Crowdsourcing Initiative Maps Africa's Technology Entrepreneurs
Tunisia: Media freedom helping to transform societies
Social Media May 7, 2012
As the world celebrates press freedom and takes stock of progress and challenges, in the context of World Press Freedom Day (WPFD), the main...
Facebook Launches Agency Ambassador Programme for Africa
Social Media April 11, 2016
Facebook has launched an Agency Ambassador Programme for Africa as part of its drive to equip its agency partners with the skills and information...
Facebook opens first Middle East and North Africa office
Social Media May 31, 2012
Facebook announced today the opening of its first Middle East and North Africa sales office. Based in Dubai, Facebook's MENA team will work with...
Phone cartoons bring know-how to poor farmers
Social Media March 23, 2011
Animated cartoons watched on mobile phones could be the way to get health and farming messages across to peasants and poor smallholders, say...
Wildfire Selects Likeable as Preferred Channel Partner
Social Media August 22, 2012
Leading social agency Likeable to offer Wildfire's Social Media Marketing Suite to brands Wildfire, a division of Google that helps brands manage their social media...
InMobi focuses on Africa
Social Media February 8, 2012
InMobi, the global independent mobile advertising network, has made strategic moves to confirm its focus on the African continent. Isis Nyong'o, vice president and...
Shake-up for South African ticketing industry
Social Media September 26, 2011
New Internet activity in the music industry in South Africa. In tandem with the social networking site Facebook, tickets will now be able to...
Facebook Expands its Third-Party Fact-Checking Programme to 10 Countries across Sub-Saharan Africa
Social Media October 10, 2019
Feedback from the Facebook community is one of many signals Facebook uses to raise potentially false stories to fact-checkers for review Joining third-party fact-checking programmes...
Sudan-South Sudan: All we are tweeting is give peace a chance
As Sudan and South Sudan sink deeper into full-scale conflict and hostile rhetoric nine months after the country split in two, people from both...
Sa: Digital Economy Summit to use a live holographic projection
Matatiele duo wins Living Planet Award 2019