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Business
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Is Richard Branson Buying Back Virgin Records?
18 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Billionaire Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, has expressed his interest in buying back the business that started it all, Virgin Records.
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HSBC Handled Serious Drug Money For Quite A While
17 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Big banks just continue to let us down. In the latest scandalous development in the world of banking, the global bank HSBC has been used by Mexican drug cartels looking to get cash back into the US, and by Saudi Arabian banks that needed access to dollars.
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New-Look 2oceansvibe Site Draws Record Readership
16 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
According to Google Analytics, 2oceansvibe News has posted record figures for the last month, with the 11 June to 11 July 30 day period showing 252,602 unique readers. Click for more..
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Another Nail In The Coffin, RIM Forced To Pay $147 Million Over Patent Dispute
16 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In another financial blow that the company can’t afford, RIM has been found guilty of patent infringement and has been forced to pay out $147,2 million in damages.
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Microsoft Divorces NBC For Own News Service
16 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
One of the longest running commercial interweb relationships has ended. Microsoft and NBC have finalised their online divorce and will both go at it alone.
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The Great Auction Alliance And Independent Newspapers Kickback Debate
13 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
The debate over whether Independent Newspapers took a money-received “discount” from Auction Alliance as part of a property auction last year left the media as quickly as it entered it.
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Over 50 Million Facebook Profiles Are Fake – BBC Investigates Pitfalls Of ‘Likes’
13 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The BBC has conducted an investigation into marketers’ obsession with ‘Likes’ and how this is impacted by fake user accounts and advertising on Facebook. An interesting read for all marketers.
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RIM’s Terrible Past Quarter Was Terrible
13 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
BlackBerry maker, Research In Motion, has had a terrible past quarter. The smartphone manufacturer is now literally hemorrhaging money and sales figures.
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Tiffindell Ski Resort Sells For R5,5 Million
12 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A Jozi-based businessman, Lew Campbell, has just landed himself a great deal. Today he bought the Tiffindell Ski Resort at an absolute auction, and he hopes to have it running again by 2013.
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Independent Newspapers Up For Sale?
12 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Independent News and Media, the country’s largest newspaper group, may be up for sale. Of course, the first question that gets raised when these kind of things happen, which they don’t really, is are there politically connected buyers lining up to bid for the group?
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Coming Soon: Facebook Bank
12 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Facebook may in the future be doing for your banking what it’s done for your online privacy in general. Who doesn’t want to be able to pay their bills while at the same time looking at photos of their friends at that braai that got a little out of hand?
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Could The LIBOR Scandal Be “The Biggest Consumer Fraud In History”?
12 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Over the past few weeks we’ve brought you several reports regarding the increasingly worrisome LIBOR scandal. The investigation into interest rate-rigging debacle is quickly snowballing and analysts have now begun wondering if “16 of the world’s largest banks have perpetrated the biggest fraud in history.”
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Auction Alliance Escapes The Noose Yet Again
12 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
This is what happens when you couple shoddy detective work with a good legal team. Auction Alliance has won its third straight victory in line with exonerating itself from any penalty relating to the Appelbaum auction rigging scandal.
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Radvertising: Shatner Stars In New Local Insurance Ad [VIDEO]
11 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
William Shatner paid a little visit to South Africa recently – to do the most unusual of things. The former Boston Legal star has teamed up with Dial Direct insurance for a new ad, Denny Crane style.
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Hundreds Of Millions Of Rand To Be Poured Into False Bay Coastline, Copacabana Style
11 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
A huge development is on the cards for the stretch of coastline from Cape Point to Gordon’s Bay. It would turn the area into the Copacabana of Cape Town, MEC Alan Winde has said.
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Internet Comic “The Oatmeal” Displays $200K Charity Earnings In Cash, Wins Internet [GALLERY]
10 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is a great story, of a web comic author whose work was stolen by another website, who didn’t credit him. He took it personally. He’s also won the Internet.
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RIM Says Delay In Launch Of New BlackBerrys Until Next Year Is Good Idea
10 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
RIM’s new marketing chief, Frank Boulben, said on Monday that delaying the launch of the new generation of BlackBerrys until next year will give retailers more time to focus on the revamped smartphones once they hit store shelves.
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Fortune Magazine Rates 2ov Sponsors As Good Investments
09 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 1 Comment
The latest US edition of Fortune is focussed on investing and retiring rich. A 15 page article featuring food, drink and household products as top investment picks, highlighted some of our very own 2oceansvibe preferred brands/sponsors. The article even mentions the new SA Unilever plant! These screenshots were taken from my iPad version of Fortune […]
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FNB Responds to ‘Sh*t People Say About Investing’ Video
09 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
Following the online trend of videos to do with ‘Shit People Say,’ came the video ‘Sh*t People Say About Investing,’ featuring local people using local investing slang. The video has already been watched some 115,000 times, prompting a response from FNB. Quite surprising for a big corporate to play in this kind of space – […]
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Eskom Defends R36 Million Staff Parties
09 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
On the back of numerous electricity price hikes comes the news that Eskom blew more than R36 million on staff parties and team building experiences last year. The parastatal has however come out and defended the expenditure saying fun days are used to commit workers to keeping the lights on.
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Jozi Commercial Property Outperforms New York And London
06 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Who would have guessed this? Either way, this is rad: over the past decade, Jozi’s commercial property values have outperformed those of London and New York, despite global economic uncertainties, and SA’s sluggish growth.
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Draftfcb Acquires Hellocomputer
05 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Draftfcb has just announced it has acquired award-winning digital agency, Hellocomputer. Besides the little known fact that Hellocomputer designed the main 2oceansvibe logo, did you know that The Dirty Skirts’ guitarist, and avid 2oceansViber, David Moffatt, is Hellocomputer’s Managing Director? Dave would have been chuffed when the Skirts walked away with the “Best Alternative Album” […]
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See-Through Edutainment Submarines Coming To Durban
05 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Durban is soon to set itself apart from other South African cities as a leader on the tourism front. A US hospitality group is planning a fleet of six see-through tourist submarines, underwater restaurants and nightclubs, and a 17 000-seat amphitheatre for live music performances on the KwaZulu-Natal coast.
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Worst Boss EVER, Ex-France Telecom CEO Indicted Over 35 Suicides
05 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Didier Lombard, the former chief executive of France Telecom, has been indicted by a court in Paris following allegations that he led a “corporate culture of bullying and harassment” which may have lead to more than 30 suicides.
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Incredible Images Of Massive Chinese-Built Ghost Town In Angola [GALLERY]
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
If you weren’t aware of just how prolific Chinese investment is in Africa, wait until you see these startling images of what’s going on in Angola.
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Radvertising: Virgin Mobile Hires Brad Pitt’s Brother As Face Of Brand [VIDEO]
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Have you ever heard of Doug Pitt? No, we didn’t think so. But we’ll give Doug this: he’s the second most famous Pitt in his family. Unlike his famous brother, Brad, Doug Pitt has never been the star of anything. So, Virgin Mobile have decided to make things fairer in the Pitt family. This is Doug’s first non-celebrity endorsement deal. Doug has quite a vibe going on.
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2oceansvibe Radio Partners With The South African “Switchfoot” Music Tour
03 Jul 2012 by Seth Rotherham / 3 Comments
Grammy Award winning Band “Switchfoot” will perform in South Africa for the first time in August, and 2oceansVibe Radio is proud to announce we’re on board as a partner! Switchfoot are all-round nice guys who love to surf, have sold millions of records, and are known for their incredible energetic live performances during their sold-out […]
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Google Now, Because Siri Is Too Mainstream [VIDEO]
03 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hipsters take note, there is a new smartphone personal assistant on its way: Google Now. It’s a search-centric, voice-powered digital assistant for the upcoming version of Android that launches mid-July.
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Kenny Powers Is Returning To HBO
03 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Here at 2oceansVibe we’re rather fond of “Eastbound and Down”. We cried big tears when we heard it was to be no more, but fear not! Kenny Powers is set to return to HBO for a fourth season of the comedy series. Why? Because he’s Kenny fucking Powers, that’s why.
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Local Men Protest Against Physical Abuse From Wives
03 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Dozens of men were protesting in Hillbrow, Johannesburg this morning – chanting slogans such as “say no to men abuse.” They claim that they are doing this in a bid to seek protection from their abusive wives, who beat them at home on regular occasions.
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