Nokia, the global mobile phone maker and solutions provider, sees mobile internet and applications as next growth frontier for Sub-Saharan Africa that will help transform the continent’s socio-economic growth.New figures indicate that Africa is recovering strongly from the global recession with economic growth, a factor that may help drive penetration of mobile connectivity to 69 percent by 2014, compared to 49 percent in 2009.

Samsung will be focusing on Africa’s top 10 economies, which together generate 79 percent of the continents wealth and house almost 47 percent of the population.[Samsung ]

ForgetMeNot Africa introduces to teh African telecom market the first two-way SMS facebook service available on any basic mobile phone.The company ’s Message Optimiser technology converts Facebook action and Facebook chat messages into SMS format enabling millions of cellphone subscribers accross the continent to access Facebook.

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The total value of mobile money transfers in Africa will exceed US$200 billion in 2015.[ Source ]

Africa’s total stock market capitalization now exceeds $1 trillion [ Omegascorpi]

The Angolan Government will build from next October six multimedia libraries (computerized libraries and multimedia) in six provinces, in an initial investment estimated at USD 48 million. [ Source ]

A building materials and construction company, Kon-X Ltd., has introduced a new form of project finance to aid in reducing the high cost of building materials in Nigeria [ Source ]

The African Development Bank (ADB) has said it has received the Federal Capital Territory Administration’s request for a sum of $50 million to finance its proposed Bus Rapid Mass Transit (BRT). [ Source ]

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Their solution can be opening up increased product sales coupled with additional benefits of mobile payment capabilities, transaction fees revenue, loyalty programs benefits, and more all facilitated by inexpensve and affordable mobile phones

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Nigeria bans sale of unregistered Sim Cards [Story]

Zain Kenya, now owned by Bharti Airtel, is set to roll out 3G services in Kenya after it was granted a vlicence by the Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK). [Story]

TedXAbuja & TedXVictoriaIsland [Story]

Jobberman has just announced the release of their mobile version which allows jobseekers to get real-time information about the latest jobs in town right from their mobile phones. [Story]

Adlevo Capital announced its first closing of a $52 million capital commitment focused on technology-enabled businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in Nigeria and South Africa. [Story]

Gmail is available in Swahili and Amharic, adapting to over 100 million speakers located in East and Central Africa, and in the Diaspora.[Story]

Africa’s collective GDP, at $1.6 trillion in 2008, is now roughly equal to Brazil’s or Russia’s. [Story]

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New regional air carrier, doing what Africa needswhich is point-to-point services.[Story]

Cresta Marakanelo, Botswana’s largest hotel operator, is on track for a June 17 listing on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE) judging by enthusiastic public response to the sale of 62,9 million shares in the company by Botswana Development Corporation (BDC).[Story]

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We believe that quality produced content from Africa could make its way into the homes of million of viewers in the world ,on the screen most adapted for pleasurable viewing of moving images.
Devices/handlets such as the Ipad are a step from the cellphone, but nothing beats TV for viewing of visual content.

The web facilitates, expands, multiply and quantified better the audience reach of producers of content.

-The Google property YouTube is currently working on a viewer for Google TV called “Lean Back” to bring web video and playlists to the large screen ( Business wire)

-eMarketer estimates that ause of web integration with TV ,digital video ad spending will jump 48% this year to $1.5 billion. ( Business wire )

-The rich-media ads seen in mobile apps will also be possible on Google TV.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-tv-what-does-it-mean-for-advertisers-2010-5#ixzz0oaP8spAO

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Academic Earth is working to identify the real barriers to achieving a world class education. They hope to find innovative ways to use technology to increase the ease of learning.They are building a user-friendly educational ecosystem that will give internet users around the world the ability to easily find, interact with, and learn from full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.

Similar to TEDtalks but with a focus on lectures taking places in some of the best knowledge sharing infrastructures(Universities)

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It’s no secret that the music industry and especially hip-hop has turned to the millions of promotional and media dollars that consumer brand companies possess in order to help underwrite album promotional costs. Recent deals where brands are footing promotional costs include:

TAG Bodyspray - The much publicized partnership with Jermaine Dupri and Def Jam to create an entire new record label called TAG Records. Under the deal, TAG will pony up the promotional and media dollars necessary to launch the new artists from the emerging label

Fila - Nas signs his first major promotional deal with a brand company in order to fund his multi-million dollar ad and tour campaign for his latest album. In exchange, Nas lends his likeness to promote the Fila brand in print and outdoor ads

Drinks America – Dr. Dre teams up with Drinks America to launch Aftermath Cognac which was planned to be timed with the release of his long-anticipated album “Detox”

Sears – In a fully integrated marketing campaign, LL Cool J will be releasing his LL Cool J branded fashion line at Sears in conjunction with the release of his new album. Sears will pony up the money for promotional dollars that will be split between promoting the clothing line and the new album.

Verizon – Hollywood hipster rapper Shwayze signs a deal with Verizon Wireless which has Verizon as the exclusive online distributor for his next single “Corona & Lime” and will pay for all other promotional costs in order to push the single
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For the African music industry to follow the same business model, that would mean companies such as MTN,Ecobank,Zain,Solibra,Ethiopian Airlines,Air Ivoire,Safaricom,Peugeot Nigeria,Tantalizers,Nestle,Google Africa,DHL Africa,Coca Cola Africa to name few should embrace sponsorship of music artists as much as they do football teams or favorite soccer players/runners.

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