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SME sustainability and simplified video-viewingLast week's [AfricaCom] conference was abuzz with innovation and development on the continent. Key among these was the announcement that YouTube is taking Africa offline, in meeting the goal of making video more viewable on the continent. One such feature lets South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana watch videos in periods of low or no internet connectivity. Thinkroom Consulting also released its inaugural SME Landscape Study last week, with special focus on the conduciveness of starting and conducting business in Africa. Mauritius, South Africa and Botswana came out tops, with the score benchmarked against countries outside of Africa to provide an indication of the measure compared to non-African, developed markets. Let's put these developments to good use... 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 |
|  | [Leigh Andrews] In meeting the goal of making video more viewable on the continent, YouTube took the bold move of making offline video playback a reality... read
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 | Orange announced the winners of the 2015 Orange African Social Venture Prize during the AfricaCom Awards ceremony held in Cape Town... read | |  | Ngugi Mungai Kenya has implemented four reforms to improve the business climate for local entrepreneurs, which earned it a higher score in the World Bank's ease of doing business index 2016... read | | |
 | Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa (BMIA) announced the creation of a $1m fund to build capacity for civil society community media organisations in three countries - Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa... read | | |
 | Thinkroom Consulting's inaugural report, titled 'An SME Landscape Study: The Conduciveness of Starting and Conducting Business in Africa', was released on 19 November 2015... read | | |
 | Mozambique will experience Black Friday on 27 November for 18 hours. It is the largest, and sometimes, most crazy online shopping day of the year... read | | |
 | FOX Sports is now the official broadcast partner of Major League Soccer (MLS) in the US, Mexico, South America and sub-Saharan Africa, among others... read | | |  | The winners of the Asian Digital Media Awards were announced in Hong Kong on 18 November 2015. Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), the publisher of The Straits Times, scooped 12 trophies... read | | | More International | |
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 | Douglas Kruger Innovation, and the art of capturing ideas on the fly... read | |
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