Vodacom, Naspers Partnership May Mean More TV On Your Smartphone – Vodacom is looking into music and video content from Naspers on the back of a future reduction in data prices and faster connection speeds. [m&g]
Radovan Krejcir – The Great Survivor – A team from the Hawks has been assigned to find out why the name of Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir crops up every time there’s a shooting or a bombing — and a fresh body in the street — in the once quiet “village” of Bedfordview, on the East Rand. [tlive]
Snapchat Spurned $3 Billion Acquisition Offer From Facebook – Snapchat, a rapidly growing messaging service, recently spurned an all-cash acquisition offer from FacebookFB +4.52% for close to $3 billion or more, according to people briefed on the matter. [wsj]
Nicolas Cage’s ‘Sex Photos’ Have Been Stolen – Somewhere out there are stolen X-RATED PHOTOS of Nicolas Cage getting down and dirty with the mother of his son Weston … law enforcement sources have confirmed. [tmz]
Facebook, Twitter ‘No Threat’ To Mxit – Facebook and Twitter do not represent much of a threat to Mxit, despite the international following of the former, Mxit insisted. [news24]
Eight Crushed To Death In Rush For Rice In Philippines – Gunfire forced the cancellation of a mass burial in the typhoon-ravaged Philippines as authorities struggled to dispose of the dead, while anger among survivors at the slow trickle of aid turned deadly. [coumai]
Mr Price Home, Sheet Street To Launch E-Commerce Sites – Mr. Price Home and Sheet Street are building capacity to launch their local e-commerce sites before the festive season, Mr Price Group said this week. [bdlive]
Giant Pink Diamond Auctioned For $83 Million – An enormous diamond known as “The Pink Star” sold for more than 83 million US dollars at auction in Geneva on Wednesday night, far surpassing its expected price. [usat]
Tina Turner Formally ‘Relinquishes’ U.S. Citizenship – This item just in via an “activity” report from the U.S. Embassy in Bern, Switzerland, headlined “Soul Legend Relinquishes U.S. Citizenship.” [washpo]
India’s Top Policeman Draws Fire With Rape Remark – India’s top police official apologized Wednesday for saying, “If you can’t prevent rape, you enjoy it,” a remark that has outraged women across the country. [ap]
JP Morgan’s Chronic Twitter Ballsup – JPMorgan Chase, the country’s biggest bank by assets, and a company that’s dealt with more than $30 billion-plus in fines and legal costs since 2009, thought hosting a Twitter question-and-answer session would be a good idea. How wrong it was. [huffers]
Live Sharks Are Guarding the Xbox One Ahead of Launch – Would you risk life and limb by diving into a tank filled with live sharks to play the new Xbox One? Maybe. [time]
There Has Been A Decline in BitTorrent Traffic – BitTorrent traffic is in decline in the US for the first time, according to a new study. The protocol, used by many pirate sites as well as legal services, allows people to download files bit by bit. [bbc]
Opium Cultivation In Afghanistan Soars To Record – Opium cultivation in Afghanistan reached a record this year, a new United Nations survey shows, a major setback to over a decade of international efforts to combat the drug trade and persuade farmers to switch to legal crops. [wsj]
Facebook CFO David Ebersman Sold $43 Million Of Facebook Shares – Facebook CFO David Ebersman has $42.6 million more in cash to his name right now. He sold 911,700 shares of Facebook stock on Tuesday, the third largest trade by a Facebook insider in about three months. [yahoo]
Putin Trumps Chuck Norris In Black Belt Stakes – Russian President Vladimir Putin has been awarded the highest rank in taekwondo, it is reported. While on a visit to South Korea, he received a ninth-degree black belt from Choue Chung-won, president of the World Taekwondo Federation. Higher than Chuck Norris. [bbc]
Alec Baldwin’s Alleged Stalker Genevieve Sabourin Gets 30 Days in Jail for Courtroom Interruptions – On Wednesday, Nov. 13, Judge Robert Mandelbaum ordered 30 days in jail for Sabourin after she refused to stop interrupting in the New York City courtroom. [eonline]
Get Tickets For Friday’s R1.3 Billion Lottery Jackpot – The Euromillions lottery jackpot for Friday night is EUR 100 Million. That’s just above R1.3 billion. An there you were wondering what you should do this weekend! I’d buy a yacht, if I were you! Get tickets [here]
Schumacher Turns Down Lotus Offer – Michael Schumacher, the retired seven-time Formula One champion, turned down an offer from Lotus to drive the final two races of the season as a replacement for Kimi Raikkonen. [supspo]
Blessing Or Curse? Bruce Springsteen Is Now The Subject Of A Theology Course – At Rutgers University in New Jersey students will examine how the singer ‘recasts biblical stories into the American landscape’ [guardian]
Russian Subways Now Accept Squats for Payment [Video] – If you live in Moscow, your morning commute can now include a brief fitness session. To promote the upcoming 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, subway stations in Moscow have added these impressive new machines which allow passengers to do 30 squats for a train ticket. [mash]
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