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- 11 Jul 2021
British Billionaire Branson Takes Off for Space with Virgin Galactic
Billionaire Richard Branson took off Sunday from a base in New Mexico aboard a Virgin Galactic vessel bound for the edge of space, a voyage he hopes will lift the nascent space tourism industry off…
- 6 Aug 2012
Twitter…the Assault on Free Speech!
“Business is ‘just business’: a scramble for profit,” wrote Richard Branson, the British international entrepreneur in his 2008 book, Business Stripped Bare (Virgin Books). Although Branson talks…
- 5 Nov 2015
Story of Philip Emeagwali, Others Who Dropped Out of High School
Millions of students drop out of high school every year around the world, making them ineligible for most high paying jobs. In Nigeria, there are some 10.5 million kids out of school, making the…
- 16 Jun 2015
Airbus to Build Satellites for OneWeb to Beam Internet from Space
Airbus Group will design and build about 900 satellites for privately owned OneWeb Ltd, which plans to offer high-speed, space-based Internet access to billions of people worldwide, company officials…
- 21 Jul 2016
“MTV Base Meets Bill Gates” Conversation to Dwell on Technology in Africa
Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Africa is excited to reveal that Bill Gates is to appear on a special episode of “MTV Base Meets…” The US entrepreneur and philanthropist will make a…
- 25 Jul 2016
Sage Summit 2016 Host 15,000 Entrepreneurs, SMEs
Sage, a market leader in cloud accounting software, welcome over 15,000 entrepreneurs and Small & Medium business owners from around the world to Chicago for this year’s Sage Summit, the world’s…
- 21 Feb 2017
TransferWise Partner Facebook to Launches International Money Transfers
Money transfer company TransferWise has launched a new service that allows users to send money internationally through Facebook Inc's chat application, as competition in the digital payments…
- 15 Jun 2017
Poll Ranks Adesina 3rd Most Reputable Person on Earth
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has been rated third most reputable personality in the world on the 2017 Most Reputable People on Earth list released by South…
- 8 Jun 2021
Jeff Bezos to Travel to Space Next Month
Jeff Bezos, founder Amazon, has announced that he will fly into space next month on the first human flight launched by his Blue Origin rocket firm. Jeff Bezos “Ever since I was five years old, I’ve…
- 20 Jul 2021
World’s Richest Man Bezos Completes Successful First Space Jaunt
Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, soared about 66.5 miles (107 km) above the Texas desert aboard his company Blue Origin’s New Shepard launch vehicle on Tuesday and returned safely to Earth, a…
- 20 Dec 2021
Agbakoba Waxes Worriedly over Illegal Satellites in Nigerian Space
Dr Olisa Agbakoba, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has warned of the dangers posed by a number of satellites in Nigerian space that operating illegally. A satellite is basically a self-contained…
- 9 Apr 2014
Okonjo-Iweala Bags David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, finance minister and coordinating minister for the Economy, has been honoured with the prestigious David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award alongside Paul Polman, CEO of…
- 17 Mar 2015
How Satellite Internet Could Weather Future Disasters
Greg Wyler, founder of the OneWeb satellite venture has said that his mission is to bring affordable Internet services to the entire globe — and that also means beefing up the connectivity for the…