Jerome Touze, the French co-founder of London based Wayn.com, the social travel and lifestyle community, is setting up an office in Cape Town from where the company can service one of its biggest clients, South African Tourism.
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Minus Machine, Habari Media looks ahead
Amidst the recent flurry of activity around the launch of its new sister company, Machine, Habari Media continues on its way as one of the top digital sales houses in the country.
Facebook in South Africa – the numbers
South Africans have embraced the social network in force. Official figures put the number of South Africans accessing Facebook at 4.8 million (of which 3.5 million access it via internet as well as via mobile devices).
The great Internet shift
The switch-on of the WACS cable, the first in-flight WiFi in South Africa and the latest Internet stats made for a big Internet week.
Awards Candy – SA app start-up signing global award shows
Wallace Seggie, a South African creative director, has developed an app that brings together in one place award winning work from a number of the worlds’ largest advertising festivals.
Internet Access in South Africa to hit 20% penetration by 2013
The following is a tweetnote presentation – 10 tweets on the same topic – on the Internet Access in SA 2012 study for the 2012 Netprophet conference recently held in Cape Town.
The keys to BlackBerry’s revival
In the new BlackBerry 10 operating system unveiled last week, Research in Motion is drawing on the powerful legacy of its cutting edge keypad technology.
The rise of Machine
So there is this online media sales house right, small fry really, just one guy selling space on a website at a time when internet advertising was fairly undeveloped in the South African market. It’s not really even a sales house, more like a sales guy with a bit of ambition.
Mobile device brands that are gaining in Africa
By targeting specific market segments, rival phone makers are taking on the seemingly unstoppable Samsung and Apple.
Rocket Internet enters SA market with Zando, numerous ecommerce plays
Zando, a new online fashion ecommerce play funded by Germany-based Rocket Internet, launched three months ago and is literally aiming to rocket through the online retail market to be in the same league like services such as Kalahari.net and Takelot.com.