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| M&G Media Ltd has launched Mail & Guardian Africa, a homegrown digital news platform for Africans to tell the African story. Read more >>
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[Issued by Millward Brown] Google has overtaken Apple to become the world's most valuable global brand in the 2014 BrandZ Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brand ranking, worth $159bn, an increase of 40% year on year. Read more >> | Bloomberg has appointed Adam Freeman as the first Managing Director of Bloomberg Media for Europe, Middle East and Africa. Read more >> | Zeenat Moorad Famous Brands, which owns Steers‚ Wimpy and Debonairs, plans to open 243 new restaurants in the coming year after reporting record turnover and profit for the year. It is also planning to enter Angola and Ghana. Read more >> |
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| Tune in to the Biz Takeouts Marketing & Media radio show on Thursday, 22 May from 9am-10am as we chat Rich Simmonds, Andrew Human from the Loeries and Craig Rodney from Cerebra. [twitterfall] Read more >>
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| Munya Marongwe Knowing and understanding your consumer is a basic principle of brand management and of marketing generally, but it's crucial to appreciate that consumers aren't a fixed target. They change, and have multiple values. Read more >>
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| Issued by Cristal Events Because of a wave of attacks that shook Kenya on 3 and 4 May, and the cause of concern these events have created, the organisers of the African Cristal Festival are compelled to postpone the event. Read more >>
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| In an aim to help end-users to benefit from faster internet, SEACOM is partnering with Level 3 Communications, which will deploy its content delivery network (CDN) nodes into data centres connecting to the SEACOM Pan-African IP/MPLS network. Read more >>
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| MTV Staying Alive Foundation and MTV Base's (Africa) sex and relationships drama series, Shuga, has won the Gold Award in Edutainment at the World Media Festival. Read more >>
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| Golden Muzanago Africa's moment is virtually here. With a GDP growth averaging 5%, it's no wonder that Africa has become a focus for investment. All eyes are on Africa's rapidly emerging middle class - a group expected to drive consumption on the rising continent. Read more >>
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| | NEW YORK, USA: Microsoft said it would maintain efforts to gain approval in China for its Windows 8 operating system after a ban announced by Beijing. Read more >>
| | CANNES, FRANCE: The organisers of the 61st Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, have announced that the Lion of St. Mark award will this year be presented to director Joe Pytka in honour and celebration of his long and outstanding contribution to creativity in the advertising and communications industry. Read more >>
| | WASHINGTON, US: Ousted New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson said on Monday her firing "hurts" but showed no rancour as she pledged to keep her tattoo representing the newspaper. Read more >>
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| | Phumla Williams With this year's general elections successfully concluded, proving South Africa as a resilient, strong and vibrant democracy, it is now time to roll up our sleeves and get down to business. Read more >>
| | The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in the North West has officially started building the Taung Agro-Hub, which will enable fruit and vegetable producers to gain better access to markets in a more sustainable way. Read more >>
| | The Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) and Sanlam have announced the finalists for the 2013 MDDA-Sanlam Local Media Awards following the conclusion of judging for both broadcast and print sections of the competition. Read more >>
| | South Africa's fifth democratic Parliament will hold its first sitting on 21 May to swear in new MPs and formally elect a President, who will head the state. Read more >>
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