Samsung Pay went live in South Africa on Tuesday in beta form, with Absa clients getting exclusive access and Standard Bank to follow “soon”. Nafisa Akabor put it to the test.
Stellenbosch’s SnapScan, whose smartphone application won MTN Business’s 2013 App of the Year award this week, is betting that consumers will take to the idea of making in-store payments using their mobile phones instead of credit or debit cards. SnapScan falls under FireID
The Dryver mobile application is Tops at Spar’s initiative to reduce drunk driving by allowing people to create a network of friends using the contact on their phones that can then be used to arrange a lift home when they’ve had too much to drink. Users can set their status to
Retail group Spar has teamed up with Telkom and international network optimisation company Expand Networks in a R20m deal to boost the speed of the 900 telecommunications links that connect its franchise stores.
A “land grab” is under way in SA’s cellphone and banking industries as big companies — retailers, banks and telecommunications operators — begin vying for a…
Hot on the heels of reports that Vodacom is poised to tie up with Nedbank to launch Vodafone’s M-Pesa mobile phone payments system in SA, Standard…
If you go to the Broadacres SuperSpar in Johannesburg’s far north, you’ll notice something out of the ordinary on the shelves. In the place of the…