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UNITED STATES
Facebook bets big on mobile with USD19bn WhatsApp deal
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook is betting huge on mobile with an eye-popping cash-and-stock deal worth up to $19 billion for Internet Age smartphone messaging service WhatsApp. Read more >>

African SMEs have boundless opportunities in 2014

The growth in sub-Saharan Africa offers African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) boundless opportunities in 2014, as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects economic growth in in the region to be slightly higher than of that in 2013, at around 6%.

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The right message at the right time

Danette Breitenbach

Retailers need to understand and engage with their customers. Customers want relevant information sent to them and this translates into retailers sending them the right message at the right time.

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Ericsson to manage 75% of MTN Nigeria network infrastructure

Gabriella Mulligan

MTN Nigeria has selected Ericsson as the managed services provider for 75% of its network infrastructure, making Ericsson MTN's biggest managed services provider across Africa.

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Digital
AFRICA
Register dotAfrica domains to protect brands
It is said that many brands have been burnt in the past by not thinking ahead and registering domains that could be of value to them in their digital marketing strategies. Read more >>

Events & Conferencing
SOUTH AFRICA
Jury presidents for Cannes Lions announced
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity organisers have announced the jury presidents, including the first jury president for the new Product Design Lions category. Read more >>

Mobile
AFRICA
Infographic: Mobile phones tackling poverty
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SOUTH AFRICA
Alliance Media continues CSR in Tanzania

Issued by Alliance Media

Alliance Media recently sponsored a billboard for the Tanzania Farmer's Market monthly event. The event was used to raise money for a new school building in Pangani. Read more >>

Production
AFRICA
Through your Lens photo competition open for entries
eLearning Africa will be hosting its fifth annual Through your Lens photography competition with this year's theme being 'ocial Africa: building bridges through ICT'. The deadline for entries is 13 April 2014. Read more >>

Retail
AFRICA
Middle class Africa: meet the new African consumer

Sulaiman Philip

The United States of Africa is the 10th largest economy in the world. It is ahead of China and India, countries with populations to match Africa's just over a billion people. Its booming consumer market is worth almost a trillion dollars a year but international companies struggle to tap into it. Read more >>


International

UNITED STATES
WhatsApp - a booming message service
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: WhatsApp was launched five years ago as a shot at doing to text messaging what Skype had done to telephone calls. Read more >>

UNITED STATES
Facebook bets big on mobile with USD19bn WhatsApp deal
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Facebook is betting US$19bn on smartphone messaging service WhatsApp, having agreed to buy the firm in an eye-popping cash-and-stock deal. Read more >>

UNITED STATES
US man sues Ethiopia for cyber snooping
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: A lawsuit filed this week accuses Ethiopia of infecting a US man's computer with "spyware" as part of a campaign to gather intelligence about those critical of the government. Read more >>

UNITED STATES
Medicine goes mobile with smartphone apps, devices

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New events to diarise

Success Summit 2014
1 Mar 2014 Johannesburg

Tyrexpo Africa 2014
Singex - 4 Mar 2014 to 6 Mar 2014 Johannesburg

PSASA Convention 2014
PSASA - 11 Apr 2014 to 12 Apr 2014 Johannesburg

Africa Travel Week
Thebe Reed Exhibitions - 28 Apr 2014 to 3 May 2014 Cape Town

Africa Rail 2014
terrapinn Ltd - 1 Jul 2014 to 2 Jul 2014 Johannesburg




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