Flood Warning For Southern Parts Of The Cape – South Africans will have to brace for stormy weather this weekend as heavy rains threaten floods in the southern Cape area, while other parts of the country are expecting snow. [n24]

Google Johannesburg Street View Shows ADT Hold-up With Guns To The Head [Image] – Hey Jozi, remember how we’ve been really nice of late and not made fun of you for a while? Sorry, about that… [2ov]

Japan’s Nikkei Buys Financial Times In $1.3 Billion Deal – Japanese media group Nikkei has agreed to buy the Financial Times from Britain’s Pearson (PSON.L) for $1.3 billion, putting one of the world’s premier business newspapers in the hands of a company influential at home but little known outside Japan. [reuters]

Exclusive: Trump Threatens Third-Party Run – Donald Trump says the chances that he will launch a third-party White House run will “absolutely” increase if the Republican National Committee is unfair to him during the 2016 primary season. [hill]

Coca-Cola Pushes FIFA For Independent Reforms – Coca-Cola is calling on FIFA, the scandal-scarred world soccer organization, to subject itself to an independent reform commission, even as FIFA on Monday announced a series of changes. [cnn]

Crazy Security Detail For Obama’s Kenya Visit – Presidential tours are always expensive, but especially so when the country being visited is, like Kenya, the scene of regular terrorist attacks. [enca]

Three Killed, Seven Injured in Louisiana Theater Shooting – Three people, including the gunman, were killed and seven others were injured in a shooting Thursday night at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, police said. [nbc]

Naspers Raises Nearly R15bn In Internet Acquisition Plan – Naspers has sold bonds for the first time in almost two years to fund emerging-market internet acquisitions, a strategy that’s transformed the media group into Africa’s biggest publicly traded company by market value. [f24]

Taylor Swift Apologised – Someone—Taylor’s PR team, maybe?—realized this dumb Twitter fight with Nicki Minaj was making everyone not named Katy Perry look bad. [gawk]

Amazon Overtakes Walmart In Market Value After Unexpected Profit – Amazon overtook Walmart as the largest US retailer by market capitalisation on Thursday, after posting an unexpected quarterly profit and revenues that easily beat Wall Street expectations. [ft]

Microsoft Reports Big Losses In The Fourth Quarter – Microsoft today reported its earnings for the fourth quarter of its 2015 fiscal year and unsurprisingly, the massive $7.6 billion write down for its Nokia purchase last year tanked any chances of it turning a profit. [verge]

Cosatu Condemns ‘All White’ Springbok Selection – Cosatu is not encouraged to support the “all white” Springbok team that will take on the All Blacks, says provincial secretary Tony Ehrenreich. [mg]

State May Be Losing Grip On Krejcir Case – As Radovan Krejcir’s drug and kidnapping trial draws to a close, lawyers for his co-accused have pointed out gaping holes in the state’s case. [enca]

Nothing To See Here, Just Danny DeVito Walking A Dachshund In A Dress – When the world is gray, Danny DeVito and this adorable dachshund make it a whole lot sunnier. [mash]

‘Please Call Me’ Battle To Be Fought In Highest Court – Former Vodacom employee Nkosana Makate now has to convince the Constitutional Court why he must be paid for coming up with the “Please Call Me” idea. [tlive]

Taxi Bigwig Evgeny Freidman Files For Bankruptcy, Blames Uber – Taxi tycoon Evgeny Freidman filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday — claiming he’s taken one hail of a hit from Uber and other app-driven competitors. [nydn]

Patrice Motsepe And Sanlam In New Venture – Sanlam and Patrice Motsepe’s company Ubuntu Botho are to start an Africa-focused private equity fund and plan to raise $500m by early next year. [bdl]

Turkey Agrees To Allow Use Of Its Soil For Airstrikes Against ISIS – Turkey has agreed to allow anti-ISIS coalition warplanes to begin using the air base at Incirlik in the country’s east to carry out airstrikes against the extremist group in neighboring Syria, NPR has confirmed. [npr]

NASA Discovers New Earth-Like Planet – NASA has discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting around a star, which a NASA researcher called a “bigger, older cousin to Earth.” [time]

Kendall Jenner Lace Lingerie Pic – That’s all, really. [here]

This Is Apple Music’s Worst Nightmare – Jim (“The Beard”) Dalrymple has given up on Apple and gone back to Spotify. [fort]

An ‘Uber For Private Jets’ Startup Just Raised $20 Million From Jay Z And The Saudi Royal Family – Traditionally, booking private travel has been a confusing process, with lots of forms and back-and-forth with brokers. Sergey Petrossov wanted to simplify that process, so he built JetSmarter, an app that makes it easy for anyone to book a flight on a private jet in a matter of seconds. [busins]

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