http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/01/tanzania-cost-cutting-president-john-magufuli-twitter
Tanzania’s newly elected president known as the bulldozer, has become a Twitter sensation across Africa after introducing radical government cost-cutting measures. Immediately after this, he scrapped independent selections, choosing instead to spend money on sanitation, fighting cholera and new beds and equipment for hospitals. Saying that it is shameful to be “spending huge amounts of money to celebrate 54 years of independence when our people are dying of cholera”.
- A state dinner for the official opening of the country’s parliament, for example, was going to cost 300m Tanzanian shillings (£92,500)
- Magufuli slashed the budget to 25m and ordered that the rest of the money be used to buy 300 hospital beds and 600 sheets.
#24 YouTube tipped to strike licensing deals for TV shows and films
New service, You Tube Red, is are planning to sign deals with Hollywood studios and television firms to make TV
and Films, a paying subscription service. They hope to make many films and TV shows exclusive
to You Tube Red than only gaining licensing rights. As well as this,
many You Tube artists are also choosing to make exclusive content for You Tube
Red that only subscribers would be able to access. This feature opened in
October for the US and will expand globally in 2016. Apple, are also wanting to introduce their sites in the future.
- YouTube is the 12th top-grossing iPhone app in Apple’s US App Store, jostling with Hulu and dating app Tinder on the outskirts of the top 10.
- It’s based on people paying $12.99 for a monthly subscription within the app – YouTube has added $3 to the cost of YouTube Red to account for Apple’s 30% cut of in-app purchases.
- PewDiePie, The Fine Brothers and Lilly Singh are among the YouTubers making new shows that will only be available to YouTube Red’s paying subscribers
- The online video service is keen for its $9.99-a-month service to compete more directly with rivals such as Netflix, Amazon and Hulu
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