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Will Tanzania’s Finance Bill stymie Internet growth?
Amendments to Tanzania’s recently passed Finance Bill 2013 has ushered in a 14,5% excise duty on all mobile airtime, mobile services, as well as landline and wireless telecommunication services. According to research Tanzanians will have to fork out more for…
Airtel Nigeria in retail partnership with Konga
Telecoms giant, Airtel Nigeria has partnered with online retail outfit, Konga, to offer consumers on the network a range of data services with the purchase of any blackberry and smartphone device from Konga. The partnership, which focuses on prepaid consumers of data…
SA’s Retail Motor Industry to launch own telecommunications company
South African Retail Motor Industry body, RMI, has joined forces with JSE listed TeleMasters Limited to lead up to what will be SA’s first industry-specific telecommunications company. The RMI represents around 7,500 motor industry members, including car rental firms, vehicle…
Mobile app model takes mobile retail mainstream
For more than a decade, mobile retail occupied a very narrow, highly profitable but insignificant niche involving small-ticket items like ringtones and wallpaper. Unstructured and fragmented, the industry doddered around in extended infancy, suffering reputational challenges along the way due…
Retail software developer taps into finance market
Alacrity Technologies (Pty) Ltd has announced that Argility has bought a majority stake in the privately held company. Argility is the leading developer and provider of software solutions and integration services to the retail sector in the Southern African region. Argility…
Absa starts NFC trials for retail
Absa has become the first bank in South Africa to roll out their NFC (near-field communication) trials for mobile phones. The trail will initially start with just 500 users, and should get underway in the middle of December. “Absa is…
SA might get Microsoft retail store
At Microsoft’s Tech-Ed and Partner Summit in Durban, Microsoft’s Customer and Partner Lead Leane Hannigan hinted to the fact that South Africa might be getting a South African Microsoft store. The company has dedicated stores in a number of regions,…
Using tech to add value to retail banking
With the growing popularity of the Internet, coupled with the fact that the branch is a high cost centre for any bank, an increasing proportion of banking has been migrated over to the online channel in recent years to reduce…
Safaricom taps into retail chains with M-Pesa
MOBILE telecoms firm, Safaricom, has scored yet another first by signing a partnership deal with local supermarkets that will see it tap into the high turnover retail chains’ business using its money transfer service, M-Pesa. The deal, which will enable…
SAP supports Ghana’s oil and mining industries
SAP has partnered with GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit) GmbH, acting on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development to support Ghana in meeting the global standard for transparency in the oil and mining industries…
De Beers Begins Mining the Web
De Beers and its diamonds are entering cyberspace. This month, De Beers Diamond Jewelers, the joint venture between South African mining firm De Beers SA and luxury conglomerate LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, is launching e-commerce on its Web site…
