| 29 Apr 2013 |
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Weekly top stories Universal Networks International (UNI) today announced the refresh of its flagship brand, Universal Channel (DStv channel 117). The evolution focuses on character-driven entertainment as the channel unveils its brand new positioning, logo, on-air packaging and tagline - "100% Characters". Read more >> |
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Universal Networks International (UNI) today announced the refresh of its flagship brand, Universal Channel (DStv channel 117). The evolution focuses on character-driven entertainment as the channel unveils its brand new positioning, logo, on-air packaging and tagline - "100% Characters". Read more >> |
 [Donna Rachelson] Often, in business or personal encounters with other people, we hear the phrase, "So, tell me a bit about yourself." Yet many of us don't have a well-packaged answer ready. And that means that we miss out on an opportunity to quickly convey all the most important things we want people to know about us. Instead, we ramble and leave out key bits of information. Read more >> |
 [Aissata Haidara] Excitement greeted news that Vérone Mankou, the 26-year old entrepreneur from the Republic of Congo, has designed Africa's first smartphone and a tablet, the hand-held computer that comes with a touch screen. Read more >> |
 Ten African innovators have developed practical solutions to some of the continent's most intractable problems. Chosen from more than 900 applications from 45 countries, the finalists for the Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2013 provide practical examples of Africa's investment potential have been announced. Read more >> |
AfricaCom, Africa's premier communications congress and exhibition returns to Cape Town, South Africa in November this year for what is expected to be its biggest and best year yet. The event organisers are now calling on speakers to apply to speak on various topics. Read more >> |
 The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about the health of editor Amara al-Khatabi and calls on Libyan authorities to allow him to travel in order to receive urgent medical assistance abroad. Read more >> |
 The country that gave the world two groundbreaking innovations in technology: M-Pesa, a mobile banking system, and Ushahidi, a platform for crowdsourcing information during disasters, is now taking its technological talents to new heights. Read more >> |
 [Ayanda Dlamini] Mobile is top of the big four influencers of BI change across Africa this year. The massive growth in mobile across Africa is driving resurgence in business intelligence (BI) growth, as executives across the continent see the value of having relevant, updated data at hand at all times. Read more >> |
MTN on Thursday, 25 April 2013, became the first mobile operator in Uganda and one of the very first in the region, to successfully launch Long Term Evolution (LTE) network. Read more >> |
 Telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria has declared its readiness to absorb the influx of requests from consumers who wish to port to its network as the long anticipated Mobile Number Portability (MNP) for GSM operators in Nigeria finally takes off. Read more >> |
 Bharti Airtel, the telecommunications service provider, has remained committed to providing its customers with cutting edge services. Beginning early May, consumers will have the opportunity to buy the Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphones in all Airtel outlets across the African continent. Read more >> |
 Bharti Airtel, the global telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, have announced that it has entered into an agreement with the Warid Group to fully acquire Warid Telecom Uganda. Read more >> |
 KULUYA.com, the online African gaming company, have announced that it has raised another small seed stage investment valuing the company at $2 Million. The investment will be used to expand the gaming site's commercial activities. Read more >> |
 The first online mapping tool to track insecticide resistance in mosquitoes that cause malaria was launched on Thursday, 25 April 2013. The interactive website, called IR Mapper ( www.irmapper.com), identifies locations in more than 50 malaria-endemic countries where mosquitoes have developed resistance to the insecticides used in bed nets and indoor residual sprays. Read more >> |
 [Issued by Alliance Media] This month marks the 19th anniversary of the genocide that took place in Rwanda in 1994. In commemoration of this, MTN has put up billboards around Kigali to remember those that passed on during the genocide. Read more >> visit press office >> |
 fastjet, Africa's low-cost airline, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with local South African investment company Blockbuster, with the objective of fastjet operating services in South Africa by the end of May 2013. Read more >> |
 Kenya's first and largest Islamic bank Gulf African Bank, has signed a KSh100 million agreement with the African Guarantee Fund to support lending to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the country. Read more >> |
Six months ago, Jane Adhiambo Achieng walked into a local Kenyan bank with the hope of getting a loan for her small grocery business. Read more >> |
NEW YORK, US: US media magnate Rupert Murdoch will get a 15% pay hike with the split-up of News Corp. into two publicly traded companies, according to a company filing published Friday. Read more >> |
 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: Three-dimensional printing could herald a new industrial revolution as potentially important as the invention of the steam engine or telegraph experts claim. Read more >> |
 NAIROBI, KENYA: Six months ago, Jane Adhiambo Achieng asked a local Kenyan bank to lend her US$250 to expand her small grocery business. Read more >> |
More International...
 The PetroSA board has commissioned a review of audits into spending‚ the parastatal said last week. Read more >> |
 [Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Communications Minister Dina Pule has blamed soccer legend Jomo Sono for what she alleges is a 'smear campaign' against her, reports City Press; meanwhile Stephen Grootes, writing for BD Live, suggests Pule might have reason to fear Zuma's next press conference. Mail & Guardian reports on the ANC's reaction to the DA's call for a redo on last week's POIB vote, and on IOL, Murray Williams asks whether porn is worse than many other industries? Read more >> |
 JOHANNESBURG: The notion that corruption only takes place in government is one sided, as corruption is becoming a social problem Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Thursday, 25 April 2013. Read more >> |
 [Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: As expected, the controversial Protection of State Information Bill has been passed in the National Assembly, but will probably face a challenge in the Constitutional Court, reports Mail & Guardian, while Rebecca Hodes, writing in Daily Maverick, takes ASASA to task over the Xpanda ad that critics reckon is racist. In IOL, Caxton non-executive chairman Paul Jenkins says that established news outlets are not stifling the smaller players. Read more >> |
 Communications Minister Dina Pule has come out guns blazing to defend herself against allegations of corruption and meddling in tender processes reported in the Sunday Times on Sunday. Read more >> |
More Government news...
 [Sindy Peters] Van Coke Kartel end the opening set, the crowd is getting restless in anticipation of the encore performance from Metallica that's taken seven years. The lights drop and every Metallicat in the Belville Velodrome lose their shit - Metallica launch into their set with a blast of speed metal dedicated to their "insane" fans - Hit the Lights. Read more >> |
 [Sindy Peters and Ruth Cooper] It's been seven years since Metallica first head banged into South Africa, headlining for the now-defunct My Coke Fest, and it's most probably been seven years too long for their die-hard fans. We were lucky enough to attend round one at the Belville Velodrome on Wednesday night, 24 April 2013, and were even luckier to meet and interview bassist Robert Trujillo a mere hour before their performance. Read more >> |
 [Brian Berkman] Be it the fault of the song One Night in Bangkok or Patpong Road in the big city, talk Thai massage and most people start to snigger into their sleeves making jokes about happy endings. Read more >> |
 [Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] In the same way that lithe-limbed Brazilian model Karen Nurenberg has recently been turning heads and setting runways ablaze in Europe with her lacy black underwear, Hyundai is causing quite a stir with its hot and sexy new Veloster hatchback. Read more >> |
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