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• New startup 22seven under fire from banks [Updated]

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  By Michelle Atagana: Managing Ed.
  01.27.12 | 18 Comments
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  The high-profile launch of new financial management startup 22seven has faced some early criticism, from the very institutions it relies on: The banks.Prolific tweeter and CEO of First National Bank (FNB) Michael Jordaan tweeted yesterday that he thought 22seven was a "cool concept", but warned "against disclosing password(s) to any 3rd party".He ended his tweet with this ominous warning: "Risk all yours".Getting tweets re 22seven. Cool concept but have to advise against disclosing password to any 3rd party. Risk ...

• 22seven, the gamification of personal finances

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  By Steven Norris: Staff reporter
  01.26.12 | 12 Comments
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  The well-known founder of the pioneering online bank 20Twenty Christo Davel is hitting the market with a new startup, also in the financial management space.20Twenty was an acclaimed South African online banking platform and an acknowledged leader for its time, but eventually went under when its bricks-and-mortar backing bank, Saambou, collapsed. 20Twenty was later sold to Standard Chartered for a cool US$10-million and closed.The new venture, the similarly-named 22Seven, is billed as an “intelligent money saving tool” that plugs ...

• Triloq paves the way with virtual credit cards, email bill payments

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  By Steven Norris: Staff reporter
  01.26.12 | 4 Comments
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  Online shopping was a pain before I got my first credit card. Painstakingly transferring money from my bank account to an online vendor is not ideal. With a credit card though, online shopping becomes easy.For the unlucky few who cannot get a credit card, online shopping dreams are dashed. Not so, says Triloq Payment Services. Its products, 1-2-Pay Online  and AcceptEmail have been in development from January 2011 and aim to “free” the user from online shopping payment grief, allowing ...

• Body Thrills: doing eCommerce the natural way

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  By Nur Bremmen: Staff reporter
  12.22.11 | 3 Comments
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  Natural Body product company Body Thrills launched recently launched its eCommerce play. The site, formerly a blog with a basic ordering form, has rebranded and gone full eCommerce just in time for the holiday buying season. We sat down with majority shareholder and founder, Tamaryn Watkins, to get the scoop behind their products and approach:Memeburn: Tell us more about how Body Thrills started. Tamaryn Watkins: It all started three years ago. I was a new stay-at-home mom at the time, finishing ...

• Airborne, the viral solution to music distribution

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  By Steven Norris: Staff reporter
  12.21.11 | 2 Comments
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  Music, now more than ever before, needs to make its mark in an ever-fickle market. Rampant piracy, combined with legal downloads and streaming services, have all but destroyed the traditional revenue market for music. This is where a website like Airborne steps in. Why AirBorne? Because "Music is the virus, and the virus is AirBorne." Catchy.It's like Spotify, but not really. Well, if you're prepared to listen to music which is uploaded by the recording artists only, then it's ...

• App development made easy with Tappnology

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  By Steven Norris: Staff reporter
  12.09.11 | 1 Comment
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  App stores are big business and with US$15-billion in revenue expected to pour into their combined coffers by 2012, everyone is looking for a slice of tasty, app pie. Especially the Dube brothers, Fredrick and Michael, creators of startup Tappnology. They promise "to go the extra mile to make sure your application shines". Enthusiasm we like.Tappnology creates mobile applications for smartphones and tablets, with the iPad being the only current device with a workable app. Tappnology currently has one ...

• Lights out for Powertime in Cape Town

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  By Steven Norris: Staff reporter
  11.24.11 | 14 Comments
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  Powertime, a South African mobile and web-based prepaid electricity vendor, is in trouble. As users in the Western Cape may or may not know, they are no longer able to purchase electricity online. This issue lies not with Powertime, but with the government of the Western Cape, or more specifically, the municipalities.Powertime launched two years ago as a bright-eyed startup project, servicing most municipalities as well as the major electricity providers such as Eskom and City Power. Based in Cape ...

• This Army: Gunning for the big time

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  By Ruan Benade
  11.17.11 | 1 Comment
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  This Army first launched Tank five years ago as a hosted site-builder application in an already competitive DIY web publishing arena. Slowly but surely it gained a following in the local market, mostly spread by word-of-mouth amongst the creative crowd. The simple, minimal designs and a certain “less is more” approach has seen it gradually being adopted by everyone from photographers to galleries and wine farms. Tank empowered those with little to no web development skills to quickly and easily ...

• Coachingmill.com brings online sports strategies to the masses

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  By Steven Norris: Staff reporter
  11.11.11 | 1 Comment
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  It's a hard life being a coach. When the team wins, everyone's dreading your next loss. When your team loses, you are raked through the coals by anyone within earshot of your failure. Logically, startup CoachingMill.com navigates these wins and failures, turning it into pure strategy thanks to the magic of online coaching.Its aim is nothing short of becoming the premier, one-stop platform for coaches to complete their off-field work. Eventually CoachingMill will be in a prime, globally accepted position ...

• SA director wins digital innovation prize for mobile concept

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  By Staff Reporter
  11.08.11 | No Comments
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  Hajira Cassim, a trainee South African director was announced as one of the winners in the Not-For-Profit Digital Innovators Award category at ITU Telecom World 2011. Cassim was a winner out of 45 finalists from 22 countries around the world.Held in Geneva, Switzerland, Telecom World is one of the globe's most important events, brought together by The United Nations' International Telecommunication Union (ITU).Cassim won the award for pitching the mobile-content-generation showmemobi model to an international investment panel, global leaders ...

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