Cape Town-based start-up Magnetic wants to be the all-in-one solution for small and medium business management in South Africa, turning the not-so-glamourous management of company processes into an online platform accessible
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A new South African app, being launched on Friday, is hoping to be partygoers’ real-time digital catalogue for places to go and people to see this festive season and beyond. Trender is a location-based photo app that allows users to see where your friends are, where they’re going and the photos they’ve
Updating contact information with suppliers can be tedious when you move house or change your contact information in some other way. Now, a South African start-up wants to do away with all of that PT and make is quick and simple for anyone to update their contact details with any of
Desperate for your favourite international band to tour South Africa? You will soon be able to do more than just wish quietly for it to happen thanks to a new crowdsourcing platform that wants to give music fans a voice. Inbound Sound wants to give South Africans a voice about which acts
A Johannesburg start-up has been launched to take charge of the storage and distribution needs of e-commerce companies in South Africa. ParcelNinja was formed when online shopping website Wantitall decided to take charge of its logistics infrastructure to improve its own service and delivery
A new website that maps start-ups in Cape Town wants to encourage better connections between the various new businesses in the city by giving them the opportunity to put themselves on the map – literally. Mapped in Cape Town went live on Monday and is
Barcodes and quick-response (QR) tags have become part of the most common technologies for tracking and cataloguing objects. One South…
South African start-up RiCharge has made a business out of developing solutions to help people keep their smartphones charged. It provides charging solutions for smartphones and tablets in the hospitality, health and education sectors and has just launched a new product to give
In the past couple of years, start-ups — especially in the technology sector – have at long last been given a bit more time in the spotlight. This has mostly coincided with endeavours like Silicon Cape and the passion of a handful of individuals — entrepreneurs, investors and geeks – to create more of an
WumDrop, a Cape Town start-up, has designs on becoming the Uber of courier services in South Africa, and it has set it sights on the broader African continent, too. Uber is the on-demand taxi service that uses a smartphone app to bring drivers and passengers together. Co-founder of WumDrop