A new dawn is coming to Africa. After decades of aid being the way the U.S. invested in the continent, a new approach seems to be emerging. In the coming weeks, the Africa Investment and Diaspora Act (AIDA), introduced by Congressman Bobby L. Rush, will be presented to Congress. The bill hopes “to advance the mutual interests of the United States and Africa with respect to the promotion of trade and investment and the advancement… More »
Does an Entrepreneur Need a College Degree?
Two points:
PayPal founder (and billionaire) Peter Thiel is offering grants to 20 students under the age of 20, luring them to leave school and become entrepreneurs. He thinks that getting teenagers to start thinking big early will help them become innovators. Rather than take on education debt, Thiel wants these kids to get $100,000 from a mogul and start a business.
In a Bloomberg Businessweek ranking of CEOs of S&P 500 companies, those without college degrees tied with University of California system graduates as running the most businesses. Last month, Stephen Greer asked Does an Entrepreneur Need an MBA? … More >>
Tekedia – Editors Wanted
We are looking for editors for tekedia.com. You must be physically living in West Africa and must have operated, written generously or managed a blog. Interested? Please email us your CV along with links to your blogs. When you join us, you must write a minimum of 6 original posts per day. We will reward in the range of N35,000 – N40,000 per month for only tekedia.com exclusive contents. If you plagiarize contents and we find out, you could be liable to damages. Unfortunately, if you are our editor, you cannot maintain another blog. We will spend money and resources to brand you on the web ecosystem and will need your full focus.
Your responsibilities are many and varied as we are looking for breaking news and covering neglected news within Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Education.
They include among others:
– interview/document/analyse technology creators, users, mechanics, hairdressers, metal molders, shoe designers (those Aba boys practice technology, also), herbalists, professors, engineers, policy markers, palm wine tappers (what do they do, we want to know), local farmers (one harvests bigger yams, the neighbor weeps on poor harvest, why?), student inventors (cover those class projects), etc
– write about them
– report about startups
– write on business and technology policy
– profile legends and icons of technology
– student leaders and administrators on education, technology, etc.
– And anything innovation, entrepreneurship, education, and technology.
Our contents are aligned within West Africa and South Africa though once in a while you can cover technology events around the world.
NB: Editors must have personal computers/laptops, internet access and work from home, and will cover all associated costs for pursuing contents.
Email: tekedia@fasmicro.com
Ovim MiE arrives – platform for work and play
When we introduced Ovim, we called it the magical device for work and play. Ovim MiE is something extraordinary. Ovim tablet is a success. We thank our fans, customers, co-operatives, universities, etc who supported the Nigerian branded tablet.
Now, we are happy to introduce Ovim MiE – platform for work and play. The photo is shown above. This comes with Ovim Plus.
We successfully delivered on our promise of a low cost internet device for Nigeria, namely the Ovim tablet. Ovim has been a success in the market and we are virtually out of stock now. We thank all our customers who have patronized us. We thank them for all the feedback as well. We have taken all the feedback into consideration as we announce the next generation of Ovim tablets namely: Ovim Plus and Ovim MiE. Our focus going forward is to deliver on features, performance and reliability. Ovim Plus and Ovim MiE will come with good warranty.
Feature: Ovim MiE is a 7 inch tablet meant to replace our current product. The CPU is qualcomm. Comes with built-in 3g with phone capability and 2 cameras, one in front and another at the back. Other connectivity options includes Bluetooth and GPS recever. The OS is Android 2.2 and supports Android Market and 3D games.
Release date: we are running the final tests in Nigeria now. This product will hit stores by May.
Ovim Plus is a joint product of Fasmicro and Microscale Embedded.
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Ovim – magical device for work and play
Ovim Plus – engine of work and play
Ovim MiE – platform for work and play