On average, we spend about 40 hours a week at work. That ads up to 30% of our lives! So it makes sense that you choose carefully where you are going to spend that time. Glassdoor just released its 6th annual Employees Choice awards and technology companies rule the list with Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Google all making the Top Ten.
Once upon a time, Adam Sandler was hailed as the king of comedy in Hollywood. But that time is no more. Forbes just placed him at the top of a list of the most overpaid actors in Hollywood. Ouch.
Good ‘ol Bernie Madoff. The former non-executive Chairman of the NASDAQ , stockbroker and financier who admitted to operating in a Ponzi scheme considered to be the largest financial fraud in US history, agreed to an interview with the Wall Street Journal while incarcerated.
Koos Bekker’s Naspers is doing very, very well. Thanks for asking. And it’s all on the back of TenCent, and a weak Rand. This, from Fin24: At 10:22, Naspers shares, which gained over 80% this year, were changing hands at a new record high of R1010.98, tracking a surge in Tencent shares in Hong Kong. […]
It may not be Francis Bacon’s R1.4 billion best-seller, but you have to admit that half a billion rand is still a helluva lot, and it’s worth seeing what kind of art deserves that degree of monetary exchange.
Whenever you make an online credit card purchase, the processing bank as well as the merchant in question both see all your details. That means your name, number and address. But what if you don’t want them to?
The launch of the iPad Air in South Africa today reminded us of this special little moment. Professional genius and part-time eccentric, Steve Wozniak admitted on stage at the 2011 Engadget Show that he prints and spends his own $2 bills (he’ll also happily sell you a book of them), as well as numerous fake […]
An unemployed woman from Northern Ireland bought a Euromillions lottery ticket “on the spur of the moment”. She just won over R450 million rand. HALF A BILLION.
Ever since their introduction to the WWW, we’ve been posting a lot of stories about Bitcoin. But what is Bitcoin, and how does it work? New York-based director and designer Duncan Elms has directed and animated an amazing short motion infographic explaining Bitcoin in detail.
60 years ago, two children were born in the same hospital. One of them had rich parents – the other had poor parents. In a cruel twist of fate, the children were swapped by the hospital staff.
Chinese Company Tencent is bigger than YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter combined, with a market capitalization of $57 billion. It is also the company that makes billions of rands each year for Naspers and Koos Bekker.
It was just last week that we posted a story about how a lotto-winning couple’s relationship was destroyed – and now yet another couple is finding it hard to be happy after winning the lotto.
Get ready for this trip down memory lane. Remember BOB T savings cards? And how special they made you feel? Turns out they’re still around.
Thuli Madonsela, you biscuit. The public protector’s provisional Nkandla report has found that our president has “derived substantial personal benefit from works that exceeded security needs,”and must repay the state.
Finding Bitcoins in a rubbish heap is a lot harder than finding a needle in a haystack. James Howell found this out the hard way when he accidentally threw out his Dell hardrive containing 7 500 Bitcoins, worth R60 million.
While popular rhetoric insists that low-end mobile subscribers in SA are getting a raw deal, that belief has been debunked by a “secret” report.
The Hindenburg passenger airship crash was a disaster – but from its ashes rose a beer miracle. It seems that scorched, unopened beer from the Lowenbray brewery survived the plane crash and is going up for auction.
Ginette Heibron Moulin is 87 years old, and she just made bank in a very, very big way – making her the oldest newcomer to the Forbes list in history.
BIPS is one of the largest European Bitcoin payment processors. And just last week, they were the victim of a huge Bitcoin heist, which saw them lose 1,295 Bitcoin – currently worth R10 million.
That is the spirit that roars inside all of us who play the overseas lotteries regularly. And even moreso today, as tickets are selling online for Friday’s R2.3 Billion US Megamillions lotto draw.
In what is yet another flagrant disregard of the government’s supposed ban on publishing pictures of JZ’s Nkandla residence, Eye Witness News has unearthed photos that reveal just how much work has gone into our president’s compound.
A metallic-red Mac Pro has just sold for almost ten million bucks in a recent auction, making it the most expensive computer ever sold.
Adrian and Gillian Bayford had lived a relatively pain-free life in the English countryside town of Suffolk, until the day they won just over two billion rand. Now their lives are a mess.
So, we’ve posted at least two different stories about two different girls who were both selling their virginity. The first was Shatuniha, who sold her untouched downstairs apartment for R285,000. The second was Catarina, who had apparently sold herself to a 53 year-old Japanese millionaire for a casual R7,7 million.
We were hoping the day would never arrive. Alas, Transport Minister Dipuo Peter confirmed that e-tolling of Gauteng’s roads will officially start on Tuesday, 3 December. Just in time for the festive season.
This is quite possibly the most lucrative property rights transaction in a long time, as the Elvis Presley name, his songs, and his Graceland resort now belong to someone else.
At the end of every quarter all registered collective investment schemes in South Africa release data on the holdings in their funds. This data allows analysts to get an idea of which shares are most popular, and which are least popular among the people who know what they’re talking about.
So, Bafana Bafana lost a major sponsor in Puma, when they pulled out a while ago. Now, companies are scrambling to fill the place once occupied by the big cat brand.
You may have noticed a few ludicrous art sales happening lately, what with this Andy Warhol painting going for a billion rand, and this Francis Bacon piece which was sold for a billion and a half. But how is this value created? Where does it come from and how does it rise so exponentially? Perhaps the world of crime is to blame.
Before you read on, know that this article will divulge information about a bungalow in Clifton that you could have been (illegally) living in for the past 10 years, if you got there first. But you didn’t. Bergies did.