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|  | [Duncan McLeod] South Africa appears to be losing its status as the preferred investment destination on the continent for international technology companies. That honour, increasingly, is going to Kenya, which may be on the cusp of a technology-fuelled era of economic growth. Read more >> |
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|  | [Adelaide McKelvey] Africa is made up of a multitude of cultures and countries, all of whom have their own laws, governments and business ethics. When developing outdoor advertising sites in sub-Saharan Africa, a clear understanding of each country's municipal and city by-laws is required. Read more >> |
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 Mobile music blooms in Africa
[Megan Bernstein] Many business problem with social media is that there is no clear-cut strategy. As a 'new' medium many businesses overlook the importance in planning and strategizing how to make best use of social platforms. Read more >>
 | [Chris Moerdyk] One of the biggest problems in marketing today is the way in which everything seems to be couched in hyped-up terminology that ultimately confuses everyone from boards of directors to small business owners. Read more >> |
| iROKO Partners, Africa's source of Nigerian entertainment with its platforms iROKOtv and iROKING, has announced a strategic development via its entry into the South African DVD market and the launch of 10,000 new Nigerian movie DVDs. Read more >> |
[Rebecca Moudio] As an entrepreneur, 32-year-old chemistry graduate Jason Njoku achieved success in a most unlikely way: he is Africa's largest distributor of Nigerian movies and has raked in over $8 million since 2010, when he founded the company Iroko Partners. In December 2012 at a conference in Texas, United States, he narrated the story of his success after failures in some other business ventures. Read more >>
| [Duncan McLeod] South Africa appears to be losing its status as the preferred investment destination on the continent for international technology companies. That honour, increasingly, is going to Kenya, which may be on the cusp of a technology-fuelled era of economic growth. Read more >> |
 | [Nick Durrant] As enterprises clamour to own a piece of the mobile and social media space, digital agencies are quickly springing forth to meet growing demands. But will local agencies remain sustainable once supply begins to outweigh demand in South Africa? Read more >> |
 | The 2013 Broadcast, Film and Music Africa (BFMA) conference, a creative content and electronic broadcasting event in East Africa that promotes knowledge sharing and networking among high-level electronic media professionals is scheduled to take place in Nairobi at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre from 26-27 June 2013, has released its programme. Read more >> |
 | [Issued by Corporate Games] Schedules are set and all is in place to kick off the second edition of the Cape Town Corporate Games which will take place from 6-9 June at the V&A Waterfront and other supporting venues throughout Cape Town. Read more >> visit press office >> |
 | [Craig Wilson] Though parts of Africa already have 4G networks, 2G will remain the most common form of connectivity on the continent for the rest of the decade, according to a new report from Ericsson. Read more >> |
[Jocelyne Sambira] The sight of teenagers selling mushrooms using mobile phones is becoming a familiar one in rural Namibia. Namibia Polytechnic faculty member Maurice Nkusi, designer of a cellphone-based curriculum, told the TechDailyNews that most of these children have never even used a computer. But the rapidity with which they master new technology reflects the era in which they are living. Read more >>
[Russell Southwood] Music is not as bandwidth-heavy as video, and there have been a significant number of online mobile music platforms launched in Africa in the past 12 months. Read more >>
| [Adelaide McKelvey] Africa is made up of a multitude of cultures and countries, all of whom have their own laws, governments and business ethics. When developing outdoor advertising sites in sub-Saharan Africa, a clear understanding of each country's municipal and city by-laws is required. Read more >> |
 | [Issued by Sweet Spot Content] Sweet Spot Content took an authentic story about a fishing boat in Zimbabwe - a story that illustrates how Econet Wireless Zimbabwe is helping local communities - and turned it into a piece of cinema. Read more >> visit press office >> |
 | [Issued by Global Village Partnerships] Global Village Partnerships offers a unique model of high-end coffee table books - each encapsulating the opportunities and visions of a particular country's business and tourism. Read more >> |
 | [Catherine Milward-Bridges] While it's prudent to take direction from the experts, it's as important to heed feedback from those at the receiving end of leadership. Read more >> |
Eskimi, one of Nigeria's social networking platforms. has announced that it has joined forces with Jobberman, a jobs website in Nigeria to launch a Job section on Eskimi. Read more >>
 | [Emile Myburgh and Tamara Dini] Mozambique has promulgated Competition Law, 10 of 2013 (the Act), which will enter into force on 10 July, 2013. The Act applies to all economic activities in or having an effect in Mozambique, subject to certain exceptions. Read more >> |
[Ann Boniwell and Lebohang Lengoasa] Within the context of the global economy, Africa is widely recognised as a key developing market. Entry into, and expansion within the African continent is regarded by many multinational corporations as essential to their continued existence, justifying the considerable business risk with the lure of high rewards. Read more >>  | The African Guarantee Fund (AGF) commemorated its one year since its launch during the annual general meetings of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on 1 June 2012. Read more >> |
 [South African College of Business] On Day 3 at the eLearning Africa Conference, one presentation in particular stood out. It focused on the idea that if the Learner Management System was the online classroom then surely social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter could serve as the cafeteria? Read more >>[South African College of Business] Day 2 of the eLearning Africa Conference focused largely on the role of the teacher. At the seminar entitled 'Tablet-Enabled Learning: A Sweet or Bitter pill?', Leonard Nyanyukweni, a teacher at Omahila Combined School in Namibia, demonstrated just how effective tablets are in the classroom. Read more >> WASHINGTON, US: America's top spy chief James Clapper has warned that leaks of secret court documents about a scheme to capture millions of phone records risked US national security. Read more >>TEHRAN, IRAN: Press cartoonists say they are dodging "moving red lines" in the run-up to a June 14 presidential election in Iran, a country where a satirical image can get a newspaper banned or an editor jailed. Read more >> | PARIS, FRANCE / DARMSTADT, GERMANY: The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has launched a new initiative to ensure that users of news sites are protected from unauthorised collection of data. Read more >> |
 | STOCKHOLM, FINLAND: Google said on Tuesday (4 June) it had entered a ten-year deal with a Swedish wind farm developer to power a data centre in Finland that will soon reduce its energy costs. Read more >> |
 | NEW YORK, US: The Global Awards, for the World's Best Healthcare Advertising, announced the Call for Entries for the 2013 competition. The Global Awards, now in its 19th year, receives entries from healthcare corporations, hospitals, advertising agencies, production companies, and design studios that produce communications for medical, pharmaceutical, and healthcare related products. Read more >> |
 | The rules governing executive appointments at the SABC are headed down the road of more government control rather than much-needed independence. Read more >> |
 | [Charlotte Mathews] SA's catalytic converter once responsible for 16% of global production, will hit a wall over the next two or three years when a new European Union regulations kicks in. Thousands of jobs may be at stake. Read more >> |
 | The lack of a dynamic and systematic transportation mode to connect countries on the continent is impeding Africa's economic potential, Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Monday. Read more >> |
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