Black Friday: the countdown begins

The biggest online shopping day of the year, Black Friday, is just four weeks away and South African shoppers are urged to get ready for the expected sales. Black Friday falls on 24 November 2017, so product discovery and comparison service PriceCheck will be offering...

New investment for Direct Pay Online Group

Direct Pay Online Group (DPO) has received a second investment of $5-million from the UK-based private equity fund, Apis Partners. This investment, which follows the initial $10M investment made last year, will be used to fuel DPO Group’s ambitious strategic plan...

Hangman innovators down to top 9

Zithande Mbala, the inventor of smart toilet paper iWipe, has become the first finalist to leave Cell C’s reality show Hangman. The remaining nine contestants will do battle for R1-million on the show, hosted by Maps Maponyane and broadcast on e.tv on Sundays at...

Apple halts Chinese decline, grows by 40%

Chinese smartphone shipments registered another quarter of decline as the market contracted 5% in Q3 2017 to 119-million units. The race to the top remains tight as Huawei, Oppo and Vivo took 19%, 18% and 17% market share respectively. Huawei grew shipments by 23%,...

Top 20 finalists for small business awards

Ending off its ninth year, The National Small Business Chamber (NSBC), in association with World Famous Events, has announced South Africa’s 2017 Top 20 Small Business & Entrepreneurship Award recipients and finalists.  “We are astounded at the...
SA employees have faith …

SA employees have faith …

Most South African employees — 73% of them – believe their business leaders can make a success of their organisations amid the turmoil of digital disruption, political and economic uncertainty and the skills gap. Meanwhile, only 5% of South Africans,...