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 | As Egypt's mobile operators thrive, state-owned Telecom Egypt is entering the market in an effort to boost state revenues... read |
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 | Zee TV Africa has rolled out a global rebrand to strengthen it to attract 3 billion viewers in the next six years... read |
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 | Michelle Newman In the 1940s tinned foods were extremely popular as a means of preserving products for extended periods of time. However, given the fact that heavy rationing was imposed on these products during World War II, frozen food packaged in paperboard cartons began to emerge as a credible alternative... read |
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 | Louise Marsland Global trends authority WGSN launched its latest trends research to South African audiences in Cape Town on 9 November... read |
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 | The first AfricArena took place this week and welcomed over 450 delegates, 100 entrepreneurs, 80 startups, 22 exhibitors, 42 speakers, 67 investors It also witnessed more than 40 live startup pitch battles. read |
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 | Louise Marsland Bring African content to the world and produce more homegrown African content for content-hungry African audiences... read | |  | Last night, 8 November 2017, saw the 10th AfricaCom Awards held at The Lookout in Granger Bay, Cape Town. 2017 marks AfricaCom's 20th anniversary... read | |  | Louise Marsland Data is the future of the monetisation of content and part of the investment into content in the broadcast industry... read | |  | Juanita Pienaar Elo Umeh, CEO of the Terragon Group, explored the peculiarities of the African market, the pain points of the modern marketer and where the true value lies with regards to mobile advertising... read | |  | Nicci Botha One of the unplanned, but positive, spin offs from Pick n Pay's (PnP) Bitcoin experiment is that it has made retail sexier in attracting talent... read | |  | Nicci Botha What started out simply as a convenient way to send money home has evolved into the continent's mobile money success story... read | |  | Ilse van den Berg AfricaCom 2017 is once again abuzz with delegates from all over the world and is even bigger and better than ever before - as is customary for events like these... read | |  | Juanita Pienaar AfricaCom speaker Russell Southwood talks us through what it entails being an African broadcaster in a multi-platform world and how we can go about getting the most out of our content... read | |  | Ilse van den Berg Toby Shapshak, editor-in-chief of Stuff Magazine, shared some thoughts on how innovation is better in Africa at AfricaCom 2017. He highlighted some specific innovations to illustrate how the continent is leapfrogging into the future... (video) read | |
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 | Ericsson yesterday, 7 November 2017, in a briefing at AfricaCom 2017 released its Ericsson Middle East and Africa Mobility Report 2017, which predicts that LTE subscriptions will expand by 47%... read |
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 | CNN International's Inside Africa recently explored the history and revitalisation of Cape Town's Waterfront - the most visited landmark in South Africa - which attracts 24 million visitors a year... read |
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 | Adriaan Strydom Google Shopping is making its mark, with some retailers showing a return on investment percentages measured in the thousands... read |
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 | The inaugural Allan Gray Entrepreneurship Challenge (AGEC) which was conceptualised to creatively coach high school learners to think entrepreneurially has been lauded a "huge success"... read |
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 | Yolandi Allen Businesses often misunderstand the function of social media. A quick scroll through most business pages on Facebook will quickly reveal their errors... read |
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 | The Committee to Protect Journalists' 2017 International Press Freedom Awards honours courageous journalism from around the world... read |
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 | Africa's first all-Africa movie review platform calls for collaboration to showcase and crowdsource the best African-made movies to a local and global audience... read |
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 | Louise Marsland How are people coping in this new connected world? A global study from Viacom looks at The Next Normal: Rise of Resilience among consumers, including from Nigeria and South Africa, and how brands should respond... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews What does the time-sapped, permanently distracted digital consumer want from your advertising? It's probably simpler than you think. Kantar Millward Brown's global media and digital CEO Gonzalo Fuentes recently let SA marketers in on the secret... read |
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 | Khangelani Dziba There is a need for more collaboration from all the different parts that make up brand communications.... read |
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 | Dr Tanya Zack Over the last 20 years Johannesburg has become an intense wholesale and retail centre for local hawkers and for traders from all over sub-Saharan Africa... read |
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 | Issued by FCB Africa Marketers who ignore the differences between Millennials and Afrilennials are taking a great risk with their brands and communication strategies... read |
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 | Pangaea is transitioning to a new lead partner and introducing tech and data capabilities to offer advertisers more opportunities to connect programmatically with a premium audience of over 200m monthly users... read |
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 | CNN International Commercial's (CNNIC) 'Go There Media Fund' provides travel and tourism expertise to distressed destinations and countries recovering from natural disasters... read |
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 | Emirates Airlines will be adding an extra flight to its service between Dubai and Algiers as of 13 December 2017, complementing Emirates' current six flights a week and making it a daily service.... read |
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 | Waikwa Maina and Francis Mureithi 17 pyrethrum growing counties are working on forming an economic bloc in an effort to revive the collapsed industry... read |
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 | To ensure sustained tourism and overall economic growth, African cities need to find ways to develop into smart cities capable of attracting visitors, offering unique experiences and overcoming... read |
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 | Gabriella Mulligan Networking and business card replacement app Veza has launched in South Africa, aiming to make it easier to follow up with new contacts from business events... read |
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 | "For the first time, travellers and wildlife lovers from across the globe can explore the full spectrum of South Africa's diverse wilderness areas on Google Maps and Street View." read |
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 | Nestlé has announced that it will complete it's transition to a cage-free egg supply chain in Africa, Latin America, Oceania and the Middle East by 2025, an important benchmark in the global move towards... read |
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 | Colin Thornton More than ever before, technology drives our world. It powers businesses, cities and governments, and shapes individual lives in a hugely impactful way... read |
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 | It is critical to ensure that tobacco production is as environmentally sustainable as possible as it supports the livelihoods of thousands of small-scale farmers in Africa... read |
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 | Ilse van den Berg The NEC/XON ICT Summit 2017 kicked off on Monday, 6 November 2017. Keynote speakers included the likes of Carel Coetzee, CEO of XON and Hironobu Kurosaki, president and CEO of NEC Europe... read |
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 | Euromonitor International has released the 2017 edition of the Top 100 City Destinations Ranking, incorporating global travel trends to provide insight on how cities are at the forefront of tourism growth... read |
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 | Johnson Kanamugire The increasing number of hungry people, coupled with the climate-linked extinction of crops and livestock varieties has seen the world exploring alternative genetic materials... read |
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 | When first approached about the possibility of constructing a viewing elevator down the Graskop Gorge cliff face in Mpumalanga, the engineers' first thought was 'pie in the sky'... read |
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 | President Alassane Ouattara on Thursday, 2 November, inaugurated a huge Chinese-funded dam in southern Ivory Coast designed to boost the country's power capacity by nearly 14%... read |
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 | GE partners with African Leadership University to empower African professionals with valuable digital skills... read |
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 | Tom Jackson African startups Flare, Snapplify and Flutterwave were among the winners at the AppsAfrica.com Innovation Awards, which took place in Cape Town last night... read |
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 | Twitter announced on Tuesday it would double the limit for tweets to 280 characters, a bid to draw in more users and boost engagement at the social network... read |
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 | PARIS - Chinese tourists visiting Paris are now able to pay for their purchases in two of the city's famous department stores with their smartphones, thanks the adoption of the payment app of the popular Chinese social media network, WeChat... read |
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 | Olukayode Kolawole Most African nations face tough challenges and constraints in leveraging the benefits of tourism services in trade and economic development... read |
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 | AccorHotels has signed a hotel management agreement with Noral for a combined 200-room Novotel and 110-apartments Adagio complex in the capital city of Abidjan... read |
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 | OPIC invests in global development through emerging market private equity funds, while Phatisa invests in food and agri-related businesses in Africa that show strong growth potential... read |
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 | Barclays Africa is celebrating Africa's indomitable spirit through a series of films in a new brand campaign... read |
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 | Gruelling talks are unfolding in Bonn for implementing the UN's Paris Agreement on climate change, but many kilometres away, there are fears that any progress may be wiped out by a lurking carbon threat... read |
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 | Kenya and South Africa have been named the projected continent leaders in luxury hotel growth in a new report... read |
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 | Without investment in early-stage development or primary production, the African agricultural sector cannot advance, commercial value chains will not materialise and mainstream investment potential will be lost... read |
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 | With the debut of Radisson Blu in Cameroon, the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group has entered its 30th African country. The Radisson Blu Hotel & Apartments Douala, Cameroon is scheduled to open in 2019... read |
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