HiPipo Money

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Kampala

At MTN, we are committed to constantly giving and demonstrating value to our customers through simple and innovative promotions; from “MTN overload” to the most recently concluded “Win airtime for a Year” promotion.

Today, MTN is launching Free Weekend Calls. In this campaign, MTN prepaid customers simply need to dial *188# once to activate and thereafter, load a minimum of 2,000/- worth of airtime during the week from Monday to Friday to receive Free Weekend Calls.

Customers will automatically receive 10 Free MTN weekend minutes to use on Saturdays and Sundays.

“At MTN we value our customers and we continuously look at innovative ways to make their lives a whole lot brighter. We would like to give them an opportunity to stay in touch with their loved ones as they wind down and enjoy their weekends ”, says Ernst Fonternel, MTN Uganda Chief Marketing Officer.

This campaign will run for three months starting 7^th February to 5^th May 2013.

For more details about this promotion including Terms & Conditions, please visit http://www.mtn.co.ug/Help/Legal/Free-weekend-Calling-Promo.aspx

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Kampala

You have heard of so much but I trust you have not seen something like Tots & Teens Magazine and Newspaper in the Ugandan market.

Tots and Teens Magazine and Newspaper is a brand new innovative publication that is aimed at creating educative, engaging and creative content for kids especially in schools around Uganda, presenting different issues, situations and life experiences, with lots of entertainment buzz!!

The idea and presentation of this magazine is only comparable to world class teens’ magazines such as M Magazine, Teen Ink, Discovery Girls, J-14, Popstar! , Girl’s Life, Twist, American Cheerleader, Seventeen and Teen Vogue among others.

Speaking to Rose Busingye the Managing Director Tots and Teens, she expressed excitement for the good reception the publication is receiving just after 3 releases.

She said, “People have shown interest in our publications, recently one Minister called us to secure monthly supply for copies of our monthly magazine to his family and school.”

Tots and Teens publications are targeted for schools and families. The Bi-weekly newspaper goes for UGX 1,500 and the Monthly Magazine costs UGX 5,000 per copy.

Back ground:

Tots & Teens Newspaper, “the children’s voice” is located at plot No 3, 8thstreet Industrial area Kampala. It is registered to produce literature for Children through a Magazine and Newspaper. 

It is designed to avail to Children a reading material that is Educational, aiming at grooming them to be better citizens.

Tots and teens news paper has professional staff who are deployed to produce the best material for children.

Objectives

• Providing a community forum for children’s issues and an advocacy to enhance child care and protection.
• To provide information, education and a communication reading material for children and expose them to the right reading materials. 
• Providing partners and advertisers with a high- readership newspaper material that will generate high return in relation to their missions. 
• Providing a ‘voice’ for the children where they will express their opinions, views and creativity to enhance their participation in the social- economic development of their country.

Our Vision Statement.

Children empowered, protected, grow in wisdom, awareness and good life through children’s voice newspaper.

Mission Statement.

Producing the most accurate and interesting source of news for children that will adhere to high ethical, moral standardads and advocate for children’s rights, their responsibilities and participation.

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Kampala

Facebook search has for a long time been lacking! In a bid to improve search experience and hopefully also tap into the search adverting money, Facebook announced a search product called Graph Search.   Facebook Graph Search could be a starting point.  With some intelligence to interpret human like questions, this could be a good addition to the semantic web. The questions that may not be answered as yet are how users will receive this new product and if users’ mental model will be able to change in a way oriented to social/connection graph search.

Written by Facebook PR, here is a list of questions and answers about graph search.

What is Graph Search?
Graph Search is a new way for you to find people, photos, places and interests that are most relevant to you on Facebook.

What is Graph Search useful for?
Graph Search will help you instantly find others, learn more about them and make connections, explore photos, quickly find places like local attractions and restaurants, and learn about common interests like music, movies, books and more. All results are unique based on the strength of relationships and connections.

What can I search for?
With Graph Search, you can search for people, photos, places and interests.

How do I search?
Type your search into the blue bar at the top of the page. As you start to type, suggestions appear in a drop down. You can refine your search using the tools on the right-hand side of the page.

Some example searches include:
· People who like tennis and live nearby
· Photos before 1990
· Photos of my friends in New York
· Sushi restaurants in Palo Alto my friends have liked
· Tourist attractions in Italy visited by my friends 

How are you rolling this out?
Graph Search is in a limited preview, or beta. That means Graph Search will only be available to a very small number of people who use Facebook in US English.

How can I get Facebook Graph Search?
You can sign up for the waitlist at www.facebook.com/graphsearch

Does Graph Search change any of my current privacy settings?
No. Graph Search follows your current privacy settings. You can only search for content that has been shared with you.

How do I control what tags, locations and photos can show up about me?
To control tags, photos or posts with locations about you that appear in search, go to your Activity Log.

Sample Question One Can Ask Using Facebook Graph Search: Insporired by Techcrunch post What Can You Search For On Facebook Graph Search?

Dating

How to Use Facebook New Search for Dating: Based on your status and what you may want, below are questions you may put in the search box: Which Questions Will You Ask the Search Tool?

• If you’re desperate: Single men in Kampala
• If you want a nerd: Single women nearby who Like Star Wars
• If you need someone your parents will like: Single men in Kampala Who Went To Makerere
• Hunting for cougars in Kampala: Women in Kampala older than 38
• If you want someone kinky: Single women in Kampala who Like 50 Shades Of Gray
• If you want to get beat up: My friends’ moms

GETTING ADVICE

• How to pop the question?: My friends who are married
• Getting that cavity fixed?: Dentists Liked by my friends
• What game should I play in the off-season?: Sports games my friends play
• How can I find my passion?: What Groups are my friends in?
• What should I watch tonight?: Videos by TV shows Liked by my friends

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Kampala