By Masimba Biriwasha | Global Editor At Large | December 30 2013 | @ChiefKMasimba

The 140 character-limit micro-blogging platform, Twitter, which launched on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to much aplomb in November has been in the news headlines recently for being overrated with its rise seen as largely a product of speculation.

There are fears among analysts that the company’s shares, currently trading at $60.27, are overpriced. Twitter’s stock has been on an upward trend ever since it went public on November 6 at $26, reaching a high of $74 before taking a huge shed.

“At $45 billion, the company may have the highest market value of any firm that isn’t generating any earnings since the dotcom bubble of 1999-2000,” New York Times quoted Barron’s, an investment advisory publication.

It is estimated that are 230 million active users on Twitter who post an average of 500 million Tweets every day but questions…

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Dec 31 2013

NEWS FLASH — URGENT STEAM SUDDENLY EMANATING FROM FUKUSHIMA REACTOR # 3 – WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA SHOULD BEGIN PREPARATIONS FOR POSSIBLE RADIATION CLOUD WITHIN 3 TO 5 DAYS

Dec 31 2013

Dar es Salaam University ranked 4th among 100 top African universities

Campus Post

A new ranking has placed the University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) fourth among 100 top African universities.

UDSM has been placed behind the University of South Africa, University of Cape Town and University of Stellenbosch, all of South Africa, according to the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

The ranking, also known as Ranking Web of World Universities, aims at providing reliable, multi-dimensional, updated and useful information about the performance of universities from all over the world based on their web presence and impact.

Its objective is to improve the presence of academic and research institutions on the Web and to promote the open access publication of scientific results.

UDSM Vice-Chancellor Rwekaza Mukandala yesterday attributed the university’s high placing to a new strategy aimed at boosting general academic achievement and performance.

“With the assistance of the government, we have managed to add more lecture theatres and other necessary academic requirements…

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Dec 31 2013

South Sudan peace talks to start in Ethiopia

Dec 31 2013

South Sudan’s warring sides agree a ceasefire but fighting goes on

Dec 31 2013

Children targeted in Central African Republic revenge attacks

Dec 30 2013

D Congo – KInshasa airport and TV station attacked by religious movement

Dec 30 2013

LILIAN MULI AND MIKE SONKO HANGING OUT PHOTOS

krazyinsidekenya

This pics aint no photoshops show the queen of kenyan tv with kenyas king of bling hanging out and having fun somwhere in kenya well it just shows Mr. Sonko is good at noticing the pretty women in kenya ohhhhh well cheers to the nairobi senator.

Ohh just made us all men jealous.

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Dec 30 2013

Why ALFRED KETTER is a loaded gun pointing at WILLIAM RUTO

William Ruto is an interesting man. Witty,driven,sharp,brilliant and very calculating. Surely I must admit my admiration for the son of Samoei. To his people the Kalenjin he is some sort of messiah. But Ruto is also a worried man.
Allow me to suggest that he is like a man who hates his father and he hopes to never be anything like his father but he begins to notice traces of his father’s habits in himself and it gives him the shakes! The father in question is one “Jakom Baba” ie Raila Odinga. You see Mr. Ruto wants to be as different as possible from his former leader Raila Odinga. First,Odinga rules a dynasty that is Nyanza Kenya. His word is law. On the other hand Ruto is aware of the gangrene that such a position may cause to spread in his relatively young political life. He wants to be seen…

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