Since I wrote a book titled The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, I’ve been searching for a presenter -- at Apple or any other company -- who comes close to sharing Jobs’ presence on stage. It hasn’t been easy. Jobs was charismatic, inspiring, humorous, dramatic, engaging and polished, and his slides were beautifully designed. Apple is giving one vice president more time on stage and he’s the most compelling business presenter I’ve seen in a long time. His name is Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering.
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MTN has been rated among the top 500 global companies on corporate sustainability and environmental impact in the 2014 Newsweek Green Rankings. The rankings are one of the world’s most recognised assessments of corporate environmental performance. Newsweek partnered with Corporate Knights Capital and leading sustainability minds from non-governmental organisations and the academic and accounting communities, to complete the rankings.
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Despite the current low productivity in Africa’s agricultural sector, the World Bank believes the sector, which already employs about 70 percent of the continent’s people, has great future prospects. The global financial institution recently said agribusiness in Africa could be valued at $1 trillion in the next 16 years. The sector’s ability to empower the economies of many countries on the continent, advance food security and create jobs is palpable.
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Kenya is keen on reviving its leather and textiles sub-sector and has committing Sh3 billion ($34.1 million) toward growing capacity within the industry, Treasury Secretary, Henry Rotich has revealed. Rotich, who proposed the sum, stated that there exists a huge demand of about 28 million leather units in Kenya, but regretted that local production is incapable of meeting this gap, which had hitherto been reliant on imported supplies.
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A Middle East-based group of hackers has issued a threat warning of cyber attacks against oil, gas and energy companies in the Middle East, security firm Symantec has revealed. The threat, made by Anonymous, a politically motivated group of hacktivists, states that they are planning to attack before, during, and after June 20, 2014. This is due to Anonymous disagreeing with the US dollar being used as the currency to buy and sell oil, Symantec said.
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Apple Inc reached an out-of-court settlement with U.S. states and other complainants in an e-book price-fixing class action lawsuit on Monday, effectively avoiding a trial in which the iPad maker faced more than $800 million in claims. U.S. District Judge in Manhattan Denise Cote ordered the parties to submit a filing to seek approval of their settlement within 30 days.
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Halidu-Giwa and Hussaina Saidu Mohammed, daughter of Ambassador Saidu Mohammed, was unique and classy in all ramifications. It was a beautiful climax of a friendship that started barely two years ago.
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The number of newly registered companies has grown fast since a new registration rule took effect in the beginning of March, new data showed on Monday. Between March and May, some 929,000 companies were registered, soaring 74.5 percent year on year, according to State Administration for Industry and Commerce data.
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Though the Chinese soccer team is again absent from the World Cup, Chinese products, from mascot Fuleco to official instrument the caxirola and hybrid buses, stand out. "Since March, our factory has continuously received overseas orders. By the opening of the event, we had exported more than one million footballs," said Wu Xiaoming, general manager of a sports products manufacturer in Yiwu City, in East China's Zhejiang province. Many orders came from South American countries.
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