Monthly Archives: February 2016

Kenya’s Bamba Group Is Incubator TechStars First East African Investment

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One of the biggest problems faced by development agencies working in humanitarian efforts around the world is monitoring and evaluation, which is a $10.5-billion annual business. This is what Kenyan start-up Bamba Group aims to address, and has been selected as the first East African company by prominent US accelerator TechStars, which says it believes “Bamba Group could be the next Airbnb or Dropbox within the next five years”.

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Galaxy S6/S6 edge Marshmallow update begins rolling out in Europe

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While we already knew it was imminent, the only question was exactly when. Well, the good news is that Android 6.0 for the Samsung Galaxy S6/S6 edge has finally started rolling out in Europe, with Poland – as usual – becoming the first European country where the update is now available.

Carrier T-Mobile is currently pushing the update to its variants of both flagship devices in the region. Worldwide, Poland is the second country where the update has rolled out – units in the company’s home country of South Korea started getting the update at the end of the last month.

If you are a Galaxy S6/S6 edge owner in Poland, you should see an OTA update notification soon, if not already. However, if you’re feeling impatient, you can also manually check for the update by heading to your handset’s settings menu.

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Inside Forbes: More Numbers On Our Ad Blocking Plan — and What’s Coming Next

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I should have known it was coming, especially in a newsroom full of quick-witted journalists. “So, about AdGate…” That’s how a staffer began her question during a recent meeting of digital editors. It was a pointed reference to the outcry over an initiative we began in mid-December asking Forbes.com visitors who use ad blockers to turn them off. If they did, they’d get a new an ad-light experience for 30 days. If they didn’t, they’d be denied access to our content. Ad-blocking fans quickly took to Twitter to denounce us. There was discomfort internally, too. The inquiring FORBES editor wanted to understand the initiative’s impact on contributors, who are part of our audience-based incentive plan. Her concern: If too many ad-blocking users bolted rather than disable the software, the one-two punch of fewer readers and less sharing across the Web could negatively affect a writer’s income.

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