South Africa, Page 108
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Wed, June 26th, 15:36 · Richard Cutcher
Vodacom offer Q5 in SA
The BlackBerry Q5 is available in South Africa through Vodacom from today (Thursday), on both prepaid and contract packages. → Read more
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Wed, June 26th, 15:26 · Nanine Steenkamp
Mobile advertising about function, not device, expert says
Mobile advertising is more about the device ability than the phone as a key role player in the growing e-commerce and trade industry, Quirk predictions have revealed. → Read more
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Wed, June 26th, 15:00 · Kamau Mbote
Branded content pulls on heartstrings and is the future
Branded content is the future of effective advertising, according to Launch Factory managing director Spero Patricios, who believes it is the best way to get around consumer frustration. → Read more
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Wed, June 26th, 14:40 · Tom Jackson
MTN SA appoints new enterprise business division head
MTN South Africa has appointed its chief technical officer Lambo Kanagaratnam to head up its enterprise business division, with Eben Albertyn leaving Airtel Africa to replace him. → Read more
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Wed, June 26th, 14:03 · Nanine Steenkamp
Bozza all for piracy
Artist promotion platform Bozza believes piracy can play a positive role in the exposure of local artists as part of providing digital African content. → Read more
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Wed, June 26th, 12:55 · Nanine Steenkamp
Orange to provide more open, local services to Africa
Orange is planning to provide more democratised services through local partnerships to African countries within the next few years. → Read more
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Wed, June 26th, 12:31 · Nanine Steenkamp
Digitisation of Africa will drive democracy
The digitisation of processes across Africa should not be driven by financial gains, but promote employment on the continent, Nigeria-based Anabel Leadership Academy believes. → Read more
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Wed, June 26th, 11:55 · Brandon Gregory
Naspers: MultiChoice is focusing on online content
Eben Greyling, chief executive officer (CEO) of Pay-TV Platforms at Naspers, has said MultiChoice is focusing on increasing its online content in the wake of growing internet penetration in Africa. → Read more
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Wed, June 26th, 10:17 · Richard Cutcher
MasterCard’s mobile money entry in Egypt unlikely to set a trend
Cases of card companies such as Visa and MasterCard working with networks to introduce mobile money in Africa are going to be rare, according to a South African banking and mobile expert. → Read more
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Wed, June 26th, 10:12 · Tom Jackson
BlackBerry Jam sessions hitting SA in July
The BlackBerry Jam Africa and Middle East Tour is coming to South Africa in July, offering developers in the country a chance to experiment with the range of development tools on the BlackBerry platform. → Read more
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Wed, June 26th, 09:29 · Brandon Gregory
ADC as a service delivers better ROI
By managing application delivery infrastructure effectively within application delivery controllers (ADCs), businesses can experience time-to-market improvements, service agility and provide an enhanced user experience, according to Brent Lees, senior product manager of Riverbed Technology. → Read more
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Wed, June 26th, 08:36 · Nanine Steenkamp
Facebook commerce a growing future trend, Zunguz says
Facebook social commerce is a growing trend as part of brand engagement in the online social trading space, social money platform company Zunguz has said. → Read more
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Tue, June 25th, 16:43 · Nanine Steenkamp
Operators and banks a marriage made in hell, expert says
The possibility of collaborations between banks and network operators is highly contested amongst industry players as the success of mobile money grows across Africa. → Read more
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Tue, June 25th, 15:52 · Brandon Gregory
The slowest smartphone revealed
Apple’s iPhone 5 has been labelled the slowest smartphone compared to its rivals, according to an industry recognised test carried out by UK watchdog Which?. → Read more
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Tue, June 25th, 15:13 · Brandon Gregory
OUTA raises concerns over GFIP collusion fines
The Opposition to Urban Tolling Alliance (OUTA) has welcomed the Competition Commission’s decision to fine 15 construction groups a collective ZAR1.4 billion (US$140 million) for the settling of a multi year investigation into bid rigging, but raised concerns over the leniency of the fines. → Read more
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Tue, June 25th, 14:57 · Richard Cutcher
Group dating site launched in South Africa
South Africa’s latest dating platform has been launched, aiming to remove the awkwardness from one-on-one dates and instead looking to pair two groups of friends. → Read more
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Tue, June 25th, 14:24 · Tom Jackson
SA copper theft falls in May
The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci) has announced copper theft decreased in value last month by ZAR1 million (US$100,000), a continuation in the recent decline in theft levels. → Read more
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Tue, June 25th, 14:10 · Nanine Steenkamp
Tech saves lives on Cape Flats – RLabs
Technology’s role in social reconstruction is saving lives and teaching startups, entrepreneurs and marketing agents to turn around negative community grass roots perceptions for positive development. → Read more
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Tue, June 25th, 14:02 · Nanine Steenkamp
Apps key to African connection building
App development is one of the key drivers of local mobile projects to drive connections in the African diaspora, web and mobile services provider People Input believes. → Read more
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Tue, June 25th, 13:19 · Brandon Gregory
Naspers records profit increase
South African multimedia giant Naspers has reported a full-year profit increase of 23 per cent following growth in DStv subscribers as well as as an increase in internet revenue. → Read more
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