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Oliver Twist [Franklin Ozekhome] The ever-bubbling Nigerian music industry has once again being set ablaze by Don Jazzy and his Mo'Hits crew who recently engineered an online viral campaign via YouTube. Read more >>
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Find out how to break into new markets with innovative strategies by listening to the Biz Takeouts podcast of last week's 
Aegis Media has partnered with Bizcommunity.com to host the Thought Leadership Digibates, a series of monthly marketing/media debates that will be broadcast live via audio streaming, and with a live audience, via Cape-Town-based online radio station thetaxi.co.za. These hot and often controversial conversations and strategic insights will then be turned into podcasts available in a 
Diageo Africa director of marketing innovation Peadar Hegarty, head of digital media at Trigger/Isobar Nic van den Bergh and Aegis Media CEO Middle East & Africa and The Netherlands Arjan Pomper will be the first set of panelists, along with moderator Aegis Media CEO Dawn Rowlands, at the inaugural 
Due to high demand, the 
The Loeries board and committee have invited five destinations to submit their bid to host the 
Web Liquid Nigeria, an international digital marketing and advertising consultancy with presence in New York and Lagos had partnered with Phillips Consulting Limited to offer the Nigerian market viable opportunity for professionals to catch up on digital marketing in Nigeria. 
Tech4Africa, the continent's only web and emerging technology conference, is calling for entries to its inaugural Tech4Africa Innovation Award. The award, open to individuals and companies alike, recognises homegrown innovation to further inspire the industry to develop global solutions to uniquely African challenges. 
SEACOM, the pan-African ICT enabler, has announced the appointment of Mark Simpson as its new chief executive officer with effect 5 September 2011. Brian Herlihy who is the current CEO will take on the new role as executive director where he will focus on strategic projects. 
In conjunction with the 14th annual AfricaCom, Africa's largest communications conference and exhibition, Enterprise ICT Africa conference is a new event dedicated to helping CIOs and IT directors from across the enterprise space to develop effective ICT strategies. The conference is set to take place from 9 - 10 November 2011 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, South Africa. 
The AfricaCom Awards 2011, which takes place in Cape Town, South Africa in November, have introduced new categories to acknowledge the growth and importance of the telecoms and digital sectors across the African continent. 
At the recent Chartered Institute of Marketing Ghana (CIMG) Awards, held in Accra, Airtel Ghana was awarded the "Telecoms Company of the Year 2010" for its effort at transforming the telecommunications industry in Ghana. 
The German Development Cooperation, in conjunction with the National Aids Council and other sponsors, have selected PocketMedia Solutions's pocket-sized Z-Card as a Maputo City Guide to be distributed at the 10th All Africa Games which takes place in Maputo, Mozambique from 3 - 18 September 2011. 
Mozambique's English language music radio station, LM Radio, which started broadcasting in October 2010 can now be heard in the Free State Province of South Africa and Lesotho. 
The newly revamped "Entrepreneurial Edge" series on CNBC Africa, the 24/7 business news channel in Africa, will feature success stories of some of the great entrepreneurs and new young leaders in South Africa. The show will be hosted by journalist Chris Bishop. 
Africa's first commercial operations using the next generation Digital Video Broadcast standard - DVB-T2 - rolled out with the launch of GOtv in Uganda on Monday 29 August 2011, following the launch in Lusaka, Zambia on 29 June 2011. 
LONDON, UK: comScore, Inc has released an analysis of the online advertising market in the United Kingdom across the general population of fixed line Internet users, online video viewers and smartphone users. Among its findings, the analysis shows mobile and video advertising gaining traction in reaching a sizeable percentage of the total audience. 
LONDON: AETN UK, a joint venture between A+E Networks and BSkyB, has appointed Stephen Roberts in the newly created role of head of programme scheduling, and promoted a number of its senior programming team across commissioning, acquisitions, editorial & compliance and research. 
WASHINGTON: A false Internet security certificate has been used in an apparent attempt to snoop on Google users in Iran, according to the Internet search giant and computer security firms. 
The dates for the 2012 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity will revert back to the usual third week in June next year after the decision by the city of Cannes to postpone until further notice the refurbishment to the Palais des Festivals. 
WASHINGTON: US cable television network CNN announced Tuesday (30 August 2011) that it has bought Zite, a Canadian company that makes a personalised news reader for the iPad. 
PARIS: French media and telecom group Vivendi announced on Wednesday (30 August 2011) a doubling of first-half net profits to 2.5 billion euros ($3.6 billion) as it continued to reap the benefits from a legal victory. 
"Firework", the collaboration between Katy Perry, EMI, Deutsche Telekom and Saatchi & Saatchi was named Video of the Year at the MTV Music Video Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday evening, 28 August 2011. Saatchi & Saatchi and Deutsche Telekom worked with Katy Perry to create "Katy's Project" - a casting call for Deutsche Telekom customers to audition for appearances in the "Firework" video. 
PARIS: The Montreux Comedy Festival, one of the longest running comedy events in the world, will be adding a business networking element to its annual edition. 
BEIJING: China's state news agency called on Internet sites on Tuesday (30 August 2011) to stop the "cancer" of online rumours, in the latest sign of official unease over the rising popularity of social networking sites. 
NEW DELHI: Indian members of parliament are taking lessons on how to use iPads and other tablet computers after being given a special budget to buy technology that cuts down on paperwork. 
AUSTRALIA: TrinityP3 has released a global iPhone business app to help agencies, marketers and procurement calculate costs and fees in various markets and for various resource. The Resource Rate Calculator app is based on TrinityP3's current online calculators and works with the variables involved in cost-based agency remuneration; salary costs, billable hours per year, overhead and profit margin. | Motoring |
SOUTH AFRICANew car sales are rocking
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] The economy might be slowing down but there is still plenty of life in the new passenger car market in South Africa with sales up by 13% over July. The 36 138 new passenger cars sold are 8% more than August last year and it also pushes the year to date sales up by nearly 17% over the same period last year. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICAOoh la la, c'est magnifique DS4
[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] The French make great sauces because they discovered a long time ago that it needs a careful blending of a number of ingredients to get it just right - and this is precisely what Citroen did when they created a winning recipe called DS4. Read more >>More Motoring news...
| Travel |
SOUTH AFRICASomething to be proud of
[Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] Perhaps because of the stories of what goes on in "Vegas, stays in Vegas", companies are electing to have team meetings and conferences over weekends and inviting spouses along. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICALong Beach - where everyone knows your name...
[Rod Baker] With a staff that deserves Olympic Gold for the amount of attention they lavish on you, and an organisation that will ensure your stay will be special, it's very hard to beat. But that's Long Beach Mauritius for you. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICAAviation may face another economic squeeze
A double-dip recession may squeeze already pressured margins in a domestic market that is over-traded, argues Mango CEO Nico Bezuidenhout. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICAKenya Airways finalises Embraer jet contract
Embraer and Kenya Airways have finalised a contract for the purchase of 10 Embraer 190 jets and the purchase rights for a further 16 aircraft from the company's E-Jet family. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICAProtea to build one new hotel in Zambia and refurbish another
Protea Hotels Zambia is about begin construction of its eighth hotel on the outskirts of Ndola, whilst it refurbishes the five-year-old Protea Hotel Cairo Road in Lusaka's CBD. Read more >>More Travel news...
| BizLounge |
SOUTH AFRICALaurie Levine makes my soul sing
[Sindy Peters] Laurie Levine's Six Winters can be compared to an undulating landscape that takes you on an exciting aural journey complete with cheerful climbs and soul-stirring descents, and hardly any plains for you to catch your breath. You won't find any country / folk in my music collection; I've never made a connection with the genre, until now that is. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICALast In The Fall?
[Ruth Cooper] "Music stole my heart, you made me tear my whole world apart, This my love is a break-up letter ... Music, this is goodbye," sings Jeremy on track 9; Music Stole My Heart. Seems like that heady music love affair is over for The Dirty Skirts. Hinted as being their last album, "Lost In The Fall" is an ellipsis on the possible end of the band's career. The 12 tracks reflect this; an apocalyptic sentiment prevails throughout; forecasting an ultimate and final destiny for the band and on a much larger, vaguer scale, the world. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICALiving Remote - what do the oldies get up to when they're alone?
[Jordan Scott] Everybody has a crazy old relative that we suspect has taken one too many hits as a teenager - and I don't mean in a boxing ring. But how many of you have wondered what the older folk get up to when we aren't around to keep an eye on them? Well, Anthea Thompson, or Bertha Cummings as she is in the one-lady show; Living Remote: Bertha's guide to life, love and pharmaceuticals, takes being "old" to a level I don't think many have imagined before. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICACry "Havoc," and let slip the Apes of War
[Kervyn Cloete] Tim Burton's 2001 reboot of the seminal 1968 science fiction classic, "Planet of the Apes," was for the most part a middling affair, which is now mainly remembered for Rick Baker's make-up designs turning Helena Bonham-Carter into the spitting image of Michael Jackson, except not quite as creepy. Read more >>More BizLounge news...
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