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| Marketing & Media Africa |
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Today's top stories
 | [Adelaide McKelvey] Africa is made up of a multitude of cultures and countries, all of whom have their own laws, governments and business ethics. When developing outdoor advertising sites in sub-Saharan Africa, a clear understanding of each country's municipal and city by-laws is required. Read more >> |
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|  | The 2013 Broadcast, Film and Music Africa (BFMA) conference, a creative content and electronic broadcasting event in East Africa that promotes knowledge sharing and networking among high-level electronic media professionals is scheduled to take place in Nairobi at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre from 26-27 June 2013, has released its programme. Read more >> |
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[Megan Bernstein] Many business problem with social media is that there is no clear-cut strategy. As a 'new' medium many businesses overlook the importance in planning and strategizing how to make best use of social platforms. Read more >>
[Rebecca Moudio] As an entrepreneur, 32-year-old chemistry graduate Jason Njoku achieved success in a most unlikely way: he is Africa's largest distributor of Nigerian movies and has raked in over $8 million since 2010, when he founded the company Iroko Partners. In December 2012 at a conference in Texas, United States, he narrated the story of his success after failures in some other business ventures. Read more >>
"African Education Week provides a platform to air problems and find solutions: such platforms are very important. We have to talk; we have to hear each other. This is the only way to decide on priorities, to agree on solutions, to find real pathways to real quality" says independent education specialist Graeme Bloch. Read more >> | The 2013 Broadcast, Film and Music Africa (BFMA) conference, a creative content and electronic broadcasting event in East Africa that promotes knowledge sharing and networking among high-level electronic media professionals is scheduled to take place in Nairobi at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre from 26-27 June 2013, has released its programme. Read more >> |
Kenyan journalists threatened to stop covering parliamentary proceedings on Wednesday, 5 June 2013, after National Assembly Clerk, Justin Bundi barred them from the parliamentary media centre. Read more >>[Jocelyne Sambira] The sight of teenagers selling mushrooms using mobile phones is becoming a familiar one in rural Namibia. Namibia Polytechnic faculty member Maurice Nkusi, designer of a cellphone-based curriculum, told the TechDailyNews that most of these children have never even used a computer. But the rapidity with which they master new technology reflects the era in which they are living. Read more >>  | [Craig Wilson] Though parts of Africa already have 4G networks, 2G will remain the most common form of connectivity on the continent for the rest of the decade, according to a new report from Ericsson. Read more >> |
[Prince Parker] Apparently furious over recent reports by a local daily which published an article that seems to have denigrated her character, the managing director of the National Port Authority (NPA) Matilda W. Parker has filed a US$1million law suit against FrontPage Africa. Read more >>
| [Adelaide McKelvey] Africa is made up of a multitude of cultures and countries, all of whom have their own laws, governments and business ethics. When developing outdoor advertising sites in sub-Saharan Africa, a clear understanding of each country's municipal and city by-laws is required. Read more >> |
[Ann Boniwell and Lebohang Lengoasa] Within the context of the global economy, Africa is widely recognised as a key developing market. Entry into, and expansion within the African continent is regarded by many multinational corporations as essential to their continued existence, justifying the considerable business risk with the lure of high rewards. Read more >>  | [Emile Myburgh and Tamara Dini] Mozambique has promulgated Competition Law, 10 of 2013 (the Act), which will enter into force on 10 July, 2013. The Act applies to all economic activities in or having an effect in Mozambique, subject to certain exceptions. Read more >> |
 | WASHINGTON, US: Civil liberty groups and privacy campaigners reacted with outrage on Thursday, 6 June 2013, to a report that the US intelligence community, under President Barack Obama, is pursuing the wide-scale monitoring of millions of Americans' cell phone records. Read more >> |
 | BANGKOK, THAILAND: The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), today invited the world's press to attend the 66th World Newspaper Congress and 21st World Editors Forum, to be held in Torino, Italy, from 9 to 11 June 2014. Read more >> |
 | SINGAPORE: Yahoo! Singapore said on Wednesday, 5 June 2013, that new rules requiring the licensing of online news sites will help pave the way for it to get full media accreditation. Read more >> |
 | PRETORIA: Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel has lauded the opening of a technology manufacturing factory in the Western Cape, saying the investment will improve job prospects, especially for the youth. Read more >> |
SOUTH AFRICA  Alpha First commission app developer Snapplify - more info  Join the AAA Randburg for a 60-minute exploration session of opportunities for careers in advertising. Learn more about our degrees and diplomas in marketing and for creative students. Read more >>Albert Einstein "Imagination is the highest form of research. (via Good Reads)"
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