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Here's to some smashing startups! DEMO Africa last week selected the top 40 entrepreneurs to launch at this year's conference, taking place in Lagos, Nigeria, from 22-26 September. Out of more than 400 initial applications, and 242 shortlisted ventures, these 40 obviously impressed! Well done! In 2000, Rwanda began to relentlessly develop its ICT sector after it adopted the National Information Communications Infrastructure (NICI) policy and created a long-term plan to achieve full digitisation in four five-year stages. Africa Renewal's Nirit Ben-Ari delves further into why Rwanda's ICT success story is grabbing global attention. In other news over the past week, Ericsson has estimated the m-commerce market to reach $800bn worldwide by 2016; and advertising and communications services company, ScanGroup, has announced that it will be acquiring majority stake in Experiential Marketing (Proprietary) Limited (EMPL), a South African marketing company, as it aims to expand its African footprint. Douglas Kruger gives some great pointers on how to sell out your book in two months flat and Charles Mburugu elaborates on WordPress plugins for user-generated content. Have a great week! Cheers! Ilse van den Berg, Editor: Marketing & Media Africa (@Biz_Africa)PS. If you missed last week's Biz Takeouts show, make sure you listen to the podcast which is now available. 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". | Weekly top stories |
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Nirit Ben-Ari "The internet is a needed public utility as much as water and electricity," declared President Paul Kagame at the Transform Africa summit, held in Kigali, Rwanda's capital city, last October... Read more >> | Ventures Africa reports that advertising and communications services company, ScanGroup will acquire majority stake in EMPL, a South African marketing company, as it aims to... Read more >> | Douglas Kruger As a new author, I had no understanding of what went into making books successful and, essentially, I waited for the publishers to tell me what to do. They didn't... (video) Read more >> |
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 | On the last Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show, host Warren Harding chatted to Andrew Hall, Kevin Jacobson and Toby Shapshak. [twitterfall] Read more >>
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 | Victoria Kioko, writing on CapitalFM, says that the Kenyan government aims to reduce advertising costs from Sh4bn per year to Sh1bn following the state directive on online advertising... Read more >>
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 | The second Africa World Documentary Film Festival (AWDFF) will be kicking off on 26 July 2014 with screenings of films taking place at various venues around Cape Town... Read more >>
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 | AccTech Systems, mid-market ERP and CRM solution providers, has signed an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) agreement with Microsoft to provide solutions to the Microsoft Dynamics NAV and GP Dynamics channel... Read more >>
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 | Charles Mburugu User-generated content refers to any kind of content submitted by users or consumers. Such content could be in form of blog posts, social mentions, reviews, comments... Read more >>
|  | Published on 8 July 2014, research by The Digital Rand on The State of Social Media in Kenya, shows that Facebook dominates Kenya's social media with 3.8 million users... Read more >>
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 | Chris Udemans International telecommunications company Millicom has announced the launch of EduMe English in Rwanda, providing Tigo subscribers with an on demand or subscription service for learning... Read more >>
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 | At a mobile money conference held recently in Johannesburg, Rajiv Bhatia, Ericsson head of mobile commerce sales EMEA, stated that airtime could be used as an incentive to... Read more >>
|  | The Central Africa Kalahari Awards, which is dedicated to acknowledging creativity, commitment and excellence in the mobile financial services across Africa, are now open for nominations and will... Read more >>
|  | Microsoft has partnered with Safaricom to introduce a service that allows customers to buy mobile phone applications using their airtime. The Mobile Operator Billing services will target the growing number... Read more >>
|  | Issued by Cellfind The relatively low penetration of smartphones in Africa, paired with high data costs, means that the humble SMS remains the best way for organisations to reach a mass market with targeted marketing... Read more >>
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 | Issued by Ornico Growth is the dominant theme in this 2014 edition of the yearly magazine brought out by the brand, media and reputation research company... Read more >>
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 | For the fourth year, Networx PR has been appointed by Informa Telecoms and Media Limited to publicise digital telecommunications, ICT and media conference and exhibition,... Read more >>
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 | Nii Parkes has been selected as the 2014 winner of the Sylt Foundation African Writer´s Residency Award. Parkes, who lives in Ghana and England, will take up the Residency Award... Read more >>
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 | In partnership with MTN, South African e-commerce technology company, uAfrica, has announced the first phase of its expansion plan into Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda with key business partners reportedly... Read more >>
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 | Peter Gilbert Although there are an encouraging number of exceptions, tertiary academic institutions around the world have largely ignored sales, dismissing it as a craft or a trade, not worthy of... Read more >>
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 | AfriDocs Film Week is taking place from 21-27 July 2014 and will see a full week of African documentary films broadcast across sub-Saharan Africa on DStv channel ED (channel 190) and... Read more >>
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|  | WASHINGTON, USA: - Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk has agreed to donate $1m to help fund a new museum dedicated to inventor Nikolai Tesla. Read more >>
|  | BEIJING, CHINA: Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has accused US technology company Apple of threatening national security through its iPhone's ability to track and time-stamp a user's location. Read more >>
|  | Ian Henderson KFC succeeds in China, where Home Depot, Mattel and eBay could not, by localising the brand itself and not just its collateral. Read more >>
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|  | Douglas Kruger Oprah said that the best answer to racism was personal excellence. The concept can be taken even further. Personal excellence is the solution to a great many things, one of which is the catastrophically damaging labour unrest currently choking our economy into negative growth. Read more >>
|  | CAPE TOWN: Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi says his department will review the country's mining strategy to ensure that all minerals that come out of the country benefit both the economy and the people of South Africa. Read more >>
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|  | Brian Berkman People who think that the Pansy Shell is what most identify with as the symbol of Plettenberg Bay are wrong. Read more >>
|  | Brian Berkman All top hotels now enquire about dietary requirements when you book but this is the first time I've been presented with a full menu tailored to my low-carb, high-fat, no sugar diet. Read more >>
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