Kampuni ya simu yamwaga ajira 2,000......Maombi ya kazi Yanaanza kupokelewa kuanzia LEO

KAMPUNI ya simu ya Viettel ya Vietnam inayokua kwa kasi duniani ambayo sasa inahamishia nguvu zake katika soko la Tanzania, imetangaza ajira kwa wasomi wa Tanzania zaidi ya 2,000.

  

Viettel ambayo uongozi wake wa juu ulikutana na Rais Jakaya Kikwete akiwa ziarani nchini Vietnam hivi karibuni na kuahidi kufanya mapinduzi makubwa katika sekta ya mawasiliano nchini, imetangaza nafasi hizo kupitia gazeti la  Habari Leo na Daily News matoleo ya jana.

  

Kwa mujibu wa tangazo hilo, Viettel inahitaji wataalamu wa karibu fani zote, huku kiwango cha chini kabisa cha elimu kikiwa stashahada, yaani diploma.

  

Wafanyakazi wanaohitajika ni wenye ujuzi katika masuala ya rasilimaliwatu, sheria, fedha, uhasibu, masoko, uchumi, mipango, takwimu, uwekezaji, ugavi, usafirishaji, utunzaji wa vifaa, umeme, simu, teknolojia ya habari na mawasiliano, biashara, utawala na uhusiano wa umma.

  

Tangazo hilo limeendelea kuonesha kuwa, waombaji wanatakiwa kutuma maombi yao kuanzia leo kwa njia ya baruapepe, mwombaji akitakiwa kutuma ujumbe unaoomba fomu kupitia anuani za makao makuu na pia mameneja wa kampuni hiyo walioko katika mikoa yote, Tanzania Bara na Zanzibar.

  

Moja ya anuani ya makao makuu inasomeka; viettelrecruiter@ gmail.com, ambapo mtumaji baada ya kuwasilisha ombi lake, atatumiwa fomu maalumu.

  

Mwenyekiti wa Viettel inayomilikiwa na Jeshi la Vietnam, Nguyen Manh Hung katika mazungumzo yake na Rais Kikwete, alisema kampuni yake inakusudia kuja na huduma bora zitakazomwezesha kila Mtanzania kumiliki simu ya kisasa (Smart phone), kutokana na punguzo kubwa la bei, licha ya ubora wa huduma zake.

  

Aidha, aliahidi Viettel itafunga huduma ya mawasiliano ya intaneti katika kila kijiji nchini, huku taasisi za umma kama vile shule, hospitali, vituo vya Polisi vikinufaika kwa kupatiwa huduma hiyo bila malipo yoyote.

  

Kwa mujibu wa Hung, kampuni yake inapanga kupunguza bei ya simu za kawaida hadi kufikia dola za Marekani 15, sawa na Sh 25,000 na kupunguza bei ya smart phone hadi kufikia dola za Marekani 40, sawa na Sh 65,000.

  

Sasa hivi, bei ya simu hizo ni kubwa zaidi ya kiasi hicho kinachokusudiwa.

  

Mwenyekiti huyo aliongeza kuwa, kampuni yake itawekeza kiasi cha dola za Marekani bilioni moja (Sh trilioni 1.7) katika huduma za simu na huduma nyingine nchini Tanzania, hivyo kuifanya Tanzania kuwa nchi ya pili nyuma ya Peru kupata mfumo wa simu wa kisasa zaidi miongoni mwa nchi ambako kampuni hiyo ina shughuli zake.

  

Alisema ndani ya miaka mitatu tangu kampuni hiyo kuanza shughuli zake nchini, kiasi cha vijiji 4,000 ambavyo kwa sasa havina mawasiliano, vitapatiwa huduma hiyo katika awamu ya kwanza.

Facebook Messenger has 500m users

Facebook Messenger now has half a billion users

Social networking giant Facebook said its new messaging service now has more than 500 million users worldwide.

Users of the separate Messenger app have more than doubled from 200 million in April, the company said.

Facebook had faced a backlash after it announced it would be forcing users to download the app to send private messages to friends over the main Facebook service.

Users started being pushed to download the app - launched in 2011 - in July.

"Messaging is an important part of how people stay connected and since Messenger launched in 2011 we've been passionate about giving people a faster and more expressive way to communicate," said Facebook's director of product management Peter Martinazzi in a blog on Thursday.

Facing criticism

In April, Facebook had told users that they would need to download a separate app to allow them to send videos, make free calls and chat with friends.

But, the tech giant was widely criticised by users that did not like the concept of leaving the Facebook website to another service to send messages.

That led to the iOS App Store review score for the recent version of the Messenger app to fall to one and half stars.

"Messenger was the first of our standalone apps, and unlike our core Facebook apps, it focused on one use case - messaging," Mr Martinazzi said.

"We've also continued to improve speed and reliability. Updates to Messenger ship every two weeks so it continues to evolve and improve," he added, indicating that Facebook plans to stick with the app despite the negative feedback.

Last week Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that forcing people to install another app was "a short term painful thing", but added that the benefit was that his firm could offer a "faster and more focused" experience.

One company watcher suggested that Facebook should be cautious about risks of creating too many separate apps.

"Facebook's key strategy is keeping people engaged within its world - whether it's the Messenger app or the core Facebook app," said Jack Kent, senior mobile analyst at the IHS Technology consultancy.

"It probably wouldn't want to go down the road of having a huge variety of separate apps, but if there is a clear and distinct difference in functionality, then having a standalone app does make sense."

Meanwhile, Facebook has been trying to get on the forefront of mobile messaging, and finalised a deal to buy popular messaging service WhatsApp last month for about $22bn (£13.8bn).

The mobile messaging app had more than 600 million monthly users at the time of the acquisition.

Facebook government requests up 24%

Governments are requesting more information on Facebook users, the company says.

Requests by governments for Facebook's user data are up by nearly a quarter in the first half of this year compared with the previous six months.

Global government requests were up by 24% to almost 35,000 in the first six months, the social media giant said.

The amount of Facebook content restricted because of local laws also rose about 19% in the same period.

News of the increase comes as Facebook fights its largest ever US court order to hand over data from 400 people.

Photographs, private messages and other information involving people in a benefit fraud trial were given to a New York court last year, but the request was only made public in August.

"We're aggressively pursuing an appeal to a higher court to invalidate these sweeping warrants and to force the government to return the data it has seized," the social media giant said in a blog on Tuesday.

The world's largest social network also said that they "scrutinize" every government request for legal sufficiency and "push back hard when we find deficiencies or are served with overly broad requests."

Privacy

Facebook has been under fire for its use of user data in recent years, fuelling online privacy concerns.

Last month, Facebook admitted that it would change the way it does research on users after a controversial experiment where it manipulated some users newsfeeds to affect their emotions.

Meanwhile, the tech giant has rolled out a series of features this year to help users protect their personal information.

In April, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg introduced new features that allowed users to limit the amount of personal information they share with third-party mobile apps.

In 2012, Facebook had settled privacy charges with US authorities over a case that it had deceived users and forced them to share more personal information than they had intended.

In September, Google reported a 15% increase in the number of requests in the first half of this year compared to the prior six months, and a 150% rise in the last five years, from governments around the world to reveal user information for criminal investigations.

Toyota raises profit forecast

Toyota has seen strong sales in its key market of North America

Japan's biggest car manufacturer, Toyota, has raised its full-year profit forecast by 12.4%, citing a weaker yen and cost cutting efforts.

It has also raised its sales forecast for its key market of North America, where it has been enjoying a strong performance.

The firm said net profit may reach as much as 2tn Japanese yen ($17.5bn; £10.96bn) for the year to March 2015.

The carmaker's earlier forecast was for a net profit of 1.78tn yen.

Toyota's executive vice president, Nobuyori Kodaira, said the firm had also raised its forecasts for operating profit and revenue for the period.

"We are revising our operating income forecast upwards by 200bn yen to 2.5tn yen," he said.

He said this reflected the progress made on marketing and in reducing costs, and also the change in foreign exchange rates.

Toyota's profit for the six months to September this year rose by more than 12%

Asian sales sag

Toyota also reported results for the six months to September, with net profit up 12.6% to 1.12tn yen.

The carmaker said its vehicle sales for the period had fallen in Asia, including in Japan, but had increased in North America and Europe.

The net profit figure includes profits made with the firm's joint venture partners in China: China FAW Group and Guangzhou Automobile Group.

The Japanese firm said its vehicle sales in North America had come to 1,395,105, up from 97,061 a year ago, but that in Japan, vehicle sales had decreased by 70,977 to 1,030,229.

The news follows results from Toyota's rival Nissan, which reported on Tuesday a 25% increase in half-year profits.

Like Toyota, Nissan said strong sales in its key market of North America had helped to offset weaker demand in some other markets.

Weaker yen

Japan's firms, especially those relying on exports, have benefited from the weakness in the yen, which helps bring down the cost of Japanese goods sold abroad.

Japan's central bank, Bank of Japan, announced last week that it would expand its monetary stimulus measures, a move which has seen the yen weaken to a near seven-year low.

The weaker yen has also helped big manufacturers such as Toyota and Nissan offset slower sales in Japan, where a sales tax rise earlier this year dented consumer activity.

Toyota's positive full-year forecast comes despite a recall of 1.75 million vehicles worldwide over faulty brake installations and fuel component issues.

The latest brake defect was found in some models of Toyota's Crown Majesta, as well as the Noah and Voxy models produced between June 2007 and 2012.

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