• Google’s Eric Schmidt Sees Nairobi as Africa’s Technology Leader: (Bloomberg)) - After a week of traveling around sub-Saharan Africa, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt saw what he thinks could be the continent’s technology leader: Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. “Nairobi has emerged as a serious tech hub and may become the African leader,” he said in apost on Google+ yesterday. Rwanda is “a jewel with a terrible past” and Nigeria has an “international image problem.” But Kenya, with relatively stable politics and th...
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