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 | Andrea Mitchell Anyone can create and distribute content. The key differentiator lies in creating and distributing content that's relevant, consistent; and attracts and acquires a clearly defined audience... read more>> |
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 | Kate Douglas A few years ago, Anisa Kale and her husband decided to start their own business. Having both had careers in advertising, they opted to venture into the field they knew... read more>> |
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 | Leigh Andrews IAS MD Johanna McDowell tells us more about the strategic partnership between the Independent Agency Search and Selection Company (IAS) and the IMM Graduate School of Marketing (IMM)... read more>> |
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 | A leading supporter of design-driven economic growth, Southern Guild is putting the spotlight on the continent with Guild, Africa's only international design fair, in Cape Town from 25 February to 1 March... read more>> |
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 | Not everyone is happy with a new mobile app that takes the African tradition of paying a bride price into the technological age... read more>> |
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 | Google has announced it launched an online portal where voters can keep an eye on the latest news about Nigerian politics in the run-up to the general elections in February... read more>> |
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 | Gwen Watkins, the only Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) in Botswana, has been recertified until 1 January 2020... read more>> |
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 | On 19 January 2015, the BBC World News launched the Komla Dumor Award for African journalists, in memory of Dumor, who died aged 41 on this day last year... read more>> |
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 | M-Pesa, the mobile-phone wallet has provided new financial options to places where banks and credit cards are scarce and cash has long been king... read more>> |
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 | Darryl Linington Former Apple CEO, John Sculley, is preparing to launch Obi Mobiles in Kenya as well as other countries located in East Africa... read more>> |
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 | Nur Bremmen It's only been a matter of time before Uber unleashes its East African chapter. The $40-billion worth taxi company is finally about to show face in Kenya's Nairobi... read more>> |
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 | Essays Of Africa has launched a daily online newsletter with its stories, latest lifestyle news and fashion or beauty trends... read more>> |
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 | ACCRA GHANA: Ghana launched a probe on Wednesday after most of the West African government's websites fell victim to hackers... read more>> |
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 | Walter Pike Zelda la Grange must have thought she was Superwoman when she changed her Twitter profile name to Zelda van Riebeeck and started sounding off... read more>> |
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 | Caitlin Stewart, courtesy Ashlan Bonnell WASHINGTON DC, US: Many organisations have adopted technologies into their business models to increase efficiency, become more flexible, and to transform their current business functions. Market research has followed suit... read more>> |
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 | CANNES, FRANCE: New categories form the highlight of this year's Cannes Lions festival, which opened for entries on 22 January 2015. Chief among them is the launch of a highly anticipated Creative Data Lion... read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, US: A journalist also known as an informal spokesperson for the hacker group Anonymous was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday... read more>> |
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 | WASHINGTON, US: Netflix is ramping up efforts to conquer the world with its streaming video service, even as competition is heating up in the growing market for Internet television... read more>> |
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 | LONDON, UK: The top 10 global consumer trends for 2015 were revealed by leading market research company Euromonitor International... read more>> |
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 | At least 90 of the 178 arrested looters from Soweto and Kagiso are expected to appear in court this morning... read more>> |
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 | Following the release of the 2014 statistics for rhino poaching in South Africa, WWF South Africa has expressed the need for continued strategic action along the entire illicit horn trafficking network to address the crisis... read more>> |
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 | NEWSWATCH: A bid by the SA History Archive (Saha) and Right2Know Campaign has paid off. Here's The List, reports Mail & Guardian... read more>> |
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 | African Ministers of Transport have declared their full support for the African Union Commission's proposal for the establishment of a single African air transport market by 2017... read more>> |
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 | NEWSWATCH: The SABC is fighting back after being stung by media and opposition reports, and the Moral Regeneration Movement (MRM) is happy former SABC chair Ellen Tshabalala has resigned... read more>> |
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 | Henrie Geyser: motoring editor When Mercedes-Benz launched the CLS 10 years ago it was dubbed Claudia Schiffer because at the time it was one of the sexiest non-supercars car on the planet. Now in its 10th year the latest CLS is even more striking... read more>> |
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 | Brian Berkman The Hay-Adams, a historic boutique hotel and Leading Hotel of the World, in Washington, DC has The White House, Lafayette Square and St John's Church as immediate neighbours... read more>> |
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 | Brian Berkman Having a bespoke milliner on call is just one of the services that makes a stay at The Milestone Hotel, just across from London's Kensington Palace, a highlight... read more>> |
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