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With millions of smartphones in South Africa, where are all the apps?
There are millions (and millions) of smartphones in South Africa. And growth is accelerating. Vodacom’s latest financial results disclose some interesting numbers: Between April…
Facebook is missing a trick on apps (and copying from Twitter to boot!)
Facebook is all about mobile. Its number of active users — 750 million — is impressive. Even with engagement slowing in more mature markets,…
Facebook is fast becoming irrelevant and has lost the real-time battle
I remember the glory days of Facebook. We used to share voraciously on our news feeds. Our movements. Interesting links. Videos. It was where…
Forget the rest of the world, Apple’s real future is in the BRICS
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Why Kenya’s M-Pesa won’t work anywhere else
It’s the runaway success story: From a standing start just four years ago, over 15-million Kenyans now use the M-Pesa mobile money service to…
SMS is dead. Well, almost.
SMS is dead – more accurately, dying – and why wouldn’t it be? Hundreds of millions of consumers around the world are wising up…
The group buying collapse is coming
Group buying. Daily deals. Social commerce. Call it what you will, but the sheer number of blatant knock-offs that have sprung up in global…
The ‘Age of Apple’ will end
First, a little disclosure. I never really wanted to like Apple, or use any of its products. Sure, the allure was there, all the…
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