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Bringing content back to Africa Mark Tinka reckons that the next phase in the development of Africa's internet infrastructure will see more content and services brought closer to end-users which will result in better performance when accessing web applications, services and content. 90% of African internet content is hosted outside the continent today. Ideally, that figure should be reversed so that 80% or 90% of content is hosted within Africa. In her BizCareers column, Juliette Attwell gives some advice on what can be quite an uncomfortable topic - when and how to ask for a raise. If you feel like you need some advice on making your newsletter a must-read, Hansie Smit gives five tips for writing a thrilling newsletter. Last but not least, if you missed last week's Biz Takeouts show, the podcast, Understanding key consumer trends across the African continent, is now available. Have a good week! Cheers! Ilse van den Berg, Editor: Marketing & Media Africa (@Biz_Africa)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". | Today's top stories |
Mark Tinka The next phase in the development of Africa's internet infrastructure will see more content and services brought closer to end-users. Read more >> | Juliette Attwell In this week's column we look at when and how to ask for a raise, whether or not you should wait around for your dream job to become available, and how a period of unemployment looks on your CV. Read more >> | Hansie Smit The newsletter always had the odds stacked against it. If it's not hard news and it's not a letter what exactly is it? I don't know. But here's five tips to make yours a must-read. Read more >> |
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 | Last week on the Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show we chatted to Terry Behan of VWV and Tony Koenderman about the AdReview Awards. [twitterfall] Read more >>
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 | Entries for the 2014 Shnit International Shortfilmfestival close on 1 June 2014. Read more >>
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 | Award-winning global African branding and reputation authority, Thebe Ikalafeng, is joining the jury panel of the Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2014 as the first African on this competition jury. Read more >>
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 | SABC Education has signed a three-year agreement with the event organisers which entails pre-event promotion to its radio and television audience as well as a strong presence onsite during the events. Read more >>
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 | Hosted by PwC and produced by ABN Productions, the first Africa Business Agenda networking breakfast incorporating a CNBC Africa panel discussion took place at the Harrow Park Golf Club in Abuja, Nigeria, around the 24th World Economic Forum on Africa. Read more >>
|  | The International Women's Forum of South Africa (IWFSA) will convene an IWFSA conference on 18-19 June 2014 at the Sandton Convention Centre. Read more >>
|  | Themed 'Connect, Collaborate, and Celebrate: Creating from our Heritage', the fifth Sanaa Africa Festival is set to take place at Moyo's Zoo Lake from 21-24 May 2014. Read more >>
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 | Toby Shapshak You can never have too many rubber boots," the elderly Finnish man said in an interview in the late 1990s at the height of Nokia's reign as the largest cellphone maker in the world, selling two out of every three phones on Earth. Read more >>
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|  | NEW YORK CITY, US: French group Publicis and Omnicom of the United States have announced they have abandoned merger talks on what would have formed the world's largest advertising company. Read more >>
|  | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: US regulators announced that a deal had been reached with Snapchat to settle a charge that the Internet firm misled users into believing images sent over the popular phone application disappeared permanently. Read more >>
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|  | Extradited British national Shrien Dewani will this morning appear in the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town. Read more >>
|  | Sanral warns Gauteng road users: don't be deceived by hoax e-mails and messages, claiming that money can be collected directly from the bank accounts of people using e-toll roads. Read more >>
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