Fingerprint tech to boost local e-commerce

Jun 24, 2014

Apple’s iPhone 5S and the recently launched Samsung S5 have impressed consumers with the new biometric fingerprint authentication technology which the manufacturers have added to the models. According to Simon Leps, CEO of Fontera Digital Works, although many...

Sub-Saharan Africa to see e-tailing growth

Jun 20, 2014

Over the next 10 years, online retail will continue to gain popularity in both developed and emerging markets, and as a result logistics companies are set to play a key role in providing vital supply chain management solutions that are able to evolve with consumers’ changing shopping habits.

Developers, payment services must co-operate

Jun 11, 2014

The quality of the relationship between a Web developer and a payment services provider is one of the key ingredients of a successful e-commerce Web site, says Michael Richards of SiteMeUp Online Marketing. “Our job is to help our clients grow their business online,”...

A local perspective on online classifieds

Jun 10, 2014

Felix Erken, MD of Junk Mail Classifieds, looks at the local lessons learned in the online classified space. In the more than 25 years that I have spent doing business, and more particularly in my time at Junk Mail, I have learnt that South Africans are not easily...

uAfrica.com, Shopify grow African e-commerce

Jun 2, 2014

uAfrica.com, a South African e-commerce technology company, has partnered with Shopify, a leading commerce platform that specialises in powerful solutions for retailers to sell online and in-store, to provide its services to the South African market. South Africans...