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Samsung Electronics' mobile division chief JK Shin says they are still seeking to resolve differences in its international patent war with Apple.
The US and other members of the G8 industrial nations agree that Europe's financial crisis must be addressed with a mix of growth and austerity measures, says Obama.
The government’s intervention team in Limpopo has scrapped a R320m textbook tender that was controversially awarded to a company controlled by former government officials.
Europeans are avoiding vacations to Greece this summer fearing instability sparked by the debt crisis, says industry sources.
US President Barack Obama hailed progress made in tackling Europe's economic crisis at the end of a G8 summit.
The historic initial public offering of Facebook did not go as planned as stock closed nearly flat.
Confidence in the manufacturing sector remained stable in the first quarter of the year, says the Manufacturing Circle.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan urged increased South African economic involvement in Africa.
VOTING: Democratic Party leader and and presidential candidate Boris Tadic casts his ballot at a polling station in Serbia. Voting has begun in Serbia's presidential runoff election. (AP)
Lockheed Martin says it had negotiated new contracts with two smaller unions at its Texas plant, even as a strike by the larger machinists union stretched into a fifth week.
SA Airways launched their new route from Johannesburg to Cotonou in Benin.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that Germany's economic health depends on that of the European Union, even though exports to the region are at a 20-year low.
Google says that Chinese authorities have approved its $12.5bn purchase of Motorola, which would allow Google to develop its own line of smart phones.
The department of trade and industry must withdraw a letter ending the contract of National Consumer Commission (NCC) head Mamodupi Mohlala-Mulaudzi, says the Labour Court.
The shale gas under the Karoo is a God-given blessing and it would be wrong not to exploit it, Energy Minister Dipuo Peters has told MPs.
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says the problem of creating jobs for young people is a matter of urgency and cannot be indefinitely deferred.
Holdsport has reported a strong set of maiden results for the year ended February 2012 with core headline earnings per share rising 22.5% to 387.4 cents.
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The fuel price will drop significantly in June, says the energy minister.
Jimmy Manyi says a default by Sanral on its R20bn debt "is not an option".
State coffers will aid SAA's Africa expansion drive, says Malusi Gigaba.
Western firms have found vast new gas fields off the East African coast.
Sanral engineering executive Koos Smit will take over as CEO in June.
Sars says it will take on rampant tax fraud in the construction sector.
South African National Roads Agency Limited CEO Nazir Alli has resigned.
The economy shed 75 000 jobs in the first quarter of the year.
The European Commission and the European Central Bank are working on an emergency scenario in case Greece has to leave the eurozone, says an EU official.
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