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The final panel at The Israel Conference crowded themselves onto the stage, three judges and five digital entertainment start-ups in a simulated Hollywood pitch meeting. The most valuable lesson was the insight into how ideas are sold in the entertainment…

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Imagine a comedian one-part Borscht Belt and one-part Monty Python is asked to do a PowerPoint presentation. Mix a little technology into the mix and then add charm, charisma and wit. Yossi Vardi flies through one hilarious slide after another…

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Jeff Pulver moderated the Fast & Cool session at the Israel Conference this past week. Of those talking about their products and services were Stardoll’s Matt Palmer, which offers online paper dolls and has 32 million registered users and NewDealDesign’s…

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The Israel Conference is taking place in Los Angeles today, a collection of entrepreneurs, industry leaders, financiers, visionaries and other influencers who want to expand business opportunities between California and Israel. There is a buzz in the room as conference…

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South Africans voted for party and president yesterday, and though the ANC is going to maintain its 15-year hold on power in SA post-apartheid, it is unclear whether the party will gain a 2/3 majority necessary to change the constitution….

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We hear from Prophet at the Credo Mutwa Cultural Village, an outdoor museum tucked in a hillside park in the Jabavu section of Soweto. The village is named after its creator, an artist, author and healer who began building the…

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Another recent Sowetan triumph is the Maponya Mall. With more than 180 tenants and 1.5 million monthly visitors, it’s Soweto’s first major upmarket retail space. It was built by Richard Maponya, an entrepreneur who bought the land in the 1980s…

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Graeme Addison, a South African journalist who was on the scene at the Soweto uprising of June 16, 1976, tells us what he saw that day. Graeme speaks from the site of the Hector Pieterson memorial, commemorating one of the…

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The number of Starbucks in South Africa. Another reason to love the place.

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