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.
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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.
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.
The clampdown on drunken driving is in full swing, and the provincial traffic department is currently in negotiations with the police to initiate on-the-spot blood testing at roadblocks. This will provide solid and immediate evidence for prosecution.
The controversial, far-right English Defence League marched on Saturday through the streets of Bristol against the “islamification” of the city. Basically, the group believes that there are too many Muslim’s in Britain and they should rather move somewhere else.
Surfer bitten in half. Egyptians call Hillary ‘Monica.’ Zuma’s ex becomes head of AU, Elton talks unprotected sex and drugs. Tour de France sabotaged and more!
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Big Korn Bites are yet to respond to the public outcry at the massive reduction in seasoning on their maize snack chips. Public protest include a video, watched thousands of times.
It has just been reported on Twitter, that the Knysna Marathon has been cancelled, due to unsafe conditions. The Knysna Marathon Club released this statement on their website: Due to unsafe conditions the 2012 Pick n Pay Cape Times Knysna Forest Marathon have been cancelled. Your safety is our first concern. We had a long […]
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.