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Daniel Adeyemi Share this article A year after Google’s Moonshot Factory celebrated its first decade, it’s shutting down one of its projects: Loon. Launched in 2013, the project Loon is a cost-effective solution to the difficult challenge of bringing internet access to people in underserved remote areas. But two years after making it a separate division, Google has accepted that it can’t find a sustainable business model. Loon launch in Kenya Last year, Loon launched a pilot project in Kenya, years behind schedule after regulatory delays.  Initially, some technology experts said the ba...

Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- After a nail-biting inaugural season, The Mic: Africa -- the first music competition and docu-series TV format born in Africa -- has announced its winning artist. Nigerian emcee, Fecko, took an eleventh-hour lead in the Take Back the Mic (TBTM) app charts, emerging as the show's winner. As the leader among both fans and Celebrity Champions alike, he wins $25,000 and a VIP trip for two to Kigali, Rwanda, courtesy of the Rwanda Convention Bureau. Winner of The Mic: Africa; Fecko, Emcee from Nigeria; Take Back The Mi...

‘Nigeria is bullish on recovery, long-term prospects’ Recently, CDC Group, a leading United Kingdom development finance institution, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, (MoU) with the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), marking the beginning of high-impact participation in strategic sectors of the economy through capital mobilisation. In this interview with MARCEL MBAMALU, the company’s Head of Office and Country Director for Nigeria, Benson Adenuga, speaks on the MoU, management model of NSIA, Nigeria’s economic recovery prospects, dynamics of development funding and...

Events that will shape 2021 Friday January 01 2021 By BD TEAM Locals take over top EABL, BAT jobs East African Breweries Limited (EABL) and British American Tobacco (BAT) will from January 1 be managed by new chief executives following the changes announced in December. Jane Karuku will assume office as the new EABL group managing director while Crispin Achola will also start a similar role at BAT. The changes come after the respective companies announced that the term of the current managing directors—both being foreigners— are expiring December 31.  In the last four and a half years An...

How the future of work, school learning looks like Thursday December 31 2020 Summary IT giant, Miscrosoft made available its Teams product, a dedicated and private virtual platform that enables employees, businesses as well as institutions of learning to run their programmes. Teams also allows holding of virtual conferences that up to 20,000 participants listen in and watch a presentation or lecture. Microsoft 365 corporate vice president Jared Spataro said in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, communities around the world were fast evolving into an era of “remote everything”, a hybrid mo...