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|  | EVAN-LEE COURIE Pulse Communications is run by the dynamic duo of Samantha Thomas and Kirsten Roos. We find out more about the small, dynamic team...read |
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 | The informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 38% of the region's GDP... Read |
 | Faster economic growth requires determined implementation of policy reforms to promote confidence, investment, competitiveness, entrepreneurship and job creation... Read |
| Awards |
 | The final three categories for Brand South Africa's Play Your Part Awards 2022 are now open for nominations... Read |
| Community |
 | MAMIKI MATLAWA Occasionally, the world experiences a 'black swan' - an unforeseen negative event that affects how we do business, how we work and how we live... Read |
| Funding |
 | GEORGE OBULUTSA The mobile commerce platform and goods distributor has raised $50m to fund its expansion into the rest of Africa... Read |
| HR |
 | 249 organisations from 31 African countries were officially certified Top Employers 2022 for their outstanding HR strategies and people practices... Read |
| Marketing & Media |
 | MUHAMMAD JADA Email marketing... The tactic or online strategy that so many deemed dead a few years ago. The good news is that email marketing is nowhere near dead... Read |
 | EVAN-LEE COURIE It's been reported that YouTube will scale back a significant portion of YouTube Originals, which produced original content including scripted series, educational videos, music and celebrity programming... Read |
| Small and Medium-sized Enterprises |
 | As South African SMEs brave their way through multiple headwinds, business confidence is decidedly low heading into 2022... Read |
 | REAN BLOEM One of the biggest hurdles for SMEs remains access to funding. This could be either to start, develop or grow the business... Read |
| Social Entrepreneurship |
 | On Thursday, 20 January, the brand new Good Hope Day Care Centre (GHDCC) in Mbekweni near Paarl was officially opened by Valcare... Read |
| Starting Up |
 | CPT-based mobile gaming publisher Carry1st has raised $20m (R305m) from Google and A16z, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley... Read |
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 | KATJA HAMILTON While the majority of the world's population has already received two doses of Covid-19 vaccines, only 7% of Africa's population has been immunised. Can WHO attain its goal to vaccinate 70% of all of the world's countries by mid-year?... Read |
 | South African media sales business, Ad Dynamo, has been acquired by the Aleph Group Inc... Read |
 | Pan-African Payment and Settlement System launched... Read |
 | LEE NAIK TransUnion Africa CEO Lee Naik lists five trends shaping 2022 and Africa's future... Read |
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 | MURSHID OBARAY South Africa's private sector is abuzz with digital transformation. But what about our public sector? Is our government as committed to technological progress as we need them to be? Read |
 | Shanghai has been ranked the world's top smart city for 2022 following an extensive study carried out by Juniper Research... Read |
 | American company Oracle has opened a data centre in South Africa to provide local cloud services across Africa for the first time... Read |
 | Microsoft has announced that it will buy Activision Blizzard for a whopping $68.7bn (R1,06tn) in an all-cash deal... Read |
 | 70 percent of their economist panel think the rate will increase by 25bps in January, 30% say it will hold, according to Finder's... Read |
 | Average consumer inflation for 2021 was 4,5%, higher than the averages recorded for 2020 (3,3%) and 2019 (4,1%), with consumer relief nowhere in sight... Read |
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