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AFRICA State of ICT in NGOs releasedThe State of ICT in South African NGOs 2009, was released yesterday Thursday 15 October 2009, by market research organisation, World Wide Worx and NGO technology facilitator SANGONeT. 16 Oct 2009 06:58 AFRICA Coca-Cola - Best Global Brand 2009NEW YORK, US: The Best Global Brands 2009 rankings were announced late last week by Interbrand, in conjunction with Business Week. The 10 top brands (in highest ranking order) are Coca-Cola; IBM; Microsoft; GE; Nokia; McDonalds; Google; Toyota; Intel; and Disney. 21 Sep 2009 10:16 AFRICA Coca-Cola - Best Global Brand 2009NEW YORK, US: The Best Global Brands 2009 rankings were announced late last week by Interbrand, in conjunction with Business Week. The 10 top brands (in highest ranking order) are Coca-Cola; IBM; Microsoft; GE; Nokia; McDonalds; Google; Toyota; Intel; and Disney. 21 Sep 2009 10:16 AFRICA MasterCard Index: growing inequality between SA women, menThe results of the latest MasterCard Worldwide Index of Women's Advancement saw South Africa's Index score decline by five points from 90.6 to 85.7 between 2008 and 2009. The Index was released yesterday, Tuesday, 4 August 2009. 5 Aug 2009 08:24 AFRICA Namibia cuts phone fees before SA[Lesley Stones] Opposition to the high cost of making a cellphone call from one network to another is rising, with SA now being derided for falling behind Namibia in its prices. 28 Jul 2009 13:40 AFRICA Strong growth in mobile advertising - BuzzCityThe global recession is having some effect on mobile advertisers, but mobile advertising continues its strong overall growth, said the results of BuzzCity's quarterly Global Mobile Advertising Index, yesterday, Tuesday, 14 July 2009. The company is a global provider of wireless communities and consumer services. 15 Jul 2009 08:42 AFRICA Q4 worldwide mobile phone sales decline - GartnerThe global economic downturn had a significant impact on the mobile phone industry as worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 4.6% decline from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner, Inc. Manufacturers continued to struggle against low consumer confidence in both emerging and mature markets. 4 Mar 2009 12:51 AFRICA Doing business in AfricaDoing Business 2009: Record year for regulatory reform in Africa - Senegal, Burkina Faso, and Botswana make key improvements; Mauritius ranks highest in region on ease of Doing Business. 11 Sep 2008 07:41 AFRICA Honda Jazz wins top honours again
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According to Deloitte, recent tracking of radio advertising broadcast on South African stations showed alarming results; an average of 9% of all radio ads booked are not broadcast as scheduled. Based on FM's AdFocus estimated figure of R3 billion on radio advertising in 2008, this error equates to R270 million erosion of ad spend per annum. 
According to recent international research, strong brands are recovering from the effects of the global recession ahead of others. The BrandZ study, commissioned by WPP and conducted annually by Millward Brown, measures the brand equity of thousands of global “consumer facing” and business-to-business brands, and interviews over a million consumers globally. 
The Honda Jazz has for the fourth consecutive year won top honours in the J.D Power and Associates 2007 South Africa Initial Quality Study. 
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