Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Wednesday Morning Spice

Meet your new Springbok coaching lineup, Doctor salaries in South Africa are a problem, Toby Keith, country singer-songwriter, dies at 62, Sauber Reveals 2024 F1 Car, and Road closures in Cape Town for the State of the Nation Address.

Tuesday Morning Spice

Reserve Bank’s Phala Phala findings under fire, Charlize Theron silences rumours of plastic surgery, AI-Generated James Dean appearing in new movie, and Biggest Loch Ness monster search in half a century begins.

Tuesday Morning Spice

Wall Street “bloodbath”. Zuma’s future decided tomorrow. Day Zero moved. Trump talks treason. Pope cover up. Capitec keeps fighting. Parly move from CPT to PTA? Grid girls replacement. Habana close to retiring. J Law takes over plane PA.

Enjoy This Brand New Interview With Bernie Madoff

Good ‘ol Bernie Madoff. The former non-executive Chairman of the NASDAQ , stockbroker and financier who admitted to operating in a Ponzi scheme considered to be the largest financial fraud in US history, agreed to an interview with the Wall Street Journal while incarcerated.

Wall Street Journal Covers “Clifton Trawler Pizza Delivery”

By now you should have heard about the pizzas we ordered from Butlers Pizza to be delivered to the stricken Eihatsu Maru ship on Clifton beach. Naturally it wasn’t a problem for them, as they’re Cape Town’s #1 pizza company. You can check the video HERE if you missed it. But more recently a picture […]

IBM’s Watson Is Heading To Wall Street

Sometime last year, IBM created a brand new supercomputer, called Watson. The idea was ho have him try and beat a human competitor at the popular game show, Jeopardy. He did this without retrieving any information off the internet, and based all knowledge on the information fed into the system. He won, too. Watson is now employed by Citigroup.

SPL!NG Movie Review: Margin Call (2011)

The award-winning documentary Inside Job drilled down into what caused the 2008 financial crisis by consulting some of the finest financial experts. Margin Call creates a fictionalised account of the most critical 24 hour period of the meltdown, featuring some of Hollywood’s most respected actors.

Occupy Denver Protestors Elect Border Collie As Official Leader

Mayor of Denver, Michael Hancock, has been pressuring members of the Occupy Denver movement to pick a leader, “to deal with City and State officials.” So the protesters, in the most benign shove-it gesture imaginable, elected a three-and-a-half-year-old border collie. Named Shelby.

NYSE Threatened By Hacker Group Anonymous

While it might not be doing too well at the moment, the New York Stock Exchange is fairly important. One of the world’s biggest markets, the daily business of the NYSE has been threatened for a while now by the Occupy Wall Street protests. Internet hacker group, Anonymous, has now also jumped on the bandwagon, […]

US Treasury Agrees To Sell $5.8 Billion Worth Of AIG Shares

The US Treasury has announced that it has agreed to sell part of its stake in American International Group (AIG), as it winds down the ownership of the global insurer it helped bail out of very troubled waters back when the financial crisis iceberg first struck.