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   EAST AFRICA MasterCard Index: growing inequality between SA women, menThe results of the latest MasterCard Worldwide Index of Women's Advancement saw South Africa's Index score decline by five points from 90.6 to 85.7 between 2008 and 2009. The Index was released yesterday, Tuesday, 4 August 2009. 5 Aug 2009 08:24 EAST AFRICA Balancing Act releases new EA telecoms reportAccording to a report from Balancing Act, the top mobile markets in East Africa and the Indian Ocean islands are amongst the most liberalised on the continent. The top three markets are Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and they all have approximately 10 million subscribers. 20 Jul 2009 11:28 EAST AFRICA Strong growth in mobile advertising - BuzzCityThe global recession is having some effect on mobile advertisers, but mobile advertising continues its strong overall growth, said the results of BuzzCity's quarterly Global Mobile Advertising Index, yesterday, Tuesday, 14 July 2009. The company is a global provider of wireless communities and consumer services. 15 Jul 2009 08:42 EAST AFRICA Safaricom receives publicity worth millions[Carole Kimutai] Mobile phone company, Safaricom received US$7 million worth of publicity in 2008 according to a Media Publicity Index (MPI), a standardised publicity measurement system. The MPI figure indicates the size, quality and extent of a company's publicity over time measured using editorial or news content and not advertising. 9 Feb 2009 10:08 EAST AFRICA Are you an email addict?According to AOL Mail's fourth annual Email Addiction Survey, 46% of email users said they're hooked on email (up from just 15% last year) and 51% check their email four or more times a day. One in five said they check their email more than 10 times a day and some even, for crying out loud, check their emails while in church. Granted, the survey is an American one, but are African's so different? Are you an email addict? 5 Aug 2008 09:41 EAST AFRICA Press harassment hinders Niger's development, watchdogs warnPress freedom groups agree that an increase in arrests, intimidation and harassment of journalists in Niger is impeding development in one of the poorest countries in the world. 16 Jan 2008 07:32 EAST AFRICA Data breaches more expensive every yearWhen an organization loses a customer's, employee's or citizen's personal information, the fallout burns everyone involved. 30 Nov 2007 10:10 EAST AFRICA Zimbabwe can't calculate inflationZimbabwe is so short on consumer goods, the government can't even calculate inflation, the chief statistician said on Tuesday. 28 Nov 2007 09:48 EAST AFRICA Journalists consistent in their online use and preferencesAccording to the Arketi Group 2007 Web Watch Survey, 84% of journalists say they would use, or already have used blogs as a primary or secondary source for articles. 8 Nov 2007 09:04 EAST AFRICA PAMRO documents Africa's varied media landscapeRecent country reports from the members of the Pan African Media Research Organisation (PAMRO) shed some light on media in Africa. 5 Nov 2007 11:31 EAST AFRICA Bizcommunity.com launches expanded retail offeringBizcommunity.com has entered into a strategic partnership with ActivRetail, online resource hub to the fast moving grocery industry, to boost the offering of its online FMCG retail news and product information daily news service launched to the industry in Africa in July this year. 29 Oct 2007 08:32 EAST AFRICA Demand for business intelligence technology set to soarKnowledge is power, and as businesses come to realise the value of business intelligence (BI) and seek to grow the amount and scope of the information they require, so the BI technology market will be driven by commoditization and ubiquity of digital data. 11 Oct 2007 07:23 EAST AFRICA Have you asked your pharmacist?This article refers specifically to some do's and don'ts when working with the South African pharmaceutical industry, but there are many aspects of it that can be applied to other industries as well, throughout Africa. 10 Oct 2007 07:54 Latest jobs | Ad showcase |
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