Standard Bank ready for smartcard ID rollout

Standard Bank has confirmed that it will roll out new smartcard IDs at branches countrywide, as announced by the Minister of Home Affairs, Malusi Gigaba, earlier this week. Sibongiseni Ngundze, head of retail banking at Standard Bank, says: “We always aim to put...

Guma plans to buy, delist Gijima

Yebo Guma Investments has made an offer to acquire all of Gijima’s shares, following which it plans to delist the company from the JSE Securities Exchange. Guma has made an offer to acquire all of the remaining shares in the issued ordinary share capital of Gijima,...

SAP’s HANA brings live World Cup info home

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has partnered with SAP as its exclusive analytics and cloud partner for the Cricket World Cup tournament, using the in-memory HANA platform to power live match experiences across the ICC’s network of Web sites. As a result, fans...

Tech sector boasts the most valuable brands

Technology companies once again dominate the list of the world’s most valuable brands. Apple is the most valuable brand in the latest listing by Brand Finance. Although not quite on a par with Ferrari or Lego in terms of brand strength, Apple still has a very powerful...

Lower oil price means new approach in Africa

Oil and gas explorers must rethink their capital expenditure on exploration activity across the African continent in the wake of the significant drop in the global oil price, according to an analysis on the oil and gas industry in Africa released by PwC. “Oil and gas...

Mobile still top of retailers’ priorities

As more consumers take to smartphones and tablets to shop for their favourite brands, retailers agree that keeping mobile at the top of their marketing priority lists is a smart move. According to the 2015 Shop.org/Forrester Research State of Retailing Online, mobile...