pick.

Dealfish to Organize Online Job Search Bootcamp

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Dealfish Nigeria invites everyone to their Dealfish Online Job Search Bootcamp. Participants would learn how to maximise the use of the internet, social media and jobsites in getting their dream job. This FREE workshop is a must-attend for anyone who seeks to improve their chances of success when searching for a job.

 

TOPICS

  • Internet and Social Media Job Search Strategies: How to carry out a “targeted online job search” and how to effectively use Social Media in your job search.
  • Effective CV Writing: The foundation of the resume – your personal brand (an exercise to help uncover your brand and tips on how to overcome the obstacles on your resume (unemployment, spotty job history, career movement, underemployment, etc.)
  • Interview Skills Development: How to master your interviewing skills, whether you’re employed, unemployed, or under-employed. How to gain more confidence and come across stronger and more assured in your next interview.

 

Training Date is 16 July 2011. Deadline for Registration is 11 July 2011.

 

For application link, click here.

Ugandan Hive Colab – Open, Collaborative, and Community Owned Tech Hub

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Hive Colab is a place where East African technologists can go to cut their teeth, work together, share ideas, get feedback from more experienced developers and investors and people from NGOS, universities, and so on, say Jon Gosier of SwiftRiver, Ushahidi.

 

It  is an open, collaborative, community owned, work environment for young tech entrepreneurs to focus on projects, access the internet, have a quiet professional environment to develop their ideas in, hold events and generally collaborate. Hive Colab is located at:

 

Capital Shoppers
Third Floor, Suite 20 & 21
Nakawa, Kampala, Uganda

 

It is called a “hive” because it’s a place with lots of activity. The incubation hub largely runs workshops where people get together to come up with smaller ideas to solve problems, as opposed to big ones that require funding.

Economist Global Talent Index – Only Nigeria and South Africa Make It in Sub-Sahara Africa, But Nigeria Came Last

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A sizeable disparity separates the two African nations in our survey. South Africa’s relatively high spending
on education as a proportion of its GDP reveals the intention to develop its talent potential, whereas
Nigeria finds itself at or near the bottom of the index in both 2011 and 2015, despite rapid population growth. In 2011, Nigeria was 60th out of 60 countries and will improve to 59th in 2015.

 

The US lead is almost one full point (on a 1-10 scale) in both years over the next best performers. The country’s foremost strengths are the excellence of its universities, the high overall quality of its existing workforce and a meritocratic environment that is relatively unencumbered by restrictive labour regulation.

 

The full report is available here

 

The Global Talent Index (GTI), accompanied by the Global Talent Index Report: The Outlook to 2015, explores questions as it assesses countries on their capacity for developing, attracting and retaining the skilled employees their organisations need. The report analyses the findings of the GTI and also examines the survey results of 441 global senior executives who were asked about their views on the talent outlook for business. In-depth interviews with senior human resources executives and experts offer insights on the most pressing talent challenges facing businesses and countries.

 

Frenemy for Nokia – Huawei Android IDEOS Disrupts The Smartphone Markets

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Last week, Guardian reported that Starcomms is bringing IDEOS to Nigeria. We had estimated in May that 180,000 Android devices will be sold in Nigeria this year. And we remain confident. In the same month, we noted that the arrival of IDEOS will help Huawei and the telcos to evaluate how this phone will do in Nigeria just as we noted that the incubation  lab that Google is running in South will determine if they will scale it to other African nations. If it succeeds in South Africa, Nigeria will get a turn.

 

So, with Android IDEOS doing well, where does this put Nokia? It means Google is now a friend and an enemy of Nokia. It is a friend because very soon, Nokia will be making Android phone besides the Windows Mobile and enemy because Google Android is taking customers away from Nokia. We call that Frenemy. Indeed, Nokia could be finished if they lose this battle. Who needs N9,000 cheap Nokia phones when you can buy a smartphone for N15,000 from Huawei.

 

Tekedia is very confident that the partnership between Nokia and Microsoft on the Mobile OS will not survive three years before Nokia introduces Android phone. The reality is that Android is building a massive market share that it will be hard for Windows to catch up. So, few developers will like to go there and develop.

 

This is the bombshell message that must worry Nokia: According to Hauwei CEO, Herman He,


“Since the IDEOS launch five months ago, so far over 60,000 pieces have been sold and we are moving towards the 100,000 piece mark with its share of the local smartphone market at 45% in the first quarter of the year, making it the top selling device with February alone reaching 73%,”

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