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Nigeria's growing telecommunications service provider, Etisalat has received two awards from the industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The awards are for Excellent Service and Effective Collaboration with the Consumer Affairs Bureau to Ensure Access to Customer Care Helpline, and for Regular Attendance and Effective Participation at all NCC outreach programmes. 
Winners of the AfricaCom Awards 2012, which acknowledges the growth and importance of the telecoms and digital sectors across the African continent, were announced on Wednesday 14 November 2012 at an awards ceremony which took place in Cape Town, South Africa. 
MEF, the global community for mobile content and commerce, has launched a dedicated regional office in association with Vodacom to help promote African mobile growth and showcase innovation. 
Motorola Solutions has announced the launch of its Enterprise Mobility business in Kenya. Motorola Solutions will offer its portfolio of next generation enterprise mobility solutions including: ruggedized mobile computers and enterprise class smart-phones; advanced mobile scanning and imaging solutions and a robust line of barcode scanners and RFID readers. 
CNBC Africa has been on a high for the past month as the channel's South African viewership peaked at 600,000 viewers in the first week of October, according to data from Multichoice's DStv-I - past seven day viewership. 
SAN FRANCISCO: Smartphones and tablets powered by Google's Android software are devouring the mobile gadget market, eating into Apple's turf by feeding appetites for innovation and low prices, analysts say. 
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the International Press Institute (IPI) have demanded that Mexican federal and state authorities immediately investigate the murder of a freelance journalist in the central Mexican state of Puebla. 
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have joined the protest against Indian cricket authorities who have locked out reputable photographic news agencies from the high-profile India-England cricket series that began on Thursday, 15 November 2012. 
NEW YORK, NY: The New York Festivals International Advertising Awards has announced its call for entries for the 2013 competition honouring the "World's Best Advertising". Based on feedback from the 2012 executive jury, NYF restructured the International Advertising Awards competitions and categories to reflect the current work being produced globally. 
SINGAPORE: Effective Measure, the digital audience profiling and measurement agency for emerging markets has secured a strategic alliance with Vietnam's digital advertising network Ambient Digital. 
UK, LONDON: Neville Brody will take over the annual D&AD presidency from Rosie Arnold, who will take an honourary position on the D&AD Board of Trustees. Brody's deputy president will be digital creative Laura Jordan-Bambach. The changes will be made at an official ceremony on 2 December, 2012. 
MediaCom has unveiled five new wins for its Australian offices, adding nearly AUD$55m to its total billings, in the last three months. The agency has been appointed to work on consumer health and personal care company PharmaCare Laboratories, SEEK, an online employment brand, The Iconic, an online retailer, and retailer Chemist Warehouse. 
Moss Ngoasheng, chief executive of Safika Holdings, a Johannesburg-based private investment company, has announced it is part of an American and Australian consortium that has acquired Australian e-learner, Learning Seat, from Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp. | Company news |
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BOTSWANAAlliance Media successfully launches airport advertising - Alliance Media
After having been awarded the exclusive advertising rights for Botswana's SSK International airport in Gaborone, for another consecutive term, Alliance Media Botswana has successfully installed a number of key sites within the new airport. Read more >>Research
SOUTH AFRICAMillward Brown opens in Cairo, Egypt - Millward Brown
Leading market research firm Millward Brown has officially opened its newest office in Cairo, Egypt to serve the North Africa market. This is the third office opened by the global firm in the Africa and Middle East region this year. Read more >>| Government |
SOUTH AFRICAEfficiency key in spending govt money: Motlanthe
PRETORIA: Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says institutions such as Parliament, provincial legislatures and councils must play their oversight role to ensure public resources are allocated and used in accordance with policy priorities, and that there is efficient spending and value for money. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICASA municipalities face operational and financial challenges
Though notable progress has been made with respect to the roll-out of basic services and infrastructural developments across the municipal sector in recent years, resulting in generally stable credit rating outlooks across the entire sector, various operational and financial challenges will continue to persist into the future. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICAPresident Zuma says govt did not pay for his house
[Dennis Cruywagen] CAPE TOWN: President Jacob Zuma has told Members of Parliament that his family, and not government, paid for his private home in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICASA ploughs R798m into National Research Foundation
PRETORIA: Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom has approved the transfer of R798 million to the National Research Foundation (NRF) for human resource development for the next three years. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICAState to continue to play a role in the economy: Gigaba
JOHANNESBURG: The state will continue to have a stake in the country's economy going into the future, Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Tuesday, 13 November 2012. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICANdebele calls for accelerated service delivery
PRETORIA: Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele on Monday instructed senior managers in the department to accelerate service delivery. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICAPremier Zille urged to work with ministers
SOUTH AFRICACraft sector supports govt priorities
SOUTH AFRICAEskom tariff request is a necessity: Gigaba
| Travel |
SOUTH AFRICAAbalone House, you'll hardly want to leave
[Brian Berkman: contributing editor, travel] With its white-washed houses and ubiquitous blue shutters, Paternoster fancies itself part of the Greek Isles. Don't hold this against this charming West Coast seaside village as it punches way about its weight in the restaurants worth eating at and interesting shops at which to spend your money stakes. Read more >>SOUTH AFRICASail into the sunset at La Pirogue
[Rod Baker] La Pirogue, named for the traditional Mauritian twin-sailed fishing boat, bills itself as the most authentic Mauritian resort. Its individual chalets are also modelled on the traditional Mauritian thatched house. What it also has is seemingly acres of rolling lawns, and the tranquillity of a Trappist monastery. Read more >>More Travel news...
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