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 | Last week on the Biz Takeouts show we looked at content marketing through print publications, and find out more about what's happening at The Bookmarks this year. [twitterfall] Read more >>
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 | Rod Baker NEWSWATCH: There's good and bad news out of Angola: Mail & Guardian reports that an Angolan journalist has won a top award recognising his fight against graft and human rights abuses, and speaking of the latter... a 17-year-old has been imprisoned for allegedly insulting the country's president. Read more >>
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 | Ethiopian police have arrested without charge two editors of the independent Amharic weekly Ethio-Mihdar, according to local journalists. Read more >>
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 | marcusbrewster will be working with designer fashion jewellery line, Bullets4Peace, to launch its range in South Africa as well as raise social consciousness about violence and the effects of guns and bullets in the country. Read more >>
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 | Charles Mburugu Search engine optimisation (SEO) is very important for the success of any website. Here are some tips which will help you attract more visitors, and thus boost the ranking of your WordPress site. Read more >>
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 | Just days before facing Michael Padayachee in court, Tina Mbili has laid an intimidation charge against her former lover and father of her child. Read more >>
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 | Michael Hailu, director of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), announced at ICT4Ag that smallholder farming is set to be transformed by a combination of investment and increasing access to ICTs, particularly mobile phones. Read more >>
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 | The Kenyan government has announced the gazetted date of 13 December 2013, for digital migration in the country's capital Nairobi and its surroundings still stands as scheduled, despite reports it had been postponed again. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Everlytic Kenya FirstRand's Vumela Enterprise Development Fund has made its sixth investment in online software company, Prefix Technologies, a move which could create over 120 new jobs and enable Prefix to expand in South Africa and other emerging markets. Read more >>
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 | The Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services of the Republic of Zimbabwe is hosting the 2013 ICT Achiever's Awards to acknowledge the efforts of individuals and organisations who have excelled and contributed meaningfully to the development of our nation. Read more >>
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 | Following the recent closure of print magazine publisher, Black Eagle Media, Africa Geographic Holdings has announced that its print magazine will take a break as from December 2013 until April 2014. Read more >>
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 | A proposed new media law in Kenya risks imposing severe financial sanctions against journalists, publishers and broadcasters for breaching a code of conduct, and could even bar journalists from working. Read more >>
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 | In partnership with Airtel, Wikipedia and Praekelt Foundation will make Wikipedia Zero available on mobile in Kenya. Read more >>
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 | TechZim reports that the use of Opera Mini in Zimbabwe has been increasing while the use of other mobile browsers have been declining over the past two months. Read more >>
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 | Samsung and Mobilium Global have joined forces to distribute the Mobilium Smart Health app - a "Made For Africa" mobile health and wellness, smart device application. Read more >>
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 | The refreshed CNBCAfrica.com is an amalgamation of CNBC Africa's website and the group's digital publishing arm, ABNDigial.com. Read more >>
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 | Desiree Gullan Consumers becoming content creators is nothing new. In the digital age, we encourage consumers to contribute through comments, blogs and sharing. Read more >>
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 | Issued by VWV Group Leading brand experience agency VWV was appointed by cell phone service provider Orange to help it develop a brand-building consumer awareness activation process for the Kenyan market. Read more >>
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 | Issued by 34 As Samsung's partner in their regional expansion plans, 34 developed Samsung Switch On - a consumer-facing communication platform for Samsung to launch new apps into the pan-African market, by asking consumers to tell them what they wanted most to switch on in their lives. Read more >>
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 | Daniel Pinch A question I've asked myself personally - the Society team started as two people in 2011, it's now 12, so we ask this in one way or another pretty regularly. This is also a question clients wanting to build their own teams have regularly asked us. Read more >>
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 | Dimension Data has released it 2013/14 Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report, which reveals generation Y has placed the telephone as the third preferred method of communication. Read more >>
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 | US tech giant, IBM, has opened its 12th global laboratory and the first commercial technology research facility on the continent conducting both applied and far-reaching exploratory research in Nairobi, Kenya. (video) Read more >>
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 | In the next five years‚ The Foschini Group aims to accelerate its expansion into the rest of Africa, and expects to be trading out of approximately 300 stores by 2018‚ the retailer said on Thursday, 7 November. Read more >>
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 | Zeenat Moorad Woolworths said on Tuesday, 5 November, that it had signed agreements to purchase its franchise businesses in Botswana‚ Namibia‚ Swaziland and Ghana. Read more >>
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 | CNBC Africa will be rebroadcasting the documentary series 'Titans of Africa' profiling the life and times of Raymond Ackerman on Saturday, 9 November at 6pm on DStv Channel 410. Read more >>
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 | HELSINKI, FINLAND: In just five years Nokia fell from dominating the mobile phone industry to abandoning the handset business, a swift fall from grace with lessons for market leaders. Read more >>
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 | SINGAPORE - A rash of website hackings in the Asia-Pacific has exposed weak cyber defences, which must be improved to help the region deal with more sophisticated and sinister threats, particularly from criminal organisations, analysts said. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK CITY, USA: Sales of the latest edition in the "Call of Duty" video game franchise topped US$1bn in the first day, Activision Publishing said on Wednesday, 6 November. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK CITY, USA: Twitter was on the verge of revealing the price of its stock offering giving the popular messaging platform a value of around US$15bn, media reports said. Read more >>
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SOUTH AFRICA Jacob G. Zuma Foundation corporate identity launch and fund raising dinner
 
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 | Paying a fraction of the price for your favourite DVD might seem like a sweet deal, but the Department of Trade and Industry has warned that there is a very bitter side to pirated and illicit goods. Read more >>
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 | Transnet has issued a global R5bn bond registered with the London Stock Exchange at a yield of 9.5% - the first African local-currency issuance on international capital markets. Read more >>
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 | The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) will this month hold a conference on the intellectual property policy. Read more >>
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 | Brian Berkman Most of my school friends went to Langebaan for the holidays but we always went to visit family in Durban or Bloemfontein. From their stories of the warm lagoon and fun they had, Langebaan was a place I always knew I was missing out on. Read more >>
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 | Henrie Geyser: motoring editor The heated battle for the hearts and wallets of the South African car-buying public is an on-going feud between Audi, Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Read more >>
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 | Brian Berkman Two of the best reasons to stay at Mandela Rhodes Place Hotel, managed by Three Cities, in the city centre have nothing to do with the hotel itself. Read more >>
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SOUTH AFRICA - Inoxico appoints new head of content - more info
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