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North Africa

Egypt: Jumia opens up to retailers

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The “Shop-in-shop” concept on JUMIA Egypt provides access to JUMIA’s own nationwide shipping fleet, storage facilities, customer service platforms and offer buyers flexible payment methods. “The opportunity is huge”, said Mattia Perroni, CEO of Jumia Egypt. “Through a simple comparison...
Company News

EOH SAP Services expands offering into Retail Market

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The retail industry is a fascinating place to be. Consumer demands are increasing at a higher rate than ever before, cross communication and collaboration has never been so important and it doesn’t stop there. The ability to interact with customers...
Retail

South Africa’s retailers leading way in enabling mobile payments

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Turning our mobile phones into wallets has been a dream for a long time. The phone in your pocket is already an address book, camera, diary, music player, GPS system, notebook, dictaphone, photo album and general factotum – why...
Mobile and Telecoms

Airtel Nigeria in retail partnership with Konga

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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...
Mobile and Telecoms

SA’s Retail Motor Industry to launch own telecommunications company

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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...
Retail

Mobile app model takes mobile retail mainstream

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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...
Enterprise IT

Retail software developer taps into finance market

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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...
Mobile and Telecoms

Absa starts NFC trials for retail

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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...
Gadgets and Gaming

SA might get Microsoft retail store

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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...
Retail

Using tech to add value to retail banking

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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...
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