| |
New CEO Alan Knott-Craig is ringing the changes at MXit, a key emerging market mobile social network. Recently it was announced the company's restructure would mean more focus, innovation and job losses. Knott-Craig bought MXit a few months ago for an undisclosed sum from founder Herman Heunis and emerging markets internet giant Naspers.The mobile youth messaging service operates in 128 countries. It is represented in international markets that include Malaysia, Kenya, India, Indonesia, United Kingdom, United States, ...
The recent acquisition of popular instant messaging platform MXit, the biggest in Africa, came with the promise of big changes.Now the company's new CEO, Alan Knott-Craig Jnr, has put his money where his mouth is by announcing a "company restructure", meaning more focus, more innovation and job losses.Knott-Craig says his new plans involve focusing MXit on what he believes it does best."We are a communications platform, that what we are. We need to stop doing everything else and ...A few weeks ago Memeburn revealed that instant messaging platform MXit was rumoured to be in sale talks with startup investment firm World of Avatar. We can now confirm that those rumours are true.The acquisition will see current MXit head, Herman Heunis step down, with Alan Knott-Craig Jnr, the World of Avatar boss, taking over as CEO. The deal, which was finalised earlier yesterday, involves World of Avatar buying out both Heunis and Naspers, an US$18-billion emerging market media giant.Naspers, ...MXit has signed an exclusive agreement with wiWallet, that will soon make it possible for MXit’s 10-million active users to make use mobile payment services. wiWallet is a subsidiary of UCS Group Limited ("UCS"), a provider of retail software within South Africa, where the Group services 95% of SA's retailers. This agreement will enable MXit to bring mobile payment services to its active user base of approximately 10-million strong in South Africa within the 2nd quarter of this ...
The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) South-East Asia Regional Office (SEARO) has teamed up with popular mobile social network MXit and JamiiX to bring emergency preparedness information to chat users in disaster-prone Indonesia.This new approach is part of WHO’s wider effort to strengthen disaster preparedness in the region and build public awareness of the urgent need for safe hospitals in disaster zones.Indonesians using MXit chat will be able to access personal preparedness information, including what to do ...
It’s not a big surprise to see Nokia’s Symbian operating system is the most popular in Africa. We all knew that, but it’s by how much that draws your attention. Royal Pingdom has an excellent post on the web usage (which is what they can measure) of the top OS use around the world. It’s amazing to see the difference between Africa, Asia and South America as opposed to Europe and North America.While, as a developer, it’s more sexy to ...Mxit, in partnership with Gate 7 CEO Emma Kaye, launched two new user generated content portals called Mopix and Zwakanaka in the first week of November. Within four days of going live, the portals had received in excess of 30 000 hits.Kaye is widely known as an innovator and industry leader in the fields of animation and mobility. She is recognised as one of the top 50 women globally in mobile entertainment.The first of the portals, Zwakanaka, is ...Ten billion messages sent to mobile phones during July of 2010; 53-million photos sent during the same month, and more than 710-million logins... these are the kind of numbers that developers from emerging markets look at with envy when studying the mature internet markets of the Western World.But these statistics belong to South African mobile phenomenon, MXit, which launched the beta version of its Application Programming Interface (API) on Friday in Stellenbosch, the town where it all began. ...
Share
Mobile
By 
By 
By 
By 
