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    Friday Roundup: Turns Out DRC’s President has no official Social Media Account

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    David Adeleke
    16th Oct, 2015
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    Friday Roundup: Turns Out DRC’s President has no official Social Media Account

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    Today was quite a day. We found out that the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has no official social media account. In fact, the statement released yesterday from his office described people who impersonate him on social media as “ill-intentioned”.

    Apart from this, what more did we talk about today?

    Cameroonian Startup, GiftedMom, to Launch in Nigeria this Month

    GiftedMom, the Cameroonian startup that develops health solutions for pregnant women using an SMS platform is launching in Nigeria.

    Lessons learned from Nigeria’s mobile number porting saga

    Apart from coming late to school, find out what other lessons did we learned from the mobile number porting saga in Nigeria.

    President Kabila is not on Twitter. Who are the impersonators and what is their agenda?

    The President of DRC is not on social media, yet there are over 15 accounts claiming to be him on “Tweeter”. Okay, so who are these impostors? And what could they possibly want?

    How Uberification Is Changing the World

    We have Uber for cabs and Uber for food. Find out the other types of Uber and how they are changing the world.

    Are online ads really so terrible?

    Ad blockers come with an important asterisk, while they do benefit a ton of people in major ways, they also hurt some, including many who don’t deserve the hit.

    The introvert’s guide to pitching your startup

    Pitching your ideas to people is not the strongest point of an introversive founder. And nobody’s really told introverts how to hack this properly. Until now.

    How Will Dropbox’s Paper Compare With Google Docs?

    Dropbox is introducing an all-in-one work tool called Paper. Here’s how it compares with Google Docs.

    Register and submit your ideas to participate in CcHub’s Enterprise Technology Challenge

    The Enterprise Technology Challenge​ is a 48 ­hour rapid prototyping hackathon, where participants will collaborate to transform shortlisted ideas into working prototypes​.

    Social Media, Instant Messengers and the future of business in Africa

    In the US, social commerce is expected to garner $14 billion in sales and represent 5% of the retail revenue in 2015, but this may be much larger in Africa where most users are first engaged on social media platforms.

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