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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…

At the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) conference in Cape Town RMB’s economist, Celeste Fauconnier pointed out that the 3 biggest hurdles hampering business in Africa are liquidity,…

Africa can capitalise on international trade wars by stepping up its export capabilities. African countries have a lot to gain from a US-China trade war, with opportunities for the Continent…

According to a new report by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), Africans are charged on average 7.1% of their monthly salary for a gigabyte of mobile data, more than…

Nothing has moved on the adoption of the Bill, which remains before the National Council of Provinces, although it is hoped that the NCP will agree on the Bill and return…