#WomensMonth

Acknowledging women’s strength

Danette Breitenbach

From billboards to big brands: How Lesedi Mnisi is redefining OOH advertising at Kena Outdoor

From dust to dignity: How one woman is rebuilding South Africa, one life at a time

Subscribe & Follow

BizTrendsTV

RAPT BizTrendsTV: Faith Popcorn: The people's pushback trend

Advertise your job vacancies

Jobs

Multimedia Designer Johannesburg
Freelance Senior BTL Designer Sandton
Heavyweight Creative Cape Town
Traffic Manager Cape Town
Music Administrator/Coordinator and Team Leader Durban
Creative Director Stellenbosch
Art Director Stellenbosch
Digital Marketing Specialist Honeydew
Customer Service Cape Town
Digital Content Producer Cape Town

More jobs Submit a job Open account

Google's new phone to protect mobile advertising base

Google has said it is defending its online advertising empire with the launch of its own brand mobile phone.

6 Jan 2010

Google's new phone to protect mobile advertising base

It is the first time Google has designed and sold its own consumer hardware device.

Google said the Nexus One represented the next frontier in the company's $20bn (£12.4bn) (about R146bn) core business - selling advertising through search.

Read the full article here.

Related

Warc: 3 key opportunities for marketers in the new era of search 31 Jul 2025
Warc: Media in 2025 - Defined by abundance, driven by algorithms 20 Jan 2025
AI to transform advertising in fundamental shift in digital marketing in 2025 3 Jan 2025
Honor gets Circle to Search nod as Google turns back to China 10 Oct 2024
The shift to AI answer engines. A challenge for Google? 6 Aug 2024

Top stories

Woolworths unveils next-gen store at Tyger Valley Shopping Centre

RetailWoolworths unveils next-gen store at Tyger Valley Shopping Centre

16 hours

#WomensMonth | VML's Sihle Delport-Wetselaar: Acknowledging women’s strength

Marketing & Media#WomensMonth | VML's Sihle Delport-Wetselaar: Acknowledging women’s strength

Danette Breitenbach 15 hours

Warc has revealed insights from the winners of the Cannes Creative Effectiveness Lions 2025 (Image supplied)

Marketing & MediaWarc: 3 themes from Cannes Lions for commercial success

18 hours

Source: © Digitas Digitas Liquorice’s rebrand to simply Digitas is not a merely cosmetic transformation; instead, it signals a streamlined promise: one name, one network, one purpose in a digital landscape that is in constant flux

Marketing & MediaDigitas rebrand: More than a cosmetic transformation

Nomika Singh-Govender 21 hours

Image credit:

Energy & MiningWestern Cape court halts TotalEnergies' offshore drilling over EIA failings

16 hours

Promoted

SA’s best-dressed office competition launches with R100K in corporate clothing up for grabs

LifestyleSA’s best-dressed office competition launches with R100K in corporate clothing up for grabs

Imagemakers 3 days

More news

Source: A legal battle in Cape Town between property owners and the City will clarify what municipalities can charge residents. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Property

Property owners are misreading the law, argues Cape Town mayor

Steve Kretzmann 15 hours

Source: GCIS. President Cyril Ramaphosa urged that water investment be central to finance discussions at the AU-AIP Water Summit 2025, which aligns with the launch of the Rand Water Zuikerbosch System Purification Plant in Vereeniging which he attended last week.

Construction & Engineering

Global leaders unite in Cape Town to transform water investment strategy

17 hours

PG Bison announces R240m future investment in new Melamine Faced Board line at Mkhondo facility

Manufacturing

PG Bison announces R240m future investment in new Melamine Faced Board line at Mkhondo facility

PG Bison 3 days

Source: Reuters.

Finance

World equities hit record highs, US yields fall on optimism for Fed rate cut

Chibuike Oguh and Tom Wilson 19 hours

Image supplied.

ESG & Sustainability

FOM, Kolisi Foundation’s new Drop Goal campaign empowers women’s rugby

17 hours

Supplied image

Education

Centennial to expand primary education offering with new prep school

17 hours

Image source: Getty Images

HR & Management

Unemployment rate increases to 33.2%

15 hours

Image credit: Reuters

Healthcare

Danish weight-loss drug Wegovy debuts in South Africa, challenging Eli Lilly

Nqobile Dludla and Siyanda Mthethwa 17 hours

A miner holds a sack of ore as it comes out from the mine shaft at Rubaya coltan mine, near the town of Rubaya, which is controlled by M23 rebels, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Image credit: Reuters

Energy & Mining

The hidden cost of your smartphone: Inside Congo's rebel-funded mines

Giulia Paravicini and David Lewis 15 hours

Image credit: Matthew Brodeur on Unsplash

Healthcare

New cannabis study identifies groundbreaking flavoalkaloids

18 hours

Image credit: Alessandro Sacchi on Unsplash

ESG & Sustainability

Child malnutrition is a sign of conflict to come: Nigerian study links climate change, food and violence

Marina Mastrorillo, Chun Song, Grazia Pacillo and Victor Villa 21 hours

What it means to build a connected airport network

Logistics & Transport

What it means to build a connected airport network

Lauriette Sesoko 20 hours

Image source:

Legal

AI surveillance: Balancing workplace monitoring with employees' right to privacy

Bronwyn Marques 19 hours

Image credit: Cora Pursley on Dupe Photos

Healthcare

Veganism could tackle Africa's food, health challenges

19 hours

Image credit: Sweet Life on Unsplash

Healthcare

Healthcare professionals push for CGM device standards to safeguard diabetes patients

2 days

Image credit: Reuters

Healthcare

25 million people acutely food insecure in Sudan

3 days

Image credit:

Healthcare

Heavy periods affecting productivity in South Africa

2 days

Image credit: Ross Sneddon on Unsplash

Healthcare

Stellenbosch Uni study finds strong link between alcohol use and residential fires in Cape Town

1 day

Image credit: Lara Lepic on Dupe Photos

Energy & Mining

Women's empowerment is fundamental to the future of energy

1 day

Let's do Biz