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Today's top stories
Special focus on media freedom
 PRETORIA: Civil rights initiative, AfriForum, announced yesterday, Wednesday, 11 August 2010, that it will take the South African media freedom fight all the way to the Constitutional Court. Read more >>Advertising
 [Dumisani Ndlela] Pilate Machadu, media / marketing guru and chairman of the Advertising Media Association (Adma) has projected advertising growth in Zimbabwe, but said the cake was still small for an increasing number of media outlets in the country. Read more >>Advertisement:
 The Loeries Awards will, this year, launch the inaugural Creative Week in Cape Town as part of the annual festival. Creative Cape Town has partnered with the Loeries to boost the festival and awards and to involve the city's creative community in Creative Week Cape Town, 24 September - 3 October 2010. Read more >> The Loerie Awards has announced the entrants for the inaugural Ubuntu Award. The Ubuntu Award, sponsored by Hetzner, aims to recognise the positive influence of brands on the social and physical environment. Read more >>Digital
 [Issa Sikiti da Silva] The 2010 Tech4Africa conference 'Web and Emerging Technology' kicked off in Bryanston, Johannesburg, yesterday, 12 August 2010 and will run till today, drawing many delegates from various walks of technology business in South Africa and Africa. Read more >>Education and Training
Provider of technology and services to telecom operators, Ericsson on Thursday (12 August 2010) unveiled a new Internet portal, Ericsson Academy, for users to access learning services, online courses, lectures, tutorials about cutting-edge technology including HD Voice and 4G. Read more >>Magazines
 The Economist Group, owner of the weekly newspaper, The Economist, and a leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs, has opened its first commercial office in sub-Saharan Africa this week in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa. Read more >>Media
[Gregory Gondwe] According to a report compiled by the Journalists Union of Malawi (JUMA), the prevailing conditions endured by media practitioners in the country are demeaning, exploitative and not befitting professionals. The study showed that the reasons most journalists in Malawi are exploited are because a majority are young and single. Read more >> Mobile
HARARE: Zimbabwe's largest mobile operator, Econet Wireless, has secured a US$60 million loan facility from Swedish export credit agency EKN to expand its infrastructure, the firm said on Wednesday (11 August 2010). Read more >>Advertisement:
Public Relations
[Walter Wafula] Today, 13 August 2010, the crème de la crème of Uganda's PR industry will be honoured at an awards gala in Kampala. Businesses and personalities will be honoured during the second annual Public Relations Excellence Awards in Uganda. Read more >> Retail
The first public sale of diamonds from Zimbabwe's controversial Marange fields was held on Wednesday (11 August 2010) at Harare airport. The body that regulates the global diamond trade, the Kimberley Process, said that approximately 900,000 carats of rough diamonds were valued at around 72 million US dollars during the auction. Read more >> OTTAWA, CANADA: March Networks, a global provider of IP video solutions, on Thursday, 12 August 2010, announced that SABMiller Angola is deploying the company's VideoSphere portfolio in its new facility located in the capital city of Luanda. Read more >>Heavy rainfall in West Africa caused the Niger River to overflow during the weekend, destroying thousands of homes and crops. At least 100 people were killed by the rains across the region, according to news agency Reuters. Read more >>TV
 CNN.com is hosting a special feature during August 2010 in celebration of 50 years of self-governance for eight of the seventeen African nations. Africa50, hosted online, takes a look at Africa's past, present and future with a number of features. Read more >> SAN FRANCISCO, US: Internet research firm eMarketer on Thursday (12 August 2010) reported that advertisers are flocking to Facebook and will spend more than a billion dollars at the world's top online social network. Read more >> SAN FRANCISCO, US: Google's online map feature that provides pictures of real-world moments at spots around the world has become a flash point for people worried about the erosion of privacy in the Internet Age. Read more >>
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