Posts by Alastair Tempest
Ecommerce Foundation Publishes its Report on Ecommerce in India
With both GDP and internet penetration on the rise, India offers a promising market for online retailers. However, lagging performance in areas such as logistics is holding back growth, according to…
Read MoreSo You Think Everyone Remembers Your Logo?
Adler, a British company that specializes in corporate gifting, asked 100 people to draw famous logos. Each participant was given paper, some coloured pens, and a list of 10 iconic…
Read MoreAmazon Business
Amazon’s business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce marketplace, Amazon Business, recorded over $10 billion in annualized sales as of September 2018 and is estimated to bring in $52 billion in sales and $31…
Read MoreNews From the WTO
The WTO has probably never been needed so much as at present with increasing trade wars between the US and China, the UK separating from the EU (‘Brexit”) and other…
Read MoreStrengthening Entrepreneurship Ecosystems in Africa
The annual African Economic Conference (AEC), jointly organized by the African Development Bank, the Economic Commission for Africa and the United Nations Development Programme, to discuss pertinent issues affecting the…
Read MoreChatbots – New Developments, New Threats and New Opportunities
The recent Intercom survey of 500 US business leaders (reported in Forbes) on Chatbots claims that business saved an average of $300,000 in 2019 thanks to chatbots, with the greatest…
Read MoreCross-Border Ecommerce Trade and the Foreign Exchange Challenge
At some point ecommerce in African countries will only grow and expand if it can sell across national borders. This point obviously differs between countries – the national ecommerce marketplace…
Read MoreUNCTAD’s Ecommerce Survey 2019 and The Need for Better Statistics
This month UNCTAD issued its annual ecommerce report, which shows that Europe remains by far the most prepared region for B2C ecommerce, with 8 countries ranking in the top 10…
Read MoreSecurity in Mobile Digital Banking – Visa’s new move
Continuing on another security issue, the Financial Inclusion Global Initiative (FIGI) is designed to advance research in digital finance and accelerate financial inclusion in developing countries. FIGI is led by…
Read MoreMerry Cybercrime Season
Readers of this Newsletter will be familiar with EFSA’s concerns over cybercrime in South Africa and on the Continent. We have pointed out that the majority of people living on…
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