Future techniques in online marketing
Senior Editor in Charge of Adotas, Sarah Novotny summarizes key future trends in Online advertising as predicted by Dilip DaSilva, Exponential's founder and CEO. Excerpting from the summary, Novotny says there are six key trends identified in this release.

Raising Africa's economy
In support of raising Africa's economy to global standards, Anglo American has announced that they have elevated their relationship with the Nepad Business Foundation (NBF) to that of Founding Partner.

Now Zambia Airways cancels Zimbabwe flights
[Kumbirai Mafunda, Senior Business Reporter] Zimbabwe this week suffered a major setback in its drive to lure more international tourist traffic after Zambian Airways cancelled flights into the country due to viability problems.

Getty Images celebrates the conclusion of ''Change Me'' - Gallo Images
Two years ago Getty Images launched “Change Me” to bring people together to share ideas through powerful imagery. Thousands of Getty Images users from South Africa to Brazil made a difference in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria by using the power of imagery to create positive change.

EAST AFRICA

New move to sell East Africa as single tourism unit
The East African Community is working on a strategy that will sell all its five member countries as a single unit in the tourist market.

EASSy construction imminent
Construction of the 10,000 kilometre undersea fibre-optic cable is to begin next month following the announcement on Monday that the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and others have come up with $70.7 million in financing for the project. The project is aimed at moving Africa closer to reliable telecommunications and affordable Internet access, by connecting 21 east, southern, and central African countries to west Africa and Europe.

Ghana to host UNCTAD on ICT4D
[Remmy Nweke] Ghana is to host the 12th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XII) in April 2008, under the theme 'Science, Technology, Innovation (STI) and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)'.

AFRICA

Hits Telecom Uganda makes first mobile call
[David Muwanga] Hits Telecom Uganda has successfully made the first call on its new global system for mobile communication (GSM) network in Uganda just three months after it was licensed.

NIGERIA

The Guardian: Why we are off the streets
On Tuesday, November 6, 2007, the leadership of the local branch of National Union of Printing, Publishing and Paper Products Workers (NUPPPPROW) and the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) supported by some outside elements, who invaded the company, decided to suspend the production of the newspaper and ordered the staff out of the premises as they announced the commencement of an industrial action against the company.

AFRICA

African nations agree to $1 billion Indian satellite project
A critical mass of countries are signing on to a plan for India to invest $1 billion in the Pan-African e-Network satellite project, a joint initiative with the Africa Union aimed at developing the region's information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure.

Data breaches more expensive every year
When an organization loses a customer's, employee's or citizen's personal information, the fallout burns everyone involved.

EAST AFRICA

Sudan joins the urban brew
Television production house, Urban Brew Studios has won a multi-million rand contract to build a public broadcaster for the semi-autonomous government of Southern Sudan.