Ramaphosa opens South Africa's first smartphone factory
President Cyril Ramaphosa opened South Africa's first smartphone factory at the Dube TradePort in Durban on Thursday. The launch of the Mara Phones plant comes 12 months after Mara Group company chief...
View ArticleUCC to amend regulation of OTT social media services in Uganda
Image source: Gallo/Getty.</span>The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) is offering to amend the regulation of OTT services such as Facebook and Twitter to boost investment in the sector....
View Article#Loeries2019: Our responsibility of better representation in advertising, media
Sphelele Mjadu, Unilever Personal Care Senior Public Relations Manager for Africa and Anne Githuku-Shongwe, representative of UN Women South Africa’s Multi-Country Office, in the UN Women-Dove...
View Article2019 MTN Business App of the Year Awards winners
The eighth edition of the MTN Business App of the Year Awards concluded with the much-anticipated announcement of the overall and category winners in South Africa's most prestigious app development...
View ArticleAfrican mobile operators must harness digital content
Image source: Gallo/Getty.</span>Upstream will demonstrate at this year's AfricaCom how mobile operators in Africa can achieve a head start in addressing the industry's upcoming challenges by...
View ArticleMedia: How to protect your phone from spyware
Image source: Gallo/Getty.</span>The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has issued a global safety advisory for journalists regarding the use of Pegasus spyware to target the media. The...
View Article#AfricaCom: How to accelerate digital transformation to 5G the right way
Scanlan presenting at AfricaCom 2019.</span>The 22nd edition of Africacom took place from 12 to 14 November 2019 at the CTICC in Cape Town. Chair for the first morning of Africacom's headline...
View ArticleAll the 2019 AfricaCom Awards winners!
All the AfricaCom winners. Image supplied.</span>The winners of the 12th annual AfricaCom Awards were announced in Cape Town last night, recognising some of the technology, media and...
View Article#AfricaCom: Chat commerce leapfrogs in Africa
Pieter de Villiers, co-founder and CEO, Clickatell</span>Chat commerce and chat banking have revolutionised the way companies are serving their customers. Without having to invest in new...
View Article#AfricaCom: Smartphone costs the biggest barrier to a digitally inclusive Africa
Addressing digital inclusion in Africa, how it intersects with financial inclusion, and ways in which we can overcome some of the major barriers to adoption, Rob Shuter, group president and CEO at MTN,...
View ArticleSeychelles launches TV programs on a mobile app
Image source: Gallo/Getty.</span>In Seychelles, the public broadcaster will soon introduce a mobile application that will provide the majority of its broadcasts. The Seychelles Broadcasting...
View Article#EpicaAwards2019: Day three results
© Epica Awards.</span>Three days of Epica jury proceedings in Amsterdam have come to an end.Read more... | Send to a friend
View ArticleSA's VMLY&R wins Silver at 2019 Epica Awards
Image source: [[https://hellojoburg.co.za/event/sho-madjozi-at-edgars/ Hello Joburg]].</span>The 2019 Epica Awards winners have been announced with South Africa's VMLY&R's "Don't Tell Me What...
View ArticleDHL Express launches live chat to enhance customer experience
Image source: [[www.gettyimages.com Gallo/Getty]]</span>DHL has committed itself to a unique Multi-Channel Tool (MCT) that allows customers to interact with DHL Express via live chat and...
View ArticleThe world's worst jailers of journalists
Journalist Nazli Ilicak is embraced after her release from prison in Istanbul in November 2019, after a court ordered her free on time served at a retrial. Two of her colleagues remain in prison on...
View ArticleNew monetisation models for media are needed
New monetisation models for media need to be found, particularly in Africa, to ensure an independent, professional media flourishes. Journalists also need to be taught how to be entrepreneurs so they...
View Article#BestofBiz 2019: Marketing & Media
The Best of Biz: Marketing & Media 2019</span>We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2019 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and brand...
View Article#BestofBiz 2019: Marketing & Media Africa
The Best of Biz: Marketing & Media Africa 2019</span>We've compiled our annual #BestofBiz 2019 lists across all our industries featuring our most popular articles, most-read contributors and...
View ArticleMobile games generates $49bn in revenue in 2019
Image source: Gallo/Getty Images.</span>New statistics show that the global video games market generated $83bn income this year, with a forecast to reach $95.3bn value by 2024. Mobile games...
View ArticleAfro-disruption: 6 more reasons to attend BizTrendsLIVE!2020
Afro-disruption and Afro-centrism will be trending when Bizcommunity, in association with Ster-Kinekor and Kantar, brings you BizTrendsLIVE!2020, on Thursday, 30 January 2020.Read more... | Send to a...
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