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Today's top stories
 | [Al Mackay] Leading organisations centre everything they do on consumer insight. Most marketers understand the importance of real, deep, intuitive insight into their markets - it helps them create messaging that resonates and produce products and services that meet functional, emotional and social needs. Read more >> |
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 | Over the next 10 days, DHL's employees across Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa, along with their business partners and customers, will volunteer in various community programs across these regions as part of the company's Global Volunteer Day (GVD) 2013 celebrations. Read more >> |
 | A dating website for people who are HIV-positive has been connecting individuals from around the country and helping some people find true love. Read more >> |
 | Microsoft SA has revamped its BizSpark programme as part of its partnership with the government's Jobs Fund to help create up to 600 technology start-ups over the next three years‚ it said on Tuesday, 3 September. The BizSpark programme supports small software development companies. Read more >> |
 | [Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Iqbal Survé, Sekunjalo's executive chairman, is reported by IOL to have turned down a bid by the Guptas for a stake in Independent News & Media group. Meanwhile, SA photojournalist Adil Bradlow, released by Egyptian authorities, was due back in SA yesterday morning, reports Mail & Guardian, and The Guardian in the UK takes a look at how the late Sir David Frost made his place in TV history (Video). Read more >> |
 | During the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) General Assembly 2013 being held in Livingstone, Ericsson and Zamtel will be trialing Zambia's first live pilot 4G mobile communications demonstration using a mobile communications network. Read more >> |
 | MTN Uganda's mandatory regulatory customer SIM registration exercise, which started in March last year, was concluded at the end of August. Read more >> |
The virtual currency Bitcoins, could be the future of mobile money in Kenya, according to a report on Think Africa Press. Read more >>
 | Afrinolly opened entries for its second Afrinolly Short Film Competition on Sunday, 1 September 2013. Potential submissions should not exceed 15 minutes and all films not in English should preferably have English subtitles. Read more >> |
 | After revamping its South African retail network with a new interior and livery in 2009, oil company, Engen, began rolling out the new-look Quickshop offering in neighbouring countries and further north, along with signature partner brands Corner Bakery and Wimpy. Read more >> |
 | The MTV Staying Alive Foundation and MTV Base have announced the two winners of coveted roles in Shuga. Read more >> |
 | SINGAPORE: Taking place in under two weeks, the Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity, Asia Pacific's premier event for the creative communications industry, is set to offer its biggest content programme to date across an unmissable three days. Read more >> |
 | HELSINKI, FINLAND: Nokia said on Tuesday it was selling its beleaguered mobile phone unit to Microsoft for €5.44bn ($7.17bn) as the US tech giant tries to fight back against rivals Apple and Google. Read more >> |
 | LONDON, UK: Verizon on Monday, 2 September said that it had agreed to buy Vodafone's 45% in Verizon Wireless from the British company for US$130bn. Read more >> |
 | LONDON, UK: British mobile phone giant Vodafone neared a US$130bn deal to sell its US joint-venture stake to partner Verizon in a blockbuster deal that could change the face of the global telecom sector. Read more >> |
More International
 | Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa has issued a notice of intention to declare fracking a controlled activity of the National Water Act. Read more >> |
 | Government has recovered R330m after investigations into allegations of corruption received by the National Anti-Corruption Hotline, which is run by the Public Service Commission. Read more >> |
 | Denel's contribution to South Africa's air defence capabilities will come under the spotlight at the eighth SA Joint Air Defence Symposium (SAJADS 2013) which will be held at the CSIR in Tshwane next week. Read more >> |
More Government news
 | [Brian Berkman] It is easy to be cynical about The Palace of the Lost City and to dismiss it simply as the fantasy creation of The Sun King, but it is precisely because it has been entirely envisioned by someone who, at the time, was a global celebrity for his unbridled imagination, that makes it such a fun place to visit. Read more >> |
SOUTH AFRICA  The Observatory International SA appoints Reinher Behrens - more info
Media LawInstitute for the Advancement of Journalism - 11 Sep 2013 Johannesburg Thomas J. Watson "If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. (via Brainy Quote)"
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