Section - E-Commerce

‘Prove you’re human’ is the wrong security question in agentic commerce

by Allan Davison | July 23, 2026 | E-Commerce Trends, Technology Areas | 0 Comments

Bots are no longer the enemy, and the inversion dilemma is real, explains Judy Winn, CISO at Peach Payments. For 20 years, payment security treated bots as the enemy. Agentic commerce just flipped that assumption upside down. Over the last year, agentic commerce has...

Payments are costing online businesses more than they think

by Allan Davison | July 14, 2026 | E-Commerce Trends, Technology Areas | 0 Comments

As Africa’s digital payments market grows, ecommerce businesses need to treat checkout as part of the customer experience, not just the final step in a sale Jonatan Allbäck, CEO and co-founder of NjiaPay Nobody builds an online store hoping customers will give up at...

SA set to experience first Amazon Prime Day

by Allan Davison | June 23, 2026 | E-Commerce, Technology Areas | 0 Comments

Prime Day, Amazon’s flagship annual global shopping event exclusive to Prime members, is taking place for the first time in South Africa from 23 to 29 June. Anyone can sign up to Amazon Prime for a 30-day free trial or join Prime billed monthly at R59/month or...

SA businesses must become ‘unmissable’ to AI

by Allan Davison | June 9, 2026 | E-Commerce Trends, Technology Areas | 0 Comments

It has happened before. Physical commerce brought products closer to consumers through stores, malls and distribution networks, making access easier and more immediate. By Adheesh Ori, customer and growth lead for consumer goods and services: retail and automotive at...

Realtime bidding to change Web ad sales

by Allan Davison | Feb 11, 2013 | E-Commerce Trends, Technology Areas | 0 Comments

Realtime bidding for online display advertising could help South African publishers to sell more of their inventory at a lower cost and for a higher price if it is wisely exploited. So says Attila Bernariusz, divisional head at Kagiso Digital, one of South Africa's...

Online collaboration aids property transfer

by Allan Davison | Feb 4, 2013 | E-Commerce, Technology Areas | 0 Comments

Buying a property is something that most consumers will only go through a few times in their lives. As a result, would-be homeowners have come to grudgingly accept the arduous nature of the property transfer process, taking comfort in the fact that it needn’t be...

Samsung launches VPP portal

by Allan Davison | Jan 14, 2013 | E-Commerce, Technology Areas | 0 Comments

Since its introduction, the Samsung VIP Purchase Programme (VPP) has provided professional organisations with access to an exclusive e-commerce portal that has the latest Samsung products available for purchase. “Samsung is committed to providing consumers with the...