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Rank: Veteran Joined: 1/4/2010 Posts: 1,668 Location: nairobi
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Based on my previous incidents where large financial institutions[both Kenyan and International] have 'borrowed' my works without my permission, they mainly lack ideas and once they get a chance to 'borrow' a good idea from a small company, use all legal loopholes to implement the project with impunity. From these experiences, what comes out is that the law does not take it as a criminal offense to 'borrow' an idea. Its only morally wrong to the eye of the public. My take regarding Google is that since they have a larger voice than mocality, will continue with the impunity unless mocality is backed by Naspers to wage a massive international media war. Its a real jungle out there especially hen dealing with large multi-nationals devoid of ideas and morals. As Iron Sharpens Iron, So one Man Sharpens Another.
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Rank: Member Joined: 9/14/2011 Posts: 132 Location: Darasani
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Google apologises: http://blogs.wsj.com/dig...izes-to-kenyan-business/All you can do is all you can do; but all you can do is enough!
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Rank: Member Joined: 10/9/2009 Posts: 311
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Exactly according to script. A couple of heads will roll in Kenya, some PR announcement made, Google pays at the worst tens of millions of dollars if Nasper insists on going to court and it is back to business as usual as this incident becomes an insignificant footnote in history. Google rakes in US$ 20-25 million in profit PER DAY. Katika Jangwa la Jangili ndipo Pwagu hupata Pwaguzi.
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Rank: User Joined: 8/29/2011 Posts: 1,045 Location: Mtaani
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Mocality should get some compensation !!!! (PLEASE READ : make money ) 
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,821 Location: Nairobi
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QW25081985 wrote:Mocality should get some compensation !!!! (PLEASE READ : make money ) I have seen an article saying that they have forwarded their case to their SA offices http://www.businessdaily...-/10okwx3z/-/index.html
on a lighter note (if you have not seen it yet) google's top boss is "mortified" on the same matters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxPfgUvfPHAAll Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/15/2006 Posts: 3,905
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Thank you Google! Mocality overtakes Nation to become the most visited Kenyan site on the world wide web. 
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Rank: Chief Joined: 8/4/2010 Posts: 8,977
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muganda wrote:Thank you Google! Mocality overtakes Nation to become the most visited Kenyan site on the world wide web. So mocality needs scandals of this scale to drive up traffic to their site... Wil google get paid for this mocality traffic avalanche campaign  $15/barrel oil... The commodities lehman moment arrives as well as Sovereign debt volcano!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,821 Location: Nairobi
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hisah wrote:muganda wrote:Thank you Google! Mocality overtakes Nation to become the most visited Kenyan site on the world wide web. So mocality needs scandals of this scale to drive up traffic to their site... Wil google get paid for this mocality traffic avalanche campaign and who was saying - go to court, the court of public opinion is more effective in getting you what you want. JUST ASK RAO All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Member Joined: 6/21/2010 Posts: 514 Location: Nairobi
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Mocality's CEO was bright to let this issue go viral before taking any legal action coz they've received free publicity & Advertisement on the world stage that they might never have afforded. 'They say money cannot buy me happiness but when i compare when i had none and now, i'm happier' Kevin O'leary
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Rank: User Joined: 8/29/2011 Posts: 1,045 Location: Mtaani
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erifloss wrote:Mocality's CEO was bright to let this issue go viral before taking any legal action coz they've received free publicity & Advertisement on the world stage that they might never have afforded. exactly ....nice plan though .
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/9/2009 Posts: 2,003
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masukuma wrote:[quote=QW25081985]Mocality should get some compensation !!!! (PLEASE READ : make money ) I have seen an article saying that they have forwarded their case to their SA offices http://www.businessdaily...-/10okwx3z/-/index.html
on a lighter note (if you have not seen it yet) google's top boss is "mortified" on the same matters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxPfgUvfPHA[/quote] @masukuma, did you create that video? Seem like it was uploaded by you. Good job!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/7/2010 Posts: 2,148 Location: elderville
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Jangwa la Jangili wrote:Exactly according to script. A couple of heads will roll in Kenya, some PR announcement made, Google pays at the worst tens of millions of dollars if Nasper insists on going to court and it is back to business as usual as this incident becomes an insignificant footnote in history. Google rakes in US$ 20-25 million in profit PER DAY. I doubt if some tens of millions of dollars will be paid by Google here. Apart from that amount being too high for Kenyan courts to give given the circumstances, Google probably has several layers of deniability here. I however have little hope for the surviving of several guys' employment at Google Kenya though. He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,821 Location: Nairobi
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Google's troubles continue... Same IP address involved in the Indian matter has been vandalizing OpenStreetMap! http://opengeodata.org/g...eodata+%28OpenGeoData%29All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,821 Location: Nairobi
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radio wrote:masukuma wrote:[quote=QW25081985]Mocality should get some compensation !!!! (PLEASE READ : make money ) I have seen an article saying that they have forwarded their case to their SA offices http://www.businessdaily...-/10okwx3z/-/index.html
on a lighter note (if you have not seen it yet) google's top boss is "mortified" on the same matters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxPfgUvfPHA[/quote] @masukuma, did you create that video? Seem like it was uploaded by you. Good job! yes I did.. a few hours work in between assignments on a Saturday afternoon. I heard it was on PMLive (Top 5), I got an marketing offer and now this http://www.humanipo.com/...cality-Video-Goes-Viral
I am humbled.... All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: User Joined: 8/29/2011 Posts: 1,045 Location: Mtaani
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WOW . it was actually you ?? good job !
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/15/2006 Posts: 3,905
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Of life and business: @Techmtaa reports Google as having completed investigations and taking necessary action related to the saga. In the end, Ms. Olga Arara-Kimani, Google Kenya country lead, she of top 40 under 40 women, is the hero who fell under the sword and bites the dust. (Ooh and some unknown tech guy in Zurich) Hmmmn first foray, laudable project, high flying image, international mess up, humbling fall - but you can't keep the best of them down. http://www.techmtaa.com/2012/01...lity-data-scraping-saga/
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 1/16/2007 Posts: 1,320
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/3/2008 Posts: 48
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@masukuma, bravo! Really great video there. Only thing is, the fuhrer erroneously quotes Mucheru as the culprit. Poor guy had no idea about this. He oversees sub-Saharan Africa, not just Kenya, and relies on his country heads to do the right thing.
As for Ms Olga Devilla, I mean, Cruella Arara-Kimani... ah, the immediate former Google Kenya boss. She used her established methodology to try to get results as a means of shining and keeping her enviable position.
As an experienced manager, I've seen this woman at work first-hand. She's a terrible manager, people and otherwise, and uses whatever means she can get her hands on - be they right or not - to get and stay ahead. I wasn't surprised that Google Kenya was convinced that she was an achiever - she looks good (literally and on paper) and has an excellent track record, but what remains hidden is how she gets results. The truth, it seems, has finally surfaced.
As soon as this story broke, I had no doubt she was behind it. Her known tactics worked at Safaricom, EA Cables and yu. However, when employed at Google "Do No Evil", Inc, those same tactics rightfully came to bite her in the ass (nice one though she may have).
A look into her history, particularly her departure from Safaricom, will bear these accusations out. Clever lady, claiming to the press that she had to leave Google Kenya as the buck stopped with her. Watch her next move - that statement alone will help her land firmly on her feet. Hopefully, but methinks woefully I hope, she'll have learnt her lesson and will start to adopt more professional practices in her management style.
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Rank: Member Joined: 4/3/2008 Posts: 48
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@masukuma Just saw this - http://chevismo.com/h/79137; Hitler mad about FB and Techcrunch. Same clip as yours...
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Rank: Chief Joined: 8/4/2010 Posts: 8,977
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Quote:Google Inc. and other advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Apple Inc.'s Web browser on their iPhones and computers—tracking the Web-browsing habits of people who intended for that kind of monitoring to be blocked. http://online.wsj.com/ar...tml?mod=wsj_share_tweet
http://blogs.wsj.com/dig...e-tracked-safari-users/
Not that Apple's Iphone OS is any angel - http://www.appolicious.c...-in-the-mobile-industry
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13145562$15/barrel oil... The commodities lehman moment arrives as well as Sovereign debt volcano!
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