In the latest sign the music distribution business continues to be roiled by change, Nine Inch Nails has released its new album in a variety of formats, including giving part of it away on file-sharing technologies such as BitTorrent. 4 Mar 2008
Liberty Promenade Shopping Centre, a 51,000m² shopping centre situated in the heart of Mitchells Plain and visited by an average of 1 million customers per month, is owned by Liberty Group, well known for encouraging and sponsoring educational aspirations. 4 Mar 2008
RBA Holdings Limited (RBA) has announced their maiden Annual Results, for the year period ending 31 December 2007, since listing on AltX in September 2007. 4 Mar 2008
Want to prepare a traditional meal with a spicy African or Spanish twist? With All Gold's new African and Spanish Style Diced Tomatoes, you can spice up your meals in no time. Crammed full of flavour and quality ingredients, these new flavours have been crafted to add zest to your casseroles, salads, stews and even paellas with no effort at all. 4 Mar 2008
The launch of the new Smart fortwo sees Wideopen Platform taking a leading role in its fully integrated advertising campaign. 4 Mar 2008
Aqua Bimini - an anti-ageing water which is formulated to work to protect your body at cellular level from the degenerative effects of day-to-day living and stress - has been listed in both Wellness Warehouse and Global Wrapps. 4 Mar 2008
Calling South Africa's businesswomen... How do you rate against your counterparts in other parts of the world? 4 Mar 2008
From a payment point of view, money should be fundable and extractable from the virtual world at any point in time. Credit cards are usually used to convert real money into the virtual currency in order to fund the account. In addition, increasingly more Internet wallet type of payment instruments are used to fund virtual accounts. 4 Mar 2008
Volvo is widely recognised as one of only a few brands that have summited the Everest of Brand Positioning i.e. it has succeeded globally in owning a single-minded, relevant and sustainable idea in the mind of a valuable market segment. Well, a recent dysfunctional experience with the brand dismantled something that took over 50 years and millions of dollars to build. Albeit, in the mind of one customer. 4 Mar 2008
Overcoming inbox clutter is no small feat today, said Amy Black, president of DigitalFX, which operates the HelloWorld.com social networking site. It offers businesses the chance to use video e-mail, among other tools, to market themselves. "E-mails are commonplace, often ignored and in many cases dreaded." In contrast, she said, video e-mail is "one way to almost assure a message will be seen and heard." 3 Mar 2008
Although the South African government's Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is on track to achieve its main objective of creating one million jobs for the poor by 2009, significant and sustained poverty alleviation is unlikely, according to an independent review of the project. 3 Mar 2008
After reading the book Mindset: The Psychology of Success by Dr. Carol S. Dweck, I began to wonder if her concepts of fixed versus growth mindsets were either accentuated or diminished when it came to customer relationship strategies enabled with SaaS-based applications. 3 Mar 2008
Nando's has been drawn into a long-standing feud between rival Muslim halaal accreditation organisations. 3 Mar 2008
Media24 has announced the closure of the Gauteng and Free State editions of the Son newspaper, effective 29 February 2008. 3 Mar 2008
Polish Master Distiller of Pravda Vodka, Aleksandra (Ola) Kulak, 70 years young, visited South Africa this week to share her knowledge with the media in Cape Town and Johannesburg. 3 Mar 2008
With an estimated 9% share of the market, Woolies says it is acting to ensure consistency in food availability. 3 Mar 2008
School leavers entering the job market now have an opportunity to combine further study with practical work experience under a new payroll apprenticeship initiative spearheaded by Accsys, a national provider of HR and payroll management software. 3 Mar 2008
Woolworths' entire private label range of toiletries and cosmetics has been approved by Beauty Without Cruelty. Woolworths is now included on BWC's “White List” of companies that comply with their humane criteria. These products include all of retailers' own-label bath & body products, colour cosmetics and skin care ranges. 3 Mar 2008
Unlisted retail giant Edcon, which was bought by private equity company Bain last year in a R25bn deal, reported a 9% increase in sales to December 31. 29 Feb 2008
Shaun Miller does not share the concerns of many other CEOs over electricity supply and higher interest rates. 29 Feb 2008
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