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Today's top stories
 | The finalists have now been announced during Creative Week Cape Town. Read more >> |
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 | [Meg Enerson] Without buy-in originating from the top, marketing teams and their initiatives are fighting an uphill battle before even considering taking something to market. Read more >> |
 | [Patrick Macgougan] With a growing percentage of the global population using mobile phones and the ability to use internet based apps through Wi-Fi and 3G, we as marketeers have many options for communicating with customers via their handsets. Read more >> |
 | MTN has launched a new global brand campaign which gives people a nostalgic feel about the impact of mobile telephony and technology in our daily lives. (video) Read more >> |
 | British Council and Bharti Airtel have partnered to maximize the learning benefits of Bharti Airtel's wider broadband connectivity of 5GB per month in a three-year deal for 127 Digital Hubs located in schools across nine countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Read more >> |
 | [Fifi Peters] Naspers' shares are getting close to the R1‚000 share price barrier even though the shares declined by 3.92% on Wednesday, dropping back to R919. Naspers is way ahead of the JSE's second-highest priced share, British American Tobacco at R522.58. Read more >> |
 | Kagiso Media on Wednesday, 17 September, said that diluted headline earnings per share (HEPS) for the year to June rose by 24.5% to 168.5c‚ while the final dividend was increased by 33.3% to 40c per share. Read more >> |
 | Libya will launch a tender in 2014 for the award of the country's first private mobile phone licence, Communications Minister Usama Siala told AFP on Monday. Read more >> |
 | On 21 August 2013, Rodney Sieh, founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of the award-winning daily print and online newspaper FrontPageAfrica, was jailed after Liberia's Supreme Court upheld a decision ordering him to pay a former government minister US$1.5 million in libel damages. Read more >> |
 | In an effort to meet the growing demand for press release distribution in Africa, the African Press Organisation (APO), have announced that it will be tripling its press release email distribution capacity to 1 million emails per day. Read more >> |
 | According to a report on Bulawayo 24, Shoprite has quit trading in Zimbabwe after the retail outlet was closed down on Monday. Read more >> |
 | SAN FRANCISCO, US / MAIDENHEAD, UK: Embarcadero Technologies, a leading provider of software solutions for application and database development, has announced the availability of RAD Studio XE5, a multi-language, multi-device, and multi-database application development suite, now with Android and iOS support. Read more >> |
 | LONDON, UK: A device billed as the world's first ethically sourced smartphone was unveiled in London this week and despite thousands of pre-orders its designer says the project remains a huge gamble. Read more >> |
 | WASHINGTON, USA: Apple has no intention of competing in the "junk" segment of the electronics market, chief executive Tim Cook says. Read more >> |
 | WASHINGTON, USA: With consumers eagerly awaiting the release of two new iPhones this week, the more dramatic change may be in the software, not the hardware. Read more >> |
 | MADRID, SPAIN: Spanish textile company Inditex, owner of global fashion brand Zara, reported a slight rise in profits in the first half of 2013 on Wednesday, 18 September, saying it had made a solid start to sales in the second half. Read more >> |
More International
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 | The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) has disbursed R9.2bn to support key strategic infrastructure projects in SA and the South African Development Community (SADC) region‚ of which 81% related to projects in SA and 19% in the rest of SADC. Read more >> |
 | If there's one thing that makes South Africans stand together more than the 2010 Fifa World Cup, it is the lack of water service delivery. Read more >> |
 | [Khulekani Magubane] Communications Minister Yunus Carrim has told community newspaper publishers in Johannesburg it is important to preserve the independence and quality of community print publications. Read more >> |
 | [Linda Ensor] SA had achieved strong growth in tourism in the first quarter of this year‚ continuing the trend of the past year when the country experienced an exceptional 10.2% growth in the number of international tourists coming to the country‚ Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said in Parliament on Tuesday, 17 September. Read more >> |
More Government news
 | [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] The name might remind you of that old-fashioned stick with a bunch of feathers attached to the end which granny used twice a week to brush the dust off the grand piano but the latest Duster is actually Renault's funky new alternative to ho-hum family transport. Read more >> |
Cultural Intelligence - 18 Nov 2013 to 20 Nov 2013 Johannesburg,Durban,Cape TownDr David Livermore, President - Cultural Intelligence Centre (USA) is coming to South Africa to introduce this concept through a series of half-day seminars entitled 'Develop Your Cultural Intelligence.' Read more >>  SEO StrategyAAA School of Advertising - 10 Sep 2013 to 21 Nov 2013 Cape Town FIDICAlusani Skills & Training Network - 2 Dec 2013 to 3 Dec 2013 Johannesburg Georges Duhamel "It is always brave to say what everyone thinks. (via Brainy Quote)"
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