Black Women Find a Growing Business Opportunity: Care for Their Hair

Not much seems unusual about Judian and Kadeian Brown’s storefront in a tidy plaza off Church Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn, a neighborhood where every block seems to have its own African hair-braiding salon. Posters of African-American women with long, sleek hair fill the window. Round jars of shea butter belly up to slender boxes of […]

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Africa: AU Summit Approves Creation of African Monetary Fund

The AU Commissioner for Economic Affairs, Anthony Maruping, told journalists in Malabo on Monday that the Fund would work to correct balances of payment positions across Africa. He said such positions were mainly caused by low export of commodities and high import volumes which exerted negative burden on currency stability. The AMF would be established

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Africa: BRICS Launches New Development Bank

Beijing — In July, nations known as the “BRICS,” Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, announced the creation of a new, $100 billion development bank (NDB). The project is aimed at lending money to developing nations for investments, much like how the American and European-backed International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank operate. Liu

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Pseudo-satellites: A cheap alternative to satellites is starting to take off

IT TAKES chutzpah to tweet “rockets are tricky” shortly after one you have just launched has deliberately blown itself up. But Elon Musk, founder and boss of SpaceX, is not a man who lacks self-confidence, and he did just that on August 22nd after the terminal malfunction of one of his company’s Falcon 9 vehicles.

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Hawks owner Bruce Levenson to sell team after revealing he wrote racist email

My thoughts would more or less analyze the contents of the email and with the following two excerpts: ( ” .. my theory is that southern Whites simply were not comfortable being in a bar or arena were they are the minority” and “I want the music to be familiar with a 40 year old

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Jumia responds to Africa’s growing mobile market

The mobile internet sector in Africa is developing rapidly, with smartphones becoming much more affordable and growing in popularity. Jumia has taken advantage of this with a mobile app that allows an increasing number of Africans to access the e-commerce platform wherever they are.

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BioMetrics: Facial-recognition systems are getting better

Clocking people’s clocks With some pride, the FBI trumpeted the news last month that thanks to the agency’s facial-recognition system Neil Stammer, wanted for sexual assault and kidnapping, had been apprehended in Nepal after being on the run for 14 years. The truth was slightly more prosaic. A State Department official had used the FBI’s

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You need to know about NFC and mobile payments. Here’s why.

Even if you’ve never owned an NFC-equipped phone or tablet (like the Samsung Galaxy S5 or a Nokia Lumia), you’ve probably used NFC.  The technology, which lets two local devices share small bits of data, is embedded in things like commuter cards, print advertisements, and smart cards. Now that the technology is placed in more Android and

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Mobile Phones: Africa is the fastest growing market in the world

late 2012, the World Association of Telecom operators said that sub-Saharan Africa has become since 2000, the most growing market in mobile telephony. 40% growth each year. With these data, it is expected one billion mobile subscribers on the continent in 2015, attracted by the strong demand for connectivity and innovative services like mobile money

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