| Submit news Invite a friend | Today's headlines | Zimbabwe's Heinz transaction unpacked Desperately seeking web sites: the power of SEO US newspaper hopes to wring ad dollars from widgets Internet displaces radio as fourth biggest ad medium India bans Air Zimbabwe BAAM signs strategic partnership with American investment firm When someone telephones your company... Newspapers profit from financials ad space rush African informal banking receives a boost
| | Marketing | | KENYA BAAM signs strategic partnership with American investment firm [Carole Kimutai] British-American Asset Managers Ltd (BAAM) has entered into a strategic partnership with a leading American investment company, Franklin Templeton Investments.
AFRICA African informal banking receives a boost Banking on the African continent continues to be a challenge for a great deal of the population. It is generally expensive and often banks are inaccessible to rural “unbanked” communities.
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| 2010 FIFA World Cup | | SOUTHERN AFRICA FIFA to assess Zim's capacity to host 2010 teams [Kennedy Langat] A delegation of FIFA officials is to travel to Zimbabwe to assess the country's capacity to host visitors and teams for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa.
| Branding | | ZIMBABWE Zimbabwe's Heinz transaction unpacked [Mutumwa Mawere] On Monday, September 3, it was disclosed that H.J. Heinz Co., a company domiciled in the USA, had sold its 51% in Olivine Industries, a company incorporated under the laws of Zimbabwe in which the government of Zimbabwe holds the remaining 49% shareholding.
AFRICA India bans Air Zimbabwe [Lebo Nkatazo] India has banned Air Zimbabwe from to flying over its air space because of Zimbabwe's failure to sign an international aviation agreement, a cabinet minister told Parliament Thursday.
| Digital | | NIGERIA No more telecoms base stations for Lagos states [Jonah Iboma] The Lagos State Infrastructure Management and Regulatory Agency (LASIMRA), issued a directive on Wednesday, 5 September, that the 2,000 base stations already existing in the state were enough in line with international safety standards and the preservation of the environment.
| Education and Training | | AFRICA When someone telephones your company... Do they get a response that encourages them to stay - or are they driven towards your competitors? How your staff talks to people who call can attract - or repel - those people. And that means a better business, or a failing one.
BOTSWANA Stellenbosch Business School brings its popular high-level Leader's Angle talk series to Gaborone - USB-ED The University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) is bringing its countrywide and cross-border tour of its high-level talk series, Leader's Angle, to Gaborone in September – with a well-known South African chairman of companies and former South African ambassador to Belgium as speaker.
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| Newspapers | | AFRICA US newspaper hopes to wring ad dollars from widgets By breaking up pieces of USA Today's daily output and allowing users to pick and choose how and when they access them, the newspaper is making it possible for Web users to consume only certain parts of it, and not necessarily on the newspaper's own site and without buying a printed copy of the newspaper.
ZIMBABWE Newspapers profit from financials ad space rush Zimbabwe's privately owned newspapers got a major boost from the reporting season with bumper editions from financial results that started coming out in September after delays caused by the unavailability of inflation rates for the half-year period to June 30, 2007.
| Online Media | | AFRICA Desperately seeking web sites: the power of SEO Optimizing your website to take advantage of the power of search engines to put you in front of customers gives you a huge competitive advantage.
| Radio | | AFRICA Internet displaces radio as fourth biggest ad medium In the US, Internet ad revenues are set to pass radio's for the first time, according to eMarketer, a firm that tracks and analyzes spending trends across various media.
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