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2016's m-business forecastNgugi Mungai explains why Kenyan SMEs must tap the potential of mobile phones, especially with the mobile market in the country maintaining an upward trend year-on-year. Qwilt, offering an open cache solution, and three6five, the IP networking service integrator, have embraced the m-business trend by announcing technology partnership to improve over-the-top (OTT) streaming video strategies for service providers in Africa. This signals further room for mobile growth as the availability of new streaming services in Africa means that in order to remain competitive, network operators must redesign their network architecture to better support streaming video. Still on the topic of mobile in Africa, MTN denies any wrongdoing in Cameroon after being indexed in a recent report of the Cameroon National Anti-Corruption Commission. MTN insists it is a responsible investor and that it is up to date with regard to its fiscal obligations to the relevant authorities in Cameroon. Seems the whole continent is in a mobile business state of mind... 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 |
|  | [Ngugi Mungai] Mobile phone penetration has significantly increased in Kenya and its imperative for small businesses to tap into the potential of this technology to operate better and smarter... read
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| | |  | Murray Legg When YouTube started out of beta phase a mere 11 years ago and made its first video available for public viewing, there were 7 billion possible sets of eyeballs available to watch one video... read | |  | Marc Spriestersbach Africa Rising' is no longer relevant - we have long passed that milestone and the transformation that the continent is undergoing is dramatic, certainly in terms of communication and connectivity across all sectors of the market... read | |
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 | Qwilt and three6five have announced a technology partnership to improve over-the-top (OTT) streaming video strategies for service providers in Africa... read | |
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 | The events' arm of the foremost International socio economics news magazine, The Economist has concluded plans to hold the 11th edition of the annual Nigeria Summit... read | |  | In response to the growing cybercrime in South Africa, Fleming is organising its inaugural Africa Cyber Security Summit from 9-10 March 2016 at Hilton in Sandton... read | | |
 | A recent report of the Cameroon National Anti-Corruption Commission, CONAC, has included MTN Cameroon amongst the companies it indexed... read | | |
 | Nur Bremmen Hellofood, the online food ordering and delivery service operated by Foodpanda, has announced that its Kenyan users can now order KFC and Ocean Basket from the service... read | |  | Pan-African e-commerce Jumia has just released a new Infographic with the objective of shining a light on the key facts and figures of the year that has passed as well as the promise of 2016... read | | |  | Possible Worldwide, the glocal digital agency of WPP, has agreed to acquire a majority stake in digital agency, Conrad Caine, a full service digital agency headquartered in Munich, Germany... read | | | More International | |
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 | Gwen Watkins Professional reportage at conferences is an essential service, for clients and delegates alike... read | |  | Danette Breitenbach Long gone are the days when technology was the IT guys' problem. Today technology and IT have risen in importance in companies and if they are not in the boardroom... read | |
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