AFRICANokia to open research unit in Africa
Nokia is set to open a unit in Africa to carry out research into its products and services across the continent. 7 Aug 2008 15:15

AFRICAEU: Strengthening international research with Africa
The European Union has announced that it will be offering a grant of over EUR600,000 to a joint partnership between the School of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton and the Regional Institute for Population Studies at the University of Ghana. 5 Aug 2008 09:56

AFRICAAre you an email addict?
According to AOL Mail's fourth annual Email Addiction Survey, 46% of email users said they're hooked on email (up from just 15% last year) and 51% check their email four or more times a day. One in five said they check their email more than 10 times a day and some even, for crying out loud, check their emails while in church. Granted, the survey is an American one, but are African's so different? Are you an email addict? 5 Aug 2008 09:41

AFRICALink Research appoints Advanced Media its distributor in UAE
Advanced Media, a major supplier of video equipment and accessories in the UAE, Middle East and Africa, has been appointed by Link Research as its UAE distributor. The company supplies professional video equipment and accessories and delivers solutions for broadcast production, post-production, studios and TV stations. 30 Jul 2008 11:49

AFRICAChanging Lives: Making research real
Journalists love 'human interest' stories - because audiences love them. But finding the human interest stories in long-term research programmes is often rather tricky. 30 Jul 2008 10:12

AFRICAConsolidating gains: 2008 Research Industry Survey results
[Jane Delorie] Each year the Marketing and Social Research Association (MSRA) takes a close look at the health of the East African research industry. The survey records actual revenue of member agencies for the previous calendar year and asks agency heads to forecast future growth. 7 Jul 2008 13:02

AFRICASabinet Gateway to establish African online journal archive
Sabinet Gateway has been awarded a US$1.8 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to create an African online journal archive. The archive will contain purely African content, making academic inputs from all over Africa available for research purposes to local and international organisations and academic institutions. 4 Jul 2008 12:29

AFRICAInvestors look to logistics, transport
[Praveen Ojha] Financial deals in Africa's transportation sector: shipping and aviation dominate the industry landscape in early 2008. 12 Jun 2008 06:24

AFRICAHow mobile technology is facilitating development work
[Zachary Ochieng] The advent of mobile technology has transformed and facilitated the work of a number of NGOs involved in various forms of development work, mainly relief and advocacy. Nothing attests to this better than a report recently released by the United Nations Foundation and The Vodafone Group Foundation. 21 May 2008 13:55

AFRICAHow to succeed in the African market
Want to do successful business with Africa? Here are some tips to help you do just that... 16 Apr 2008 13:02

AFRICAUsing crowdsourcing for real-world innovation
US - One of the promises of the Internet, and especially Web 2.0, has been moving companies closer to their customers. A new survey released today, 12 March, by The Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), an organisation of senior-level marketing executives, finds that 62% of marketers surveyed have been using crowdsourcing to help them shape the future of their products. 12 Mar 2008 12:53

AFRICAMore Black women in the US marketplace
Miriam Muley, CEO of The85%Niche, and previously Executive Director of Diversity Growth Markets at GM, has authored a recent paper describing opportunities to serve "a vital source of incremental business (that) has waned in recent years." 5 Mar 2008 09:26

AFRICACNBC Africa survey provides some interesting insights
CNBC Africa conducted a small survey by means of an on-line questionnaire, and though the sampling is too small as a base for definitive, the results have proved valuable. There are some significant differences in responses from South Africans and respondent in the rest of Africa. 11 Feb 2008 13:18