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Advertising
[Dumisani Ndlela] Zimbabwe's Advertising Media Association (Adma) is to hold an advertising seminar in the country amid growing concerns over a slump in standards that has resulted in the violation of advertising ethics. Read more >> Advertisement:
Branding
Brand Africa, a new African initiative to drive the continent's reputation, image and competitiveness, will be launched on Thursday, 16 September 2010, at the Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg. CNBC Africa will broadcast the event to 41 sub-Saharan African countries. Read more >> Digital
 [Rob Dickens] It seems some people are not aware that Twitter flicked the switch yesterday and moved over fully to OAuth. "Tweetdeck isn't working!", "Hootsuite #FAIL!", "My UberTwitter is down. OMG how will I survive?" are the cries rippling through the Twitterverse. Fear not, fellow twaddicts, because help is at hand. Read more >>[Martin Carstens] On Wednesday, 1 September 2010, Apple introduced a music-centric social network called Ping, and unveiled updates to its lineup of iPods and Apple TV. Read more >> Media
JOHANNESBURG: African media executives are preparing to meet in Tanzania from 26-29 September for the 2010 Africa Media Leadership Conference (AMLC). This year's summit plans to focus on identifying and developing 'Sustainable media business models in the digital age'. Read more >>Mobile
 Mobile telecommunications group Vodacom says it will target 10 million customers in the next three years in South Africa for its M-PESA money transfer service, which was officially launched on Tuesday (31 August 2010) in collaboration with banking group Nedbank. Read more >>Advertisement:
 South African mobile social network The Grid, originally launched in South Africa in 2008 by Vodacom, has now extended its reach from South Africa, Nigeria and Tanzania to the rest of the world. Read more >>JOHANNESBURG: In cities across Africa, being an entrepreneur requires no office, business card or investors. All it takes is a cell phone, according to Adele Botha, a researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa. Read more >>Retail
 Standard Bank was announced the winner in the Africa Investor Agribusiness Awards 2010 in the Development Finance Initiative of the Year category for its Agricultural Guarantee Fund Scheme that has improved access to finance to smallholder farmers in Africa. Read more >>Imara, the pan-African financial services group, has published an investment analysis of the sugar industry. The sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Sugar Industry Report by analyst Nontando Sibanda is part of a series of Imara books on key sectors and SSA national markets. Read more >>Africa has plenty to gain from the growing involvement of China and other BRIC nations in trade and investment on the continent, says Sim Tshabalala, chief executive of Standard Bank South Africa. Read more >>TV
 MTV Networks Africa (MTVNA) and Bharti Airtel have confirmed that they will be holding the 2010 MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA) at the EKO EXPO Hall, Lagos, Nigeria, on 11 December 2010. Read more >>NIGERIA New sales exec for DStv Ad Sales Nigeria Esther Odoh has been appointed sales executive at DStv Ad Sales Nigeria. Odoh was formerly at Optima Sports Management International before joining the DStv Ad Sales team. Says Odoh: "I look forward to sharing the wealth of knowledge and experiences gained, especially those from the media industry."  [Giles Cottle] LONDON, UK: Giles Cottle, of UK-based Informa Telecoms & Media, on the launch of Apple TV - which he reckons could be a bit of a hard sell to a small market, in the short term at least - and a step too far. Read more >> LONDON, UK: Peperami has just launched a new "it's a bit of an animal" advert to British TV viewers. The ad features the memorable self-cannibalising "animal", from earlier Peperami ads, but now it has equally wild kids - "they're bits of an animal". Read more >>
Out Of Home
 As a company that manufactures and supplies branding equipment to a wide range of customers across Africa, Big Eye Branding has taken the plunge and gone green. Read more >>
SOUTH AFRICA Art of Rock
 
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 South Africa's new car market boomed during August to its highest levels since July 2008 according to figures released by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of SA (Naamsa). Read more >>
 KZN Alcohol Evidence Centre launch part of nationwide crackdown on drunk driving; state-of-the-art equipment supplied by SAB to improve prosecution rates. Read more >>
More Motoring news...
 [Daphne Cooper] Bambi Kellerman is the younger sister of Evita Bezuidenhout. The relationship between the two sisters is complex: they are sworn enemies and will not appear on the same stage - in fact will never be seen anywhere together. Evita is very much more famous than Bambi and I think that Bambi feels herself to be in Evita's shadow. Read more >>
 [Sindy Peters] The BizLounge went to check out the kick-off to the annual Nando's Comedy Festival's Cape Town leg that took place at the Baxter on Tuesday, 31 August 2010. The show featured an orchestra, a crazy dancer with a trumpet, some top US comedians, an Aussie and the man who's taken over South African media space for the last month or so, Trevor Noah. Read more >>
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