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2014, we are ready for you! Well, welcome back to all in our Biz Africa community! Hope you all had a wonderful break, and if you didn't have a break, I hope you will have one soon. We are already a week into the new year and things are slowly but surely starting to pick up. Some of you reading this are probably still lounging on your deck chairs until next week... I can't say that I don't envy you, but man, am I ready to take on this year by the horns! Today sees the first of our Marketing & Media Africa newsletters for 2014 and we'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all... for your past and, we hope, on-going support, and for your selection of this company - Bizcommunity.com - as your media vehicle of choice to get your news and opinions to your target audience. Keep an eye out for our annual trends series which will be kicking off next week and see what some of our top industry experts are predicting for 2014. Onwards and upwards! 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 |
Following the launch of MEF's Global Mobile Consumer Survey in December, the company has re-mined the data to create an infographic looking specifically at the emergence of a new era of mobile - Mobile 3. (infographic) Read more >> | David Hochner With new technologies come new challenges and as audiences expect greater quality and greater customisation of services, broadcasters, content providers and solution providers are preparing themselves for a busy 2014. Read more >> | Reports on BizTech Africa and TeleGeography state that, according to the newspaper La Nouvelle Expression, a new low-cost operator is set to enter Cameroon early in 2014. Read more >> |
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 | Airtel Networks Zambia Plc has launched a staff corporate social responsibility initiative, 'Get involved and make a difference'. Members of staff have donated various clothes, toys, books and food items worth over K4,000 to House of Moses orphans. Read more >>
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 | The Africa-EU Energy Partnership (AEEP) secretariat, organiser of the second High-Level Meeting of the AEEP, invites young journalists to be part of, and contribute to, the conference, to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 12-13 February 2014. Read more >>
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 | According to a report on Mobile Money Africa, Qash Services, one of four independent companies with a mobile money agreement from the Central Bank of the West Africa Monetary Union (BCEAO), has launched its mobile phone-based financial services in Cote d'Ivoire. Read more >>
|  | Egyptian prosecutors are probing telecoms giant, Vodafone, over claims a company advert featuring a popular muppet-like character contains coded messages calling for terrorist attacks, company executives said on Thursday. Read more >>
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 | Nigerian newspaper Premium Times has suffered a major cyberattack targeting its online news platform, which prevented visitors from accessing the site on Sunday, 5 January. Read more >>
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 | Egyptian rights organisations filed a formal request on 31 December 2013 with the Attorney General demanding an immediate investigation into the broadcasting of activists' private telephone conversations by a TV talk show host. Read more >>
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|  | LAS VEGAS, USA: LG said that its curved and slightly bendable G-Flex smartphone will be available in the US by April in partnership with telecommunications firms AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. Read more >>
|  | LAS VEGAS, USA: LG announced an alliance with Netflix to stream "ultra high-definition" shows to new televisions being released by the South Korean consumer electronics company. Read more >>
|  | WASHINGTON, USA: The New York Times and Guardian newspapers have called for clemency for US whistle-blower Edward Snowden for his revelations on US government spying. Read more >>
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|  | The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) and the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) have announced their collaboration to register South Africans living outside of the country as voters for the very first time. Read more >>
|  | Olebogeng Molatlhwa Joburg's council employees are likely to take plenty of flak for what is expected to be yet another dismal audit outcome for the city. Read more >>
|  | The umbrella body for schools governing bodies says the announcement of the 2013 National Senior Certificate results is an indication that the quality of the education system is "stabilising". Read more >>
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|  | Henrie Geyser: motoring editor When it comes to space, comfort, practicality, and value for money Chevrolet's popular Captiva takes a lot of beating and it's hardly surprising that it has captivated the hearts of many South African families and will continue to do so now that it has had a mid-life make-over. Read more >>
|  | Brian Berkman Clico Boutique Hotel is in a converted grand old farm-style house with a Cape Dutch gabled roof from the time when Rosebank, Johannesburg wasn't the social and economic hub it is today. Read more >>
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