Ka-ching! Sales soar for emerging creatives at Expo

Exposure for young designers at 2012 Design Indaba Expo translates into swift trade. Read more >>

Google, Facebook join alliance to fight bad ads

Google has partnered with the likes of AOL, Facebook, Twitter and the IAB to form the Ads Integrity Alliance in a bid to stop bad ads online. Read more >>

Glam Cam, ensuring effective brand communication

TLC has launched its Glam Cam product, which allows consumers to capture their image at a glamorous event, using a cleverly designed camera unit. In addition to live projection, site photo printing also feature a brand logo and message, spreading the logo far and wide as photos are distributed. Read more >>

LinkedIn hacking, users beware

Following the recent hacking of the LinkedIn site, South Africans need to be more aware of the rise in high-profile hacks, affecting consumers, companies and governments around the world. Read more >>

Mvela takeover could be good news for Avusa

[Trevor Neethling] The Mvelaphanda Group's bid for control of Avusa Media might be just the shot in the arm the stagnating media company needs to reinvigorate its business following a dismal 2011. Last year it had to contend with executive management instability and suffered major cost knocks, culminating in a torrid financial performance that wreaked havoc on shareholder value. Read more >>

MediaShop's latest forum points to mobile

The latest MediaShop industry forum held at the Johannesburg Country Club Woodmead saw speakers Justin Sanan of AC Nielsen Africa, Fiona Potgieter of Yonder Media and Toby Shapshak of Stuff magazine, delve into South Africa's digital landscape and reiterate the growing power of digital media. Read more >>

Vodacom SA MD announces resignation

Sipho Maseko‚ currently MD of Vodacom SA and chief operating officer of the Vodacom Group (VOD), has announced on Wednesday, 13 June 2012, that he has decided to leave the group to pursue other interests. Read more >>

South African youth optimistic about their economic prospects

The Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) conducted a survey amongst 2 106 Grade 11 and Grade 12 learners from a diverse range of township, inner city, former Model C and private schools at its annual Career Expo in Johannesburg. Results indicate high optimism about career prospects in South Africa, despite deteriorating economic prospects around the world. Read more >>

SABC: No England rugby Tests Isidingo burns

Rugby fans hoping to tune into the South African Broadcast Corporation's (SABC's) delayed broadcast of the Tests between the Springboks and England at Ellis Park on Saturday and in Port Elizabeth next week will have to make other plans after the national broadcaster dropped the bombshell that the matches would be broadcast only on radio, writes Zeena Isaacs. Also on the TV front, a fire struck the Isidingo set, reports the Sowetan. Read more >>

The Wilderness Group launches Wilderness TV

The Wilderness Group, which operates in many remote environments, has launched its own digital platform and transformed it into a virtual training environment for staff, which demonstrates techniques and standards in all aspects of hospitality and allows staff to log on when convenient. Read more >>

JWT salutes cool brands

Reviewing the results of the Sunday Times Generation Next Brand Survey of the country's coolest brands, JWT South Africa is proud of its clients, Kellogg's, Lux, Nestlé, Nokia and Shell for being included. Read more >>

Latin America leads as the most socially-engaged global region

SANTIAGO, CHILE: comScore, Inc, a global leader in measuring the digital world, has released its latest report on social networking in Latin America from its comScore Media Metrix service. Read more >>

Cabinet welcomes judgement on mining rights

Minister in the Presidency for Performance Monitoring and Evaluation, Collins Chabane, says Cabinet has welcomed the recent Supreme Court of Appeal judgment - which decided that the right to mine in South Africa in the sense of the right to prospect and mine for minerals and extract and dispose of them is vested in the State . Read more >>

First National Evaluation Plan gets Cabinet's approval

Cabinet has approved the first annual National Evaluation Plan which identifies the evaluations to be undertaken over the next year. Read more >>

Net tightens on poor quality financial advice

[Evan Pickworth] Any future pyramid scheme conmen beware - a new financial consumer advocate is on the prowl. Read more >>

Citroen's classy SUV contender

[Henrie Geyser: motoring editor] Like many other carmakers Citroen has now also waltzed on to the rapidly growing SUV market enticed by the sweet tunes of the Jewish Harp and confident that its new three-model Aircross range is sexy enough to lure SUV-addicted South Africans away from the brands that dominate this lucrative market segment. Read more >>

Radisson Blu's Top Hotel contest kicks off new challenge

Europe's largest upscale brand Radisson Blu launches a new contest: "Radisson Blu's Top Hotel", an online competition between 200 Blu hotels across Europe, the Middle East and Africa which compete for the customer's votes by promoting their uniqueness. Read more >>

Playing with politics in Adapt or Fly

[Eugene Yiga] Government censorship. Racial tension. A country that could very well fall apart. With a democracy that's long since come of age, you'd think that we'd be over these issues by now. Alas, we're not. Our dysfunctional political scene gives comedians plenty of material to work with and who better to take advantage of the times than master satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys? Thirty years after his controversial show about the apartheid regime, he's back with more in Adapt or Fly. Read more >>

Tough moral questions in Green Man Flashing

[Eugene Yiga] You're standing on the street. The green man is flashing, which means you have the right to cross. But a taxi is racing towards the intersection and will hit you as soon as you step off the pavement. What do you do? This seemingly simple question is the basis for Green Man Flashing, a wonderfully complex political thriller now showing at the Artscape Arena in Cape Town. Read more >>