“Nigeria is undergoing rapid changes in its agriculture sector.”
Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria, has announced that the country expects about 3.5 million jobs to be created in the agriculture and allied industries by the end of 2015 with the current policy and institutional reforms taking place in Nigeria.
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As a group, startups can contribute small incremental changes that together add up to a big difference.
Startups rarely do anything significantly world-changing despite the constant refrain from entrepreneurs that they’re trying to change the world. It’s not their fault. Changing the world almost always requires massive amounts of money, groundbreaking technology, and a lot of time — three things most startups don’t have.
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Codementor
All programmers are familiar with this scenario: you are coding alone, only to have something go wrong and no one to ask for help. Codementor wants to help developers by providing an open marketplace where they can ask experts for one-on-one programming and design help.
With pensions shrinking, many retired people are starting a small business.
At 63, entrepreneur Sam Taylor was retired. All of his life he had worked hard. He had a company that floated on the stock market and made enough money to live a life of leisure in southern Spain. So why, eight years later, did he swap sipping sangria’s in the sun for starting an online art business in his native Scotland?
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Futurist Thomas Frey: What images come to mind when you think about the future? Do you think about near-term futures with 3D printers, driverless cars, and robotics, or do you think about more distant futures of space travel, human cloning, and teleportation devices?
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An abandoned Walmart becomes a library.
Thousands of big box stores sit abandoned and empty all over America, including hundreds of former Walmart stores. Each store takes up enough space of 2.5 football fields. More that 698 million square feet of in the U.S. is used by Walmart’s and is one of the biggest environmental impacts. But at least one of those buildings has been transformed into something arguably much more useful: the nation’s largest library. (Photos)
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A typical MOOC is an online course open to people all over the globe via the Internet.
MOOCs are massive open online courses that have been heralded as an inevitable transformation in higher education. They have been called a revolution, a boom, and, a “disruption” – a term that at first invokes a welcome alternative to the stagnation and elitism of the American university.
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The online world has clearly and systematically changed the rules of business, and companies must adapt or risk irrelevance. This often seemed self-evident to many of us, even if the ranks of the Fortune 500 and Global 2000 didn’t actually seem to change very much as a result. But the times, they have recently changed.
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Maps and geography have helped humans understand their surroundings in the context of their neighbors, their town, their country, the Earth, and the Universe for about the past 2,000 years. For about 400 years, since Mercator figured out how to portray the curved Earth on a flat piece of paper, not much changed in the world of geography — until the launch of 24 GPS satellites by the U.S. Department of Defense about 30 years ago.
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The App Store can be a really big software market for a number of different industries.
Free and cheap apps dominate Apple’s App Store. However, there are more expensive options in the store, too. There are some super-expensive apps on Apple’s App Store.
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An Amazon.com warehouse.
Amazon.com Inc has unveiled a new hiring spree on Monday that will fill more than 5,000 new full-time jobs at 17 of its fulfillment centers across the United States. This is ahead of a visit by President Barack Obama to one of the Internet retailer’s giant distribution warehouses this week.
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The number of technology companies founded by women is only 3%.
Only 3% of technology companies are founded by women. This is despite the fact that women-led private technology companies get 35% higher return on investment, that the venture-backed ones have 12% higher revenue, and that women-owned companies with $10M in revenue have 47% higher growth than the average 10M in revenue company. Sadly, however, 98% of women-owned companies never make it over $1M in annual revenue.
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