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No. 111: 3 Wednesday AM Reads You Should Have Gotten Tuesday

Oct 7, 2015

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Africa, bobby pittman, China, Creative Industry, FDI, Financial Times, Greenfield Investments, Jack Dorsey, New York Times, ory okolloh mwangi, Rwanda, Twitter

This piece on Jack Dorsey being named as CEO of Twitter while keeping the CEO reins at Square is pretty poor. How do you give recent examples of folks successfully running multiple companies without discussing what is enabling them to get this done? Yet, you reach back to 1990 to pull out a worst case…
No. 110: 3 Thursday Bedtime Reads – Google Links Ghana | Apple’s Newest Board Member is Black | PushBlack

Oct 2, 2015

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Africa, Alphabet, apple, Fiber Optic, Google, Project Link, PushBlack

It’s an advertising company! It’s an infrastructure company! It’s, it’s Google! What doesn’t this company, now a portfolio company of Alphabet, do? Google is trenching around 1,000km of fiber optic cables to connect Accra, Tema and Kumasi. Through Project Link, internet service providers will buy capacity from Google to offer to consumers, unlike Google Fiber…