| Today's headlines | Crowds besiege food store WIFI/WIMAX to ease Internet access in Sierra Leone NITEL to pay N14bn damages to Interstella Egyptian tycoon plans new TV stations against radicals Cup of Nations adopts beer
| | Marketing | | AFRICA Zimbabwe shelves currency plans Zimbabwe's central bank chief said he has shelved plans to introduce a new currency in a bid to rein in galloping inflation and wants to direct efforts towards increasing supply of goods and services.
| Digital | | WEST AFRICA WIFI/WIMAX to ease Internet access in Sierra Leone [Bai-Bai Sesay] In its bid to offer easy access to internet service users in Sierra Leone, a technological breakthrough has occurred in the capital Freetown recently when an indigenous company known as FGC Wireless announced that it has successfully completed a city-wide unrestricted WIFI/WIMAX network that will ease the problems of internet users in the country.
AFRICA Cisco to invest $10m in Africa [Remmy Nweke] Cisco Systems is to invest $10 million to develop its network infrastructure on the continent.
| Media | | SOUTH AFRICA Unlocking the power of being informed - Monitoring South Africa Monitoring South Africa has introduced a new telesales department within the Sales and Marketing division. Driven by a group of passionate people, the new department will focus on delivering information to clients faster, better and at the most competitive rates in the market.
| Mobile | | NIGERIA NITEL to pay N14bn damages to Interstella [Remmy Nweke] The Federal High Court sitting at Umuahia, Abia State on Monday ordered the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) to pay the sum of N14 billion to Interstella as damages for a breach of contract.
| Online Media | | AFRICA Dengate Thrush emerges new ICANN chairman [Remmy Nweke] New Zealander and lawyer, Peter Dengate Thrush, has emerged unanimously, the new chairman, of board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
| Recruitment | | AFRICA Getting hired Culture and economy is in a shift and, much like abroad, it has been stated that people will have more than one career and probably even more jobs in their lifetime.
| Retail | | ZIMBABWE Crowds besiege food store Desperate people besieged a food store in Harare last week as shortages of staple maize meal intensified.
| Sponsorship | | NIGERIA Cup of Nations adopts beer [Emeka Enyadike] Sponsorship for Nigeria football reached new heights last Friday, as Guinness Nigeria Plc. became the latest sponsors of the Nigerian National football Team -The Super Eagles.
| TV | | EGYPT Egyptian tycoon plans new TV stations against radicals Egyptian billionaire and telecoms tycoon Naguib Sawiris plans to launch new television channels to counter what he describes as increasing social and religious conservatism in the Arab Muslim country.
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