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 | The University of Technology, Mauritius (UTM) and Bourse Africa have jointly launched a virtual trading simulation laborotory with the aim of fostering financial talent and further development of Mauritian financial markets. Read more >>
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 | Barclays Africa and Korea's Hana Bank has signed an agreement to establish a Korea Desk in Johannesburg. The desk will promote business co-operation and investment between Korea and Africa's vibrant sub-Saharan economies. Read more >>
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 | Financial analysts have predicted that this year is going to be much worse than last year and consumers are bracing themselves for a tough time as food, electricity and fuel costs continue to increase. The good news is that there are strategies to keep your head above water, help you earn more and surge above rising costs. Read more >>
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 | TOKYO, JAPAN: Bitcoin exchange MtGox faced a huge hacker offensive last month, coming under some 150,000 denial-of-service attacks per second for several days ahead of its spectacular failure, a report said over the weekend. Read more >>
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 | Issued by Epic Communications Nedbank continues to be rated amongst the most transformed companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) under the Codes of Good Practice (DTI codes), having maintained a Level 2 Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) rating for the fifth consecutive year. Read more >>
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 | While enthusiasm, commitment and dedicated service are key, entrepreneurs who know where their businesses stand financially are the most successful. They also know that financial statements are the glue that holds any business together. Read more >>
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 | Branded consumer goods group Clover Industries reported a 90% jump in headline earnings per share to 77.3c for its six months ended December 2013. Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko MTN Business‚ is set to open more data centres in key markets where it operates as it rolls out its cloud services and video-conferencing to more markets. Read more >>
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 | To avoid making bad investment decisions, people should avoid too much bad news on television. Lara Warburton, managing director of Imara Asset Management South Africa, says ordinary investor-savers change their portfolios too much, incurring costs while missing opportunities. Read more >>
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 | Five months after cement group PPC froze top management salaries in order to increase the wages of its lowest earners - a move that has generally been welcomed - analysts say it is too early to assess whether it will have a material effect on labour relations. Read more >>
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 | Alistair Anderson AltX-listed MAS Real Estate said its capital raising in February had been "very successful". Read more >>
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 | SHANGHAI, CHINA: When condom maker Durex wants to send an intimate message to customers in China, it uses a homegrown instant messaging platform called WeChat, which has taken the country by storm in just three years. Read more >>
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 | Zeenat Moorad With Africa for the taking‚ retail chain Shoprite Holdings shows a promising growth outlook for the next three years‚ despite not meeting its first-half earnings forecasts‚ global consulting firm Frost & Sullivan said on Monday, 10 March 2014. Read more >>
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 | Mark Allix and David Furlonger Super Group has bought 50.1% of Great Wall Motors (GWM) SA‚ the South African import and distribution representative of Chinese automotive group GWM. Read more >>
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 | Nick Hedley The local arm of SABMiller (SAB)‚ South African Breweries' maltings division is looking to supply product to other African countries following its investments to expand capacity‚ according to the unit's general manager Thinus van Schoor. Read more >>
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 | Responses to this year's supply chain foresight survey show a growing maturity towards the role of the supply chain in relation to the business, compared with previous years. Read more >>
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 | The impact of weak economic growth is being increasingly felt as thousands of jobs disappear and employment prospects dissipate. Read more >>
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 | BENGHAZI, LIBYA: Libyan authorities said they intercepted a North Korean-flagged tanker, which had loaded crude from a rebel-held eastern port, as the conflict over the country's key petroleum revenues escalated. Read more >>
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 | Nick Hedley Branded consumer products group AVI grew its earnings 10% in the six months ended December‚ which chief executive Simon Crutchley described as a solid performance in a pretty constrained environment. Read more >>
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 | Traditional leaders and their immediate dependents will now get medical and pension fund benefits, KwaZulu-Natal Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) MEC, Nomusa Dube-Ncube, announced. Read more >>
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 | The Protea Technology Retirement Fund has been ordered by the Pension Funds Adjudicator to pay a complainant, A Balaes, his retirement benefit which had been withheld on the grounds that he had breached a clause in his contract relating to restraint of trade. Read more >>
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 | CHICAGO, USA: General Motors announced its second massive recall in two months as it works to contain a growing scandal over the safety of its vehicles. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: SoftBank, eyeing a tie-up of its US wireless unit Sprint with T-Mobile, stepped up its campaign on Tuesday, claiming it could boost competition for Americans as it did in Japan. Read more >>
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 | LONDON, UK: Vodafone has agreed to buy Spanish cable firm Ono as the British mobile phone company stepped up its expansion in Europe using the proceeds from the sale of its US joint venture stake. Read more >>
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 | TOKYO, JAPAN: Japan's Toshiba has slapped South Korean rival SK Hynix with a lawsuit seeking damages claiming that it received sensitive trade secrets from a Japanese engineer. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON - US regulators conditionally cleared AT&T's US$4bn deal for Leap Wireless, which gives the telecommunications company more spectrum and the Cricket prepaid phone franchise. Read more >>
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: French consortium Vivendi said it was entering exclusive negotiations with Numericable to sell the cable operator its telecommunications unit SFR, shrugging aside France's industrial renewal minister's bid to scupper the cable operator's bid. Read more >>
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 | LONDON, UK: King Digital Entertainment, the British developer behind the wildly-addictive mobile game Candy Crush, said that it could be valued at up to US$7.6bn in its eagerly-awaited upcoming flotation. Read more >>
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 | PARIS, FRANCE: Iliad looks set to consolidate its position in the French mobile market after its Free network posted a strong rise in 2013 sales and tipped a transformative deal with competitor Bouygues Telecom. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: - The Japanese owner of US mobile carrier Sprint said on Monday, 10 March, that he wanted to launch a "price war" with the two major carriers as he seeks to acquire T-Mobile's US unit. Read more >>
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 | Market expectation of a further 200 basis points increase in the repo rate this coming year is overdone, says Reserve Bank Governor Gill Marcus. Read more >>
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 | President Jacob Zuma says government will continue to invest in the country's rural areas, in order to stimulate local economic growth and to further the social development of people living outside urban areas. Read more >>
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Stellenbosch University offers an opportunity to candidates with an appropriate PhD degree on a senior lecturer or lecturer level to teach under and postgraduate modules in mathematics education. Read more >>
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