Posts by Alastair Tempest

In the November edition, I promised to give a fuller report on 2019’s Black Friday. Already at the end of November, it was obvious that Black Friday has evolved from…

According to Irish Tech News here are 5 major technologies that will impact digital marketing in 2020. Google Home and Amazon Alexa are excellent voice assistants. Today, most individuals who…

Written by: Christopher Haymon Are you trying to save more money? Whether you are trying to pay off debt, save up for your dream vacation, or put money away for…

The Annual Africa Investment Forum is designed to help structure projects and broker deals and has established itself. The Forum is a deal-making platform in the truest sense of the…

Jack Ma launches the Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI) Award TheJack Ma Foundation offers $1 million worth of prizes to 10 African entrepreneurs winners. First prize this year went to…

Three years since the launch of UPI (Unified Payments Interface), the system is dealing with nearly 1 bn transactions per month. In September UPI clocked 955 million transactions, amounting to…

Bank Zero, a new mutual bank being set up in SA has announced that it has patented advanced security features for bank cards that will minimise the negative impact of…

According to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) this month its members started discussions on how to develop coherent ways to test, measure and demonstrate the safety and quality of products.…

SEO is one of the most important ecommerce marketing tools. Correctly applied SEO has a powerful impact for an e-shop long-term, but now SEO is changing. Last year, Moz and…

I moderated a session at the recent SAIIA conference on 4IR, with two SAIIA papers and interventions from CSIR and SADAC. This leads to SAIIA deciding to do a paper…