by bizadmin | Jan 31, 2014 | NewsFeed
ECDC loan turns around the fortunes of a local business. An R800 000 Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) loan has helped to turn around the fortunes of a local filling station. The Mtembu family’s Caltex filing station in Ulundi has in less than two years...
by bizadmin | Jan 24, 2014 | Europe, Featured, News
Davos – The global capital market, having been spoiled over the years by ample liquidity, may be put to the test with the US Federal Reserve’s tapering of quantitative easing (QE) measures. Global business elites and government officials, pooling wisdom at...
by bizadmin | Jan 23, 2014 | Featured, Investment, News, Technology, USA
Activist investor Carl Icahn picked up another $500 million of Apple Inc shares on Thursday to take his investment in the iPhone maker to $3.6 billion, while ratcheting up his months-long campaign to pry open the company’s cash hoard. Icahn, who repeatedly has...
by bizadmin | Jan 23, 2014 | NewsFeed
Discovery Communications and TF1 Group today announced Discovery would acquire a controlling interest in Eurosport International through an extension of their larger strategic partnership first announced in December 2012. The deal to increase Discovery’s...
by bizadmin | Jan 23, 2014 | NewsFeed
A year ago I described Europe as being, in all but name, Germany’s empire of 500 million people – but one about to become a major burden. It would nevertheless stand by its “troubled empire.” Notwithstanding domestic opposition, Germany would “provide or...
