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11Oct

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Investors Applaud Hershey’s Vow To Source 100% Certified Cocoa By 2020

Move to certify entire product line seen as significant step to eradicate trafficking and forced child labor on cocoa farms and plantations NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, a shareholder coalition that engages companies on labor and human rights standards in global supply chains, commends the Hershey Company for its commitment to certify all its cocoa by a third party by 2020. With a 43% share of the U.S. chocolate market, the investors view Hershey's decision as an important advancement that is certain to influence the industry and result in more sustainable cocoa farming and production. Said Chris Meyer of Praxis Mutual Funds and co-convener of the Hershey dialogue, "Seventy percent of the worl...

11Oct

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Nigeria’s LAGbook Partners with South Africa’s Umuntu Media to Bring Mimiboard on Board

Africa's fastest growing social networking website, Ladies And Gentlemen book, today partnered with the South African-based Umuntu Media to introduce a third-party virtual noticeboard app to registered LAGbook users. Lagos, Nigeria, October 11, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Mimiboard is a virtual noticeboard that helps you discover up-to-the-minute information about the things you love, and interested in. You simply discover mimiboards you love, and add them to your existing walls. You can find mimiboards by exploring an easy-to-use map or simply browse through top categories in your location. Mimiboard is the leading product of the South African based Umuntu Media, and backed by Eva-Fund. The virtual noticeboard web application emerged the best at this year's Nairobi Open Innovation Summit A...

10Oct

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XMPro Inc. Partners with Bytes Connect to Deliver iBOS Solutions to African Customers

XMPro Inc. announces new partnership with Bytes Connect for iBOS technology to African Customers. Johannesburg, South Africa, October 10, 2012 --(PR.com)-- XMPro Inc. is pleased to announce a new partnership with Bytes Connect, a division of Bytes Technology Group, to provide cutting edge iBOS (Intelligent Business Operations Server) technology to African Customers. Bytes Connect offers a range of strategic ICT services and has a strong partner base including Microsoft, Dell, HP, Genesys, CISCO, Alcatel and others. Bytes Connect is eager to enhance their offerings with XMPro’s iBOS solution; Raymond Rea, Bytes Connect Software Services Manager commented, "We have identified XMPro as a proven solution when addressing the area of integrated business operations and are glad to be ab...

10Oct

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SA fanatical gamers are in for more entertainment

By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa Oh ye! South African gaming solution is responding to high demand from fanatical gamers. And this week, gamers are to benefit from a niche product from South African hosting solution provider, Openweb. Reports show that the launch of its new 4MB and 10MB Uncapped Gold Solution positions itself square in the heart of SA gamers, answering a genuine local need for the type of reliability and bandwidth demanded in supreme quality gaming. Keoma Wright, Openweb CEO, explains: "The contention ratio is why Gold Uncapped works so well. We keep contention low and prioritise traffic for gaming. Latency can make or break a gamer - if your ISP doesn't add a priority flag on your gaming traffic, even if your gaming connection seems to be working well, you won't stan...

10Oct

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South Africa: John Thompson flying higher

By Thandisizwe Mgudlwa Here is a company that knows how to make it big in the international business arena. The South African group, John Thompson is continuing its strong international performance with multiple export orders into the East African tea industry, brewing industry and the highly competitive Far East market, research reveals. According to JT, the tea industry, mostly concentrated in the East African region, has placed orders for a total of five wood-fired boiler units during the year to date. This industry also has vast tracks of land available for planting of blue gum trees making this the cheapest and most sustainable fuel. And the John Thompson Simpac boiler has been custom designed for wood log firing. It complies with latest design code yet is robustly built ...

22Aug

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Advertising code now applicable to Facebook

By Sarann Buckby Phatic Communications +27 83 381 0710 If you have a social media profile for your brand, such as a Facebook page or Twitter profile, buckle up because a landmark ruling by the Advertising Standards Board in Australia is likely to affect your online business marketing soon. The Advertising Standards Board in Australia received a complaint that the content on the official Smirnoff (Diaego) Facebook page breached the Australian Association of National Advertisers' Code of Ethics. The complaints concerned content submitted by both Smirnoff and its' community. In consideration of the complaint the board concluded that "the Facebook site of an advertiser is a marketing communication tool over which the advertiser has a reasonable degree of control and could be c...

21Aug

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New Fair Trade Shop Empowers South African Artisans

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Paradigm Shift, a Colorado-based non-profit, recently launched an online shop. The Paradigm Shift Shop sells Fair Trade South African crafts handmade by microentrepreneurs who have participated in Paradigm Shift's holistic entrepreneurship training program. Around the globe millions work in sweatshop-like conditions, earning barely enough to feed their families. Unfortunately, many consumers are unaware of the exploitation that is often involved in the process of making their goods. Former U.S. president Benjamin Harrison once said, "I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process." To counter the exploitation of workers around the world, a social movement has e...

21Aug

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Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Sonic Foundry for its Continued Dominance in the Lecture Capture Solutions Market

With its flagship platform, Mediasite, the company has sustained highest market share for past six years MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the lecture capture solutions market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Sonic Foundry with the 2012 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Share Leadership. For six consecutive years, the company has remained the market share leader and continues to consistently enhance the features and functionality of its flagship solution, Mediasite. In 2011, the lecture capture market measured nearly $70 million in revenue. By 2016, Frost & Sullivan anticipates the total market to more than double, growing at a compound annual growth rate in excess of 20 percent. Heightened deployments are ...

26Jul

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Regionalism

by Chikomborero Dengu (chikodengu @ gmail.com) Regionalism (Microsoft Word) Introduction There is an increasing recognition for the need to improve the political and economic environment of a country or region via collective action . This recognition is borne out of the realisation that countries or indeed regions are competing with themselves for scarce resources . This essay intends to dissect the concept of new regionalism and whilst briefly looking at how it has evolved . With reference to the last point this paper will attempt to link the concept of new regionalism to the recent surge in Regional Trade Agreements (RTA).[1] The crux of this essay however lay in establishing the reasons for increases in RTA’s , that is to say both economic and political positives of jo...

26Jul

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How to make money

By Chemory Gunko How to make money (Microsoft Word) Wherever you look, and whomever you speak to, the answer you hear to all our economic and business woes is be entrepreneurial! What exactly does it take to be entrepreneurial though, and what does it mean to have an entrepreneurial mindset? I have been very blessed in my time to work with some amazing business people, and the lessons I have learned from the time spent with them are lessons I go back to daily as I’m building my own little empire J The most valuable lesson I’ve ever learnt about business though, is not to wait for clients. And that’s exactly what the fundamental premise of an entrepreneurial mindset is. Some of the most fascinating and successful business people I’ve met just never ...