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Digital not replacing traditional marketing - Miles Young
[Issa Sikiti da Silva] The great mistake of today's business environment is to believe that digital can fulfil the role of marketing. It will not, Miles Young, global CEO of Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide, said yesterday, Tursday, 9 March 2010, in Johannesburg.
Speaker lineup for 2010 Festival of Media
The fourth annual Festival of Media, to be hosted 18 - 20 April 2010 in Valencia, Spain will feature a lineup of business leaders from the global communications and advertising industry. Speakers will address the issues affecting the industry and provide insight into how the marketing industry is evolving.
Final entry call - Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards
The annual Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards 2010 will close for entry submissions in three weeks on 26 March 2010. Finalists will be announced in May and winners will receive a cash prize and a sculpture by German artist, Loni Kreuder, entitled, ‘News'.
Mobile phones used to insure Kenyan farmers

Farmers in Kenya can now get insurance against extreme weather for seeds, fertiliser and other inputs by using their mobile phones. The project, which was launched on Friday, 5 March 2010 in Kenya's Rift Valley and Central and Western provinces, works by linking farmers, agricultural suppliers and weather stations. 9 Mar 2010 11:44


Kenya: I&M Bank launches e-commerce license

NAIROBI: Visa, in partnership with I&M Bank of Kenya, recently launched its e-commerce license. Visa currently has four million cardholders (50% Kenyan) in the East African market and has worked with Kenya's I&M Bank to ensure it was compliant with international standards. 9 Mar 2010 10:06




KDN, Alcatel-Lucent expand relationship in Kenya

PARIS: Alcatel-Lucent and Kenya Data Networks (KDN), a data communications carrier in Kenya, have expanded their existing relationship. The partnership will make various internet services available to KDN's small- and medium-sized enterprise customers. 8 Mar 2010 09:14


Celebrity endorsements: a Kenyan guide

[Esther Karuku] “David Beckham signs a £20 million deal with Giorgio Armani.” “Beyonce is the new face of Samsung electronics.” Headlines such as these appear regularly on European and American dailies. Celebrities promote products through endorsements all the time in developed economies and it is now slowly picking up in Kenya. 5 Mar 2010 11:20


KCB launches multi-tasking ATM

[Carole Kimutai] The Kenya Commercial Bank Group (KCB) has launched a quickserve ATM in the country. The new MCR's Intelligent Deposit ATM has a touch screen and is capable of handling cash in both Kenya shillings and US dollars. The ATM costs about KSh5.4 million. 17 Feb 2010 08:39


El Niño boosts Kenyan maize

Recent rainfall in Kenya boosted by the El Niño phenomenon is expected to result in a bumper maize crop from mid-February. The latest report from the Kenya Food Security Steering Group anticipates a strong harvest in the country's coastal and south-eastern regions. 5 Feb 2010 07:53


Safaricom acquires national fibre backbone

[Titus Kaloki] Safaricom has signed a deal with the Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) to use the latter's national distribution network to expand its data footprint across Kenya. Under the terms of the contract signed by the two firms, Safaricom operate an optical fibre pair on KPLC's Optical Ground Wire (OPGW) system as built on the national power grid. 4 Feb 2010 11:31


Kenya: Excessive 3G license fee hurting business

[Titus Kaloki] There seems to be a calculated effort by the Kenyan government to protect mobile data services from competition by keeping the required license fee too expensive. Safaricom is currently the only service provider with one. Zain, Yu and Orange have suffered from this prohibitive move by government. 29 Jan 2010 07:53


Kenya ICT board extends bandwidth capacity support deadline

[Carole Kimutai] The Kenya ICT Board, the state corporation charged with developing and promoting the business process outsourcing sector (BPO) has extended the deadline for bandwidth capacity support to the BPO industry. 28 Jan 2010 09:54


Kenya Airways to participate in EU environment trading scheme

[Carole Kimutai] Kenya's national airline, Kenya Airways has been approved by the United Kingdom (UK) Environment Agency to participate in the European Union Environmental Management Program, through a legally binding initiative known as the European Union Environment Trading Scheme (EU-ETS). 26 Jan 2010 09:39


Dawn Rowlands to helm Aegis Media

Dawn Rowlands, who has been with Aegis Media South Africa for many years, will become CEO of South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa from February 2010 onwards. This appointment will be to oversee the business growth in the whole region. 19 Jan 2010 07:28


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Gearhouse SA supplies 2010 Oriflame Diamond Conference - Gearhouse SA

Gearhouse South Africa supplied full technical production - sound, lighting, AV and video, staging, sets, rigging and power - and one of their massive new In2Structures SupaDome venues for Swedish cosmetics multinational Oriflame's 2010 Diamond Conference. 10 Feb 2010 10:38


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