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We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2018 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand press offices with the most views... read
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AFRICA
'Africa is not a country' and understanding Africa in all its diversity is fundamental to business excellence on the continent...read
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EGYPT
Turkey, China, and Egypt are responsible for jailing more than half of all journalists detained worldwide...read
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AFRICA
Attitudes that Africa is still a "developing continent that does not know what it wants" need to change...read
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NIGERIA
Publiseer to deliver digital content to over 3,000 libraries with cloudLibrary... Read
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AFRICA
Data science needs to embrace African context and work for greater good... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JOHANNA MCDOWELL
If your pitch brief does not adequately explain the "job to be done", it's time and money wasted. To get a functional brief in writing, you need to create a document that communicates enough for an agency to put their heart into getting the job... Read
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AFRICA
Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has reached an agreement with CDC Group Plc, the UK's development finance institution, to invest $180m with the company... Read
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AFRICA
Wikimedia has pledged to close the gap in African content as part of their global movement strategy towards a more racially, culturally and geographically inclusive Wikipedia... Read
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GLOBAL
Journalists from 52 countries reflect on their biggest fears about their industry, their personal feelings regarding the profession and why freedom of the press must be protected... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DALE FERREIRA
Dale Ferreira from Sconetent shares his top content trends for 2019... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
JUANITA PIENAAR
Heavy Chef has named its top five most exciting startups for 2018 and asked each one how they plan to change the world... Read
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AFRICA
GEORGE OGOLA
Online new media platforms have become an important site for political and social engagement in Africa... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
NEWSWATCH: News has broken that Khanyi Dhlomo's Ndalo Media will shut its doors for good on 31 January 2019, with its web presence lingering until March 2019. Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GARETH GRANT
Gareth Grant, business unit manager at The MediaShop says that we're looking at our smartphones every 12 minutes, but is it making us smarter?... Read
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KENYA
Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei has launched a budget friendly smartphone, the Huawei Y5 Lite in Kenya... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
A national student television network is being launched at South Africa's top universities, giving the tertiary institutions a vital added income stream, as well as providing brands with direct access to this important Generation Z demographic... Read
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NAMIBIA
MultiChoice Namibia this year prioritised fresh new content as well as content makers... Read
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GHANA
Fiesta TV, Ghana's music platform, can now be viewed from Sub-Saharan Africa on DStv and GOtv... Read
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KENYA
StarTimes has officially launched its on demand mobile video streaming service in Kenya... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
ISSUED BY PROVANTAGE MEDIA GROUP
Airport Ads in association with Global Out of Home Media recently played a key sponsorship role in the Airports Council International Africa's 27th Annual General Assembly, Regional Conference and Exhibition... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Johanna McDowell, Scopen Partner and Director for UK and South Africa gives a few early insights and trends derived from interviews that are currently being conducted with CMOs of leading brands in the UK by Agency Scope... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LEIGH ANDREWS
"It's such a weird job title, to introduce yourself as a 'YouTuber', but only a small part of it is making the videos. It's a hugely complex role, which only content creators really understand..." Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
DAMON STAPLETON
Imagine you are in a city of close to 15 million people. You are walking down a large street. It is a lot like 5th Avenue in New York. For a couple of seconds, you are happily staring at one of the beautiful window displays. You turn around and your child is gone... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
PAULA SARTINI
Paula Sartini, founder and CEO of BrandQuantum, delves into the new role of marketing and IT in the era of Customer Experience... Read
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AFRICA
Viacom International Media Networks is once again expanding its distribution across Europe and Africa... Read
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TOGO
Ecobank, the Pan African Bank, appoints MFS Africa as digital payment partner... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
The ADC 98th Annual Awards has named a gender-balanced group of top creative leaders to serve as jury chairs for 10 disciplines... Read
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GLOBAL
In 2017, native advertising brought in 20 percent of overall advertising revenue for news media organisations, according to the findings from the just-published Native Advertising Trends in News Media, the annual study conducted by Wan-Ifra and the Native Advertising Institute... Read
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TUNISIA
Eight pilots have successfully passed their drone flight training in Tunisia following a two-week intensive training period organised by the Ministry of Agriculture of Tunisia, the African Development Bank and Busan Techno Park... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
RAYMOND PARSONS
South Africa may need a contingency plan to protect its economy if a 'hard' Brexit becomes a reality in March 2019. Read
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GLOBAL
"No country alone will be able to overcome all the challenges we face fully, so we must act globally. Nobody must be left behind." Read
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NIGERIA
IFESINACHI OKAFOR-YARWOOD
As a relatively poor country with relatively rich seas, Nigeria is also vulnerable to illegal fishing by foreign vessels, predominantly from China... Read
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TANZANIA
The Tanzania Food and Drug Authority (TFDA) has made considerable improvements in recent years in ensuring medicines in the healthcare system are of good quality, safe and produce the intended health benefit... Read
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DR CONGO
MARK ECCLESTON-TURNER
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is quickly becoming an international concern... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
LULLU KRUGEL, CHRISTIE VILJOEN, MAURA FEDDERSEN AN
While more South Africans participated in the Black Friday shopping event in 2018 compared to the preceding year, the average spend per consumer dropped noticeably... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
SINDY PETERS
Since 2011, Lulaway, the brainchild of Jake Willis and Errol Freeman, has placed 30,000 young South Africans in jobs... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
BRENDON WILLIAMSON
The success of the recent Black Friday and Cyber Monday weekend is testament to the opportunity offered by digital commerce. But local entrepreneurs should not underestimate the threat of online fraud... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
GARY STEVENS
Is it too obvious to say that website security is vitally important to small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)? Read
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KENYA
SHARON BROWNIE
Nurses in Kenya are threatening to strike, protesting that the government had failed to increase their salaries in spite of an agreement which ended a five-month strike last year... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
According to the findings of a study by researchers from Stellenbosch University (SU) and the University of Cape Town (UCT), threats about Day Zero when taps would run dry had a far greater impact on Capetonians' water usage than water restrictions... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
EVAN-LEE COURIE
The world, in general, is going through a fuel revolution... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Africa's enterprise applications leaders will gather under one roof in at the inaugural Enterprise Africa Summit, taking place in Cape Town from 24-25 January 2019... Read
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SOUTHERN AFRICA
GAATHIER MAHED
When you think of a country's water resources, you may not realise that there are many kinds. Some is surface water, such as dams and rivers. There's also groundwater... Read
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SOUTH AFRICA
Meetings secured are expected to attract 32,080 delegates between May and September... Read
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