Jumia brings retail award home to Africa
Nigerian e-commerce site Jumia has won The Best Retail Launch of the Year at the World Retail Congress in Paris, becoming the first African company to take home this prestigious award. The event is run by the publishing company EMAP and discusses issues affecting the...rAge 2013 breaks attendance records
rAge 2013 broke its own attendance records, with 32 626 gamers, tech consumers and computer fanatics – 13% more than last year – attending the expo. At rAge, gamers got the opportunity to hold the controllers of unreleased consoles in their hands for the very first...FNB, Paperight named as top innovators
First National Bank (FNB) and Paperight were last night named the Innovation Masters of the inaugural Accenture Innovation Index in South Africa. The Innovation Index aims to measure, promote and reward innovative ideas and commercial concepts across the public and...Toll-free framework pushed back again
Consumers making “toll-free” calls from one of the 59-million mobile phones in use in South Africa should acquaint themselves with the meaning of “oxymoron”. That’s according to Switch Telecom’s Greg Massel, who says South African consumers can only be...SA start-up makes it to World Bank finals
Cape Town-based GoMetro, a mobile start-up company in the transport sector, is a global finalist in the VentureOut Challenge, an initiative of infoDev, a World Bank agency. GoMetro was selected from among 113 international entries to compete against 12 other mobile...