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| Nielsen Sports has expanded its global sports business by acquiring Repucom Africa from TransAfrica Media to offer solutions to rights holders and brands across Africa...read |
| | | Clickatell named best SMS provider in Africa on the back of significant growth...read |
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Reaching The 77 percent - Deutsche Welle launches new debate platform for young Africans...read | 
Mike Stopforth If I had a dollar for every time I've heard someone use the words innovation or disruption in a boardroom or conference venue in the last ten years, I'd have 0.892 bitcoin. Sadly, there is an inverse correlation between the number of people who talk about innovation and disruption, and the number of people who actually innovate and disrupt...read | 
Issued By Kantar Millward Brown Annual Media and Digital Predictions highlight continued evolutions in branded storytelling, cross-media measurement and ROI...read |
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 | Capitalising on the success of its One Source campaign, Absolut Vodka has launched a festival of African creativity in 2018... read |
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 | Adam Dembovsky The hottest exhibition trends forecast for the forthcoming year to ensure that your business will own the exhibition space in 2018... read |
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 | Last week, the Startupbootcamp cohort showcased its top 10 startups, selected from a pool of 514 applicants, to global investors, sponsors and partners at its first Africa-based demo day in Cape Town... read |
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 | Julius Bizimungu The fourth edition of the annual Made-in-Rwanda Expo concluded yesterday with a call from leaders to embrace locally produced products... read |
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 | Bongani Chinkanda Issued By HDI Youth Marketeers Music and storytelling have always been intrinsically linked. On Saturday, 2 December, South Africa witnessed this truth in its finest form with Casper Nyovest managing an incredible feat, and making history, by attracting an incredible 68,000 South African youth to Soccer City... read |
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 | Steve Tzikakis Want to know the future of technology? The internet and its gurus can't wait to tell you. Just follow the clickbait-y headlines: How artificial intelligence is changing your life. Blockchain: You'll never draw money from an ATM again... read |
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 | Surge in consumers' use of messaging and social media is transforming their expectations of service, says new BT and Cisco research... read |
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 | Africa Code Week this year empowered 1.3 million youth across 35 countries with basic coding skills... read |
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 | Dale Ferreira Dale Ferreira selects his top social media trends for the upcoming year... read |
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 | Nokia has been appointed to assist MTN Nigeria to drive its transformation from network- to customer-centric operations and improve the experience for its 52 million customers... read |
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 | Issued By Corinium Global Intelligence Organisations want to invest in cutting-edge technologies but need to focus on the data analytics fundamentals first... read |
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 | Mastercard launches Kionect for Nairobi's smallest shopkeepers - a mobile ordering and payments solution enables kiosk owners to access micro-loans... read |
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 | Nigerian business tycoon Aliko Dangote was the only African that made Bloomberg Media's annual global list of the 50 most influential businesspeople in 2017... read |
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 | Eleonore Voisard These Tunisian women have some sauce, pooling their resources and a seasoned culinary expertise handed down the centuries from mother to daughter... read |
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 | Issued By MediaCom MediaCom has won the global AkzoNobel Decorative Paints account, extending its long-standing relationship with the world's leading paint and coatings company by adding media planning and buying duties in South Africa, Argentina, and MENA to their roster... read |
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 | Gabriella Mulligan Less than 30% of African e-commerce startups are profitable, as ventures tackle issues such as lack of funding, shortage of trust and logistical difficulties... read |
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 | The second edition of the Sabre Awards Africa PR competition is now open for entries... read |
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 | Namibian advertising agency, Weathermen & Co is ending off the year on a high with three new client wins... read |
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 | Jumia Food and Pernod-Ricard Ghana have joined forces to launch Jumia Party - a one-hour alcohol delivery service app that gives Accra users access to a marketplace of spirits... read |
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 | Sagarmatha Technologies has launched an African artificial intelligence (AI) challenge called the AI Revolution Challenge... read |
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 | Tom Jackson South African online ticketing startup Quicket has a "massive focus" on expanding to other African countries next year as it looks to create a truly pan-African solution for events... read |
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 | Leigh Andrews Jochem Wijnands, Dutch founder and CEO of TRVL (it's pronounced as an acronym), explains the need for a 'build it yourself' mindset and putting user experience first when it comes to digital publishing... read |
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 | Heineken has laid the foundation stone of its first brewery in Mozambique, which will brew beers for the domestic market... read |
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 | Last week, YouTube released its annual Rewind lists. These lists are separated by country and showcase the moments that captured the attention of YouTube users around the globe this year... read |
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 | The International Trade Centre (ITC), has joined forces with the Africa Trade and Investment Global Summit (ATIGS), to advance the event goals and objectives... read |
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 | Sub-Saharan Africa will be the world's fastest-growing TV market over the next five years... read |
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 | African presidents draw strong consensus for inclusive growth at Africa 2017... read |
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 | An Indonesian monkey who shot to fame after it snapped a grinning selfie - and sparked a landmark US copyright case - was named "Person of the Year" by PETA, the animal rights group that took on the simian's cause... read |
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 | According to the latest [[http://www.mining-journal.com/static/world-risk-report-2017 World Risk Report]], "Africa narrowly avoided the wooden spoon as the riskiest major region"... read |
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 | Josephine Wawira With improved investment and aggressive positioning in both the public and the private sector's growth agenda, the sky - for destination Africa - is the limit... read |
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 | The heads of the Ghanaian and South African poultry industries were among the signatories to a Memorandum of Understanding opposing the "pernicious trade practice of dumping and predatory pricing." read |
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 | Simon Carpenter The global population is careening toward 11 billion by 2100, up 52.7% from the 7.2 billion recorded in 2014. read |
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 | Tink Labs Limited officially launched the Handy smartphone, a suite of tools and call-to-action functions that reshapes the way hotels engage, communicate and cater to guests and their modern travel needs... read |
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 | During the 2016/2017 financial year, South African companies are estimated to have invested over R9bn in corporate social investment, compared to R1.5bn 20 years ago... read |
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 | Sindy Peters Professor Adipala Ekwamu, executive secretary of the Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RuForum), gave an inspiring keynote presentation at the third International Conference on Global Food Security held in Cape Town this week. read |
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 | WINDHOEK - Namibia has criticised its listing on a new European Union blacklist of tax havens as unjust and biased, blaming the status on missing a deadline to comply... read |
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 | Finding enough to eat has been an ages-old challenge for Africans. Against a physical environment often hostile to agricultural and pastoral activity... read |
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 | Kraft Heinz extended their cage-free egg policy commitment to Asia and Africa, commits to global 100% cage-free egg supply chain by 2025... read |
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 | Calestous Juma The green revolution is estimated to have saved up to one billion people from starvation. Africa needs to stage its own version if its to help save its people from hunger... read |
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 | Swapan Kumar Patra Africa's vast land mass and rich natural and mineral resources make it strategically important and an increasingly significant global player... read |
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 | Karl Zimmerer Global shifts of urbanisation, migration, markets and climate can potentially be compatible with agrobiodiversity, but other powerful forces are undermining it. The future of agrobiodiversity hangs in the balance... read |
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 | It is often said in the aviation industry that Africa has the lowest number of flights but records the highest number of air crashes in the world... read |
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 | WASHINGTON - It will take a major international effort to restore Zimbabwe's battered economy, and the International Monetary Fund is prepared to help, a fund spokesman said... read |
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 | Many thought it would never happen, but Robert Mugabe has left the building. In the past few weeks, a lot has been said about this major change for Zimbabwe... read |
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Euripides "Silence is true wisdom's best reply." Willa Cather "That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great." Kate Klise "During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time." William Arthur "The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." Voltaire "The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error." |
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