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Today's top stories [Ayanda Dlamini] Mobile is top of the big four influencers of BI change across Africa this year. The massive growth in mobile across Africa is driving resurgence in business intelligence (BI) growth, as executives across the continent see the value of having relevant, updated data at hand at all times. Read more >> |
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Alcatel-Lucent and the West Africa Cable System (WACS) consortium have signed a contract for the maintenance of more than 9,000km of the WACS system linking South Africa to Portugal. In commercial service since May 2012, WACS interconnects 13 African countries, unleashing a new wave of broadband capacity on the continent and enhancing international connectivity. Read more >> |
 The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about the health of editor Amara al-Khatabi and calls on Libyan authorities to allow him to travel in order to receive urgent medical assistance abroad. Read more >> |
[Ayanda Dlamini] Mobile is top of the big four influencers of BI change across Africa this year. The massive growth in mobile across Africa is driving resurgence in business intelligence (BI) growth, as executives across the continent see the value of having relevant, updated data at hand at all times. Read more >> |
MTN on Thursday, 25 April 2013, became the first mobile operator in Uganda and one of the very first in the region, to successfully launch Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. Read more >> |
 Telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria has declared its readiness to absorb the influx of requests from consumers who wish to port to its network as the long anticipated Mobile Number Portability (MNP) for GSM operators in Nigeria finally takes off. Read more >> |
 KULUYA.com, the online African gaming company, have announced that it has raised another small seed stage investment valuing the company at $2 Million. The investment will be used to expand the gaming site's commercial activities. Read more >> |
Six months ago, Jane Adhiambo Achieng walked into a local Kenyan bank with the hope of getting a loan for her small grocery business. Read more >> |
 Kenya's first and largest Islamic bank Gulf African Bank, has signed a KSh100 million agreement with the African Guarantee Fund to support lending to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the country. Read more >> |
NEW YORK, US: US media magnate Rupert Murdoch will get a 15% pay hike with the split-up of News Corp. into two publicly traded companies, according to a company filing published Friday. Read more >> |
 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: Three-dimensional printing could herald a new industrial revolution as potentially important as the invention of the steam engine or telegraph experts claim. Read more >> |
 NAIROBI, KENYA: Six months ago, Jane Adhiambo Achieng asked a local Kenyan bank to lend her US$250 to expand her small grocery business. Read more >> |
More International...
 Former National Director of Public Prosecutions (NDPP) Menzi Simelane has been appointed special adviser to Public Service Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, it was reported on Sunday (28 April). Read more >> |
 [Chris Bathembu] President Jacob Zuma began his major Freedom Day speech on Saturday by telling South Africans to look back with pride as a nation because the struggle for national liberation achieved its primary purpose. Read more >> |
[Chris Bathembu] Tsholofelo Tau, born on 29 April 1994, will be exactly 20 years next year and will be eligible to vote for the first time in the general elections. Read more >> |
 The suggestion that chief executives of construction companies should sign a contract to make them personally liable in cases of collusion has been slated by the industry as a step too far. Read more >> |
 [Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Communications Minister Dina Pule has blamed soccer legend Jomo Sono for what she alleges is a 'smear campaign' against her, reports City Press; meanwhile Stephen Grootes, writing for BD Live, suggests Pule might have reason to fear Zuma's next press conference. Mail & Guardian reports on the ANC's reaction to the DA's call for a redo on last week's POIB vote, and on IOL, Murray Williams asks whether porn is worse than many other industries? Read more >> |
 A group of 66,000 pensioners have instituted a civil claim to recover about R79bn they claim Transnet plundered from their pension funds, according to Sunday's (28 April) Rapport. Read more >> |
More Government news...
 [Sindy Peters] Van Coke Kartel end the opening set, the crowd is getting restless in anticipation of the encore performance from Metallica that's taken seven years. The lights drop and every Metallicat in the Belville Velodrome lose their shit - Metallica launch into their set with a blast of speed metal dedicated to their "insane" fans - Hit the Lights. Read more >> |
 [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] In the same way that lithe-limbed Brazilian model Karen Nurenberg has recently been turning heads and setting runways ablaze in Europe with her lacy black underwear, Hyundai is causing quite a stir with its hot and sexy new Veloster hatchback. Read more >> |
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