DHL is giving away two tickets to one lucky 2oceansViber to go to the Manchester United Pre-Season Tour match against Ajax Cape Town at Cape Town Stadium this Saturday. Click through to see how you can win!
The recent sale of Microsoft’s shares in MSNBC indicated a price of $12 per unique reader. This is consistent with the value given to Huffington Post when they sold (at slightly more – $12.60 per unique reader).
Today is Madiba day, Nelson Mandela’s 94th birthday, and to honour the great man Prezence Digital put together an amazing video tribute exploring how things might have been different had today’s social media been around back in the day. Click through for the awesome video and a few words from its creators.
It is with great joy that De Grendel Wines can now announce the launch of the De Grendel Sauvignon Blanc in more than 160 Waitrose outlets around the UK. The De Grendel Sauvignon Blanc 2011 is drinking extremely well now, showing amazing freshness with loads of tropical and passion fruit flavours just exploding on the palate.
If there is one typo you never, ever want to make, it’s typing Nelson Mandela’s name incorrectly. On his birthday. What makes this more than astounding, is that the production of a banner like that typically goes from copywriter, to designer, to management sign-off, to campaign management, and then it would go live. And not a single […]
With the London Olympics a mere ten days away, this is a bit of an embarrassment for Boris Johnson to admit. With the decision to outsource security of the games to private security firm G4S, their last-minute withdrawal has left politicians with no choice but to call up members of the military. Many have just returned from deployment in Afghanistan.
A mourning ritual that is rarely seen, and even more rarely captured on camera, will raise further questions about whether dolphins understand the concept of death.
As we all take time out to honour a man who is surely one of the most inspiring leaders the world has ever known, Nando’s shares their appreciation of Madiba.
Billionaire Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, has expressed his interest in buying back the business that started it all, Virgin Records.
Bill Clinton visits Mandela for birthday. Top cyclist busted in Tour de France. Whites vanish from civil service. Passengers trapped on Gautrain. New No Doubt album. Suri’s new school and more!
This is not a pleasant statistic to read, especially the day before Madiba’s birthday. The Special Investigations Unit (then the Scorpions, now the Hawks), in conjunction with the South African Security Agency, have revealed that the numbers for corruption are far higher than they should be.
In its latest display of awesome, Google has unveiled its Universal Orchestra Experiment, built by Google Creative Lab. The online experiment is the beautiful lovechild of science-fiction and high art and will allow multiple visitors to play real instruments in London’s Science Museum in real-time via the Internet.
For the first time, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are going to be available with touch-screen controls. Taps, swipes, and pinch-and-zoom can be used within documents, files and presentations.
A major rescue operation on Sunday saw 41 people trapped on the Butha Buthe Pass en route to Afri-Ski and the Oxbow Lodge, in Lesotho, brought to safety. Check out video footage inside.
In a video published on YouTube recently, three men kidnapped in Mali last year by al-Qaeda say they are well. One of the men is South African Stephen Malcom McGown.
Ah business class, the good life, more comfortable, roomier seats, better service and, crucially, better food. Unless of course you were amongst a group of business class travelers on-board Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to Atlanta who were served sandwiches containing needles.
Charlie Sheen may have left Twitter, but the former Two and a Half Men star is far from done making a noise. He has just announced that he will be donating one percent of all the earnings from his new FX show, Anger Management, to US troops.
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.
Spotted by a 2oceansviber in Johannesburg, parked in a no-parking zone. The Mercedes-Benz E500 convertible is available for purchase at around R1 million. [thanks berminator]
Last month we showed you surfaced images of Syria’s steroid-mad “ghost killers”. Their goal is to terrorise women and children and to conduct ethnic cleansing. New images from the country show the effects of the civil war and predict a very dark future for its citizens.
Qatar voted best airline in the world. Seal has moved on. Vodacom launches free roaming calls. Fleetwood Mac reunion. Shoprite shows massive growth. Sheen leaves twitter.
It’s not every day you see The Boss and Macca jamming on stage together – such was the spectacle enjoyed by thousands of Londoners on Saturday night. Watch the video.
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..
The DMMA will be hosting a Blogger Debate on Tuesday 17 July from 15h00-17h00. The closed event, taking place at the Quirk offices in Cape Town, will aim to define the rules of engagement between bloggers, PR professionals and Ad Agency MDs. So says the DMMA: A recent debate has arisen amongst bloggers, advertising agencies and […]
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.
As you may have noticed in the Morning Spice, Sage Stallone, the son of Sylvester Stallone was found dead this weekend in his Los Angeles home. His autopsy was completed yesterday, but authorities have not yet given a cause of death. They have said that it could take up to two months for concrete results.
A startup called Equiso thinks it’s going to change TV forever. The Smart TV is an HDMI dongle that plugs into your television, and essentially turns it into an Android tablet.
During the recent European Championships in Poland and Ukraine, Carlsberg provided fridges full of beer in the media centre. These were for journalists covering games to drink before, during, and after matches. But as you’ll see from our latest Boss video, a mere three minutes was all it took.
While everybody’s favourite villain, Gary Oldman, is yet to be nominated for an Oscar, he certainly has nailed it in the fashion stakes. Here he is in a Prada campaign in the latest Vanity Fair.
Winter is now pretty much in full swing and snow has begun to fall in many provinces as temperatures keep dropping across the country. As beautiful as the snowy icing may to look some, the harsh conditions have caused widespread havoc, particularly on national roads, and claimed at least five lives to date.