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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

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

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

Are the so called media bodies biased?

[Mabvuto Phiri] "Crying in the wilderness", is a title that best describes Kennedy Phiri's recent writings on his social network page, Facebook, following his recent beatings at the hands of state sponsored thugs in Lusaka's Matero constituency 11 Jun 2013 20:03

Alex Okosi is one of Africa's trailblazers

Nigerian music and media executive Alex Okosi, senior vice president and managing director of Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Africa, has been recognised by New African Magazine in its list of "50 Trailblazers Under 50" who are realizing significant achievements in their specific field of endeavour. 11 Jun 2013 19:40

TCRA acts to solve 'TV Wars'

[Pius Rugonziba] Digital broadcasting operators have been instructed to observe licensing conditions and best practices governing the sector, as Tanzania struggles to spread the service across the country. 11 Jun 2013 19:20

Red Bull gives you...content marketing!

[Athar Naser] In our ongoing exploration of content marketing and our attempts to bring it to life, we're going to shed a little more light through a real-life example of 'stratospheric' proportion. 11 Jun 2013 06:17

Social media and the need to uphold responsible journalism

[Eugene Kwibuka] Whether local journalists were wondering whether to give or deny active members of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) a platform to air their views through their media, whether political parties should own media enterprises, or if the government was looking to controlling social media, a one day workshop on media social responsibility helped provide some answers. 10 Jun 2013 11:40

SA losing to Kenya in tech race

[Duncan McLeod] South Africa appears to be losing its status as the preferred investment destination on the continent for international technology companies. That honour, increasingly, is going to Kenya, which may be on the cusp of a technology-fuelled era of economic growth. 10 Jun 2013 09:09

Sweet Spot Content

Sweet Spot Content tells Econet's story

[Issued by Sweet Spot Content] Sweet Spot Content took an authentic story about a fishing boat in Zimbabwe - a story that illustrates how Econet Wireless Zimbabwe is helping local communities - and turned it into a piece of cinema. 10 Jun 2013 08:54

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

Kenyan journalists threaten parliament with media blackout

Kenyan journalists threatened to stop covering parliamentary proceedings on Wednesday, 5 June 2013, after National Assembly Clerk, Justin Bundi barred them from the parliamentary media centre. 7 Jun 2013 10:29

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

Africa's mobile youths drive change

[Jocelyne Sambira] The sight of teenagers selling mushrooms using mobile phones is becoming a familiar one in rural Namibia. Namibia Polytechnic faculty member Maurice Nkusi, designer of a cellphone-based curriculum, told the TechDailyNews that most of these children have never even used a computer. But the rapidity with which they master new technology reflects the era in which they are living. 6 Jun 2013 12:05