South Africa’s largest flower and gifting service, NetFlorist, is mimoney’s newest retail partner. NetFlorist, with its wide range of floral arrangements and quality gifts, joins a growing list of mimoney partners including Ster Kinekor, Mr. Delivery, kalahari.net, G-connect, MXit, eXactMobile and eDreams.

The Grad Shack, in partnership with ShopDirect, has introduced an online facility whereby students can now buy and re-sell their used textbooks and study guides.

Online retailer NetFlorist entrenched itself more firmly as South Africa’s leading flower and gifting service with the opening of a hub in Pretoria in December 2009.

One of South Africa’s largest e-tailers, eDreams.co.za, has announced that the internet shopping service will be accepting mimoney as a way of paying for goods on the site.

PokerStars.com, the world’s largest poker site, has chosen Ukash, which has the largest prepaid cash-issuing estate in the world, as the alternative payment method of choice for its South Africa operation, allowing consumers to place bets safely online using cash.

It’s now even easier for South Africans to pay and get paid via their cellphones. Pocit, the secure, cost-effective and easy-to-use cellphone payments system that allows individuals and merchants to make and receive payments knowing only the other party’s cellphone number, has released an upgraded version after seven months of extensive development and testing.

It’s open season in the classifieds industry, with lots of big-name international players moving in and lots of exciting changes on the horizon.

Repetition has been proven to increase recall and comprehension, particularly if the message is complex. However, in marketing, messaging can lose its effectiveness if people are overexposed to it.

McAfee has revealed the power of security to get consumers to click "buy," in its study Digital Window Shopping: The Long Journey to Buy.

While many South African home buyers turn to the internet as their first, initial port of call when researching the market for a new home, for overseas purchasers it's an obvious means of exploring the residential property market in a foreign country.

The 2010 FIFA World Cup is around the corner and South African businesses in all provinces are anticipating a huge boost in economic growth as the country becomes flooded with tourists and national migrants alike to experience this spectacular event.

I often receive requests to diagnose and prescribe solutions to remedy the poor showing of a corporate web site in search engine results, writes Howard Rybko, director at Syncrony.