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 | Alexander Forbes was "actively looking" for acquisitions in a number of countries including Ghana, Nigeria and Morocco, to expand its emerging markets business... read |
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 | Brett Parker We are again experiencing a revolutionary change to how we work. New technologies are shifting workplace expectations at a breakneck speed… read |
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 | UN Agencies and governments to meet at Oslo summit to tackle expanding humanitarian emergency… read |
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 | Louise Marsland Designer and coder, Ekene Ijeoma, is one of the creative minds behind The Refugee Project, and advocates design with empathy… read | |  | Leigh Andrews Global graduates Kamila Izykowicz and Thandiwe Msebenzi, from Poland and SA respectively, left Design Indaba 2017's final day attendees filled with the message that females are stronger than we think... read | |
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 | Global hotel companies are aggressively expanding on the continent of Africa… read |
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 | Vodafone Zambia has announced a partnership with South African food retail chain Shoprite… read |
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 | The first Africa Shared Value Summit will raise awareness and advocate for the strategic implementation of the Shared Value business model, which brings about social change… read |
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 | Pasqua Heard Personalised marketing extends beyond friendly digital greetings, such as “Welcome back!” and “We missed you”. Zubair Noor, Takealot.com's head of digital marketing, recently shared a trove of helpful insights... read |
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 | Julia Breakey YouTube announced yesterday that its live TV service, set to take on cable, was officially a-go... read |
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 | Terry Levin ‘Thinking outside the box' a business term from the 1970s, is still occasionally heard by those in the pursuit of elusive creative solutions deemed to exist somewhere outside the bounds of corporate dry walling... read | |
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 | According to the latest Kingston Smith survey, which analyses the annual performance of over 250 marketing service companies globally, five out of the eight sectors surveyed saw operating profit margins fall... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Before the second morning of Design Indaba kicked off, the tiny yet functional, open-plan IKEA house built at the Artscape's entrance saw the typically tall, blonde, blue-eyed Scandinavian representatives you'd expect shake hands and sit down with a handful of media representatives for a non-typical press conference... read | |  | Louise Marsland Designer Yinka Ilori has turned the chairs he designs into memorabilia from his life and the lives of the people he encounters… read | |
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 | New research into the leadership landscape in key economic hubs in Africa has revealed that global multinationals throughout Africa are increasingly filling their top leadership teams with executives from the continent… read |
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 | The smartphone revolution is poised to go onto the next level - with "superphones" equipped with artificial intelligence now on the horizon. read |
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 | The Orange Social Venture Prize will be awarded to innovative projects which make use of information and communication technologies to improve living conditions… read |
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 | Leigh Andrews In the final session before tea on the first day of Design Indaba 2017, Chilean gt2P and SA's own Andile Dyalvane left attendees spellbound and a little shell-shocked at the implications of their work that unravels the DNA of design and respirals it to scale... read | |  | Leigh Andrews Technology designer Chris Sheldrick lit up the afternoon session on the first day of Design Indaba 2017 with his talk on tech startup What3words and used small words with big numbers to explain how it is quite literally changing the world for the better... read | |
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 | BBC Worldwide expands across Sub-Saharan Africa with over 800 hours of TV content sales... read |
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 | Mobile connectivity solutions in Rwanda will reach 1 million people and drive social and economic growth in remote places… read |
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 | Facebook's chief product officer travels to Nigeria to meet local entrepreneurs and creatives… read |
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 | The number of mobile phone users globally will surpass five billion by the middle of this year, according to a study released on Monday by GSMA, the association of mobile operators… read |
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 | Angola Cables, a leading telecoms operator is expanding its network reach and peering capabilities across the globe… read |
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 | Samsung Corporate Citizenship improves access to education through digital transformation… read |
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 | The January 2017 Red Hat survey conducted around Internet of Things (IoT) shows that while interest in IoT is picking up, actual roll-outs are being approached with the common enterprise IT theme of “steady deliberation”... read |
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 | Africa's banks have facilitated many positive changes - providing customers with new and better products and services, observing more advanced regulatory and accounting standards… read |
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 | Flagship African energy events, EAPIC and WAPIC, transition to ‘Future Energy' to address continent's power potential… read |
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 | A recently released report, African Better Business, Better World puts African CEOs and entrepreneurs in the spotlight as drivers of a sustainable future... read |
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 | John Walls There's a certain twilight zone feel about life these days. All of our absolutes are no longer absolute... read |
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 | Mareike Pietzsch On holidays, we no longer get lost or wander through a foreign city because we have apps assisting us. So, it's important that you're the personal touch that clients are looking for... read |
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 | On the first day of the fourth edition of the biennial trade fair, ACA 2017, organised by STAT Media Group at the Emperors Palace last week, Air Cargo Africa 2017... read |
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 | The GSMA has released its Embracing the Digital Revolution: Policies for Building the Digital Economy report which encourages governments to pursue policies that incentivise investment and promote development of digital economies... read |
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 | Josephine Wawira According to a report by the W-Hospitality Group, a total of 365 hotel chain development pipelines were reported in Africa in 2016, with 64,231 rooms... read |
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 | As cities and solution providers develop their smart city strategies, they are trying to understand which solutions and business models hold the greatest promise in this growing market... read |
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 | Google said it will begin offering media groups an artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to stamp out incendiary comments on their websites... read |
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 | Speakers from Google, Airbnb, MIT and other tech startups will share their future visions with design graduates and others from 1-3 March 2017... read | |
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 | Eckart Zollner 2017 promises to be an exciting year in the field of IT and telecommunication as projects and technologies that have been unable to get out of the starting blocks for the last two to three years, take off... read |
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 | Morocco's key tourism sector barely grew last year amid security challenges, but operators are hoping Chinese and Russian visitors will boost their fortunes in the coming years... read |
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 | According to Deloitte's sixth annual Millennial Survey, respondents indicate they are less likely to leave the security of their jobs, more concerned about uncertainty arising from conflict and not optimistic about the directions their countries are going... read |
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 | Virtual Reality (VR) has extended from VR games to interior designers using it to plan spaces and as medical treatments for autism and amputees. It made its debut in 2014 with no more than 2,000 users... read |
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 | Marc de la Querra You are getting sleepy… Ok, probably not, but depending on the design elements that surround the text you're reading right now, you may be feeling any range of unconscious emotions, from calm and trusting to agitated and excitable... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Suné Stassen, festival director for the Open Design Festival, is heavily involved in the country's design education movement. Here, she shares how your business can pick up the baton to take the movement forward... read |
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 | Beauty is subjective. Something beautiful is not merely visually pleasing to the eye, but when design attributes such as social significance, economic impact, usability, sustainability and even humour are taken into consideration, this meaning is often what makes that thing truly beautiful... read | |
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 | Jared Koning Jared Koning, CSO at Fatality, shares ten social media tips for businesses... read |
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 | Global Witness has accused Swiss-based mining corporation Glencore of paying more than $75m to a scandal-hit Israeli businessman with close links to the DRC president... read |
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 | Pauline Bax L'Oreal SA is trying to find out what African women want, and then make money from it... read |
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