 | IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS  [Roelof Louw] Many organisations are acknowledging the benefits of migrating to the cloud and are seeing their competitors either considering this option or having already made the move. For small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the decision is easy as the path to migrate is less onerous and considerably less complex.
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 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Eugene Yiga] Ahoy, mateys! Are you ready for a tale of high jinks on the high seas? An adventure filled with poachers, pirates, a submarine, a spaceship, and a whale? Then I suggest you get down to the University of Cape Town's Little Theatre and get ready to Get Kraken. |
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[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Mergan Moodley, founder of On Digital Media (ODM), which owns TopTV, claims that the station is a pawn in some political game the IDC is playing, reports Mail & Guardian, and Financial Mail wonders what's behind Iqbal Survé's R2bn purchase of Independent Newspapers & Media SA (INM SA). |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Yvonne Nhuta] Using social media is a great way to market and advance your business. An often-overlooked aspect of this form of online marketing is graphic design.
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Lee Hartman] As a customer, do you know how many business relationships you have? Listing them can be an interesting exercise. Almost everybody can rack up at least 20 of these relationships without thinking much about it, and over 50 is common.
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Anton Harber] Who would have thought the Mail & Guardian would be the most stable player in the South African newspaper market?
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| MARKETING & MEDIA  A group of Icelanders giddy with excitement as they watch a solar eclipse; the island nation’s small population means that many Icelanders are related, but probably don’t know it. NEWSWATCH: Dating in Iceland can be a little risky - you could be involved in a bit of incest without knowing it - until now, reports News.com.au; and closer to home, Dina Pule is concerned about the delay in finalising digital TV access control. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Lucinda Boddy] You can enlist as many different digital tools as you like but without a comprehensive understanding of how digital platforms work as part of an integrated online strategy, they will do little for your overall business performance.
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 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT  [Lauren Ratcliffe] Recently I've been thinking about how much I absolutely love, adore, thrive, breathe, eat and sleep the work that I do. And how unbelievably annoying that must be for most people I know.
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 | AUTOMOTIVE
[Henrie Geyser] Renault has now also pushed its Clio on the dance-floor to join the growing number of car manufacturers who are already stomping to the popular beat of "Down-Sizing" by "The Turbo Chargers". |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Ann Nurock] Trust is not some illusive, intangible concept. This is what I have found to be very enlightening, from both research I have conducted and from having worked with some of the biggest African and global brands.
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 | LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT
[Sindy Peters] Did you know the diamond you're rocking on your ring finger started forming billions of years ago? That's right, billions - way before dinosaurs walked upon Earth. The Cape Town Diamond Museum at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town offers many more interesting facts about one of our most precious stones. |
 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Reghard Goussard] When I founded brand development and communications agency Arctic Circle 14 years ago at the age of 24, I had a lot to learn.
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 | MARKETING & MEDIA  [Chemory Gunko] With our highly competitive marketing landscape, and the ease with which anyone with a PC can create marketing collateral, it has become more important than ever before that your company has a strong brand identity.
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[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: Telkom has announced that it will pay the fine of R449m imposed on it last year by the Competition Tribunal, reports BD Live, and for the lively and energetic out there, Gangnam Style singer Psy's latest video has cracked 100 million views, reports IOL (video). |
 | IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS  [Niven Perumal] Most businesses have physical premises to protect - warehouses, offices or stores that are vulnerable to crime - as well as virtual "assets" and information. Technology can play a crucial role in protecting both.
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 | PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE  [Michelle Dickens] South African tenants are protected by the common law principle of "huur gaat voor koop", which essentially translates to the concept that a lease comes before a sale. This is good news for tenants, as this means that if the property they are renting is ever sold, the new landlord must honour the existing terms of the rental agreement.
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 | PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE  [Jan le Roux] The 1st Quarter 2013 FNB Estate Agent Survey (released just before Easter) indicates that many estate agents, in the lower, middle and upper end of the market, are seeing positive signs of market recovery.
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[Rod Baker] NEWSWATCH: It has come to light that police confiscated the cellphones of 45 officials for images taken after Oscar Pistorius' arrest, reports The Citizen. |
