IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS Why Demo Africa is taking place in Morocco this year[Tom Jackson] Demo Africa will take place in Morocco for the first time after previous editions in Nairobi, Lagos and Johannesburg, with the organisers already touring the continent picking contestants... | |
RETAIL Moroccan e-commerce platform Hmizate expands into fintech[Tom Jackson] Moroccan company Hmizate, which since 2011 has provided an e-commerce platform offering users access to goods, food, travel services and deals, has expanded into fintech with the launch of HmizatePay... | |
IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS Casablanca to host Afrikonnect event later this month"Sofitel Tour Casablanca" by TarikossMazti - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons | |
MARKETING & MEDIA The World's Online Populations[Andre Rademan] CyberAtlas keeps an updated list of how many people are online in every country with the winners being United States (168m), Germany (26m), Japan (22m). South Africa comes in at 1.5 million users (Nielsen//NetRatings). The percentages of people online indicating the extent of the digital divide are United States (60%), UK (55%), Germany (31%), Italy (19%), France (18%) and South Africa (3.5%). | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Saudi Arabia joins Zain's One Network[Gregory Gondwe] Zain Malawi announced that Malawians can now easily link with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, after launching commercial services on 26 August 2008, in that country. | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Design is the new gold[Terry Levin] The contingent of design devotees at the milestone 10th Design Indaba which opened at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town yesterday, Wednesday 21 February, is this year encouragingly made up of 56% business decision-makers, with approximately 20% of delegates from destinations as far afield as the Netherlands and Nigeria. | |
Simone Puterman commented on Anti-Telkom ads run todayBetween Telkom and Eskom, is anyone getting any work done? | |
MARKETING & MEDIA Forlorn, forgotten forerunner of cosmopolitan South Africa[Richard Clarke] Remember the trendy, hip place that was the place to be. Yeoville in the 80's. Whether the place went down before the marketability edge was lost or the market was moved to more trendy places and things leaving a vacuum is a moot point. |