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Giving honour where honour is due Last week saw the 16th annual AfricaCom conference take place in Cape Town. With three jam-packed days delegates were bombarded with information (in a good way) about building Africa's digital economy. Make sure you catch up on the highlights of the conference if you missed it, and once again, congratulations to all the AfricaCom Awards winners - we honour you for your contributions in the industry in Africa! Brandon Gregory reports on Andile Ngcaba's talk at AfricaCom last week, highlighting the negative impact in delays to deploying LTE in Africa. Danette Breitenbach reports on emerging markets into the future after Axel Steinman, Microsoft Advertising and Online VP addressed a small group recently on the findings of global research by Microsoft which included many emerging markets. Feedback was given on technology industry trends, customer trends in emerging markets and what is the advertising business story in light of these and how they will evolve. Don't forget about PROMAX/BDA Africa which takes place on Friday, 22 November. For more, go to www.promaxafrica.tv. That is all from me! Cheers! Ilse van den Berg, Editor: Marketing & Media Africa (@Biz_Africa)Comment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | Today's top stories |
 | [Danette Breitenbach] Emerging markets is the now and the future. 70% of the world's internet population is in emerging markets and the adspend is starting to move to these markets. Read more >>
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 | Brandon Gregory Stakeholders in Africa need to understand the detrimental effect delaying the licensing for LTE service rollout will have on the continent, according to Andile Ngcaba, founder of investment firm Convergence Partners. Read more >>
|  | WIOCC and local shareholder Dalkom Somalia, has announced that it will launch connectivity to/from Somalia via the EASSy cable from Q1 2014, offering services directly from Mogadishu to the rest of the world. Read more >>
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 | The first report of a three-country African Growth Market Study on mobile content and commerce by MEF, shows that Kenyan industry leaders are optimistic about mobile content and commerce revenue growth. Read more >>
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 | Juliette Attwell Initiative, integrity and sincerity - three traits that will help you in your career! This week we use these characteristics to solve the dilemmas of making yourself more marketable and resigning. Read more >>
|  | Francois van Dyk, Issued by Ornico A serious dichotomy is haunting the global economy with millions of unemployed people but also millions of positions which can't be filled due to a lack of suitable skills. Hence a few prevalent truths and trends have become apparent when observing the global employment landscape... Read more >>
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 | Waggener Edstrom has spoken to more than 160 marketing and communication professionals for their content marketing experiences and opinions. Read more >>
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 | DHL Express and Engen have announced that it's stepping into a new retail partnership in a bid to provide customers with better access to global express services. Read more >>
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 | The SABC will be a Platinum sponsor for this year's PROMAX/BDA Africa event which will take place on 22 November 2013 at The Maslow Hotel, The Ballroom, in Sandton, Johannesburg. Read more >>
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|  | DUBAI, UAE: The Dubai International Festival of Creativity, a leading awards for creative excellence in advertising and communications in the Middle East and North Africa, will this year honour Eddie Moutran, Chairman and CEO of Memac Ogilvy Group for the Middle East & North Africa, with the Dubai Lynx Advertising Person 2014 Award. Read more >>
|  | NEW YORK CITY, US / SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: The Global Awards World's Best Healthcare & Wellness Advertising announced its 2013 award winners on Friday, 15 November at ceremonies in New York City and Sydney, Australia. Two SA agencies won Finalist Certificates. Read more >>
|  | NEW YORK CITY, US: Forbes Media, publisher of Forbes magazine, has hired investment bankers to explore a potential sale, the company's chief executive said on Friday. Read more >>
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|  | Amanda Visser The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) is in favour of reducing carbon emissions even through taxation, but warns this has to be done in a sustainable way that will not harm the economy and cause unnecessary job losses. Read more >>
|  | The government's programme to enhance the competitiveness of manufacturing had approved 436 entities with the investment value of R13bn and helped to sustain 116‚497 jobs since its inception in May last year‚ said Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies. Read more >>
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