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Ventureburn • 22 Nov 2012

QikCommerce: Behind the MIH-Obox break-up

By Stuart Thomas

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Back in March, we reported that Naspers’ investment arm MIH had teamed up with Obox to launch QikCommerce — a WordPress-based eCommerce tool that lets users “create an online shop in minutes”.

It was an exciting development: a large multi-national internet company had joined forces with local internet entrepreneurs to launch a new ecommerce service that allowed users to create their own online stores on the fly. But just a couple of months after QikCommerce launched, Obox founders David and Marc Perel had left the joint venture.

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