SOUTH AFRICA

Loeries' next destination opens for bids

The Loeries board and committee have invited five destinations to submit their bid to host the Loerie Awards from 2012 to 2014 - Cape Town, KwaZulu-Natal, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Sun City - as the awards contemplate a move after what will have been three successful years in Cape Town. Read more >>

AFRICA

The essential role of employees as brand advocates in companies

[Tseko Shibambu] Companies have evolved significantly from the pre-industrial revolution, where employees were only seen as providers of an exchange process where they were remunerated for their labour without regard to their well-being and satisfaction. Anecdotally, though it may seem mindboggling, some companies today are still struggling to break-free from this practice. Read more >>

AFRICA

Tech4Africa launches award, calls for entries

Tech4Africa, the continent's only web and emerging technology conference, is calling for entries to its inaugural Tech4Africa Innovation Award. The award, open to individuals and companies alike, recognises homegrown innovation to further inspire the industry to develop global solutions to uniquely African challenges. Read more >>

AFRICA

New CEO for SEACOM

SEACOM, the pan-African ICT enabler, has announced the appointment of Mark Simpson as its new chief executive officer with effect 5 September 2011. Brian Herlihy who is the current CEO will take on the new role as executive director where he will focus on strategic projects. Read more >>

AFRICA

SA Internet Governance Forum opens tomorrow

The Department of Communications South Africa with the endorsement of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) will host their very first South African Internet Governance Forum (SAIGF) from 1-3 September 2011. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Networking Expo offers retailers quick interfaces

Network Expos Africa Retail, which will run from 26-27 March 2012 at Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand, is designed for busy decision makers by offering an overview of services and products in the retail sector, with a primary focus on retail systems, visual communications, interiors and design. Read more >>

AFRICA

WAITEX 2012 - an export opportunity

Following the success of the 2011 edition of Africa's Big Seven (AB7), Exhibition Management Services announced the launch of a new event, The West African International Trade Exhibition (WAITEX) which will take place from 8-10 May 2012 in Lagos, Nigeria. WAITEX follows a combined format of the AB7 and SAITEX events which took place in Johannesburg, South Africa in July this year. Download the information brochure (Size: 922KB).

AFRICA

Airtel Ghana awarded Telecoms Company of the Year 2010

At the recent Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) Awards, held in Accra, Airtel Ghana was awarded the "Telecoms Company of the Year 2010" for its effort at transforming the telecommunications industry in Ghana. Read more >>

AFRICA

Posterscope Kenya launches OOH campaign

Posterscope Kenya, together with Saracen Media, has launched its first comprehensive Out Of Home advertising campaign in the Kenyan market. The campaign comes just few weeks after Posterscope officially launched their office in Kenya office. Read more >>

AFRICA

GOtv now in Uganda

Africa's first commercial operations using the next generation Digital Video Broadcast standard - DVB-T2 - rolled out with the launch of GOtv in Uganda on Monday 29 August 2011, following the launch in Lusaka, Zambia on 29 June 2011. Read more >>

GLOBAL

BPC Banking signs deal with First United Bank

ROTTERDAM: BPC Banking Technologies, a provider of Open System e-payment services and products for the global financial industry, announced that it was selected to implement a new card management system by First United Bank (Pervobank), Samara region, Russia. Read more >>

GLOBAL

Katy Perry, EMI, Deutsche Telekom, Saatchi & Saatchi collab awarded MTV Video of the Year

"Firework", the collaboration between Katy Perry, EMI, Deutsche Telekom and Saatchi & Saatchi was named Video of the Year at the MTV Music Video Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, 28 August 2011. Saatchi & Saatchi and Deutsche Telekom worked with Katy Perry to create "Katy's Project" - a casting call for Deutsche Telekom customers to audition for appearances in the "Firework" video. Read more >>

CHINA

China urges end to 'cancer' of online rumours

BEIJING: China's state news agency called on Internet sites on Tuesday (30 August 2011) to stop the "cancer" of online rumours, in the latest sign of official unease over the rising popularity of social networking sites. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Kenya Airways finalises Embraer jet contract

Embraer and Kenya Airways have finalised a contract for the purchase of 10 Embraer 190 jets and the purchase rights for a further 16 aircraft from the company's E-Jet family. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Protea to build one new hotel in Zambia and refurbish another

Protea Hotels Zambia is about begin construction of its eighth hotel on the outskirts of Ndola, whilst it refurbishes the five-year-old Protea Hotel Cairo Road in Lusaka's CBD. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Living Remote - what do the oldies get up to when they're alone?

[Jordan Scott] Everybody has a crazy old relative that we suspect has taken one too many hits as a teenager - and I don't mean in a boxing ring. But how many of you have wondered what the older folk get up to when we aren't around to keep an eye on them? Well, Anthea Thompson, or Bertha Cummings as she is in the one-lady show; Living Remote: Bertha's guide to life, love and pharmaceuticals, takes being "old" to a level I don't think many have imagined before. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA

Cry "Havoc," and let slip the Apes of War

[Kervyn Cloete] Tim Burton's 2001 reboot of the seminal 1968 science fiction classic, "Planet of the Apes," was for the most part a middling affair, which is now mainly remembered for Rick Baker's make-up designs turning Helena Bonham-Carter into the spitting image of Michael Jackson, except not quite as creepy. Read more >>