LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Celebrating a new generation of culinary stars[Eugene Yiga] On entering One&Only Cape Town, I can sense that something big is about to happen. It's not just because the scale of the furniture and windows overlooking Table Mountain makes everything seem larger than life; it's because the Vista Bar & Lounge is full of the crème de la crème of South Africa's food, wine, and hospitality world. | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Fasten your seatbelts for Brick Mansions[Daniel Dercksen] If you multiply action times ten, you get Brick Mansions where a chain of explosive adrenaline-spiking events will keep you on the edge of your seat. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA In a press release, a picture adds a thousand words[Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard] How much value can you create by using pictures in your next press release? Why incorporate them into your content at all?... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA In the beginning there was branding[Mbongeleni Hlomuka] Branding has gone to a whole different level where consumers identify themselves using brands through a phenomenon known as brand association... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Are we ready to take responsibility for SAARF's AMPS data accuracy?[Leigh Andrews] Touted as the start on the long road to recovery SAARF needed 40 years on, Cape Town was the final leg of the SAARF AMPS June 2014a roadshow... | |
LEGAL The rise of the consumer[Neil Kirby] The director-general of the Department of Trade and Industry has recently published an invitation for the public to comment on the Draft Consumer Goods and Services Sector Code of Conduct. | |
PROPERTY & REAL ESTATE How a buyer's agent can save you time and money[Lauren Staley] Purchasing property is quite often a time consuming and chaotic task, with which the average homebuyer has fairly limited knowledge and experience. | |
EDUCATION & TRAINING Tertiary education takes steps to meet market needs[Abram Molelemane and Anton Ressel] Many international education institutions are making internship and workplace readiness training an essential and compulsory part of their syllabus. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Embracing m-commerce[Robyn Hazekamp] Okay, so it doesn't exactly flow off the tongue, but it is certainly worthy of attention: m-commerce (mobile commerce) is the next generation of e-commerce... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Partygoers set to get even trendier with Trender app[Leigh Andrews] Ever wished for a location-based photo app where you can see where your friends are in real-time? Trender is here to make your wishes come true... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Harnessing data effectively[Premie Naicker] Organisations of all sizes, and across all industries, understand how vital business intelligence (BI) is to the effective and efficient running of the business... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA ttrumpeting the good news about business chat on mobile apps[Leigh Andrews] Businesses should always be looking for new ways to communicate with customers, but is approaching them on mobile chat platforms a step too far? Grant Theis, co-founder of ttrumpet, disagrees... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Creating shopper chemistry for brands[Danette Breitenbach] Macy's in New York City calls itself the world's largest store. Not only is this not true, but no-one cares because in the new world of retail and shoppers, choice is not a differentiator... | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Strong leadership: critical to building South Africa's competitiveness[Miller Matola] In South Africa, the role of leadership is crucial because it forms the back bone of the fabric of our societies and is a major source of inspiration for millions of citizens to do things differently to achieve excellence... | |
AUTOMOTIVE Importance of IT for automotive industry[Michael Frans] The automotive industry has become increasingly competitive in the past few years with manufacturers and brands jostling for a leadership position in both international and local markets. | |
LIFESTYLE & ENTERTAINMENT Tough tyke Cross joins Caddy clan[Henrie Geyser] Volkswagen has expanded its popular people mover range with the introduction of its 7-speed DSG transmission in its 103kW Kombi, and it has also increased its lifestyle footprint with the addition of a new Cross Caddy model. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA SmartCaptcha puts point-of-sale ROI tracking in the picture[Leigh Andrews] Ready for a point-of-sale tracking revolution? SmartCaptcha is here to help brands better manage their point-of-purchase display executions and spend into the retail trade... in real-time. | |
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS Next-gen networking to enable megatrends[Brent Lees] While the enterprise looks to disruptive trends, such as cloud, mobility and big data, to drive business innovation and greater revenues, the IT department is well aware that traditional networks and data centres may not be up to the challenge of supporting these new technology demands. |