Tom Mboya and Evanson Nyaga, from Kenya, have been awarded the top prize at this year's CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2012 Awards Ceremony which took place on Saturday, 21 July 2012, in Zambia.
23 Jul 2012 15:12
On 21 July 2012, Our Wedding Story Nigeria (OWSN) launched their wedding website to the public. The website
www.ourweddingstorynigeria.com is aimed at giving everyone a chance to tell their love stories, share pictures and videos of their wedding day.
23 Jul 2012 12:16
Airtel on Wednesday, 18 July 2012, announced the introduction of the fastest speed and most widely covered mobile internet with the launch of its 3.75G platform in Malawi. This is an upgrade from the current 3G data service to a 3.75G network - a third generation mobile network which offers faster information transfer.
20 Jul 2012 12:22
[Lynn Smit] A force to be reckoned with, by all accounts. Marketers, distributors and PR's are increasingly recognising these potential champions when launching a new product or looking to expand market-share of an existing product. And also paying attention to how Mom Bloggers are leveraging social media for effective communication around common interests.
18 Jul 2012 11:50
iROKO Partners, the online distributor of Nigerian movies and music, announced yesterday, 17 July 2012, that it has closed on a final round of funding, totaling US$2m, from Swedish-based Kinnevik, an early investor in Groupon.
18 Jul 2012 10:39MOSCOW, RUSSIA: Russia could pass a law labelling media that gets funding from abroad as "foreign agents", a report said Monday, after the parliament approved a similar bill on NGOs.
18 Jul 2012 10:31
Networx PR, a communications agency specialising in the ICT, media and telecommunications sector, has been reappointed as the public relations partner for Informa Telecoms & Media's,
AfricaCom 2012 under the theme 'Reaching the Next Frontier for Growth', which is set to take place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), South Africa, from 13-15 November 2012.
17 Jul 2012 13:45
[Carole Kimutai: @CaroleKimutai] The newly rebranded industry body Kenya Bankers Association (KBA) has turned to social media in a strategy aimed at creating a platform where members of the public can engage senior executives in the banking sector. The online event is part of a wider plan by the industry umbrella body to engage stakeholders and increase awareness and knowledge about the banking industry.
17 Jul 2012 11:33
[Walter Wafula] The International Institute for Journalism (IIJ) in Germany has opened applications for the Reporting Politics: Good Governance, Investigating Policies, Covering Elections to be held in Berlin, Germany, from 17 October to 2 December 2012.
16 Jul 2012 13:12[Russell Southwood] LONDON, UK: Video streaming will be the next big wave of online content use in Africa. There are still considerable network challenges but... the level of existing use shows that once these issues are resolved, the volume of users will be in the millions. Russell Southwood spoke to the biggest player in the market, Google's YouTube. Elijah Kitaka explained how it sees the potential of video streaming being realised.
16 Jul 2012 12:45 
Businesses, institutions and consumers in Lesotho are set to experience faster, reliable and significantly more affordable internet connectivity as Africa's carriers' carrier
WIOCC brings additional broadband capacity into Lesotho.
16 Jul 2012 11:06
Sun International together with their digital agency filmed a series of experiences especially targeted at African based consumers. The campaign centres around a secret agent played by Ghana actor and model, Lentei Bannerman who is on the search for the key to Sun International's Million Thrills. The key is a metaphor for the group's online booking engine.
16 Jul 2012 10:54
[Nerushka Deosaran] Last year one media personality threatened to sue another media personality claiming that her tweets were defamatory to their brand. The tweets included the adjectives "young hoe" and "drunk." The target's lawyers sent a letter requesting a halt on the tweets, an apology and damages in the amount of R85 000.
16 Jul 2012 09:14
The African Movie Channel (AMC) has officially announced its carriage agreement with StarTimes, an African digital terrestrial television (DTT) operator. This deal will see AMC launching on StarTimes DTT platform at the start of August 2012.
12 Jul 2012 12:19
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