Its a huge market ecommerce in africa but so far only one in 20 people are making use of it china is on the bubble and International Trade platform could change that but. Also coming up the dark side of orange a court rules the Telecoms Company sponsors drove employees to suicide. And will the rise of ecommerce spelled bad news for south africas glitzy make up all this. Im not a jones and this is due to the business africa welcome. Online shopping is huge in most parts of the world in germany some 94 percent of Internet Users over 16 shop online but the situation in africa is very different there are fewer than one in 20 people use ecommerce a huge potential market but there are hurdles regulations such as Consumer Protection are lacking in many regions and purchases often dont trust Online Retail infrastructure is another problem if roads are bad reliable deliveries cant be guaranteed Rural Regions often dont have street names house numbers and Payment Systems are often in adequate de
I am max kaiser this is the kaiser report i learned a new word in spanish see ya do yes. Actually its already just made up actually its not even that its a word stacey made up. This well this is a good time to introduce me Stacey Herbert because i invented this new word adios and well just seeing this tweet here would make you think its time its bye bye for this is from mario draggy the tweet is from the e. C. B. And they are quoting mario draggy who is outgoing head of the e. C. B. Negative rates will not provoke the collapse of the Financial System this is what mario draghi claimed as soon as you get official denial of course that is when to believe we are about to witness the collapse of the Financial System. From. Big countries accumulate big positions in gold thats an exit from because we know that over the past 300 years no fear money has survived theyve all gone to 0 the average lifespan being 27 years with the exception maybe the british pound but its lost 99. 5 percent of its
Company has a plan b. And the cost of being cool. A former executive testifies the Company Fired as many as 100,000 workers in recent years in an effort to compete with Companies Like google and amazon. The latest on multiple age discrimination lawsuits facing big blue. Our top story of the week, apple earnings. The tech giant forecasting revenues that topped analyst estimates, seeing a surge in services, which now contribute to a fifth of total sales. Apple also reported the iphone represented 48 of revenue, the first time it has made up half of sales in several years. In a way, this is progress towards apple relying less on the flagship product and more on new lines of business. I got reaction from bloomberg businessweeks max chafkin and a Portfolio Manager, dan morgan, who manages about 240,000 shares of apple stock for his clients. Dan it is an interesting report. If you would have told me they would have missed on both services and revenue, i would have said there was no way they
Creating additional units. I was excited to see that the three units were completely separate and not subsumed in the larger front units. It lends itself to a lot more. They appear to be much more independent, but also, a higher chance chance that they will be rented out because it will not be for when aunt tilly comes to visit. I thank you did a great job here they honestly appreciate the honesty and accuracy in the e. I. R. Because it actually laid out the fact that we, indeed can get a project in here and still retain a portion of the building i am in full support. Is that a motion . Commissioner fung . Probably i might have been the only one who would have supported the demolition of this structure and the creation of a new structure and a renewal of our housing stock, however, the fact is that given that direction by both the commission and staff, it appears to be a reasonable compromise solution. From the opposition letter we got, it appears that they may have misconstrued it a l
Events at the planning commission, staff report and announcements. No report on planning commission. However, did want to inform you that we have at the board two items recently reviewed and assessed. The 524 union street, paper doll, was approved. This was initiated some time ago here. And also introduced at the board. The landmark designation for 2031 bush street. Thats all i have. If there are no questions, commissioner, we can move on to item three under mission matter. President s report and announcements. U an i wanted to inform the other commissioners that we met to talk about the changes with the staffing for the commission with mr. Fryes departure. And one is instead of having a Single Person for that area. And delegate that to the three quadrant and to the three supervisors each that lead to quadrants. And help me with the name. And which is great and elizabeth gordon. And those will be in the projects will be based on the quadrants that they are overseeing. And mr. Joycelyn