If you're on holiday, does it mean your target market is too?
A presence on Bizcommunity.com communicates to our readers and your prospects that African digipreneurs are
open for business, open 24/7, open to opportunity.
Bizcommunity has got some exciting things for you this holiday season, including a selection of the year's top stories on our site, the most tweeted and shared, as well as special content from key contributors - aiming to provide our audiences with more than enough must-read content to tide them over the "silly season".
In other news,
Danette Breytenbach says mobile internet key in Africa as she chats to Vicki Myburgh, Entertainment & Media Industries Leader for PwC Southern Africa, about the fourth annual PwC South Africa Entertainment and Media Outlook that was launched recently.
Last but not least, in BizCareers, Juliette Attwell advises readers on
December leave woes and resignation blues.
Our final newsletters of the year will go out on Wednesday, 18 December, and we look forward to welcoming you back to work next year with our first newsletters on Tuesday, 7 January 2014.
29 days until the end of the year, make every day count!
Have a fabulous week!
Ilse van den Berg, Editor: Marketing & Media Africa (@Biz_Africa)Comment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | |
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 | Kenya's president on Wednesday rejected a controversial media bill passed by parliament that critics have slammed as an attempt to muzzle the press. Read more >>
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 | Dylan Balkind If you've heard the term 'Content Marketing Matters Most' and felt your jaw slack with the lack of enthusiasm, you are not alone. If you felt this way because of how this content generally inundates your day and leaves you overcome with an acute case of the discombobulations - you are not alone. Read more >>
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 | Catherine Milward-Bridges At the time of writing this article there were 34 days to go, before the end of 2013. This is a time during which we should start a paradigm shift, to seeing 2013 for what it is: The year that's gone by. Right? Wrong! Read more >>
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 | Al Mackay I recently read an article in Harvard Business Review that I found fascinating. It's on diaspora marketing; how emerging market brands can go global by targeting their diasporas in the West. Read more >>
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 | MTN Nigeria and dobox have entered into a partnership to provide customers with access to the latest blockbusters, premiers and exclusive movies on their mobile devices, reports Ventures Africa. Read more >>
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 | Selipha Kihagi Huawei Technologies has been picked by the Ethiopian state-run mobile operator Ethio Telecom to roll out a high-speed 4G network across the country's capital, Addis Ababa. Read more >>
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 | The Convergence Partners Communications Infrastructure Fund (CPCIF), an infrastructure fund that is dedicated solely to the information and communications technology (ICT) sector in Africa, was launched this week by Convergence Partners. Read more >>
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 | Google recently announced its first infrastructural project in Africa, called Project Link. This initiative, through the building of a fibre-optic network in Kampala (Uganda), enables internet service providers (ISPs) and mobile operators to provide faster connections to their users than ever before. Read more >>
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 | PROMAX/BDA Africa 2013 took place on 22 November and recognise excellence in on-air promotion, branding and advertising. The awards look for the best work produced to get programming, a channel or a brand noticed. Congrats to all the winners! Read more >>
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 | Issued by IC Publications African Business magazine teamed up with Microsoft 4Afrika as well as African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) to lead the Innovative Africa Forum in the format of a roundtable discussion on 27 November in Kampala, Uganda. Read more >>
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 | Africans for Africa Network aims to change the media narrative from one driven by western European influence to one that reflects an authentic African voice. Read more >>
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 | Niger has deactivated a third of its mobile phone connections to curb anonymous phone calls used for criminal activity, the country's telecoms regulator has announced. Read more >>
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 | Vodacom said on Tuesday, 26 November, it had entered into an agreement with Cavalry Holdings Limited and its shareholders to acquire an additional indirect 17.2% interest in Vodacom Tanzania Limited to increase its total economic interest in Vodacom Tanzania from 65% to 82.2%. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Alliance Media Recently Alliance Media partnered up with McDonald's in a new and exciting project for the successful fast food chain. Read more >>
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 | Lorrianne Cloete In the category of lifestyle PR, ask not how big your slice of the proverbial editorial pie is, but rather just how tasty. Let's face it, the media landscape has changed, the market has changed and surely now too should the measurement of editorial. Read more >>
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 | Juliette Attwell Make it a happy holiday: in this week's BizCareers Column, your leave woes are answered and we advise on how to face those December resignation blues - will you lose your bonus or not. Read more >>
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 | TechMtaa reports that StarTimes Media and Equity Bank have partnered to give the bank's customers access to soft loans to enable them to acquire approved digital television set-top boxes from StarTimes. Read more >>
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 | Shuga, the Nigerian-based drama, will be going live in 60+ countries reaching approximately 550 million households around the world via 61 TV broadcasters and 12 online/view on demand platforms across Africa, Europe, UK, Asia and the Caribbean. Read more >>
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 | LONDON, UK: British Prime Minister David Cameron has joined Sina Weibo, China's version of Twitter, and posted his first message ahead of a visit to Beijing, Downing Street said. Read more >>
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 | TALLINN, ESTONIA: NATO launched its largest-ever cyber exercises to practice warding off massive, simultaneous attacks on member states and their partners. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK CITY, US: UN committee on Tuesday voted to create an international day to protect journalists as media activists condemned the mounting number of reporters killed on duty. Read more >>
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 | LONDON, UK: Iain Tait, Dan Wieden & Jennifer Walsh reveal the work they wish they'd done from the past year. D&AD has launched a series of films to find the work that the world's top creative people wish they'd done. Read more >>
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More International
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 | Gabi Khumalo Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says government will over the next year strive to medically circumcise one million men through its Medical Male Circumcision (MMC) campaign. Read more >>
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 | The Department of Health has rubbished reports that several health facilities have run out of anti-retrovirals (ARVs) or have allowed stocks to diminish. Read more >>
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 | South Africa is one of 18 countries that comply with the global standards on the transparency for exchange of tax information, according to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan Read more >>
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More Government news
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 | Henrie Geyser: motoring editor Toyota South Africa Motors last week celebrated as the one millionth locally produced Corolla rolled of the production line at the company's Prospecton Plant in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Read more >>
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