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 | The Southern African Plastic Pipe Manufacturers Association (SAPPMA) has announced the main sponsors and keynote speaker for this year's Pipes VIII Conference that will take place on 2 September 2014 at the Bytes Conference Centre in Midrand. Read more >>
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 | African Fashion International (AFI) has appointed Communication Services Africa to manage the full media and communication roll-out of the annual Spring/Summer sartorial showcase, Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town... Read more >>
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 | The Fibre Processing & Manufacturing Sector Education and Training Authority (FP&M SETA) is currently being repositioned, and at the core of this strategy are efficient and effective skills development processes. Read more >>
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 | About 220,000 National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) workers in the steel and metal sector are downing tools in a nationwide strike that starts today. Read more >>
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 | Evan Pickworth The JSE said it is investigating trading activity in pharmaceutical stock Aspen, which took place ahead of last week's investor conference call and led to a major dip in the share price. Read more >>
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 | BMW has come under fire for placing a controversial Mini Cooper billboard advertisement near the spot where jailed hip-hop star Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye and a friend ploughed into a group of Soweto schoolchildren while drag racing in Mini Coopers. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: Cyber-attackers, possibly even state sponsored, have been targeting energy operations in the United States and Europe since 2011 and were capable of causing significant damage, security researchers have claimed. Read more >>
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 | Aspen Pharmacare is attempting to eliminate uncertainty regarding its second-half earnings by saying certain comments made by its management team at a conference call last week were misconstrued and taken out of context. Read more >>
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 | Ford is the greenest of the global brands, an international report by financial and business consultancy Deloitte has reported. Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko The public sector appears to be quickly embracing technology released by Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) as a means of tracking goods in South African ports. Read more >>
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 | Eric Dede, a manager of the Electronics Research Department at Toyota's Technical Centre (TTC), is responsible for the development of elemental technologies for future hybrid vehicle power electronic systems. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Google is working on a low-cost smartphone aimed at emerging markets as part of an initiative called Android One. Read more >>
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 | WARWICK, USA: At Little Bohemia Creek Farm, a tractor pretty much drives itself, weaving through rows of corn using GPS technology as it injects carefully dosed amounts of fertiliser into the lands. Read more >>
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 | Carol Paton South African asset managers are turning to infrastructure investments as pension funds at last develop an appetite for funding public infrastructure. Read more >>
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 | SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: South Korea's Samsung and LG have both launched smartwatches powered by Google's new Android Wear software as they jostle to lead an increasingly competitive market for wearable devices seen as the mobile industry's next growth booster. Read more >>
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 | Analysts expect at least 90% of the jobs to be created by 2030 as outlined in the National Development Plan will come from small and medium-size enterprises. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK, USA: Smart gadget specialty firm Withings introduced a fashionable Swiss-made time piece that doubles as a fitness tracker. Read more >>
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 | Amanda Visser The International Trade Administration Commission (Itac) has imposed duties of between 8% and 40% on all imports of soda ash from the US into the South African Customs Union (Sacu). Read more >>
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 | TOKYO, JAPAN - Japanese car manufacturer Toyota will start selling its first fuel cell sedan in March next year with a price tag of around ¥7m ($70 000). Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Google has set out to expand its Android operations beyond smartphones to cars, watches and televisions. Read more >>
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