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Measuring your marketing impact

Charles Stretch

While spreadsheets and dashboards are nice, actually being able to prove your marketing works is far more useful...

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[Habari #Tuongee2014] Back to the future of digital

Ilse van den Berg

The fourth annual Habari Media Tuongee brought together the finest of the digital marketing industry to talk about the past, present and future of digital... (video)

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Time to lay these digital publishing myths to rest

Pierre Cassuto

Digital publishing and advertising is a sophisticated, high-tech industry where we have an array of statistics and metrics at our fingertips...

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Biz Takeouts
SOUTH AFRICA
[Biz Takeouts Lineup] 99: Best Marketing International and a jam-packed show
Tune in to the Biz Takeouts Marketing & Media radio show, Thursday, 24 July from 9am-10am as we chat to Hando SiniSalu, Craig Shelley, Trevyn McGowan and Kirsty Henderson. [twitterfall] Read more >>

CRM
AFRICA
Interactive Intelligence advocates call centre association across Africa
Christopher Bell, Interactive Intelligence's Channel Manager for Africa, has recently called for the creation of a call centre association for Nigeria and other African countries as a way of promoting... Read more >>

Digital
RWANDA
Tech incubator calls for African entrepreneurs
'think', the technology incubator in Kigali, Rwanda, has opened applications to startups and developers from all over Africa. The incubator will aim to identify and support leading tech startups seeking to... Read more >>

Education & Training
SOUTH AFRICA
AMI launches free online courses in Africa
The African Management Initiative (AMI) has launched the first in a series of free online courses developed with top business schools, aimed at reaching 1 million African managers and entrepreneurs... Read more >>

Events & Conferencing
GHANA
Gearhouse Group announces the launch of its West African operation

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Market leaders in equipment rental for live events, the Gearhouse Group of Companies is advancing into Africa with the establishment of Gearhouse Ghana, a fully stocked operation located in Accra... Read more >>

Media
EGYPT
Egypt court says "devil guided" jailed Al Jazeera journalists
An Egyptian court that jailed three Al Jazeera journalists for alleged ties with Islamists said on Tuesday that "the devil guided" the group to spread false news defaming the country... Read more >>

TV
SOUTH AFRICA
Tuluntulu now has ten channels
Tuluntulu, one of South Africa's top 10 startup companies this year, has recently launched ten channels that are available 24/7 on mobile... Read more >>

AFRICA
Impact of rushed analogue switch-off on African TV
Ovum research predicts that most sub-Saharan countries - notably Nigeria and South Africa - will not achieve the ITU-mandated 2015 deadline to switch off their analogue terrestrial TV... Read more >>


International

UNITED STATES
Nokia hurts Microsoft revenues
NEW YORK, USA: Microsoft said its profits took a hit from its newly acquired Nokia phone division but that revenues got a strong lift from cloud services. Read more >>

TAIWAN
Mobile demand boosts Taiwan's exports by 10.6%
TAIPEI, TAIWAN: Taiwan's export orders in June rose 10.6% year-on-year to a 17-month high, largely boosted by continuing strong demand for electronic products, government statistics showed. Read more >>

UNITED STATES
Facebook update lets users save 'stuff'
SAN FRANCISCO, US: A software update to Facebook will allow people to save online titbits such as links to consider more thoroughly later, when time permits. Read more >>

UNITED STATES
Apple's profits of $7.7bn in June quarter

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Government

SOUTH AFRICA
Probe into Citrus Black Spot by government
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has launched an investigation to determine the causes of Citrus Black Spot (CBS) discovered in a consignment of exported lemons to the European Union (EU). Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
SA to benefit from economic pact with EU
PRETORIA: South Africa stands to benefit from the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries have negotiated with the European Union (EU), says Trade and Industry Minister Dr Rob Davies. Read more >>

SOUTH AFRICA
SA needs to engage on energy future

More Government news


Lifestyle

SOUTH AFRICA
Four Rosmead, for sure!

Brian Berkman

Four Rosmead is the kind of Cape Town boutique hotel where you would put your visiting family and friends who can afford to fly First but choose Business class instead. Read more >>


New events to diarise

Africa's First Marketing Summit
African Marketing Confederation - 15 Oct 2014 to 18 Oct 2014 Victoria Falls

East Africa Brew Fest
Kelwin Events - 18 Oct 2014 Nairobi

The 5th Orange Africa Mega Music Expo 2014
Jozi Media Africa - 7 Nov 2014 Johannesburg

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

PetroForum Africa
OpenRoom Events Ltd - 2 Mar 2015 to 3 Mar 2015 Johannesburg


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