[Gill Moodie] Many in the industry really felt for Alec Hogg in October when he walked away from Moneyweb, the company he built from nothing into a highly respected player in the media industry. Hogg tells Bizcommunity why he's philosophical about the move, what he's doing with his year's restraint of trade and what was so different about the values of majority shareholder Caxton and his own that made it impossible for him to stay on as Moneyweb CEO and board member.
6 Dec 2012 06:47PictureNet
[Issued by PictureNet] The association between PictureNet, a South African picture agency and US newsgathering agency Associated Press (AP) has been renewed for its 10th year. This enables PictureNet to source a vast selection of historical, commercial and breaking news photographs as they happen and make them available to its clients in Africa.
5 Dec 2012 11:46 Artifact Advertising[Issued by Artifact Advertising] Cinema's greatest moments are being brought to life on Facebook for Ster-Kinekor and Cinema Nouveau by Artifact Advertising, who has recently been appointed as Ster-Kinekor's digital agency in charge of managing its social media platforms.
5 Dec 2012 09:13 
[Dr Julie Reid] According to a treaty South Africa agreed to with the International Telecommunications Union, we are committed to switching off our analogue television broadcasts by 2015, and start broadcasting via digital signals instead. It sounds simple enough. It also does not sound particularly exciting, does it?
5 Dec 2012 07:08Lange 360[Issued by Lange 360] Social networks in emerging markets, like Russia's Runet and Mxit in South Africa, provide unique applications that give them massive regional advantage over standardised global platforms such as Facebook. This was the conclusion drawn by communication experts from Europe, the Middle East and Africa at the annual Worldcom EMEA conference in Moscow.
4 Dec 2012 11:26 Bluegrass Digital
[Issued by Bluegrass Digital] Bluegrass Digital, an innovative Cape Town-based agency, has recently teamed up with Kalahari.com to create an exciting, new Zombie app for die hard gamers who've attended the rAge Expo.
4 Dec 2012 10:53 
[Athar Naser] Online publishers have been perfecting the art of creating online content since the advent of the web. While advertisers have long been using digital to get their message to the consumer, they've only just recently started emulating what publishers do best - developing content that keeps consumers coming back for more.
4 Dec 2012 10:17
As part of
AfricaCom 2012, two new writers were launched into the technical writing world, as the successful winners of a youth competition. The winners, Lauren Leonard (19) and Simone Johnson (21) spent three days at the event immersing themselves into the world of technology and are now blogging.
4 Dec 2012 09:38
[Nicole Capper] In anyone's world, 2012 has been a rollercoaster one. We still appear to be here, but who knows what will happen on 21 December if the dire warnings are in any way true. But operating on the positive assumption that there will be a 2013, I've been auditing MANGO-OMC's 2012 learnings and summarising them for our game plan for next year.
3 Dec 2012 12:25World Wide Creative
[Issued by World Wide Creative] The well known digital marketing education portal Heavy Chef is hosting its last "Heavy Chef Session" of 2012 on the 13th December, entitled
The State Of E-Commerce featuring speakers from leading e-commerce portals Yuppiechef, Zando and Kalahari.
3 Dec 2012 11:31 
At the Technology Top 100 (TT100), the minister of science and technology, Derek Hanekom, presented JWT's multi-disciplinary digital agency, dotJWT the award for Excellence in the Management of Technology, competing against FNB, Altech, Bell Equipment and others.
3 Dec 2012 10:57
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[Gillian Meier, Issued by Blue Magnet Digital Solutions] Search engines have very complicated scientific algorithms that they use in order to determine which web pages come up first on results pages. Google for instance, has over 250 different variables (each holding a different weight) that it uses to determine which pages should rank for certain search queries. 6 Dec 2012 11:26
To find out more about digital signage in the South African market, listen to the podcast of last week's Biz Takeouts Marketing & Media radio show which airs every Thursday 5pm-6pm, streamed live via 2oceansVibe Radio. [twitterfall] 3 Dec 2012 11:13
