Five Kenyan IT millionaires to watch
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg rose from an ordinary student to a multi-billionaire. Kenya too is by the day producing tech tycoons. Here are five Kenyan entrepreneurs who have built major technology companies and made some serious money while at it. These entrepreneurs are not only clinching awards but also making deals across the world and are highly respected at home. Mike Macharia – Founder and Group CEO, Seven Seas Technologies (SST) At the age of 25 Michael Macharia founded SST, a provider of integrated business and technology solutions across Africa in the financial, telecoms, real estate and service industries. The firm, which started ...
Kenya’s Safaricom to lay fibre for “data tsunami”
By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) Kenya's top telecoms operator Safaricom will lay a fibre-optic cable network to offer faster and more efficient Internet data services in expectation of a mobile "data tsunami", its chief executive said. Safaricom, in which Britain's Vodafone has a 40 percent stake, has a big lead over rivals such as the local unit of France Telecom, but its network has been struggling with fluctuating data speeds and dropped calls. "The next set of investments is going to be around fibre because we have major dependency on fibre," Bob Collymore told the Reuters Africa Investment Summit. "The data tsunami will come ...
10 Communication Secrets of Great Leaders
It is simply impossible to become a great leader without being a great communicator. I hope you noticed the previous sentence didn’t refer to being a great talker – big difference. The key to becoming a skillful communicator is rarely found in what has been taught in the world of academia. From our earliest days in the classroom we are trained to focus on enunciation, vocabulary, presence, delivery, grammar, syntax and the like. In other words, we are taught to focus on ourselves. While I don’t mean to belittle these things as they’re important to learn, it’s the more subtle ...
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