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Inspiring, Supporting and Provoking Africa's next wave of Entrepreneurs and Billionaires. This is the vision of the Tony Elumelu Foundation. An atmosphere charged with excitement, hope and an awakening was the enthusiastic backdrop of the 2017 Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) Entrepreneurship Forum held in Lagos, Nigeria. “We need to give from the perspective
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A story of how an internship program changed a life. Microsoft 4Afrika's Interns4Afrika initiative is providing a platform for Africans to develop and build skills. The internship program offers young enthusiastic people an exciting experience with Microsoft and Microsoft partner organizations. You get to apply learnt knowledge, learn and develop new
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The Microsoft Tech Summit Johannesburg will take place on the 6th to the 7th of February in 2017. The event will take place at the Sandton Convention Center, Randburg, Johannesburg. Discover how Microsoft’s enterprise cloud solutions can help you stay competitive in today’s digital transformation landscape. Tech Summit is a free, two-day
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Surface Studio is Microsoft's All-In-One (AIO) hardware that transforms from a workstation into a powerful digital canvas. The AIO PC is a revolutionary device made for creators and professionals. The device is to spur a new wave of creativity with Microsoft's upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update. At Microsoft's October event we witnessed the announcement of a
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GNPC in a bid to keep employees productive and connected on the go have chosen Microsoft's Office 365. But this deployment has to happen without any kind of interruptions to service delivery, as such they turned to Microsoft Fast Track and Microsoft Premier Services Support to help with migration. Godfred Ofori-Som, IT manager of Ghana
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Join Scott Guthrie and James Staten for Microsoft Tech Summit Middle East and Africa and discover how Microsoft’s enterprise cloud solutions can help you stay competitive in today’s digital transformation landscape. Tech Summit is a free, two-day technical training event for IT professionals and developers with experts who build the cloud
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Creators Update is the name of Microsoft's next Windows 10 major update. The update is scheduled to arrive early spring 2017 and for free. Microsoft announced at the October Microsoft Event what Windows 10 users can expect in the next Update of the OS. The Update is geared towards a generation that want to create. Microsoft's Executive Vice
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Microsoft has announced the launch of the 2017 Imagine Cup Competition. The global student technology competition also enters it's 15th year since it's launch. Microsoft's Global student developer competition, Imagine Cup, open to Microsoft Student Partners (MSP) around the world has been launched. The 2017 edition is special in two ways. First the completion turns 15 years.
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Microsoft Ghana has partnered with Tigo Business (Tigo Ghana), Lenovo Africa, ITWORX and ZEPTO. The partnership is to empower small and medium enterprise businesses in Ghana. Through the Tigo Business SME Empowerment Roadshow program. Tigo Ghana's enterprise division, Tigo Business is taking with it a host of partners on it's SME Empowerment Roadshow. They
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The ZEPTO UmiTab 10.1" 2 in 1 device has seen some more interest from the public. So I received one and took it for a spin so I can answer properly questions asked. I received the Cyan colored ZEPTO UmiTab 10 device running Windows 10. I decided to upgrade it to the
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