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Bill Gates: The skills you need to succeed
One of the most important changes of the last 30 years is that digital technology has transformed almost everyone into an information worker. In almost every job now, people use software and work wi...
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Ghana Eurobond Wins Award
Business/Finance - Fri, 28 Dec 2007 Ghana is to receive two awards- 2007 Emerging Market Bond of the Year and the Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) Bond of the Year- on January 14, 2...
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Africa: The hottest investment destination
Investors have in the past few years been focusing on the markets in China and India – and may not have noticed that these countries’ demand for resources has also boosted growth in Eastern Europe, th...
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TANCon2007, Palo Alto, California ~ Roadmap to Entrepreneurship
The second annual summit in California will feature a networking reception on Saturday night. The African Network (TAN) Conference on Technology & Entrepreneurship is the world's sole event of its ...
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The Reverse Brain Drain
The Reverse Brain Drain For the first time in its history, the U.S. faces the prospect of a reverse brain drain. New research by my team at the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University shows ...
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The Outsourcing Upstarts
In 2000, when employment-screening service provider HireRight was looking for a low-cost locale for software development, the Irvine (Calif.) company turned to an unlikely destination: Estonia. The Ba...
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Intel to join '$100 laptop' project
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- The nonprofit that aims to seed the developing world with inexpensive laptop computers for schoolchildren has made peace with Intel Corp., the project's most powerful riv...
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Europe's Tech Startup Boom
Two-year-old London-based startup Garlik has the whiff of Silicon Valley about it. Its co-founders, Tom Ilube and Mike Harris, sold their first Internet-based company for an estimated $1 billion to Ci...
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Africa’s cheetah generation: innovation and entreneurship
Something is happening in Africa and you won’t read it in the major news outlets. While the media focused on the G-8 Summit in Germany on what the G-8 should do for Africa, a momentous conference w...
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International Seminar for IT and BPO firms end in Accra
The 2007 Xalles international marketing seminar (IMS) ended successfully on Wednesday, March 14 at the Golden Tulip Hotel. The event was designed to provide Ghanaian companies with practical tools and...
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March 14: Xalles International Seminar for IT & BPO Firms
The Ghana @ 50 Secretariat, in collaboration with GCG, the Washington-based Xalles Limited and the Ghana Multimedia Incubator Center, will present the 1st International Seminar for Information Technol...
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Offshore Outsourcing blossoming in Ghana
Accra (Greater Accra), February 5, 2007 – The Ministry of Communications with the support of the World Bank carried out a study last year to establish Ghana's idealness for Business Process Outsourcin...
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Ghana Ranked Among Best Reforming Economies
The World Bank has ranked Ghana as the first in Africa and the ninth in the world among economies that have implemented massive reforms to improve on the ease of doing business. Mr. Michael Klein, ...
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TANCon2006, Palo Alto, California ~ Fostering African Entrepreneurship
The historic summit in California will feature a networking reception on Saturday night. The African Network (TAN) Conference on Technology & Entrepreneurship is the world's sole event of its kind ...
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Ghana Telecom to be privatised
The Cabinet has given the approval for the privatisation of Ghana Telecom. In furtherance of this, a transactional adviser is to be appointed to set the process in motion.Professor Mike Oquaye, Co...
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$40m for Implementation of ICT Program
Accra, Aug. 3, GNA - The World Bank Group today approved 40 million dollars loan to support the Government of Ghana to implement selected components of the its Information and Communication Technologi...
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Ghana -Best Place To Do Business in West Africa
Ghana is the number one location for doing business in the ECOWAS sub-region, according to a new World Bank survey, and the 9th best in Africa. Meanwhile, business confidence in Ghana is high, acco...
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Making Several Stops at Shops Online, but Paying All at Google
GOOGLE has trained millions of people to head first to the Web to find information. Can it now train consumers to buy? Late last month, Google Inc. introduced Google Checkout, a service that stores...
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Moving IT infrastructure labor offshore
Half of the people in corporate IT departments manage and support infrastructure rather than develop and maintain applications, yet infrastructure represents only a tiny percentage of the IT labor off...
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Web 2.0 Has Corporate America Spinning
Silicon Valley loves its buzzwords, and there's none more popular today than Web 2.0. Unless you're a diehard techie, though, good luck figuring out what it means. Web 2.0 technologies bear strange na...
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Bill Gates to Cede Software Reins in Era Change
REDMOND, Wash., June 15 — Three decades after he started Microsoft with the dream of placing a personal computer in every home and business, Bill Gates said Thursday that he would leave his day-to-day...
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