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richard branson
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Thursday Morning Spice
07 Feb 2013 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Brit TV company to buy Virgin Media. Mamphela Ramphele might launch political party next week. Google to sell ads on Yahoo. White SA beggars make R10k a month. Largest prime number found. Africa Cup of Nations semi-final wrap for dummies.
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Tuesday Morning Spice
11 Dec 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Branson bets £1million on airline survival. Journalists say SABC is forcing Zuma bias. Djokovic buys world’s supply of donkey cheese. McAfee sells movie rights. Marijuana legal in another city. New camouflage fabric makes soldiers invisible. Miss France ‘too white.’
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Kate Winslet And Richard Branson Star In Documentary About Decriminalising Drugs [VIDEO]
03 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Releasing December 7, Breaking the Taboo is a documentary made by Sir Richard Branson’s son Sam which sets out the case for decriminalising drugs. Some big names are backing the venture, including Morgan Freeman and Kate Winslet.
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Skrillex Teaches Richard Branson Dubstep [VIDEO]
09 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
There’s probably not all that much that dubstep DJ Skrillex, and billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson have in common. Yet, this past Saturday, they shared a musical moment when Branson had a brief introduction to dubstep DJing.
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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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The World Without Richard Branson [Infographic]
17 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Richard Branson is the most prolific, if not the best entrepreneur in the world. Having grown his company from nothing, he is now the man behind commercial space travel – quite literally proving that the sky is not the limit. Forbes paid homage to the man with an infographic on what the world would be like without him.
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Round-Up Of 2012’s Better April Fools’ Jokes
02 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
April Fool pranks played by people tend to be either cruel or embarrassing. April Fool pranks played by tech companies, however, are charming and endearing attempts at being funny for one day every year – and this year’s haul of PR stunts is actually pretty good. Check them out after the jump.
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Test Flight [VIDEO]
19 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, the commercial spaceflight vehicle, recently had its seventh test flight, dropped from a height of 15km to see if it could adjust speed and bearing with various wing configurations. Which sounds technically fancy, but really just looks insanely cool.
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Virgin America Spices Up Opening Ceremony With Spaceships
07 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday, Virgin America held an opening ceremony for their new Terminal 2 at San Francisco International Airport; press were ushered onto a waiting aircraft, and told to keep an eye out for Virgin-Galactic-related-things after takeoff. After about 20 minutes they were asked to look out of their windows, because White Knight 2 and Spaceship 2 were doing fly-byes.
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Virgin Oceanic: Richard Branson Is Getting Into The Submarine Business
06 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
And business is good. See how I avoided the Beatles reference in the title? Sir Richard Branson, known for doing fancy things with money and vehicles, launched Virgin Oceanic, which aims to explore “the last frontiers of our own Blue Planet: the very bottom of our seas.”
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Branson Becomes An Air Stewardess
16 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
At the beginning of the Formula One season, Richard Branson and the owner of low-cost Malaysian airline AirAsia and the F1 team currently known as Lotus, Tony Fernandes, placed a bet that would see the one whose F1 team lost serve as a stewardess on the winner’s airline. Branson lost the bet!
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