2oceansvibe Radio Launches JHB Melrose Arch Studio – Mini Roadsters,Jack Parow, JR, Karabo, Danny K, Ard Mathews buckets of Corona, Jack, Bos, De Grendel wine, and the internet converged to deliver a stark and beautiful picture of what radio will look like in the near future. Over 350 guests thronged the passageways of the Galleria precinct of Melrose Arch to usher in 2oceansvibe Radio’s permanent Johannesburg studio. Mazeltov! [2ovFM]

Soweto Gets First Fashion Week – Struggling but deserving designers will get a chance to show work inspired by the creativity and history of Soweto’s first fashion week under way now. Entrepreneur and Soweto Fashion Week organiser Stephen Manzini didn’t ask designers to show extensive collections or charge them take part, unlike the country’s more established fashion weeks. [Sowetan]

Click! Facebook Launches Camera App – Facebook’s rocky initial public offering hasn’t stopped life at the world’s biggest online social network. On Thursday, the company unveiled a camera app for the iPhone. The app, made for the iPhone, can be downloaded from Apple’s App Store. [Hindustan Times]

E-Mail Shows Murdoch Bid Maneuvering – The long-running judicial inquiry into the cloistered world of Britain’s media barons and powerful politicians on Thursday produced a new and potentially damaging insight into the internal maneuvering within Prime Minister David Cameron’s government as it considered Rupert Murdoch’s $12 billion bid last year to take control of the country’s most powerful and lucrative commercial television network. [NY Times]

Bank ‘Ready’ If Euro Crisis Threatens To Engulf SA – The Reserve Bank kept interest rates steady yesterday, as expected, but warned that it was poised to move them either up or down if it was warranted by “turbulence” in global markets. Several gloomy economic surveys yesterday showed that euro-zone economic activity contracted this month at the fastest pace for almost three years and that the UK economy is in a deeper double-dip recession than first thought. [Business Day]

SKA Decision Imminent – The government is expecting the final decision from the SKA Organisation on the country to host the massive science project. The department of science and technology is expecting that the international organisation will make an announcement on whether SA or Australia will win the right to host the project which aims to link over 3 000 radio telescopes and allow astronomers to look 12 billion years back in time. [News24]

Elton John Released After Hospitalization For Respiratory Infection – Elton John checked into a Los Angeles hospital Wednesday, where doctors diagnosed the 65-year-old singer with a serious respiratory infection, his publicist said Thursday. John was released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after testing and treatment Wednesday, according to his publicist. [CNN]

Vatican Bank Chief Ousted in Unanimous Vote – The president of the Vatican bank has effectively been ousted after receiving a unanimous vote of no-confidence from bank overseers for having leaked documents and failed to do his job at a critical time in the Holy See’s efforts to show financial transparency, the Vatican and officials said. [Time]

Apple Chief Tim Cook Gives Up $75m Dividend Payments – Apple said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that Mr Cook had asked to be excluded from a recently instituted company program through which employees can accumulate dividends on their restricted stock units that are still vesting. Asked why Mr Cook was doing this, Apple declined to comment beyond the filing. [The Telegraph]

Google’s 7in Tablet Plans Delayed After Last Minute Tweaks – Google fans eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Chocolate Factory’s much-hyped 7in tablet are going to have to wait a little longer after reports suggested it wouldn’t hit the stores until July. Taiwanese news site Digitimes got the tip from “sources from the upstream supply chain”, who said shipments of the first 600,000 units will begin in June. [The Register]

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The Premier Show With Seth And Bruce 10h00 to 13h00 – Easing you into your Friday, Seth and Bruce discuss the topics of the day, with a smattering of sport, entertainment and finance. Powered by Jack Daniels! [2ovfm]

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