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Gartner has revealed seven digital disruptions that organisations may not be prepared for... read
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AFRICA
The African consumer class is one of the largest remaining prizes for consumer-facing companies and investors in the world, according to geospatial data company Fraym...read
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NIGERIA
TechCrunch is returning to Africa with Startup Battlefield. The world famous startup competition will take place in Lagos in partnership with FBstart...read
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AFRICA
JACQUES VERMEULEN
There is an accelerating pace of change as Africa begins to reshape its economic destiny - Coca Cola explains its innovation strategy on the continent...read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY MARIN'S SOUTHERN AFRICA
Online advertising and viral campaigns may be top of the marketing mix list these days, but Rollersigns is bringing sexy back to traditional displays... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
COLLEEN BACKSTROM
Colleen Backstrom shares a checklist that can help create the perfect email design... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Four months away from the Design Indaba Conference 2019 and six new speakers have been added to the lineup... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
As South African consumers place an increasing premium on the goods they buy, it's more important than ever that retailers give them the best possible customer experience... Read
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ETHIOPIA
Statistics is the 'new oil' leaders must exploit on the African continent to spur action... Read
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AFRICA
A judge for the upcoming AWIEF Awards for women entrepreneurship in Africa shares her tips for promoting women entrepreneurship on the continent... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JACQUES BENTLEY
While South Africans "tuned in" later than most - only in 1976 - the television set has been at the heart of homes around the country for 42 years, and counting... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JUANITA PIENAAR
The first part of World Wide Worx's Arthur Goldstuck's SA social media landscape presentation he shared with us at Marketing Mix's Social Media Landscape Briefing 2019 last week... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EBEN ESTERHUIZEN
With a sobering 0% growth reported in May 2018 for the global top 20 manufacturers, businesses need to know what the top tech customer engagement trends are... Read
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AFRICA
Radio stations unite around the world for synchronised broadcast of 'Snared In Africa'... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
On the cusp of exciting and fruitful pan-African networking and trade, the time to make use of an unbiased B2B media showcase for all Africa's dynamic, entrepreneurial business communities is now... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY KANTAR MILLWARD BROWN
Experts from 17 WPP companies across South Africa share insights in the report... Read
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ZIMBABWE
Mastercard reinforces commitment to drive digital transformation agenda in Zimbabwe... Read
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NIGERIA
Kwesé collaborates with Kalakoda Boxing Promotions to bring the Friday Fight Nights series dubbed, Chaos, to Lagos, Nigeria... Read
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MAURITIUS
Genesys Southern East Africa is expanding as the region seeks Customer Experience (CX) solutions... Read
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DR CONGO
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have shut down two opposition-owned radio stations... Read
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AFRICA
BBC News Africa is launching 'Smart Money', an exclusive half-hour weekly programme available across the continent from next week... Read
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AFRICA
ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM
A comprehensive B2B Recruitment Focus from December 2018 to February 2019 will ensure that Bizcommunity is the go-to destination for all the B2B news you'll need to plan your HR and recruitment strategies in 2019... Read
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TANZANIA
The fourth edition of the annual Seedstars Africa Summit will be taking place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 11-13 December 2018... Read
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AFRICA
RICHARDS MUNANG AND ROBERT MGENDI
Ratifications are moving ahead, if slowly, on the newly signed AfCFTA - the world's largest free trade agreement (with the most member countries) since the founding of the World Trade Organization... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
KATE MOLLETT
Faced with customer demands that are evolving faster than ever and the pressure of ongoing economic uncertainty, manufacturers are turning to digital transformation... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MARGIE KNAP
My career in media started somewhere in the 80's. Needless to say, what we do today in media and what we did 'back in the day' is poles apart, mostly due to media choices being extremely limited... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
CARMEN WHATELEY
Digitisation has forever changed the consumer buying experience. The internet was once a simple tool to browse options and compare prices but has now become... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SIMON CARPENTER
It has been a long journey; one that started slowly and then accelerated at an exponential pace as we moved from the first wheel 5,000 years ago... Read
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NORTH AFRICA
Music streaming service Deezer is now accessible in the Middle East and North Africa... Read
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AFRICA
Canal + International will introduce its first original series in Africa exclusively on its platform at the end of this month... Read
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NIGERIA
Telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria has inked a strategic partnership with Coverage Broadband, a subsidiary of Phase 3 Telecom, to introduce 3flix mobile TV service in Nigeria... Read
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ZIMBABWE
ROBERT ROTBERG
A "big-bang" sharp break with Zimbabwe's recent past is essential to reassure consumers and capitalists... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SHEREESA MOODLEY
According to a report by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp has been developing new features in the form of silent mode and vacation mode... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
People planning their travel routes using Google Maps will now see a Taxify icon in the app... Read
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GLOBAL
Uber rolls out of new Safety Toolkit app across Europe, the Middle East and Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ANDY WALKER
When you report a tweet for breaching Twitter's rules, or when the company takes actions on one, it requires the offending user to delete the tweet before they can publish another... Read
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AFRICA
FAO director-general José Graziano da Silva has warned that migration risks depriving African countries of the young people they need to modernise their agriculture sectors... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SOULEYMANE MBOUP
Africa is home to 1.2bn people, many of them young, which has has fuelled talk about the continent's human capital being an asset in economic growth... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
MELINDA SUCHARD
Polio is a disease that struck fear into the hearts of parents just a generation ago... Read
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KENYA
JOSEPHINE WAWIRA
In keeping with UNWTO's priority of promoting sustainable tourism, it is no doubt that proper infrastructure is a key metric in measuring the environmental, social, and economic impacts at destinations... Read
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COTE D'IVOIRE
The spectre of climate change reared its ugly head in June 2018, when the dammed lake that supplies Bouake, the second largest city of Cote d'Ivoire, ran dry, leave the city without water. Read
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COTE D'IVOIRE
The Radisson RED Hotel Abidjan, which is scheduled for the Ivorian hospitality industry in 2021, is the Radisson Hotel Group's second Radisson RED signing in Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa and neighbouring Namibia met on Monday, 22 October, to share notes, best practice and common interest in rural development and land reform... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ANNIE LUGUBE-KUTSAWA
Africa being made up of diverse countries has a mixed relationship with China with each country independently securing agreements and deals dependant on the whim of the incumbent governments... Read
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KENYA
Google, in partnership with One Acre Fund, will train 100,000 Kenyan smallholder farmers in digital skills through a KSh100m grant... Read
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AFRICA
The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) has created a flagship initiative called ALSF Academy Project, which is a three-level capacity building and certification programme... Read
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ANGOLA
In exchange for 20,000 barrels of crude a day, Brazil wil provide Angola with a finance line and export credit insurance worth $2bn... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ALAN KNOTT-CRAIG
South Africa, Africa and the rest of the world is in the middle of the Fourth Industrial Revolution... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ROBIN FREDERICKS
Cape Town startup, Aerobotics has launched five new innovations, which have been designed to help farmers with early pest and disease detection... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GARY ALLEMANN
The business value of data is unquestionable... Read
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
PROFESSOR BOB SCHOLES
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released a special report outlining what would need to be done to keep the world from warming up by more than 1.5°C... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA) has awarded the first construction contract in phase two of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project to Sinohydro SA/Nthane Brothers Joint Venture... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ContinuitySA, a provider of business continuity and resilience solutions, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its business in Mozambique... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Although global demand for organic milk remains limited to a cohort of consumers, particularly those with higher disposable incomes, recent sales figures in emerging markets are encouraging, with markets maintaining a healthy growth rate during the assessment period 2018-2028... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The UNWTO Conference on City Breaks: Creating Innovative Tourism Experienceshas concluded, calling for cities to become smart tourism destinations, where tourism governance and the digital economy mesh together to offer travellers diverse and authentic experiences... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme and Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator are tackling youth unemployment through a new collaborative partnership... Read
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