|  | If you are a branding, design or advertising student in Johannesburg, by Thursday next week your life may have changed! After years of negotiations, the largest one-day advertising portfolio review in the world, Portfolio Night, is finally making it to Johannesburg, South Africa - and Bizcommunity, in conjunction with McCann Johannesburg, has one coveted ticket to give away. |
 [Vanessa Clark] SoLoMo: the glorious intersection of social, location and mobile that was going to superpower hyperlocal search and prove to be the holy grail, allowing retailers and other businesses to attract an army of smartphone-wielding customers. Pretty exciting stuff, especially during an economic downturn, right? In my opinion, quite the contrary. 23 Jan 2013 11:54 Microsoft has announced the opening of 21 web stores for apps and games across several African countries. 18 Dec 2012 12:19 [Paul Moyo] Liquid Telecom would have laid down in excess of 8 500km of fibre optic cables after completing the three phased national and international connectivity throughout Zimbabwe and the southern African region, a representative from the company has said. 18 Oct 2012 16:18 The Global Telecoms Business magazine has released the 5th annual GTB Power 100 listing, that names the 100 most powerful people in the global telecommunications industry. Chris Wood, CEO of Nairobi-based WIOCC has been ranked at number 79. 3 Oct 2012 10:36[Marcus Mushonga] Zimbabwe is fast migrating from analogue broadcasting to digital, in compliance with demands by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to switch from analogue broadcasting to digital by 2015. 3 Sep 2012 11:51  Digital satellite television company MultiChoice could be losing revenue running into hundreds of thousands of dollars a year as Magic Box - a free-to-air satellite receiver that can pirate DStv signals - is becoming popular in Zimbabwe. 18 Jun 2012 09:47 Gateway Communications, the supplier of pan-African telecommunications services, continues with its plans to bring sub-sea connectivity inland across the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The most recent country to benefit from this initiative is Botswana, with capacity from SAT-3 being brought into Gaborone securely via South Africa. 14 May 2012 12:09 South Africa's technology publisher, ITWeb on wednesday, 9 May 2012, launched its new ITWeb Africa website which will provide news, insight and analysis for Africa's ICT sector, at the Hyatt Hotel in Rosebank, Johannesburg, South Africa. 9 May 2012 13:41 Zimbabwean app developers will see their unique ideas for SMS-based mobile applications launched to more than three quarters of the country's 7.7 million mobile subscribers this week at the JumpStart Community event taking place in Harare from tomorrow, 27 March 2012. The app competition will enable winning developers to earn revenue from their apps, which will be launched across Econet Wireless Zimbabwe's network of 6 million subscribers. 26 Mar 2012 10:22[Albert Nhamoyebonde] Reports that millions of viewers of free to air satellite television will not be able to watch their favourite programmes are very disturbing. 12 Mar 2012 12:26  While furthering its objective of capturing market share in the field of electronic vending services in Africa, Saicom, the telecommunications company and providers of GSM Community Service Telephones has concluded an agreement with Zimbabwe based Electronic Automation Systems and Integration (EASI). 18 Jan 2012 12:29The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) will not be issuing out private television licences any time soon despite mounting pressure to do so, saying its main focus is on meeting the Southern African Development Community (SADC) deadline on the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting. 9 Jan 2012 11:42 [Issa Sikiti da Silva: @sikitimedia] Western Union, the multinational company specialised in money transfer, is celebrating its 160th anniversary by launching a global online network - a Facebook-linked platform meant to hunt for the most networked person in the world. The South African launch took place yesterday, Thursday 4 August 2011, in Rosebank simultaneously with Ghana, Kenya and Morocco. 5 Aug 2011 12:05 As two technology giants in Google and Facebook position themselves to dominate the social networking space, an information and communications technology expert has warned against complacency, in particular from market leader Facebook. 8 Jul 2011 10:01 | Subscribe to industry newsletters
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