Create/update your MyBiz Profile on Bizcommunity and win!

[Issued by Bizcommunity.com] Create or update your MyBiz Profile on Bizcommunity before 30 June 2013 and stand a chance to WIN an awesome GoPro camera and accessories worth over R6000. The winner will be picked via a lucky draw and announced on 1 July 2013 on Biz, Facebook and Twitter. 18 Jun 2013 12:09

Blue Label to defend US$528.07m lawsuit brought by Telkom

Blue Label said on Friday it was confident that it would successfully defend a US$528.07 million lawsuit brought against the company‚ its subsidiaries and representatives by Telkom and Multi-Links Telecommunications Limited (MLT)‚ a former wholly owned subsidiary of Telkom. 18 Jun 2013 13:06

Telkom sues Blue Label for US$528m

[Thabiso Mochiko] Telkom is suing a former executive for US$6m as part of a US$528.07m lawsuit for damages arising out of the "super dealer agreement" between Blue Label subsidiary African Prepaid Services and Telkom's former Nigerian subsidiary‚ Multi-Links. 18 Jun 2013 06:26

AdFu partners with Yookos to reach into Africa

AdFu, the audience and display inventory network of sites owned by Kagiso Media, has extended its reach into the African online market by adding the Africa-born social network, Yookos, to its portfolio. This adds even more inventory to AdFu's African value proposition while also helping Yookos to drive revenue growth by maximising inventory yield. 14 Jun 2013 11:10

Hospitality and Foodbiz West Africa benefits from SA experience

Johannesburg-based expo organiser, Exhibition Management Services (EMS) has joined forces with Ghana-based Events and Projects International (EPI) to stage Hospitality and Foodbiz West Africa in Ghana at the Accra International Conference Centre from 2-4 October 2013. 13 Jun 2013 11:26

West Africa's integration into the digital age held back

Great strides have been made to grow broadband connectivity in Africa in the past five years. However, despite this growth, West Africa still has to overcome massive challenges to fully integrate into the digital age. 11 Jun 2013 21:17

Nigeria's film industry could provide 2 million jobs

[Rebecca Moudio] As an entrepreneur, 32-year-old chemistry graduate Jason Njoku achieved success in a most unlikely way: he is Africa's largest distributor of Nigerian movies and has raked in over $8 million since 2010, when he founded the company Iroko Partners. In December 2012 at a conference in Texas, United States, he narrated the story of his success after failures in some other business ventures. 7 Jun 2013 08:28

Airtel wins at Ghana Telecoms Awards

Airtel Ghana has been recognised with two awards for its Customer Care and Mobile Broadband Services respectively. The awards, Best Customer Care and Best Mobile Broadband Service of the Year were handed to Airtel at the 3rd Ghana Telecoms Awards 2013 organised by Mobile World magazine at a ceremony in Accra, Ghana. 3 Jun 2013 12:20

Hundreds of SA Facebook profiles cloned

[NIivashni Nair] Hundreds of South African Facebook profiles have been cloned in the past five days and used to solicit money from the victims' contacts. 28 May 2013 10:15

Alan Winde impresses at Net Prophet 2013

[Sindy Peters] Western Cape Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Tourism Alan Winde impressed attendees at the annual Net Prophet conference last week with news of exciting tech innovations for the province. 24 May 2013 19:00

Airtel reiterates its commitment to Gabon

Senior executives from Airtel Africa paid a courtesy visit on Thursday, 13 June 2013, to Gabon's Minister for Telecommunications, along with the president of ARCEP (Gabon's Regulatory Body). The visit was to discuss possible areas of synergy with the Gabon Emergent program and reinforce the company's long term commitment to Gabon. 14 Jun 2013 11:50

Half of Ivory Coast's press suspended in 'clean up'

ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST: More than half of the Ivory Coast's press industry have been suspended, the regulatory authority announced on Monday as it promised to "clean up" the sector. 12 Jun 2013 09:16

Eskimi and Jobberman launch job section

Eskimi, one of Nigeria's social networking platforms. has announced that it has joined forces with Jobberman, a jobs website in Nigeria to launch a Job section on Eskimi. 10 Jun 2013 08:34

FrontPage Africa risks closure

[Prince Parker] Apparently furious over recent reports by a local daily which published an article that seems to have denigrated her character, the managing director of the National Port Authority (NPA) Matilda W. Parker has filed a US$1million law suit against FrontPage Africa. 5 Jun 2013 15:44

Vodafone's Healthline wins a fourth award in Ghana

[Issued by Launch Factory] Launch Factory Experiential, the producers of Healthline, have announced that the show has been awarded two more awards to increase the award tally to an unprecedented four awards. 30 May 2013 22:54