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Andy Walker An announcement you may have missed from Cannes Lions: There's a new cryptocurrency soon to be launched, but it won't be taking its name from any memes or computer jargon. Instead, it'll be launched by Senegalese musician Akon...read |
| | Tom Jackson African startups are in a unique position to leverage innovation to answer some of the continent's most pressing challenges, but urgently need an enabling environment...read |
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Danette Breitenbach For manufacturers to stay ahead they need to think consciously about the next thing and come up with the next thing...read | 
Andy Walker Wikipedia is one of the internet's most trafficked websites. We've likely all visited it at least once, and spent countless nights travelling through informational rabbit holes...read | 
Maroefah Smith WGSN's director of retail and buying Sara Maggioni presented a spring/summer 2019 trend forecast at Source Africa 2018, held in Cape Town last week...read |
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 | Seedstars has opened applications for its event in Accra, Ghana, where startups will pitch for the chance to take part in the global final and secure up to $1m in equity investment... read |
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 | During a one-day forum on investment risks in Africa, experts acknowledged that the abundance of current liquidity in the market did nothing to alleviate the capacity constraints faced by most banks when doing business in Africa... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews With the local creative gaze now firmly focused on the Loeries in Durban in just 7 weeks' time, I caught up with Pete Khoury of TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris and the Creative Circle, for insights into what it takes for brands in the 21st century to get ahead... read |
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 | Ben Leo Africa has an emerging and expanding middle-class of consumers that is demanding premium everyday products and has the proven spending power to pursue them... read |
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 | According to Mercer's 24th Cost of Living survey which ranks cities around the world, Luanda remains the highest-ranking city in Africa - more attractive for foreign investments and also cheaper for foreigners to live in... read |
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 | Nominations for the All Africa Business Leaders Awards close at midnight on Saturday, 30 June 2018... read |
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 | Issued By TLC Marketing Worldwide TLC Marketing bids farewell to their former CEO Derek Miller, who will now fulfil the role of CEO for the agency's Chinese office in Shanghai. Preneshen Munian, MD of South Africa, will take the reigns as Managing Director for Africa and the Middle East... read |
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 | South African documentary filmmaker and producer, Don Edkins, who is also the founder of Steps, is one of the Africans that were invited this week to become members of the prestigious Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organisation that votes on the Academy Awards... read |
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 | In 2016, the Afrikstart Crowdfunding in Africa Report, named South Africa as the leading rewards-based crowdfunding hub in Africa, estimating its value in the region of R415.8m in 2025... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach Manufacturing is an indispensable sector if South Africa is to achieve its economic growth targets in future... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach The two countries with the lowest employment in the world, Germany and Japan, are also home to the world's most automated manufacturing industries in the world... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Not your typical creative, South African George 'Radarboy' Gally explains how he made the leap from creative director to teaching creative coding workshops across the world and working on data sculpture projects. He also shares advice for anyone out there looking to tap into their quirky talents... read |
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 | Ann Nurock Ann Nurock interviews Motheo Matsau, chief sales and marketing officer at Ster-Kinekor, asking him how important the partnership with Cannes Lions is for the cinema company and what he thought of this year's entries and winning work... read |
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 | According to Silicon Valley venture capitalists, the Algerian tech sector has untapped potential and the digital revolution is poised to have positive knock-on effects on the Algerian ecosystem... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach Innovation happens at the speed of trust, not the speed of technology. Roby Stancel from Virtual Consulting International explains this using the automotive industry as an example... read |
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 | African consumers today rely on their mobile devices not just for communication but to perform a growing range of functions online; provided they get a seamless end-to-end experience... read |
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 | Peace Hyde, has opened another branch of her innovative entrepreneurship development and skills acquisition non-profit, Aim Higher Africa in Lagos... read |
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 | The outcomes from the 2018 European Digital Marketing Survey performed by Salesmanago among marketers across Europe have been released... read |
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 | Graham van der Merwe Are you considering moving your marketing team in-house? If your company needs long-term, full-time marketing attention then perhaps it's time... read |
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 | Edgar Brandt The Namibia Trade Forum (NTF) is currently working on two projects to boost retail access of locally manufactured goods. These projects entail a feasibility study on establishing a Barcode Centre... read |
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 | Jessica Tennant David Uribe, TBWA\Worldwide's regional data director for Africa and the Middle East, tells us that it took "lots of studying, trying, failing and repeating" to get to where he is today... read |
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 | Alice McClure and Gina Ziervogel It's difficult as an individual, a group or a nation to know how to act when faced with climate change problems... read |
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 | Newswatch: In a media shooting reminiscent of the Charlie Hebdo attack, five staff members of the Capital Gazette were killed and two injured when a man armed with a shotgun entered their newsroom in Annapolis, Maryland on Thursday afternoon... read |
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 | Andy Walker According to a report by Kaspersky, the number of internet users affected by cryptocurrency mining software has jumped by a considerable margin this year, when compared to last... read |
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 | Constant Munda Ticket bookings for inaugural non-stop flight to New York have been low since opening in January, according to Kenya Airways (KQ), but it remains optimistic sales will pick up from August... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Applications have opened for the Unicef Innovation Fund for Drone Startups, which will provide up to $100,000 in equity-free investment for profit-making tech startups that have potential to benefit humanity through the use of drones... read |
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 | Dana Omran has been appointed managing director for Africa at 100 Resilient Cities (100RC)... read |
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 | Irene Kgakgamatso Women have been advised to take advantage of business opportunities in integrated farming... read |
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 | Riëtte Coetzee Not only does it take considerable work and aspiration to build wealth, but preserving wealth equally demands hard work and attention... read |
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 | Global mergers and acquisition (M&A) advisory firm, Taylor Advisory, is entering African territory through South Africa... read |
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 | Danette Breitenbach In his keynote address to the Manufacturing Indaba, Department of Trade and Industry director-general, Lionel October, referred to the Industrial Policy Action Plan 2018 and its focus on key themes... read |
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 | Marc Nkwame Still ranking at number one in Africa, Tanzania remains the most preferred destination by foreign visitors during leisure travels on the continent, topping the bill in the latest ratings compiled by Safari Bookings... read |
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 | The African Continental Free Trade Agreement will encourage partnerships among e-commerce firms within the continent, and impact Nigeria's growing economy significantly, believes the CEO of Jumia Nigeria... read |
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 | Josephine Wawira & Elizabeth Kiburu Already equipped with what it takes, Kenya's domestic tourism sector is thriving. The numbers between 2015 and 2016 are proof that the traditional European market is increasingly offset by arrivals from other African nations which increased by 30%... read |
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 | The distribution of seedlings forms part of Ghanaian government's Planting for Export and Rural Development programme which seeks to develop eight commodity value chains including cashew, coffee, cotton, coconut, citrus, oil palm, mangoes and shea... read |
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 | Neale Hill has been appointed as Ford's managing director of South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, effective 1 July 2018... read |
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 | Dodoma City Council (DCC) has announced that it will sign a contract to start construction of its major bus terminal at Nzuguni area, some 20km from the city centre en route to Dar es Salaam... read |
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 | Tom Jackson Demo Africa will take place in Morocco for the first time after previous editions in Nairobi, Lagos and Johannesburg, with the organisers already touring the continent picking contestants... read |
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 | The World Economic Forum (WEF) has named three African startups - Kenyan fintech companies BitPesa and CarePay, as well as Moroccan e-commerce startup WaystoCap, in its 2018 cohort of "Technology Pioneers"... read |
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 | The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation and Pennsylvania State University have developed and launched, Nuru - an app that uses technologies involving machine learning and artificial intelligence to curb the spread of the Fall Armyworm - a crop pest in sub-Saharan Africa... read |
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 | O.R. Tambo International Airport, Cape Town International Airport, King Shaka International Airport and more Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) Airports have been ranked as the most in-demand domestic and international air routes for 2018... read |
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 | Sherry Zameer Many of the approaches and technologies which combine to form a smart city are being applied from Cape Town through to Cairo... read |
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 | Hogan Lovells has launched its new report, Africa and Renewables: Wholesale change or short term surge?... read |
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 | The global lemon market totalled $13.9bn in 2016, which was 19% more in 2015. This according to the World: Lemons and Limes - Market Report. Analysis and Forecast to 2025, released by IndexBox. read |
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 | Favour Nnabugwu The insurance of the countries will, according to African Risk Capacity, translate to $1.bn in coverage for some 150 million people... read |
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 | Out of more than 3,500 global restaurants that have earned Wine Spectator awards for their wine lists, Mosiac at the Orient is one of 85 restaurants from across the globe that holds this honour... read |
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 | The 18th annual BET Awards was hosted by Academy and Grammy-award winner Jamie Foxx at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, USA on 24 June 2018. read |
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Ovid "All love is vanquished by a succeeding love." William Ellery Channing "The home is the chief school of human virtues." Gilda Radner "There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself." Rebecca West "Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul." Claude Chabrol "You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue." |
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 Levelthree Premium Venue in Kramerville, Sandton will be screening the Fifa World Cup quarter-finals on its big screen on Friday, 6 July 2018. Doors open at 4pm. Free entrance. Read more >> |
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