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Is Africa still in the lead? Is Africa still leading the global mobile payments innovation race? Howard Moodycliffe reckons Africa has lost some ground... Michael Wood states that developing markets develop better global business leaders and Adelaide Potgieter thinks that big ideas have a bigger role than ever. In other news over the past week: The 2014 Burson-Marsteller Twiplomacy study shows that Uganda's Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi, is the most conversational politician on Twitter. The Superbrands Tribute Event recognised 86 top brands in East Africa and the DHL Global E-Tailing 2025* study shows that online retail is gaining traction in sub-Saharan Africa. Last but not least, entries for the Loeries Effective Creativity Award is open until 31 July, so if you haven't entered yet, do so asap! Have a great week! Cheers! Ilse van den Berg, Editor: Marketing & Media Africa (@Biz_Africa)PS. If you missed last week's Biz Takeouts show, listen to the podcast which is now available. 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 |
Howard Moodycliffe Today, more than 17 million Kenyans use M-PESA, and in 2013 a full quarter of the country's GDP passed through the service. But is Africa still leading the global mobile payments innovation race? Read more >> | Michael Wood The types of challenges faced by managers every single day in developing markets takes a manager in a developed market months or years to gain. The skills managers in developing... Read more >> | Adelaide Potgieter There is nothing that should excite the world more than the power of creativity. It is the most phenomenal process of primal thought and has the ability to spark new fields of industries, products, technologies... Read more >> |
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 | On the last Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show we chatted to John Sanei CEO of Future-Collective and Mandy Phiri from Times Media. [twitterfall] Read more >>
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 | Cannes 2014 award-winning Film Director Ali Ali from Egypt teams up with founder of Tanzania's largest creative agency, Ulric Charteris, as well as Ogilvy & Mather Africa's Creative Director, Till Aurousseau, as regional judges for the upcoming 2014 Loeries. Read more >>
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 | The African online television service, PanaTV has signed an exclusive deal with Soda Pictures, acquiring the rights to subscription VOD for Nigerian film Half of a Yellow Sun. (video) Read more >>
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 | Desiree Gullan, Issued by Gullan&Gullan Behind every successful Facebook fan acquisition strategy you'll usually find an iFrame - be it a game, a competition or a landing page to direct fans to your other online properties. When done right, an iFrame can take a campaign to the next level, keep your fans engaged and keep your community growing. Read more >>
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 | Issued by e.tv e.tv, eNCA, YFM and Sasani Studios, in partnership with eAcademy and the MICT SETA, will be hosting learning programmes for unemployed South Africans. Read more >>
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 | CNN has appointed Antonio Canto to its commercial executive team under Chief Commercial Officer Rani R. Raad. As VP, Regional Sales, Canto will build CNN's business in Africa, Southern/Central/Eastern Europe, Middle East... Read more >>
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 | LGR's StarCare mobile self-service application is simplifying the management of Swaziland's new Mobilize Transit TV service - a free-to-air media channel allowing public transport commuters to watch news, sport, educational... Read more >>
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|  | WASHINGTON, USA: A study detailing how Facebook secretly manipulated the news feeds of about 700,000 users to study "emotional contagion" has prompted anger among social media users. Read more >>
|  | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Google is working on a low-cost smartphone aimed at emerging markets as part of an initiative called Android One. Read more >>
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|  | The North West is expected to establish a higher level forensic and fraud investigations unit to give teeth to the provincial government's efforts to eliminate corruption. Read more >>
|  | The price of petrol will increase from Wednesday, the Department of Energy has announced. Read more >>
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