Should post-Covid reimagining prompt African SMEs to revisit their business models?

by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Trends and Analysis

For every company, innovation is tremendously important, but in many cases, innovation is only associated with new products or technical renewals. By Soromfe Uzomah, Head: Strategic Partnerships, Microsoft 4Afrika However, business model innovations can be...

The difference between lithium iron and lithium-ion

by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Trends and Analysis

Lithium iron phosphate batteries are part of a group of batteries called lithium-ion batteries. Specifying that a battery is a lithium iron, or lithium iron phosphate, battery implies a host of characteristics which are important when choosing a battery type and...

South Africans still excluded from financial services

by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Events/Report-backs

Kathy Gibson reports – The South African financial market is a paradox in that a majority of people have bank accounts, but 80% of them don’t have access to financial services. Khulekani Mathe, head of financial inclusion at the Banking Association South Africa,...

The rise of 5G and its impact on the next normal

by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Events/Report-backs

Kathy Gibson reports – A massive 1-million 5G subscriptions are going to be added every day this year, taking the total to 580-million users by the end of 2021. Todd Ashton, vice-president and head of Ericsson South and East Africa, points out that 5G growth is...

Merchants, developers invited to join VodaPay platform

by Kathy Gibson | Jul 9, 2021 | Events/Report-backs

Kathy Gibson reports – Vodacom is calling on merchants and developers to join its VodaPay platform. Shameel Joosub, CEO of Vodacom, describes the VodaPay platform as a super-app offering a range of shopping and payment services made possible by the agreement signed...