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Have you done your market research? According to Laine Barnard, extensive market research is vital in order to determine the best strategy before entering a country with a new product or service. He also reckons the process of urbanisation is steamrolling through Africa and with that comes more spending money and a growing desire to spend that money - making retail in Africa a hot topic right now. Read more about it in The story of the African consumer and The future of sustainable retail design in Africa. Kate Douglas identifies five Nigerian cities with business potential and Hilton Rose gives his thoughts on why great ideas die. The mobile industry seemed to be abuzz over the past week with all text messages banned in CAR, mobile money payments enabled between Tigo, Airtel, Zantel customers, and reports that mobile internet usage is on the increase in sub-Saharan Africa. If you happened to miss last week's awesome Biz Takeouts episode, do not fear - the podcast is now available. Have a great week! Cheers! Ilse van den Berg, Editor: Marketing & Media Africa (@Biz_Africa)Comment online in our ed's column archive. Go mobile with apps and m.bizcommunity.com. Engage with us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+. Subscribe to YouTube and via RSS. Send all your African marketing and media news and event invitations to africanews@bizcommunity.com, exclusive opinion pieces to contributors-africa@bizcommunity.com and international news to internationalnews@bizcommunity.com. Read "How to contribute to Biz, from op-ed pieces to news". | Today's top stories |
| [Hilton Rose] Too single-minded. Too funny. Too controversial. Too different. Too expensive. Too hard. There's no end to reasons why good ideas end in the conceptual scrapyard in the sky. Read more >>
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 | On the last Biz Takeouts Marketing and Media Radio show we chatted to Johan Walters from Digital Narrative and Dave Duarte of Ogilvy DMA. [twitterfall] Read more >>
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 | Marketing communications brand, JWT, has appointed award-winning Abdelsalam Abdelsalam as Executive Creative Director in Cairo. Read more >>
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 | The 17th edition of the Zanzibar International Film Festival, which kicks off on 14 June 2014, will screen 79 films in the 10-day festival foregrounding films from Africa and the Dhow Countries. Read more >>
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 | iKaaz Software has partnered with Family Bank in Kenya to provide the bank's customers with its NFC and Bluetooth-powered contactless payment solutions through Tap and Pay method, reports Mobile Money Africa. Read more >>
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 | Marion Scher I want to say upfront that I'm totally in favour of podcasts - to a large part because they've given me another revenue stream. But... Read more >>
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|  | LONDON, UK: Telecommunications company Vodafone admitted the existence of secret wires that allow government agencies to listen in to conversations on its networks. Read more >>
|  | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Internet Age taxi app Uber rose to the elite ranks of Silicon Valley with a round of funding that gives the California-based start-up a whopping $17bn value. Read more >>
|  | LONDON, UK: You have just five days to enter the London International Advertising Awards. Entry deadline is this Friday - 13 June. Read more >>
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|  | No final proposal has been made regarding the future legal trade in rhino horn as an additional intervention to reduce the levels of rhino poaching, says the Department of Environmental Affairs. Read more >>
|  | Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu has established an enquiry to investigate the manner in which the Lwandle evictions were carried out. Read more >>
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|  | Making something really good is difficult enough, but improving on an already outstanding product is virtually impossible - but it can be done, as Mercedes-Benz so clearly demonstrates with it latest world-beating C-Class range. Read more >>
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| Source AfricaSource Africa - 18 Jun 2014 to 20 Jun 2014 Cape Town | |
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