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SOUTH AFRICA
[Cannes Lions 2014] SA wins 10 Lions in Media, Outdoor
At last night's award ceremony for Media, Mobile and Outdoor, South Africa was honoured with one Gold Lion, two Silver Lions, and seven Bronze Lions in the Media and Outdoor categories. (video) Read more >>

eNCA's Africa Editor resigns

eNCA has announced that its Africa Editor, Chris Maroleng, has resigned after six years at the broadcaster to pursue a career in the corporate sector in South Africa.

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Call for entries: APO Media Award

The 2014 APO Media Award, celebrating brilliant and inspiring stories about Africa, is now open for entries.

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[BizCareers] The power of your LinkedIn profile

Juliette Attwell

In this week's BizCareers column we look at how to use your LinkedIn profile effectively, as well as the pitfalls of job-hopping.

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Biz Takeouts
SOUTH AFRICA
[Biz Takeouts Lineup] 94: The future state of retail with Mike Saunders
Tune in to the Biz Takeouts Marketing & Media radio show on Thursday, 19 June from 9am-10am as we chat to Mike Saunders, CEO of Digitlab. [twitterfall] Read more >>

Cannes Lions
SOUTH AFRICA
[Cannes Lions 2014] Cyber, Design, Product Design, Press, Radio shortlists
With South Africa making the cut in four of the five categories, herewith the Cyber, Design, Product Design, Press and Radio shortlists. Winners in these categories will be announced tonight, Wednesday, 18 June 2014. (video) Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
[Cannes Lions 2014] SA takes three Promo & Activation Lions
The winners of the Promo & Activation, Direct, PR and Creative Effectiveness Lions were announced yesterday, 16 June 2014. South Africa had a total of three awards winners in the Promo & Activation category. (video) Read more >>

Digital
SOUTH AFRICA
Real world smart glasses

Arthur Goldstuck

Few technology topics generate as much noise as wearables, mostly to do with brands known for their consumer products, such as Samsung, Sony and Apple. Read more >>

AFRICA
Join in on CNN African Startup Tweetchat
Join the CNN team and special guests, Kenyan businessman, Chris Kirubi and Senegalese entrepreneur and TED Global Africa Fellow, Magatte Wade, for a Tweetchat on Thursday, 19 June at 5pm. Read more >>

Events & Conferencing
SOUTH AFRICA
The Lean Institute Africa is hosting the 7th annual Lean Summit Africa - "Relentless Leadership"

Issued by UCT Graduate School of Business

Africa's top conference on lean management research and practice provides a platform for thought leaders and practitioners to share their lean management system experiences in improving profitability, delivery effectiveness and staff morale. Read more >>

Media
SOUTH AFRICA
Pan-African Profile Awards for science, technology journalism launched
The 2014 Pan-African Profile Awards for science and technology journalism have been launched, and this year there is an emphasis on bringing in the public and working with journalism departments at universities to improve science and technology journalism skills. Read more >>

PR & Communications
SOUTH AFRICA
@PR, it's time we got a divorce. I'm leaving you for @PC #TwitterDivorced

Jessica Wheeler, Issued by Grey

PR is great fun these days, isn't it? In fact, recent experience has led me to start a one-woman crusade to rename the ancient art of PR into a far more appropriate acronym, PC. Public Conversations. Read more >>

TV
AFRICA
GeoPoll report on TV ratings in Africa
Real-time mobile survey platform, GeoPoll, has released initial findings on World Cup television audiences in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda, representing ratings from more than 300 million African citizens. Read more >>


International

CANADA
BlackBerry beefs up its message security
OTTAWA, CANADA: Canadian smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry announced the release of new "enhanced security" for its popular BBM messaging service, aiming to win back corporate users with high security needs such as banks. Read more >>

INDIA
India's 'Peace Force' launches Facebook clean-up mission
MUMBAI, INDIA: Thousands of Indians have joined an online campaign aiming to clean Facebook of content they consider offensive, raising fears they are trying to "morally police" the social networking site. Read more >>

UNITED STATES
Twitter's Rowghani quits
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Twitter's Chief Operating Officer Ali Rowghani announced he was leaving his post on Thursday, 12 June, amid concerns about sluggish growth at the popular messaging service. Read more >>


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Government

SOUTH AFRICA
Youth must be the at centre of economic transformation
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa's youth must be placed at the centre of economic transformation, which is the focus of the new term of government. Read more >>


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Lifestyle

SOUTH AFRICA
Go Gondwana

Brian Berkman

If you're used to staying at top-end private game lodges in Kruger's Sabi Sands and paying upwards of R8,000 a night you might be disappointed with Gondwana - a fynbos and big-five reserve in Mossel Bay, in the Cape. Read more >>


Jobs offered




New events to diarise

Business of Africa 2014
19 Jun 2014 to 28 Jun 2014 Johannesburg

BankingTech Forum Africa
OpenRoom Events Ltd - 8 Jul 2014 to 9 Jul 2014 Johannesburg

ConMach Nigeria 2014
ConMach Nigeria 2014 - 16 Oct 2014 to 19 Oct 2014 Lagos

Big Data Analytics Africa Summit
Cornerstone Consultancy International - 22 Oct 2014 to 24 Oct 2014 Johannesburg

Retail Congress Africa 2014
i2i Events - 18 Nov 2014 to 19 Nov 2014 Johannesburg


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