Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg updated his status to "married" on Saturday.

Zuckerberg and 27-year-old Priscilla Chan tied the knot at a small ceremony at his Palo Alto, Calif., home, capping a busy week for the couple.

Zuckerberg took his company public in one of the most anticipated stock offerings in Wall Street history Friday. And Chan graduated from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco, on Monday, the same day Zuckerberg turned 28.

The couple met at Harvard and have been together for more than nine years.

A source authorized by the couple to speak said Zuckerberg designed the ring featuring "a very simple ruby."

The ceremony took place in Zuckerberg's backyard before fewer than 100 guests, who all thought they were there to celebrate Chan's graduation.

Even after the IPO, Zuckerberg remains Facebook's single largest shareholder, with 503.6 million shares. And he controls the company with 56 percent of its voting stock.

The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago, has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people.

Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard in 2004.

He was named as Time's Person of the Year in 2010, at age 26.

Zuckerberg grew up in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

via  AP 

Utajiri wa Gesi Asilia tulio nao mpaka sasa haujawekwa wazi na Mamlaka husika na hasa Shirika la Maendeleo ya Mafuta Tanzania. 

Ni vizuri wakawa wanauambia umma ili wenye nchi wajue. 

Gesi ya Tanzania ambayo imegunduliwa na kutangazwa mpaka hivi sasa ni 19 trillion cubic feet (11 tcf za British Gas, 5.3 tcf za StatOil na 2.7 tcf za kampuni nyingine ndogo ndogo).  Bei ya wastani ya Gesi Asilia iliyopo katika soko la Dunia kwa wakati huu ni USD 7 kwa kila 1,000 cubic feet (cf). Hata hivyo, JPMorgan walipofanya tathmini zao, imeonesha kuwa hifadhi ya British Gas ni takribani 60tcf na zile za StatOil ni takribani 25tcf. 

Hivyo basi, utajiri wa Tanzania wa Gesi Asilia unakadiriwa kufikia 85tcf, na kwa kasi ya utafutaji inavyoendelea inakadiriwa kuwa mwaka 2014, Tanzania itakuwa inaongoza katika Afrika kwa utajiri wa Gesi na kuishinda Nigeria yenye 189tcf hivi sasa. 

Kwa makadirio ya chini kwa viwango tajwa, thamani ya Gesi yote ya Tanzania iliyopo sasa ni Dola za Kimarekani Trilioni 6.

Utajiri uliotangazwa mpaka sasa ni wa visima vya Songosongo, Mkuranga, MnaziBay na visima vya kina kirefu vinavyoendeshwa na Kampuni za StatOil ya Norway na BG ya Uingereza.

Mpango kamambe wa Gesi, Sera na Sheria ya Gesi na Sheria ya Usimamizi wa wa Mapato ya Mafuta na Gesi ni masuala ya kumaliza sasa. 

Tujipange kuhakikisha Uwazi na Uwajibikaji ili Utajiri huu ulete maendeleo ya WATU wa Tanzania. Kila mtu atimize wajibu wake sasa. Tusisubiri kulaumiana kama ilivyokuwa sekta ya Madini. Tuchukue hatua sasa kuweka sawa usimamizi wa sekta ndogo ya Mafuta na Gesi. 

Sheria ya Usimamizi wa Mapato za Mafuta na Gesi ya Ghana (Petroleum Revenue Management Act 2011) ni nzuri sana. Waziri wa Fedha aliahidi kwenye 'letter of intent' kwa IMF kwamba tutatunga sheria kama hiyo ifikapo mwisho wa mwaka. Nadhani sheria hii inaandikwa kwa siri sana maana imekuwa kimya sana. 

Sheria ya Usimamizi wa Mapato ya Mafuta na Gesi Asilia inapaswa kuwa wazi kuanzia matayarisho ya kuandikwa kwake mpaka katika utekelezaji wake. Uwazi na Uwajibikaji ni dhana muhimu sana katika kuhakikisha Taifa linafaidika na utajiri wa Mafuta na Gesi na Nchi kuepuka laana ya Mafuta (Oil Curse). 

Chanzo cha taarifa ukurasa wa Zitto Kabwe wa facebook.

An African Business Agenda: Tanzania round table featuring Jayesh Shah of the Samaria Groups, Ami Mpungwe - Deputy Chairman of Richland Resources and Lawrence Mafuru - the Managing Director of the National Bank of Commerce (T).

Watch the video below (youtube).

China Sonangol International Holdings Ltd, the Chinese government investment firm, has been plunged into fresh controversy following revelation that it procured obsolete aircraft for the Tanzanian flag carrier.

One of the three aircraft purchased by China Sonangol, a Dash 8 300 series operated by Air Tanzania Corporation Ltd (ATCL) crashed in April at Kigoma Airport in western Tanzania, injuring 35 passengers and four crew members. The aircraft is now a write-off.

A detailed report by the Controller and Auditor seen by The EastAfrican last week says that China Sonangol, as the lead investor in ATCL with a 49 per cent stake, in 2007 leased two secondhand aircraft contrary to a memorandum of understanding entered with the government of Tanzania that same year, after the breakup of the partnership with South African Airways in September 2006.

The planes were a Bombardier Dash 8-Q300 and an Airbus A320-214 that was all of 10 years old. In January 2009, the Airbus A320 underwent a Check D, also known as a Heavy Maintenance Visit, which is done after every four to five years.

Subsequently in July 2010, the aircraft was returned to the lessor, a Lebanese firm, Wallis Trading Company. The government on paper incurred a loss of $39 million on the lease of the Airbus, which according to the report did not fly. But the report further shows that the debt accumulated from the transactions with the Lebanese firm rose to Tsh322 billion ($200 million), enough to purchase three brand new Airbuses of the same series. According to Airbus Aircraft 2012 Average List prices, the purchase order price of a brand new Airbus A320 series is $88.3 million

Read more: theeastafrican.co.ke

Huku kutegemea na hata kufikia kupenda misaada ni ulemavu na utaendelea kutudhalilisha na kutuua vifo vya aibu. 

Tunajiaminisha mno kuwa hatuwezi kuendelea bila kutegemea misaada lakini kuna misaada mingine... Nadhani tukiacha mawazo 'mentality' hii ya 'saidia masikini, saidia siku moja tutanyanyuka wenyewe...' tukageukia upande mwingine, ninaamini tutavumbua njia zetu wenyewe za kujiendeleza bila kubaki kuwaza kuhusu msaada. 

Kwa kiasi fulani msaada ni utumwa na msaada ukizidi unachochea uvivu na mafikira mapya kuganda. Nakumbuka wakati nikitegemea misaada ya ndugu, jamaa na marafiki na wakati niliposema 'tosha' sasa nitafute vyangu, nilijiweka huru, nikajitegemea, nikajitenga mbali na utumwa. Nimebaki natarajia misaada ya maarifa ya kunisaidia kujitegemea na si kupewa ya vitu/mali ili kukidhi mahitaji. Upo msemo usemao, " “Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime” 

Kutegemea misaada sana ya fedha, mali na vitu ni hatari kweli. Hebu tizama shimo lililoko kati hapo! Yaani akithubutu kuvuka tu, amekwisha! na msaada utabaki unaning'inia!

Siku zilizotangulia nilichapisha matoleo kuhusu AdSense, unaweza kutumia sanduku la kutafutia "search box" hapo juu kuyarejea. Maneno ya kutafuta (key words) matoleo hayo, andika "adsense".
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The team at  Google AdSense  has recently made a few improvements related to AdSense reporting to help publishers using this income generating service find information more quickly:

When selecting a date range for your reports, you’ll now have an ‘All time’ option to view all earnings, impressions, and clicks accrued since your first impression. If you used the previous AdSense interface, you may remember this feature -- it now has a new home in the current AdSense interface as well.

There are added quick links to your reports under the My ads tab thereby eliminating the need to search for ad units or channels in your reports. When viewing your ad units, custom channels, or URL channels on the My ads tab, just click ‘View report’ below a specific line item to view performance data for that particular ad unit or channel. This feature is particularly useful if you’re looking for channel data that isn’t linked to ad units in the interface, and will help you save time.  

Just as the placement of commas and periods can change the meaning of sentences, the same is true when it comes to numbers and figures. For example, an amount written as $1,000.00 in the US or UK would be written as $1.000,00 in most of Europe and South America. Previously in AdSense, only the $1,000.00 format was available for downloadable reports, which created difficulties for a number of International publishers trying to export CSVs to analyze the data. Now, based on your language preference, you can export CSVs with figures in the relevant format.  

The government, corporations and any other human rights groups and activists have been called to take precaution measures that will completely curb land disputes problems which for great impact have resulted into the abandoning of women and children in Kilolo district by their fathers and husbands respectively. 

Making their statements during the gender based violence research program of 2012 hosted by Tanzania Media Women Association (TAMWA) ( AM THE ONE WHO CONDUCTED THE RESEARCH FOR TAMWA) , the residents disclosed the problem to be much bigger than the government and other NGO’S operating within the area are discussing it. 

They, however, described that the acts of Neo-Colonialism, improper land use have also resulted into many men lack resources to generate their own income ending up abandoning their families to search for green pasture. 

Fortinet Mheluka (10), a grade 3 student at Ngongwa primary school located at Lukani village, Nguruhe area is one among the abandoned children described that her grandmother Atupoka Kihongozi (80) and grandfather Alatanga Kandinde (85) respectively suffers cerebral discomfort together with her 7 year old young sister have all their eyes on her so she has to get used providing for the family.

With little assistance from her grandfather they also used to slow hoe into farms picking peanut peas for sell where they earned wages of 2,000 to 3,000 shillings per day and it was all spent on food and other household needs.

“If it happens that I did not went to school that day I used to pass by villagers farms to pick peanut peas and due to long distances I manage to fill up only two baskets and get paied 2,000 to 3,000 shillings per day and my grandfather is responsible to buy us food using the money I earn,” Fortinet Mheluka was quoted. 

This is President of Malawi, Joyce Banda's first "State of The Nation" speech.

Babson Zotto "Babs" brought his family all the way from Brussels to meet Sporah and the team and created a buzz of excitement in the The Sporah Show green room. 

Babs, a man whose physical stature and deep voice could not over shadow his calm, appreciative and caring demeanor. 

He brought along some of his art work which was featured during the interview, with a portrait of Princess Kate (Duchess of Cambridge's), the Nigerian President, some exclusive abstract paintings and...

See more at: sporah.com