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An Egyptian court has handed down a three-year prison sentence at the retrial of three Al Jazeera journalists accused of supporting the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Read more >> | Musa Msane Something good happened at the Loeries this year, the introduction of the Service Design category in a 'creatives' event nogal! This is a great development as it reflects the industry that takes itself seriously... Read more >> | Hein Koen Having faced nasty bill shocks at month end, or struggled to get out of onerous mobile contracts, many consumers have long since made the switch to prepaid SIM cards... Read more >> |
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 | On the latest Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show, host Warren Harding interviewed Graham Plant, CEO of Effective Measure... read more>> | | |
 | Influencer marketing platform, Webfluential, announced that it is investing in its growth in Africa by introducing an agency partner programme and Cape Town based office... read more>> | |
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 | David Blyth, Issued by Yellowwood Future Architects When looking to grow in African markets, many business owners have a vague understanding of how truly diverse and complex the continent really is... read more>> | | |
 | Leigh Andrews Download a one-hour HD movie in just six minutes? Connected home and work environment, as well as machine to machine communications? Yes, all in Africa in the next five years, says GIL Africa... read more>> | |  | Ken Macharia Having pioneered mobile money solutions like MPesa and crowd-sourcing platform Ushahidi, Kenya's innovative, resilient and global-looking tech community is working on the next big thing... read more>> | | | | Lilian Ochieng | | |
 | MobileMoneyAfrica will host the RemitAfrica conference in Nigeria, Africa's largest remittance nation, from 4-5 November 2015... read more>> | | |
 | UNDP has launched a global storytelling contest, Voices2Paris, to contribute to raising public awareness on the negative impacts of climate change... read more>> | | |
 | Roane Swindon There is a mobile application for everything nowadays, from monitoring the amount of steps you take and perfecting your photos to tracking loadshedding and getting the latest news... read more>> | | Craig Lowe | | |
 | Novus Holdings highlighted that Africa forms part of its growth strategy, as the company seeks to unlock value in sub-Saharan Africa... read more>> | | |
 | Leaving the land of your birth, to settle in another country, is never an easy process. Logistically, financially, culturally, and above all, emotionally, it's a change that sparks upheaval as well as opportunity... read more>> | |  | ADvTECH Resourcing has acquired a majority stake in CA Global Group, including CA Global Headhunters and Mauritius-based Africa HR Solutions... read more>> | | |
 | The Africa Competitiveness Report 2015 highlights the continent's solid average growth rate of more than 5 percent over the past 15 years, indicating "impressive economic potential"... read more>> | |  | Erik du Plessis and Neil Higgs Recently, in Upington, our waitress told us with a lot of pride that she lives in a brick house. Obviously brick houses are a type of differentiation that exists much like the status associated with living in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg... read more>> | | |
 | Frank Appel, the CEO of Deutsche Post DHL Group, visited South Africa and Nigeria this week to demonstrate the importance of emerging markets to the group's strategy... read more>> | | |
 | Werina Griffith & Nicole Smalberger Inevitably, as is always the case, when it comes to the sharing of thoughts and ideas, the question has arisen as to whether or not a tweet can be protected, particularly, under the veil of copyright... read more>> | | |
 | Leigh Andrews This week, as part of our special focus on women in #WomensMonth, we find out what's really going on behind the selfie with Wendy Tlou, founding owner of the ChicAfrican brand... read more>> | |
| |  | Katie de Klee At the award ceremony, held in Copenhagen on 27 August 2015, the five winners of the 2015 biennial Index Awards were announced. The Awards celebrate designs that address serious modern challenges... read more>> | |  | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Instagram on Thursday broke its square mould with an update that adds portrait and landscape formats to the image-sharing smartphone application... read more>> | |  | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Apple on Thursday sent out invitations to a Sept. 9 media event, hinting that Siri virtual assistant software in its mobile devices will play a role... read more>> | | | | | More International | |
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| Decisions that could have a long-lasting effect on your life, those nearest to you or your organisation often cause anxiety and sleeplessness but such decision making should not keep you hostage... read more>> | |  | Ilsa Groenewald The medical tax calculation has changed for the 2015 tax year... read more>> | |  | Andera Lakai In this age of technology, having access to information at our fingertips, everyone once in a while lie awake at night losing sleep over identity theft and its consequences... read more>> | |
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| | | Africa ComInforma - 17 Nov 2015 to 19 Nov 2015, Cape Town | | |
| Orison Swett Marden "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them." Lloyd Alexander "Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress." Charles F. Glassman "Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success." |
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