Obama Calls Romney A ‘Bullshitter’ – President Barack Obama had some startling words for his opponent in an interview with Rolling Stone, according to an advance report on the article from Mike Allen at Politico. [busins]

Armstrong Loses Speaker Spot – A global business forum has dropped disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong from the list of speakers for its Mexico City event next month, organisers said Thursday. [sport24]

Zapiro ‘Confident’ He Will Beat President Zuma – With Mangaung around the corner, President Zuma’s legal team seem to be doing all they can to avoid a damaging legal showdown with cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro over his Lady Justice rape cartoon. [mail&guardian]

Colin Powell Endorses Obama Again – President Obama today said he was “proud” and “humbled” to learn he has the support of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who announced this morning that he is endorsing Obama for a second term. [abcnews]

Midterm budget: Fighting talk from Pravin Gordhan – Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan tightened his belt, chided the country’s critics and delivered a no-nonsense medium-term budget policy statement. [mail&guardian]

Amazon Posts First Loss Since 2003 – Amazon reported its first quarterly net loss since 2003 due to operating margins depressed by heavy investment in its operations and a large impairment charge on its stake in coupon website LivingSocial. [fintim]

Sweden’s Princess Madeleine To Marry British-American Banker – A London-born banker is set to join the Swedish royal family after the announcement of his engagement to Princess Madeleine. [telegraph]

300 Potential Abuse Victims Emerge In BBC Scandal – The scale of the child sex abuse scandal engulfing the BBC expanded on Thursday as authorities announced that 300 potential victims had come forward with accusations against one of the broadcaster’s most popular children’s entertainers and that others might have acted with him. [associated]

Apple Launching Online Radio – Apple Inc. (AAPL) has intensified talks with major music labels to start an advertising supported streaming-radio competitor to Pandora Media Inc. (P) by early next year, according to people with knowledge of the negotiations. [bloomberg]

Apple Earnings Disappoint, But Holiday Season Will Be A Blowout – Apple’s earnings were mixed for its fourth fiscal quarter, but the company is looking ahead to a record-shattering holiday season. [cnn]

Last Chance To Buy Tickets For Tonight’s R1 Billion Lottery Draw – With the few Rands it takes to give yourself the opportunity (no matter how small) to become a billionaire, why would you not buy a few tickets? What message does that send out to the universe? Get real – follow link to buy some tickets to tonights EUR 90 million draw. [tickets]

Samsung Posts $7.4 Billion Profit, Handsets Mask Weak Chips – South Korean technology powerhouse Samsung Electronics Co posted a fourth straight record quarterly profit – of $7.4 billion – with strong sales of its Galaxy range of phones masking sharply lower sales of memory chips. [reuters]

Obama Casts Early Vote – President Barack Obama has become the first president in US election history to cast his vote early. At this stage of such a tight race, even this has a strategy: the hope is it will boost turnout by offering more chances to vote. [skynews]

North Korea Has Invented The iPad – If techies think Microsoft’s new Surface tablet is just an iPad knock off, wait until they see North Korea’s. Believe it or not, the repressive Hermit Kingdom released a new tablet computer this week called “Arirang” after a famous Korean folk hymn. [atlanticwire]

Stones Return To Stage At Surprise Paris Gig – Just 350 tickets were available for the 70-minute set including Start Me Up and Brown Sugar. [skynews]

Pippa Middleton Debuts New Book In FOUR Different Outfits (PHOTOS) – To kick off her British launch on Thursday, the 28-year-old Brit suited up in not one, not two, but four different outfits for a day full of book festivities. (Her sister Kate skipped the party, as expected. *sad face*) [huffpo]

Taylor Swift And The Kennedy Kid Have Broken Up – Our favorite Cape Cod-loving couple—22-year-old Taylor Swift and 18-year-old Conor Kennedy—have reportedly called it quits after just a few months of dating. [eonline]

Mum Arrives Home: Both Kids Stabbed To Death By Nanny – A deranged nanny savagely murdered a media executive’s two young kids inside a posh upper West Side apartment Thursday — and then slit her own throat in a botched suicide attempt, police said. [nydailynews]

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Kim And Kanye Are Planning A $20 Million Wedding – Kim and Kanye are reportedly planning a massive wedding from a private performance by Celine Dion (or Beyonce!) to an $8.5 million gown! Read on for ALL the wedding details! [hollylife]

11-Year Old Cape Flats Kid Lands Red Bull Skateboard Sponsorship – Imagine being just 11 years old when two big companies agree to sponsor you – allowing you to “ride forever”. This is what happened after Jean-Marc Johannes’s friends signed him up to compete against professional skateboarders. [timeslive]

‘Slut-Shamed’ Teen Tweets ‘I Give Up’ Before Jumping In Front of Subway Train – A 15-year-old US High School student who committed suicide yesterday afternoon at a railway station was apparently the victim of ceaseless verbal abuse from classmates that followed her right up to the moment she jumped in front of a subway train. [gawker]

World’s Longest Flights To Stop – Singapore airlines has announced that they plan to bring an end to their non-stop flight between Singapore and Newark, New Jersey – which at 15288.8 km is the longest unbroken flight in the world – at the end of next year. [news24]

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Women Earn 30% Less Than Men – Find Out Why! – The reality is that despite all the advances women may have made in the workplace, they remain financially vulnerable. This is not necessarily because employers pay women less for the same job, but because women often choose careers in lower paid jobs – often in order to allow them to fulfill their roles as mothers. Needless to say for these mothers money is very tight and their main focus is on educating their children, not on their own retirement savings. Women outlive men. It’s a fact. So Maya chats about how much more women need to save in order to sustain themselves for the 7 years on average they’ll outlive men by, and how to do this on a lower salary. [podcast]

This week’s Biz Takeouts Marketing & Media radio show focussed on finding out how companies and individuals can use social media to generate quality leads for business. The studio guest was Edward Fisher, who is an account director and strategist for an international business development agency that leverages social media to generate leads for organisations. They discussed the impact social media has had on the way people interact with companies and how social media can be used effectively to generate quality leads for businesses. [podcast]