By BRIAN NGUGI Global pop star turned billionaire businesswoman Rihanna has announced plans to open her new skincare and beauty products line in eight African countries, including Kenya. The Fenty Beauty and Fenty Skin cosmetics products that are backed by French luxury goods group LVMH will be launched in the …
Read More »Smartphone app helps locate mosquitoes, eradicate malaria
image: Researchers trained a drone to sense and capture image datasets through his algorithms that allow the system to understand key features, like mud or vegetation, based on their fingerprints. view more Credit: NA TAMPA, Fla. (May 10, 2022) – Following his success eradicating a major source of malaria, technology created by …
Read More »Schools are struggling to hire special education teachers. Hawaii may have found a fix
Heather Carll returned to teaching special education after Hawaii began offering special educators $10,000 more a year. She teaches at Momilani Elementary School in Pearl City. Marie Eriel Hobro for NPR hide caption toggle caption Marie Eriel Hobro for NPR Heather Carll returned to teaching special education after Hawaii began …
Read More »Small Business Marketing 101: Getting Started
Earning new customers is vital to the growth of any small business, and leveraging marketing strategies is the most effective way to accomplish that goal. However, small business owners often have to wear multiple hats to keep their business running. This can result in their marketing strategy falling to the …
Read More »Farming At Your Fingertips: How Technology is Changing Agriculture Work
About five years ago, David Wallace spent the summer on his family’s potato farm in the Skagit Valley area of Washington State. Wallace had grown up on the farm, but he left to pursue chemistry, eventually working as a data scientist. But he always felt a pull back to his …
Read More »Please, stop glamourising entrepreneurship
Letters Please, stop glamourising entrepreneurship Friday April 15 2022 By ADAM MAINAMore by this Author & By JACKSON NGARIMore by this Author Summary The title has always had an attractive quality, but successful entrepreneurs know the staggering amount of work and sacrifice required is what really defines entrepreneurship. Currently, entrepreneurship …
Read More »Mark Wahlberg’s 20 best films – ranked!
You will not remember this awful remake, for good reason. While the original was a classic piece of British cinema famed for its ambiguous (and literal) cliffhanger ending, this was a charmless hunk of dreck that ends with – no joke – Seth Green buying a set of speakers designed …
Read More »Talking to your kids about money can pay off in the future—it worked for me
Roth IRA, high-yield savings account and mutual funds were just a few of the phrases regularly thrown around my family’s dinner table when I was growing up. I didn’t realize it then, but having a parent who worked as a financial advisor for several years meant that I was gaining …
Read More »This is as good as movies are going to get
Are you one of the people who hates Hollywood because Hollywood only serves up superhero movies and sequels … most of which are sequels to superhero movies? Well, here’s some encouraging news: Two of the highest-grossing movies of 2022 are romantic comedies: The Lost City, starring Sandra Bullock and Channing …
Read More »Take Your Money Off The Grid
In a time of geopolitical chaos and inflation, Simon Mikhailovich’s extreme wealth preservation strategies don’t seem so paranoid. Cyberattacks. Inflation. Pandemic. Is your money safe? The question is asked by Simon Mikhailovich, a Russian émigré and entrepreneur who is in the business of selling a certain kind of safety. His …
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