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| Selina Sutton You can't deny the popularity of emoji, especially as 17 July is World Emoji Day... read |
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| Bronwyn Williams Despite the bad reputation, there is hardly a business on the planet today that has not adopted some form of direct marketing, writes Bronwyn Williams... read |
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| ALGIERS - Press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders on Wednesday urged Algerian authorities to release a freelance journalist and fixer who was arrested and accused of spying... read |
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| Alison Groves The UNEP Sustainable Buildings and Climate Initiative attributed 30% of annual carbon emissions to the global building sector... read |
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| mike broom We move on to practical matters and implications, having already unpacked the fact that advertising should be evaluated in terms of predictive models of both strategic intent and executional efficiency... read |
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| Actis has launched Honoris United Universities, as the first pan-African private higher education network committed to preparing and educating the next generation of African leaders and professionals able to impact regionally in a globalised world... read |
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| UK Prime Minister Theresa May unveiled an ambitious package of support to create new wealth in Africa... read |
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| Fundisiwe Maseko The second edition of the Global Cybersecurity Index 2017, measured the commitment of ITU Member States to cyber security and highlighted a number of illustrative practices from around the world.... read |
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| The Wholesale and Retail Leadership Chair has released a research study on ‘Expansion of South African Retailer's Activities into Africa'... read |
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| Mike Vincent Manufacturing today is no longer simply about making physical products but about finding new ways to create and capture value for the end user... read |
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| Austrian plastic packaging company, Alpla, has purchased 100% of South African headquartered Boxmore Packaging, which specialises in PET pre-forms... read |
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| In 10 years, the digital economy will probably ‘weigh' 10% of African GDP... read |
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| Alistair Anderson Atterbury has completed the first-phase development of its $20m Pemba Shopping venture in Mozambique... read |
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| Mobile cash reduces hunger, boosts local economies in Kenya - the money is primarily transferred using the M-Pesa mobile phone-based money transfer service... read |
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| Sometimes the entrepreneurial traits of a startup founder are not conducive to running a large-to-global business. Just ask Travis Kalanick... read |
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| A new report from Forrester has identified five key success factors for e-commerce businesses as they plan, launch or expand their organisations... read |
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| Allon Raiz Does the construct of Millennials really exist or is it just hype based on the idealism of the era? read |
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| Alana Mann The global food system has been operating in post-truth mode for decades. Having constructed food scarcity as a justification for a second Green Revolution, Big Agriculture now employs... read |
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| Controversial London public relations firm Bell Pottinger seems to have side-stepped Wikipedia regulations and has been able to edit entries about the Gutpa family, leaked emails show... read |
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| WASHINGTON - The US newspaper industry on Monday warned of a "duopoly" in online news by Google and Facebook, and called for legislation that would relax antitrust rules allowing collective negotiations with the internet giants... read |
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| CMO Council report reveals that 33% of marketing leaders and agencies are struggling to meet the needs of local audiences... read |
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| Warc releases report based on the results of a global survey of senior strategists highlighting the impact planning discipline is having on the ever-changing marketing landscape... read |
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| SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook on Tuesday said that advertisements will begin popping up on Messenger home screens globally after promising tests with users in Australia and Thailand... read |
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| BERLIN - German media groups protested Wednesday after government authorities at last week's G20 summit suddenly withdrew the accreditations of 32 journalists on unspecified security grounds... read |
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| WASHINGTON - CBS News and the BBC on Thursday announced a new editorial and newsgathering partnership that aims to boost their global strength against rivals such as CNN... read |
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| Colin Thornton With individuals and businesses becoming increasingly dependent on mobile devices for everything from email to banking, cyber criminals have turned their attention to mobile platforms... read |
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| The Grocery Retail Sector Market Inquiry, initiated by the Competition Commission, has received input from the Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation... read |
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| According to specialist drone firm Airborne Drones South Africa, we can expect to see drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), taking on an increasingly important role in firefighting and disaster management... read |
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| Zelna Hengari Unlike other segments which have not been spared by the tough economic challenges the country is going through, the tourism industry has witnessed a tremendous boost over the past two years... read |
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| Austrian Airlines has announced it will be reintroducing two flights a week between Cape Town and Vienna on its winter schedule... read |
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| Global food commodity prices are projected to remain low over the next decade... read |
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| Julie C. Aleman Tropical Africa has two distinct features - rain forests which are dominated by trees and savannas which are dominated by grasses. Both depend on rainfall quantity and seasonality... read |
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| The 2017 First Quarter East Africa Trade Report issued by Maersk Line Eastern Africa reveals that aggregate trade levels in the region have improved slightly since 2016... read |
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| Kennedy Kangethe Barclays Bank of Kenya (BBK) is closing seven of its branches in the country... read |
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| The regional market for commercial vehicles (CVs) like rigid trucks and flatbed trailers is being strengthened by rising urbanisation and infrastructural developments in Africa... read |
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| The Matla a Metsi Joint Venture was recently announced the successful bidder on the design and construction supervision of the Polihali Dam - one of the two main water transfer components of phase two of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project... read |
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| Underscoring Cape Town consistent favour with travellers from around the world, the city has been named Best City in Africa and the Middle East in the Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards for 2017... read |
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| Launching to small, medium and micro-sized enterprises servicing the retail sector in SA, XAfricaMart offers sellers and their customers a trade secure payment platform... read |
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| Natasha Marrian On Wednesday, former finance minister Pravin Gordhan said an apology was not enough from UK-based public relations company Bell Pottinger... read |
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| The $13.6m Ombepo Wind Farm, near Lüderitz, is expected to add 5MW of renewable power to the Namibian grid by the end of July. read |
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| AngloGold Ashanti's subsidiaries in Tanzania have initiated arbitration to protect their interests in case the government changes the terms of their longstanding agreement... read |
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| Approximately 62% of the under-five deaths in the DRC in 2013 were caused by malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea, all of which are treatable... read |
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| Ilse van den Berg At the recent Amazon Web Services summit, I had the chance to chat to Kabelo Makwane, managing director for Cloud First business at Accenture in sub-Saharan Africa about the Accenture Cloud Platform... read |
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AFRICA - Kunle Falodun to oversee SPT's growth in Africa - more info
AFRICA - VIMN expands the roles of Alex Okosi, Jill Offman - more info
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