SOUTH AFRICA

[2011 trends] It's a Wild. Wired. Wellthy. World!

[Gisele Wertheim Aymes] The recent global recession has changed our world forever. In a new digital age, characterised by oversupply and too many product types in almost every market, the challenge for companies will be to locate and capture pools of high-profit demand and be able to move with speed and flexibility to take advantage of them. Here are 11 trends for 2011. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

[2011 trends] Ever-changing ad industry, constantly developing trends

[Adene van der Walt] So what we can expect to see in 2011? The industry is always changing and new trends are constantly developing and therefore it is crucial to keep the following top of mind. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

[2011 trends] A year of hard work for brands

[Janice Spark] If 2010 could be summed up as soccer, vuvuzelas and national pride, 2011 will be all about the hard work of restoring the economy to sustainable growth, paying attention to environmental concerns and mastering the technologies that are changing the world. Here are a few trends to watch in 2011. Read more >>

NORTH AFRICA

Hope for African media after Tunisian revolution?

[Issa Sikiti da Silva] The Tunisian people's revolution, which pushed President Ben Ali out of power after 23 years of bloody and corrupt rule, has also precipitated the release of some journalists and bloggers from jail and lifted media restrictions. Many African editors and journalists - already operating in a hostile environments - are now hoping that similar winds of change will spread to other parts of the continent. Read more >>

NORTH AFRICA

In Tunisia, one journalist still jailed, another killed

NEW YORK: Tunisia's transitional government should immediately release Fahem Boukadous, a television reporter imprisoned last year in reprisal for his work, the Committee to Protect Journalists said yesterday, 18 January 2011. Read more >>

WEST AFRICA

Gambia bans independent radio station airing news

NEW YORK: Gambian authorities on Thursday, 13 January 2011, shut down the only independent radio station in the nation that has continued to broadcast news, according to local journalists. Read more >>

AFRICA

Ogilvy SA CEO appointed to worldwide board

JOHANNESBURG: Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide announced this week the appointment of Nunu Ntshingila, CEO of Ogilvy South Africa, to the company board. She joins 30 other advertising and marketing executives as the representative from Africa. Read more >>

AFRICA

Facebook delays plan to share contact information

WASHINGTON: Facebook, in its latest privacy flap, on Tuesday, 18 January 2011, delayed a plan to share home addresses and mobile phone numbers of its members with outside developers of applications. Read more >>

MALAWI

Malawi: G-Mobile locks horns with information minister

[Gregory Gondwe] Information and Civic Education Minister Vuwa Kaunda has claimed that Globally Advanced Integrated Networks Limited (G-Mobile), the company that was set to become the third mobile service provider in Malawi, tried to bribe him with K5m (over US$33,000) to extend the company's roll-out period. Read more >>

EGYPT

Vimpelcom board backs revised Sawiris deal

MOSCOW: Vimpelcom on Monday, 17 January 2011, said its board had approved a revised deal for Egyptian magnate Naguib Sawiris' telecom assets that will create the world's sixth-largest mobile phone carrier by number of subscribers. Read more >>

AFRICA

SA, Uganda to discuss relations

PRETORIA: President Jacob Zuma is to host his Ugandan counterpart, President Yoweri Museveni, in a state visit scheduled for Friday, 21 January 2011. The visit is part of ongoing efforts to strengthen relations that exist between the two countries, said the Department of International Relation and Cooperation. Read more >>

AFRICA

SABMiller sees lager volumes up 3%

Global brewing giant SABMiller plc said Tuesday (18 January 2011) for the quarter ended December 2010, on an organic basis, lager volumes were 3% higher than the prior year and 2% higher than last year for the first nine months of the financial year. Read more >>

UNITED KINGDOM

Using music effectively in advertising

[Rob Boughton] LONDON, UK: The best adverts understand how to employ music as a powerful tool to connect with the audience. From classical music, with BA's iconic Flower Duet, to propelling a new band to fame, as was the case for Babylon Zoo when Spaceman featured on the Levi adverts; music plays a vital role in turning a good advert into a great one. Yet the process of finding the right sound track for an advert is not always as simple as it seems. Read more >>

UNITED KINGDOM

The time for 3D is here and now

LONDON, UK: The market for 3D in television and video games has made significant progress and is proving to be extremely profitable. 2010 has proved the year of 3D, as eight out of the top 20 highest revenue making films at the box office had a 3D version, compared to only three films in 2009. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Toyota SA to invest R363 million

[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM) is to invest R363 million in a new Parts Distribution Warehouse in the Ekurhuleni municipality. The warehouse is being developed in two phases and will serve TSAM's local and export markets. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

JamieWho dishes on food blogging

[Malu Lambert] Andy Fenner is, as expected, nursing a redhead when I go to meet him. Not the leggy kind, but the ice-cold kind served in a tall glass, with a dreamy, mousse-y head. We're at &Union, that Bree Street haunt for beer drinkers with fussy palates and the smell of wood smoke and pork wafts lazily in the early-evening air. Read more >>