Apple Inc is facing a class-action lawsuit over claims it overcharged nearly 20 million customers for App Store purchases...
Digital marketplaces such as Amazon, Alibaba, click and collect models, and food delivery ecosystems have rapidly changed consumer behaviour, and increased the demand for convenience...
Haydn Townsend 3 May 2021
Fresh to the local startup scene is Yakha, a new digital marketplace for the African built environment which aims to simplify...
Sindy Peters 17 Mar 2021
Yakha African Architecture aims to become the largest online source for knowledge, collaboration and products for the African built environment...
The unforeseen disruption experienced in 2020 has prompted food and beverage producers to future proof their businesses as far as is possible. While uncertainty seems set to continue for some time...
Phil Lewis 19 Feb 2021
Data analytics in marketing is proving to be the competitive edge for organisations looking to make informed decisions and optimise their budgets...
Issued by Jellyfish South Africa 3 Feb 2021
In 2019, secondhand clothing expanded 21 times faster than conventional apparel retail did...
Hyejune Park and Cosette Marie Joyner Armstrong 11 Jan 2021
The African Development Bank's Fashionomics Africa initiative has launched an online competition to support designers of sustainable and circular fashion...
Many of the new, dynamic and nimble digital ecosystem, which have touched very sphere of banking and financial services, are the result of an alliance between fintech players and more established, traditional banking partners...
Andy Jury 11 Dec 2020
In a technologically advanced world that promotes fast-paced consumerism and instant gratification, 21st-century consumers have become that much more demanding...
Issued by Vyb 20 Nov 2020
It's more important than ever for marketers to understand how fluctuations and shifts in consumer behaviour affect one's brand position in the digital marketplace...
Issued by Jellyfish South Africa 31 Aug 2020
Digital transformation, at its core, has always been about future-proofing businesses for survival in increasingly digital economies. Unlike most of life, which has been turned on its head during the COVID-19 crisis, digital transformation remains the same, only with the future businesses were preparing for, much closer...
Heidi Custers 24 Jul 2020
To survive in today's new world, individuals, SMMEs and entrepreneurs are fast realising that they must do business online...
On 22 June 2020 the Presidency announced the commencement of several additional sections of the POPI Act and companies will have until 1 July 2021 to ensure they comply...
Ryan van de Coolwijk 24 Jun 2020
Fashion entrepreneurs, creatives and digital innovators joined in on Fashionomics Africa's new webinar series to discuss the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...
The modern world is facing a unique and unprecedented time. Lockdown and social distancing measures have been introduced across the globe, with South Africa implementing some of the strictest regulations.
Lucy Desai 29 May 2020
The African Development Bank's Fashionomics Africa initiative recently held a workshop in Nairobi, Kenya on how to establish a successful fashion brand, training 100 entrepreneurs from the textile, apparel and accessories industry...
Roan Mackintosh, MD at Incubeta recently spoke at the Cape Town and Johannesburg IAB Insight sessions on the trends that are transforming the digital economy and the future of work...
Jessica Tennant 8 Mar 2020
A new online marketplace to help SMMEs access the growing digital retail sector in Africa will launch by the end of March...
Digital traders would likely have heard of the recent changes to the Income Tax and VAT Acts introduced by the Finance Act, 2019 (the Act)...
John Syekei, Nikhil Hira, Denis Magonga and Angela Mukora 26 Feb 2020
France and the US have managed to avoid turning their recent trade skirmish into a war - for now...
Ruth Mason 10 Feb 2020
Fashionomics Africa's pilot phase of a digital marketplace is set to connect African creators with the world...
Kenya will start levying new tax on digital markets under a new law signed by the president early in November...
Mercy Muendo 9 Dec 2019
A major talking point at the recent Social Enterprise World Forum 2019 (SEWF) was the critical role social enterprises play in addressing many of the world's socio-economic challenges...
Future historians may well scramble to understand what was going on at the Media Freedom Conference in London and the simultaneous Social Media summit at the White House (held earlier this year in July). They will surely be confounded by media policy in the post-broadcast era by looking at these two events. And they will struggle to reconcile what is claimed to be policy against what is actually practised on the ground...
Derek Abdinor 16 Sep 2019
If all goes according to plan, French home improvement retailer Leroy Merlin, which opened its first South African store in September last year, will have invested R1bn into its SA operations by the start of 2020...
Traditional WAN infrastructures are struggling to keep up with the growth of SaaS applications providing critical business functions in enterprise branch offices...
Doros Hadjizenonos 13 Jun 2019
Migration to cloud-based compute and services platforms have allowed organisations to quickly adapt to the global transition to a digital economy...
Doros Hadjizenonos 21 May 2019
Bloomable, formerly known as SA Florist, has partnered with digital transformation specialist Bluegrass Digital to support the growing e-commerce business with big ambitions...
Issued by Bluegrass Digital 16 Apr 2019
Digital transformation is an often-misunderstood concept - meaning different things to different people - as countries and companies redefine 'digital' for the Fourth Industrial Revolution...
The advent of 5G networks is about much more than just incredibly fast speeds and more reliable connections...
Doros Hadjizenonos 28 Jan 2019
According to experts, the African population is expected to double by 2050, which means that food demand on the continent is expected to at least double by then...
Frédéric Massé 3 Dec 2018
Digitisation has forever changed the consumer buying experience. The internet was once a simple tool to browse options and compare prices but has now become...
Carmen Whateley 17 Oct 2018
The claim that cloud computing is radically transforming the way organisations (both big and small) do business, for better, agile and faster results, has become fact. However...
Anton Jacobsz 4 Sep 2018
In the modern business environment, one of the biggest make-or-break factors for small to medium-sized companies is creating and maintaining a strong online presence...
Earlier this year, it was widely reported that Zambia had passed a statutory ruling which instructed firms (affecting mostly mining), to transport at least 30% of its heavy and bulk freight volumes by rail...
Benji Coetzee 4 Jul 2018
Imperial Logistics has opened a second supply chain lab, this time in Cape Town. This is said to follow the success of its first supply chain lab in Berlin...
Co-founder of Kenyan transport ticketing startup BuuPass Iman Cooper has been selected to join the 22nd cohort of the Silicon Valley-based Blackbox Connect incubator...
Gabriella Mulligan 14 May 2018
In April of 2017 AutoTrader took a leap forward, saying #ByeByePrint to the AutoTrader classifieds magazine that had been the staple of the South African auto industry for 25 years...
Issued by AutoTrader 13 Apr 2018
From AI and data visualisation to cutting-edge segmentation and contextual marketing; industry players must have a firm grip on the latest trends...
Desiree Gullan 3 Jan 2018
Today's digital marketplace demands a data-centric mindset. Therefore, the most innovative and competitive companies are not just collecting but also deploying data to drive disruption...
Prathna Singh 27 Oct 2017
Lufthansa Group has partnered with Winding Tree which has dedicated itself to reorganising travel distribution. With a decentralised B2B marketplace system powering blockchain-based travel booking transactions...
Days after Amazon announced the launch of its first Middle East centres, online retailer Noon.com has gone live in the United Arab Emirates, boosting a rapidly nascent e-commerce sector in the Gulf.
The harsh reality is that local retailers are still very early on their journeys towards leveraging big data...
Garth Meier 18 Sep 2017
Agriculture and youth are a compatible pair, particularly in the African context. It has the remarkable potential to empower what will be the youngest and biggest workforce in the world by 2040...
Thapelo Moleleki 4 Sep 2017
This year's IAB Digital Summit, powered by Accenture Interactive, will explore the full spectrum of opportunities that digital brings to South African businesses...
Mastercard has launched a new digital marketplace for East African farmers to sell their crops and receive payment via their mobile telephones.
Tina Trinh 9 Feb 2017
BPA Worldwide has announced the first B2B private digital advertising marketplace for its members in the second quarter of 2017...
Mobile technology is allowing tech-savvy Africans to leapfrog western developers, developing African solutions to African problems...
Sulaiman Philip 27 Jun 2016
Watching this season's Game of Thrones, I can't help but see the world of Westeros and our own as surprisingly similar. Sure, there are fewer shadow assassins and dragons in our world...
Lee Naik 31 May 2016