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| Justin Hawes Justin Hawes, MD of exhibition, events and retail display company, Scan Display... read |
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| Jessica Tennant Wayne Hull recently assumed the role of MD and head of Accenture Digital for South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa... read |
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| Danette Breitenbach Africa offers a significant growth opportunity for exhibition organisers, with a high percentage already being run by international companies... read |
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| African free expression network AFEX, is concerned for safety of journalists in Somalia... read |
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| Jacob Kushner New educational platforms transfer skills and spurs innovation among young people... read |
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| With the aim to better connect African customers with the airline and encourage them to become frequent fliers, fastjet has launched a new, strategic 'Taking you Places' campaign... read |
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| Liquor group Distell has secured a majority stake in the Kenya-based KWAL, which manufactures spirits and wine, for an undisclosed sum... read |
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| Taste Holdings has announced a strategic restructuring that will result in the group focusing in future on food, and probably selling its luxury goods division... read |
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| Leigh Andrews Here's what I learned from BlueMagnet's recent content marketing and social media training course, such as how to 'poop candyfloss', among other magical things... read |
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| Danette Breitenbach Exhibitions add R66.5 billion to South Africa's GDP, contributing R3 billion to national taxes and 135,100 sustainable jobs. In 2015 of the five million visitors to exhibitions, tourists accounted for 1 million of these... read |
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| Grey continues its expansion in key African markets with the appointment of Centrespread as its affiliate in Nigeria.... read |
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| Inaugural conference identifies collaboration themes, strengthens pan-African networks... read |
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| Deena Chunikiah Econet Media's Kwesé TV has entered into a partnership with MTN Ghana for the delivery of video content to the latter's mobile customers... read |
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| Dean Workman Which digital device reigns supreme on the African continent? Latest research from StatsCounter... read |
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| Jessica Tennant Mann Made Media is the in-kind sponsor of the PR, content and event production for the upcoming 2017 SingularityU Southern Africa Global Impact Challenge for the second consecutive year. Here, owner and local amassador Mic Mann shares more about the event and the Silicon Valley-like culture such an opportunity presents to Africa's innovators... read |
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| Facebook has moved its Johannesburg offices into larger premises, providing a new base for the company's work across Africa... read |
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| The economic deceleration in China and the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union pose risks for Africa's growth says ECA director... read |
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| Werner Vogels Smaller companies have a lot to gain in the digital era - provided they adopt the right mindset... read |
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| Kwamboka Oyaro One of Africa's leading tech startups spreads its wings, empowering and teaching young women in Kenya, ICT skills... read |
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| For Global Money Week, Uber and Old Mutual extended its free money management course to driver-partners in Accra, Ghana; Lagos, Nigeria; Nairobi, Kenya... read |
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| The Customer Experience Africa Awards will celebrate industry leaders that promote the highest level of customer experience across Africa... read |
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| Software company, SAP Africa, has appointed Dr Adriana Marais as head of innovation. Marais will lead the IoT Lab, the Co-Innovation Lab initiatives, as well as other innovation streams for SAP... read |
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| Entrepreneurs, regardless of their business cycle or success, can benefit from an outsider reviewing their business and its processes says Kobus Engelbrecht, spokesperson for the 2017 Entrepreneur of the Year competition... read |
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| Damilola Oyedele The sum of $1.1bn is currently required to vaccinate 22m people in the five Nigerian states affected by the outbreak of the type C cerebro-spinal meningitis... read |
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| The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given dotAfrica the green light to move forward with their launch plan... read |
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| Brett Parker How design thinking can assist business leaders in making the right decisions about digital transformation... read |
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| The London Stock Exchange Group's inaugural ‘Companies to Inspire Africa' report launches, showing high growth companies in Africa... read |
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| Growth in middle class drives private education boom on the African continent... read |
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| Police attack journalists covering arrest of Ugandan opposition member of parliament... read |
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| John Beaumont and Melanie Bockemuehl With the proliferation of smartphones and the growing amount of personal data available, a 'segment of one' marketing and sales approach is now rapidly becoming reality... read |
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| Kelly Thompson Although Andy Warhol proclaimed in 1968 that, in the future, everyone would be world-famous for fifteen minutes, it is unlikely that he could possibly have imagined today's social media crazed world and the multiple platforms that exist to enable anyone, anywhere, to become a celebrity... read |
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| SAN FRANCISCO, US: Twitter on Thursday began rolling out changes to let people pack more into tweets, subtracting from the character count names of those being replied to in posts... read |
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| Hadlee Simons It's almost become an unspoken fact over the years that social media has a major problem with fake followers. Now, two writers have brought the problem into the open by running a dummy Instagram account and buying fake followers in the process... read |
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| Leigh Andrews Publicis Machine's recently appointed chief strategy officer Moagi Bodibe recommends stopping to pause for thought and ensure your game plan is watertight to get ahead in the coming months... read |
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| Michael Nicholas & Duncan Southgate, Issued by Kantar TNS Picture the scene: you're trying to share a video with a couple of friends to illustrate a point you've been arguing about for the last half hour. As the video loads, an ad pops up at twice the volume of what you've been playing before... read |
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| Nigel Hollis, Issued by Kantar Millward Brown Just because social media enables us to respond immediately, does not mean that what we respond to has changed, or that any less time and effort needs to be devoted to creating shareable content... read |
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| According to Knight Frank's Africa Report 2017, Africa's property markets are continuing to develop, despite recent challenges faced by some of its commodity-driven economies... read |
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| NEW YORK - Pepsi said on Wednesday it was dropping an ad featuring the supermodel Kendall Jenner that appeared to use the "Black Lives Matter" protests to promote the soda brand... read |
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| NEW YORK - Recent high-profile advertising missteps by Pepsi and skin-care company Nivea underscored anew Madison Avenue's awkward relationship with racial diversity at a time when the United States is becoming less white... read |
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| SAN FRANCISCO - YouTube on Thursday stopped placing ads on channels with fewer than 10,000 views in a move aimed at preventing people from making money off offensive or pirated videos... read |
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| Ethiopian Cargo has launched two new cargo routes to Europe: Milan, Italy and Zaragoza, Spain... read |
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| Businesses selling improved varieties and high-quality cassava stems for cultivation could help African farmers significantly raise their productivity... read |
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| Ghana has entered into agreements with two major foreign investment companies in the agricultural sector which have signed an MOU to intensify women's participation in agriculture in Ghana... read |
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| A government-issued notice has confirmed that citizens from countries that require visas to enter Mozambique will be able to get these on arrival at 44 border posts in Mozambique, including Maputo International Airport... read |
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| “For the past few years, the planned pipeline of new hotels has grown steadily both in the number of hotels and rooms and in the number of hotel groups entering the sub-Saharan region.” read |
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| A world class ecosystem of pan-African transformation through mathematical sciences is launched in Rwanda... read |
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Marlon Brando "Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent." Cecil B. DeMille "The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." |
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