NSA spying negates attorney-client privilege

Aside from the dramatic erosion of privacy, one significant concern is how these programs impact legal professional privilege (which incorporates attorney-client privilege).

Naspers results shows strong internet growth

Naspers group has released its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2013. Revenue growth came in at 27% to reach R50bn (from R39,48bn)- mostly thanks to growth in the internet division and revenues from its internet units exceeded that of pay television.

WPP buys NATIVE, joins agency to VML network

Digital agency NATIVE, one of the last major independent digital agencies in South Africa, has been bought by WPP. VML, one of WPP's digital marketing agencies and part of the Y&R network, has acquired 76% of NATIVE for an undisclosed amount. NATIVE will be rebranded NATIVE VML.

Effective creativity - mutually exclusive or myth?

Is creativity and effectiveness mutually exclusive, what is the relationship and can it be defined? This question was put to a number of captains of industry who served on the 2013 APEX awards jury and this is what they had to say...

Green Sky Thinking: Slow moves from fast fashion

The recent Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh calls to question whether the sustainability movement has achieved anything at all. That such a tragedy can - and did - happen in these times of social audits and supply chain monitoring seems astounding. Is the language of embedding sustainability into business practice and creating shared value for all stakeholders nothing more than empty rhetoric?

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