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TalkCentral: Ep 200 – ‘Double century’

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Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg celebrate the 200th episode of TalkCentral. In the podcast this week, they chat about the dramatic fall in EOH’s share price and why it happened. Also this week, MultiChoice’s troubles over its channel supply

Standard Bank acquires SnapScan maker

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Standard Bank has acquired a majority stake in Firepay, the company that develops popular mobile payments platform SnapScan. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Firepay launched SnapScan in partnership with Standard Bank

Foschini bets big on e-commerce

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The Foschini Group, which owns a large number of well-known retail brands, including Foschini, Totalsports and @home, has launched head first into e-commerce, allowing customers to purchase goods across all of its stores online. The idea, according to the retail group, is to offer a seamless shopping

Cashless in SA: can it be done?

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In the past few months, South Africans have been introduced to a range of new mobile payment systems that turn ordinary smartphones into digital wallets, allowing people to pay for goods and services without cash or cards

TalkCentral: Ep 104 – ‘The outlook is Hlaudi’

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Welcome to another episode of South Africa’s leading weekly technology podcast, TalkCentral. In the show this week, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Regardt van der Berg talk about the unfolding crisis at the SABC and what it means. Also this week, they take a look at the new entrant in South Africa’s smartphone

Zapper eyes SA smartphone payments crown

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Zapper, a locally developed smartphone application that facilitates secure smartphone payments, has been launched in South Africa after the company behind it decided to explore international markets first. The app has already been launched in the UK, Australia, France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands