Did my grandmother invent Coca-Cola? In the Business Wars podcasts, one of my favorite battles is Coca-Cola vs Pepsi. It is the stuff of legends and a battle that goes on to this day. I have known about the history of Coca-Cola for decades as I also own a Coca-Cola bottling franchise. After I first read about how it was…
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The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), the body leading development of next generation Wi-Fi services, today supports the decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to open up the 6GHz frequency band for use by Wi-Fi 6 technology. It declared the release of the spectrum would bring radical change for the Wi-Fi industry in terms of service speed, hyper low latency…
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Total (Paris:FP) (LSE:TTA) (NYSE:TOT) and Tullow have entered into an agreement, through which Total shall acquire Tullow’s entire interests in Uganda Lake Albert development project including the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. The overall consideration paid by Total to Tullow will be $575M, with an initial payment of $500M at closing and $75M when the partners take the Final Investment…
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What caused me the most stress during my pregnancy was seeing other pregnant women going about their lives like normal; wearing their short dresses, eating whatever they wanted, looking all fresh and bubbly, and enjoying their bump. I was a wreck. I wished Jesus could come back already. Where was the rapture! I tell you, I was looking forward to…
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Facebook has become the largest minority shareholder in Indian oil and telecoms tycoon Mukesh Ambani’s cut-price Jio mobile internet network with a $5.7 billion deal. KEY FACTS Facebook and Jio said they planned to work together to connect India’s army of 60 million small shopkeepers, known locally as kirana, with WhatsApp users via the mobile network’s eCommerce platform. The deal is Facebook’s largest…
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The main union representing journalists in Britain is calling on the government to triple a tax on global tech giants to support the industry, as it faces fresh shocks from the coronavirus outbreak. Sector analysts predict that as many as 5,000 journalists could lose their jobs without state intervention, as the national lockdown hits already declining print sales and dwindling…
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MSMEs which form a large part of individual economies in Africa have little or no absorption capacity to the effect of the pandemic AUDA-NEPAD Chief Executive Officer Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki and Ecobank Group Chief Executive Officer Mr Ade Ayeyemi have agreed to collaborate on a continental initiative to support African Micro and Small-Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as they face the…
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MTN has been awarded the most valuable telecom brand in Africa in a recent annual report by Brand Finance, a leading independent brand valuation consultancy. The report stated that MTN’s brand value was boosted by a solid overall performance for the year, despite challenging economic conditions and regulatory challenges in some markets. Brand finance also recognised MTN for its focus…
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_Let’s grow entrepreneurs and transform food! A year ago this week I was in Davos, Switzerland to hold a fireside chat about innovative ways to support and inspire young entrepreneurs in the agri-food sector. We also shared ideas of how to improve the whole ecosystem in which agribusinesses operate, across the African continent. We called our emerging start-up vision: “Generation…
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Samsung Electronics has today achieved the industry’s fastest 5G speeds in a lab demonstration that combined 800MHz of mmWave spectrum with MU-MIMO (Multi-User, Multiple-Input, Multiple-Output) technology. Using two test mobile devices, the demonstration achieved approximately 4.3Gbps speeds on each, reaching an industry peak speed of 8.5Gbps across both devices. In order to achieve the speed, two key technologies were used:…
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