Tag Archives: Cape Town
Art In Public Spaces Puts Cape Town In The Spotlight For March 2012
The Africa Centre’s, Infecting The City Public Arts Festival, will explode on to the streets and public spaces of Cape Town for the fifth time from the 5th to the 10th March 2012.
Infecting The City is by far the largest and most diverse annual public arts festival in South Africa. This year, celebrated local and [...]
Boom! Richard Branson Selects Eight Of South Africa’s Best And Brightest Entrepreneurs
This week, coinciding with Global Entrepreneur Week, the Branson Centre For Entrepreneurship selected eight of their brightest and finest to travel to Tech City, the world famous entrepreneur hub in the East End of London.
The eight delegates dubbed themselves the Boom!Crew, and chose the strapline ‘a force for good’ inspired by Virgin Unite’s focus [...]
New Branson Centre CEO: ‘Business Can Be A Force For Good’
The recently appointed CEO of the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship and Virgin Unite Africa, Tracey Webster, today announced plans to continue building on the vision of the Centre’s founder, Sir Richard Branson, by encouraging its entrepreneurs to put people and planet at the core of their businesses.
This comes during Global Entrepreneurship Week (14 – 20 [...]
Top Entrepreneurs Gather In Johannesburg This Week For GEW
“Entrepreneurship is the only way for South Africa to create jobs and transform its economy” says Malik Fal, MD of Endeavor SA.
A few years ago a distinguished American institution called the Kauffman Foundation launched “Global Entrepreneurship Week,” an initiative aimed at establishing Entrepreneurship as the leading force for sustainable economic development in emerging countries.
In [...]
Groupon SA Launches Android And iPhone App
Groupon SA announced yesterday that they’re offering a new way to subscribe, buy, manage and redeem Groupons: directly from Android Smartphones.
In response to the dramatic increase in the number of smartphones in the South African market, Groupon South Africa today announced the launch of the official Groupon application for the i-Phone and Android Smartphones, as [...]
Global Entrepreneurship Week Is Two Weeks Away: What Is It And Why Should You Care?
GEW is a global initiative whereby for one week, millions of people and corporate companies around the world join a growing movement of entrepreneurial people, to generate new ideas and to seek better ways of doing things. Countries across six continents and over 120 countries come together to celebrate Global Entrepreneurship Week, an initiative to [...]
Cape Town Named World Design Capital 2014: What It Means
This morning at around 6:20am South African time, the announcement came from Taipei that Cape Town has been awarded the crown of World Design Capital 2014. Since the announcement, it seems that half the people on SA social media circuit are jumping up and down celebrating, and the other half scratching their heads, asking “World [...]
2 Days To World Design Capital 2014 Announcement: How You Can Get Involved
The long anticipated announcement of World Design Capital 2014 is only 2 days away. We at Ideate, being a Cape Town-based blog, are counting sleeps to Wednesday (the 26th of October) at 7am.
So what does this mean?
When (NOT IF) Cape Town is awarded with this prestigious title, it will mean having an experience much [...]
Local Group Buying Company CityMob Introduces In-Facebook Deals
CityMob is one of a plethora of group buying startups that have flooded the market. In a highly competitive market, CityMob has distinguished itself by focusing on building a strong community using social networking platforms like Facebook.
Yesterday CityMob launched ‘CityMob Fan Deals’, which is a first for a group buying company in South Africa. [...]
1 Min. With A Superhero: ORM Expert Tim Shier
We caught up with Tim Shier, the Managing Director of BrandsEye, one of a handful of South African companies lighting up the tech segment. Brandseye assists companies to monitor and manage their online reputation by tracking and measuring key words and phrases relating to their brand. Brandseye is being used by small, medium and big [...]
