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Tiger Global is earning its stripes in Africa

TechCrunch

However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014. Tiger Global’s earliest portfolio investments on the continent were in consumer internet companies. This crop of consumer internet startups targeted industries across media and services such as jobs, commerce and travel.

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Tech Trends in 2014: Actionable Insights For Your Career

CTOvision

Drawing from her 20+ years of recruitment experience across financial services, technology, healthcare, biotech, professional services, and the Internet space, Lenzner has some interesting perspectives about top trends. Q: In your opinion what are the Top 5 anticipated tech trends for 2014? As data breaches brought the U.S.

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Transformational Leadership – 4 Real-World Examples

Modus Create

There are two ways to talk about transformational leadership. . We can dive deep into the academic theory created by Bruce Avolio and Bernard Bass in 1991 and understand how it fits into the broader Full Range Leadership Model. . The internet is saturated with theories. But first, let’s define transformational leadership. .

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KakaoEntertainment subsidiary acquires fantasy fiction platform Wuxiaworld

TechCrunch

Wuxiaworld was founded in 2014 by Jingping (JP) Lai, a former American diplomat and passionate fan of Chinese fantasy martial arts novels, or Wuxia, who started translating Chinese martial arts fiction into English out of his love for these works. Serial fiction app Radish acquired by Kakao Entertainment for $440M. and Korea,” Lai said. .

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Guidance Software Federal Summit 6 March 2014

CTOvision

By Bob Gourley 2014 Guidance Software Federal Summit: Cybersecurity | E-Discovery | Enterprise Forensics. The Guidance Software Federal Summit is a thought leadership forum designed exclusively for federal managers and leaders to learn how Government and industry leaders are achieving endpoint visibility across their entire IT ecosystems.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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Defining the Next Generation Enterprise for 2014

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

This model should include the broad strategic outlines as well as specific adaptations to the latest powerful new digital capabilities such as big data analytics, omnichannel customer engagement, the Internet of Things, social business, and so on. The Element of The Next Generation Enterprise for 2014. Workforce communities.