Saturday, November 23African Digital Business Magazine

Tag: Google

Main, South Africa News, Tech

Third-party cookies are crumbling

The days of relying on third-party cookies for insight into consumers are gone and have been replaced by first-party data trends and opportunities. Delivering his keynote speech at PPW in Bangkok, Gil Sperling, co-Founder and CEO of data-driven adtech company, Flow, stressed the urgency for portals and marketplaces to get to grips with this shift and to capitalise on the massive revenue opportunity that it presents. With Google's announcement that it will discontinue cookies in the third quarter of 2024, the convergence of stringent laws and heightened data privacy concerns, this inevitable change has accelerated. For consumers, this heralds a new era of empowerment, offering heightened privacy, control, and more explicit consent. For marketers and media professionals, however, this sei...
African News, South Africa News

Leading IT summit to boost ICT sector in South Africa through improved broadband and infrastructure

The 4th annual IT Leaders Africa Summit will be held in South Africa's city of gold, Johannesburg from 13 to 14 March 2013. The summit is hosted and produced by international business-to-business conferencing company, Kinetic Events. The IT Leaders Summit series is hosted in strategic locations all over the world including Johannesburg, Dubai, Ghana, Cape Town and Nairobi. The series hosts over 150 CIOs and senior IT executives representing leading companies from the respective regions. South Africa, Republic of, Nov, 2012 - Telecommunications is one of the fastest growing sectors within South Africa's economy, driven by rapid growth in mobile and broadband connectivity within recent years. South Africa boasts a network that is reportedly 99.9% digital and includes the latest advancemen...
African News, South Africa News

Google conference attracks over 800 industrial experts

  By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa The popular Google Conference makes its return to Cape Town next week. And tech enthusiasts are expected to gather at the Pavillion Conference Centre, Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Waterfront in Cape Town on 12th-13th November. This meeting of experts in the various industries will be the third G-South Africa event presented by Google. Also, the two day conference will host over 800 business people, marketers, entrepreneurs and web developers, together with Google experts from around the globe, to share tools and best practices for digital marketing and web development. “G-South Africa represents Google’s commitment to driving the web forward in South Africa and across the continent, as well as highlighting the business opportunities that are brought...
African News, South Africa News

Why SEO is not the be-all and end-all of everything

    by  Chemory Gunko Why SEO is not the be-all and end-all of everything (Microsoft Word)   The buzzword on everyone’s lips – for a while already – has been SEO. And it doesn’t matter where you turn or who you speak to, every agency is telling you that if they do your website and SEO, you’ll rank number one on all Google searches and your success is assured.   But how realistic is this really? 1. Is your product something that people will search for?   I can’t tell you how often I’ve seen this one – and really wanted to turn around and say, okay well when did you last go on to the Internet searching for air freshener or toilet rolls?   The truth is that there are just some things that people aren’t looking for – or wouldn’t even think to inser...
African News, Nigeria News

DRIVING MONETISATION OF SERVICES IN A FAST CHANGING MARKET. Nigeria Africa Com 26-27 September 2012

Nigeria Africa Com 26-27 September 2012 Eko Hotel & Suite, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria http://www.comworldseries.com/nigeria Join the debate on twitter using #NigeriaCom Join our group on LinkedIn: Nigeria Com DRIVING MONETISATION OF SERVICES IN A FAST CHANGING MARKET   Nigeria Com “is the only forum that brings together all stakeholders in the telecoms industry” as described by attendees in 2011. This year’s event is taking place at the Eko Hotel in Lagos on the 26-27 of September. Join us for 2 days of strategic and innovative presentations, panel sessions and interactive debates. If you attend Nigeria Com you will meet and network with the entire Nigerian digital ecosystem which now includes; successful OTT players, innovative app developers, popular social me...