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MasterCard Index: growing inequality between SA women, men

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:24:00 +0200

The 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.
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Balancing Act releases new EA telecoms report

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:28:00 +0200

According 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.
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Strong growth in mobile advertising - BuzzCity

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:42:00 +0200

The 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.
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Safaricom receives publicity worth millions

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:08:00 +0200

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.
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Are you an email addict?

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:41:00 +0200

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?
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Press harassment hinders Niger's development, watchdogs warn

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:32:00 +0200

Press 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.
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Data breaches more expensive every year

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:10:00 +0200

When an organization loses a customer's, employee's or citizen's personal information, the fallout burns everyone involved.
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Zimbabwe can't calculate inflation

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:48:00 +0200

Zimbabwe is so short on consumer goods, the government can't even calculate inflation, the chief statistician said on Tuesday.
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Journalists consistent in their online use and preferences

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:04:00 +0200

According 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.
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PAMRO documents Africa's varied media landscape

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:31:00 +0200

The country reports from the members of the Pan African Media Research Organisation (PAMRO) shed some light on media in Africa.
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