Question: What does a major brand's repositioning story have in common with SA's best loved soapie? Answer: A marketing coup and an inspired strategy because PEP's new brand ‘proposition' has been launched on the popular series, Generations. 30 Jul 2007
CPIX inflation for June came in at 6.4% year on year, while the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased slightly from 6.9 to 7% in June 2007. 27 Jul 2007
Smart retailers understand the relationship between experience, customer delight and the need to create a home away from home where shoppers will spend more time and money. 27 Jul 2007
Wine enthusiasts can gear up for a wondrous week of wine tastings, dinners and interaction with the crème de la crème of South African winemakers culminating in the 22nd Nedbank Cape Wine Guild Auction to be held at NH The Lord Charles in Somerset West on Saturday, 6 October 2007. 27 Jul 2007
So far, courtrooms have seen legal topics related the Internet covering freedom of speech, fraud, censorship, intellectual property, privacy rights, telecommunications, copyright and commercial law. It seems technological innovation will provide more than enough to keep Congress, the executive branch, attorneys, judges and others involved in legal work busy until at least the next generation. 27 Jul 2007
While they were all students at Harvard, 23-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg worked briefly with twin brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra on what eventually became ConnectU, a less-successful social networking site. A short time later, he launched Facebook. Now, ConnectU's founders want Facebook shut down. A federal judge, however, isn't eager to do so. 27 Jul 2007
Microsoft now stands to be a major player in the online advertising space as the company struck a deal with Web content aggregator Digg to be its exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising. 27 Jul 2007
MySpace may have done the right think in expelling 29,000 known sexual offenders from its network, but the social networking giant isn't earning many plaudits for taking the action. Instead, critics are lambasting MySpace for giving a misleading report on the extent of the problem earlier this year, and for taking too long to shore up security. 27 Jul 2007
Allegedly a number one selling youth title in the UK, Results Media Group (RMG) will launch Marvel Rampage in South Africa in August 2007 as a 40-page boy's lifestyle magazine that will target kids between the ages of seven and 12, a youth market who live and relate wholeheartedly to the Marvel superheroes. 26 Jul 2007
IRIN, the award-winning humanitarian news and analysis service of the UN Office for the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), launched its Arabic service. 26 Jul 2007
Where are the missing cases? The investigation continues; however, they may be in the warehouse occupying incorrect bin locations or at a different location altogether. 26 Jul 2007
Software developers and vendors have used standard contracts to protect themselves, their products and services, and to set the terms of agreements with customers. However, in doing so they often set legally binding terms and conditions that consumer advocacy groups in the US and elsewhere would argue overstep the bounds of what should be expected or permissible. 26 Jul 2007
Prodded by a gaggle of state attorneys general, MySpace cancelled the accounts of 29,000 people who are registered sex offenders. 26 Jul 2007
The new National Credit Act demands changes in the advertising and marketing of credit and that means copywriters and others involved in producing text dealing with this subject are going to have to choose their words far more carefully. A workshop has been scheduled to help those in advertising and marketing understand the new law. 26 Jul 2007
This is the second time a trio of former Harvard classmates has sued Facebook alleging its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, stole their code and used it to build his site. 26 Jul 2007
Not one to be left out, Yahoo has joined the chorus of search engines boasting new privacy policies. Yahoo has chosen to ‘anonymize' users' search histories after 13 months, rather than the 18-month period settled upon by most rivals. The company's announcement came fresh on the heels of similar news from Microsoft and Ask.com. 26 Jul 2007
While it will likely remain a second-stringer to television for some time, the Internet keeps gaining importance to sports fans. 26 Jul 2007
Peer-to-peer, or P2P, file sharing is an attractive way for people to create culture and interact with music and film. However... 26 Jul 2007
Crisp, lively and teeming with green pepper and asparagus make the new 2007 Zonnebloem Sauvignon Blanc a delightful, refreshing sip for any occasion. 26 Jul 2007
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation has expressed concern over Pfizer's new US television advertising campaign for its erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, Bloomberg/Arizona Republic reports. 26 Jul 2007
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