AFRICA

2010 media income highest to date

Local 2010 World Cup organising committee chief executive officer, Danny Jordaan, said revenue from commercial and broadcasting deals for next year's 2010 FIFA World Cup had debunked any notion that Africa's first hosting of the event would be a financial failure. Read more >>

AFRICA

Mobile advertising in local languages

BANGALORE: Asian-based mobile advertising network mKhoj now has the ability to publish mobile advertising suited to local languages in seventeen different countries, including Afrikaans, Arabic, Bahasa, Hindi, Tamil, Turkic, and Zulu. The announcement was made yesterday, Tuesday, 2 June 2009. Read more >>

AFRICA

IT leaders to prepare for return to business growth - Gartner

STAMFORD: While the recession is still under way, now is the time for IT leaders to prepare for business growth, and organisations should aim to complete these plans by 1 July 2009, according to Gartner. This advice especially pertains to the nations that first entered the recession, such as the US and the UK. Read more >>

AFRICA

SAP urges ICT players to seize new opportunities

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) businesses in Africa have been urged to seize opportunities that come along as a result of the economic recession currently wreaking havoc the world over. Read more >>

KENYA

Telkom Kenya enters agreement to digitise parliament

Telkom Kenya has announced an agreement to provide a digitisation solution to all Kenyan Members of Parliament. The deal, signed yesterday, 2 June 2009 by Telkom Kenya chief executive officer, Dominique Saint-Jean and the speaker of the National Assembly Kenneth Marende, will see the 222 elected MPs connected electronically. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Fashion week showcase for SA

Africa Fashion Week, with its 50 designers from 20 countries on the continent, begins on Friday, 12 June 2009, at the Sandton Convention Centre, north of Johannesburg. Read more >>

AFRICA

Dairy Mail Africa seeks distribution sponsorship

Dairy Mail Africa, a magazine aimed at Africa's dairy production industry, is seeking partners in the industry to assist it in covering distribution costs in Africa by means of sponsorships. A sponsorship amounts to R25,000 per edition. The magazine aims to supply information and training to predominantly small-scale dairy farmers. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Criticising the president - in the name of freedom of expression

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] Many African heads of state believe that once they ascend to power, they automatically achieve the status of God. They demand to be absolutely worshipped and they refute any form of criticism. Journalists and analysts who think otherwise are branded counter-revolutionaries and dealt with accordingly, prompting many observers to wonder if it is morally wrong to criticise the president. Read more >>

NIGERIA

Nigeria revokes sale of state telecoms firm

ABUJA: Nigeria has revoked the sale of state-run telecommunications company NITEL and its mobile arm to local firm Transnational Corporation (Transcorp) Plc, officials said on Monday, 1 June 2009. Read more >>

AFRICA

Zain wins coveted brand award

Middle East and Africa mobile network provide, Zain, said it was confident that unifying all emerging market operations under one global identity would prove successful. Read more >>

AFRICA

Google to sell new e-books online

WASHINGTON: Google plans to begin selling electronic versions of new books online this year, posing a potential challenge to market leader, Amazon. Read more >>

AFRICA

Africa is market of the future - NBF

According to the NEPAD Business Foundation (NBF), partners and investors need the nearly one billion African consumers, and policies should be engineered to cater for the future economy. It believes that population forms a great part of achieving a country's goals. Read more >>

AFRICA

Africa: Jubilee warns of another 1980s debt crisis

JOHANNESBURG: The Jubilee Debt Campaign is calling for an immediate US$400 billion debt cancellation for developing countries to avoid returning to a 1980s-style crisis. Read more >>

AFRICA

Big Brother Africa 4 doubles prize money

A new season of the reality show, Big Brother Africa will begin in September 2009, according to M-Net. Big Brother Africa: The Revolution has undergone a makeover with the prize money doubled, now standing at US$200,000. Open castings are planned for 18 cities in the 14 participating countries. Read more >>