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Morning Headlines
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Tuesday Morning Spice
05 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Facebook Stock Falls To New Low – Facebook’s stock continued its decline Monday, as the share price sank to its lowest point following its initial public offering, a decline of more than 30%. Facebook (FB), the social media brainchild of co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, dipped to $26.44 during Monday’s trading. [money] Zuckerberg Sued For […]
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Monday Morning Spice
04 Jun 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
MTN Exec Admits Bribe – A senior former MTN Group executive has admitted to bribing South Africa’s former ambassador to Iran to thank him for assisting the mobile giant. [fin24] SABC Refuses To Screen Nando’s Ad [VIDEO] – The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has silenced fast-food giant Nando’s latest ad campaign by refusing to […]
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Friday Morning Spice
01 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
FAA Clears Virgin Galactic Spaceship For Test Flights – The US Federal Aviation Administration has cleared Virgins’ SpaceShipTwo to begin rocket-powered suborbital test flights, the company says. SpaceShipTwo manufacturer Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, received a one-year experimental launch permit on May 23 for test flights beyond the atmosphere, FAA spokesman Hank Price said. We’re […]
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Thursday Morning Spice
31 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
[Above video is a news report – it is not footage of the attack] Miami ‘Zombie Cannibal’ Video Shows Attack Lasted 18 Minutes – A newly released surveillance video from atop a Miami Herald parking garage shows the entire violent attack Saturday during which a naked man chewed off most of a homeless victim’s face. You […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
30 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Facebook Shares Slip Below $30 In ‘Worst IPO In Financial History’ – Facebook’s stock price fell almost 10% on Tuesday leading analysts to declare its initial public offering (IPO) last Friday as one of the worst in financial history. The social network’s Nasdaq trading price fell as low as $28.65, down from $38 or more than 20% […]
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Tuesday Morning Spice
29 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
227 Rhinos Killed By Poachers So Far This Year – South Africa has lost 227 rhinos to illegal hunting activities since the beginning of the year, the department of environmental affairs says. The latest statistics indicate the Kruger National Park has lost 137 rhinos, which accounts for more than half of the total rhino killings that have […]
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Monday Morning Spice
28 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Lady Gaga Labeled A ‘Kafir’ – Lady Gaga’s June 3 concert in Jakarta has been canceled following heightening protests and threats of violence. She has been labeled a ‘kafir,’ which is the arabic word from which South Africa’s own ‘K’ word with two fs was derived (wikipedia). A group called the Islamic Defenders Front said that […]
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Friday Morning Spice
25 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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 […]
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Thursday Morning Spice
24 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Image: EWN Why I Did It: Zuma Vandal Explains – One of the men accused of vandalising a painting depicting President Jacob Zuma said he thought a white person should remove the painting, as it was created by a white person and the gallery was owned by a white person. [News24] Hewlett-Packard Cuts 27K Jobs […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
23 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Facebook Stock Downward Spiral Continues With Further 11% Drop – Facebook shares fell 11% on Monday, the company’s second day as a publicly traded company, due to what many analysts and investors blamed on overly aggressive pricing by Facebook’s underwriters. [bizworld] Inside Facebook’s Fumbled Offering – Less than three days before Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering, […]
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Tuesday Morning Spice
22 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Facebook Stocks Plummet As Investors Scramble To Sell Shares – More than $10bn (£6.3bn) was wiped off Facebook’s value on its first full day as a public company, rattling investors and provoking criticism of the social network’s banking advisers. [telegraph] Watch The SpaceX Launch LIVE – After aborting their first attempt at the last possible second on […]
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Monday Morning Spice
21 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Malema Is Going Down – Millions in questionable payments have been revealed in a damning PricewaterhouseCoopers audit into Malema’s financial affairs. The audit puts Malema at the centre of a web of dubious payments and dodgy tenders that were rigged to go to his friends’ companies, in return for what appear to be generous kickbacks paid into […]
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Friday Morning Spice
18 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
ANC Angry Over Zuma ‘Penis Painting’ – South Africa’s ruling ANC has demanded the removal of a painting from an exhibition by one of the nation’s best-known artists that it said ridiculed the party and the president. [guardian] The Pirate Bay Hit By Hack Attack – File-sharing website The Pirate Bay (TPB) has been hit by […]
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Thursday Morning Spice
17 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
[image source] Prepaid Price War Erupts In SA – A price war has broken out in South Africa’s mobile industry. Within minutes of each other on Wednesday, Cell C and Vodacom both announced they were slashing the cost of prepaid call tariffs to 99c per minute. Spicy. [mail&guardian] Michael Caine Trapped In Dressing Room Overnight […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
16 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Media Merger Gets The Nod – A merger between Media24, the Paarl Media Group and the Natal Witness has been conditionally approved by the competition tribunal. [mail&guardian] General Motors Says Facebook Ads Don’t Pay Off – General Motors Co. GM -0.97% plans to stop advertising with Facebook Inc. after deciding that paid ads on the site have […]
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Tuesday Morning Spice
15 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Virgin Permits Mobile Calls On Flights – From today, passengers on Virgin Atlantic’s new Airbus A330 jet flying the London to New York route will be allowed to make calls, send and receive text messages, as well as accessing emails and using a basic internet access via GPRS. [heraldsun] Authorities Escalate Clifton Salvage – The South […]
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Monday Morning Spice
14 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Pics Reveal Ashton Kutcher As Steve Jobs – Photographs of actor Ashton Kutcher dressed up as late Steve Jobs have emerged, giving the world a first glimpse of how Kutcher will look in the upcoming independent film about the former Apple CEO. [smh] 16 Hurt In Williams F1 Garage Fire – Pastor Maldonado became the first […]
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Friday Morning Spice
11 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Time Magazine Cover Goes Viral – The headline reads, “Are You Mom enough?” But if that wasn’t enough to fan the flames of the Mommy Wars, there’s the photo that goes with it: A pretty young woman wearing skinny jeans and a tank top, nursing her 4-year-old son. [shine] ANC Bows To Pressure Over Info Bill – […]
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Thursday Morning Spice
10 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Local Zara Fashion Range: Seasonal Or Laziness? – “I obviously popped into Zara whilst in Jo’burg last week – nothing like a bit of last minute winter shopping. I must say though I am getting quite irritated to see the same items I bought last November at Zara in Barcelona at the Zara in SA. Is it […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
09 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Charlize Presents Baby Jackson To The World – Charlize Theron has finally given the world a first look at her adorable baby boy Jackson as she arrived at LAX airport today. The 36-year-old carried the tiny tot in her arms, opting to go without the little man’s usual mode of transportation. [dailymail] Student Suspended For Racist Facebook […]
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Tuesday Morning Spice
08 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
IVY.COM – Elite Education Is Coming To The Web, Asking Considerably Less In Tuition – A venture capital-backed tech whiz is launching an online Ivy League-caliber university billed as the answer to high tuition in the US. Entrepreneur Ben Nelson will have the school, called the Minerva Project, up and running by 2014. Harvard is already in. [thedaily] […]
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Monday Morning Spice
07 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Documentary Maker Re-Issued Shark Permit – National Geographic’s Chris Fischer and other scientists have been re-issued research permits after the death of a body boarder in Cape Town. The department cancelled the permits following the death of David Lilienfeld in Kogel Bay in April. Environmental affairs investigated the attack and announced there was no link. [mail&guardian] […]
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Friday Morning Spice
04 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Photo: Brian Witbooi – TimesLive UK Couple’s Cheetah Horror – A Scottish couple will return home with a different version of happy holiday snaps when Archibald D’Mello and his wife Violet look at photographs of her being attacked by a cheetah. As Violet tried to stop one of her children from running away, the cheetah […]
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Thursday Morning Spice
03 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
‘The Scream’ Sells For Just Under A Billion Rand – One of the art world’s most recognisable images, Edvard Munch’s The Scream, sold for $US119,922,500 (R921 million) at auction in New York City. The 1895 artwork – a modern symbol of human anxiety – was sold at Sotheby’s on Wednesday evening. The price includes the buyer’s premium. […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
02 May 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
https://youtu.be/6Y8aeo3QUZ8 London Mayor Boris Johnson Drops The F-Bomb On TV [Video] – Boris Johnson launched a foul-mouthed rant at a TV interviewer as the race to be London’s mayor reached its crucial final days. In a sign of the pressure he is under, Mr Johnson described the line of questioning as ‘f****** b*******’ [dailymail] Ian F Back […]
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Monday Morning Spice
30 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Obama, Kimmel Have Comedy Faceoff At Correspondents’ Dinner – President Obama got the first — and biggest — laughs at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night. He poked fun at some of Hollywood’s top stars, including Kim Kardashian, the cast of Glee and Donald Trump, sending him up with a seemingly serious allusion […]
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Thursday Morning Spice
26 Apr 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Kardashians Are TV’s Highest Paid Stars. Ever – Kim Kardashian and her family have signed a three-year deal with E! for a reported $40 million — making them the highest-paid reality stars in TV history. [thedaily] UK Slides Back Into Recession – The U.K. economy shrank in the first quarter as Britain slid into its first double-dip […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
25 Apr 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
UPSET: 10-Man Chelsea Eliminates Barcelona To Reach Final – Chelsea are through to the Champions League final after an incredible 2-2 draw against Barcelona at Camp Nou in their semi-final second-leg encounter was enough to hand them a 3-2 aggregate victory over the holders. [huffpo] Facebook Growth Slows – As Facebook Inc. enters the final weeks […]
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Tuesday Morning Spice
24 Apr 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Businessmen To Testify About Malema’s Tax Affairs – An inquiry into suspected tax evasion by allies and benefactors of embattled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema will begin this week with about 30 high-profile businessmen testifying. [timeslive] Dutch Prime Minister Resigns – Prime Minister Mark Rutte met the Dutch queen on Monday afternoon and tendered his […]
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Monday Morning Spice
23 Apr 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
You Could Be Prosecuted For Posting Olympic Games Photos To Facebook – For an event being hyped by organizers as the world’s “first social media Olympics,” the summer 2012 games in London have some pretty antisocial policies. Athletes will not be allowed to tweet photos of themselves with products that aren’t official Olympics sponsors or share photos […]
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