The Language of 2025 South Africa’s social feeds in 2025 are buzzing with new words and digital inside jokes. Slang like delulu, rizz, and…
The key to USSD growth in Southern Africa
USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data), has enormous potential to deliver new products and services to mobile customers in sub-Saharan Africa, but has yet to…
Motorola Mobility’s Megan Nicholas on Googarola and the future of BlackBerry
At the recent South African launch event for the Motorola XOOM tablet and ATRIX smartphone, the lush gadgetry on offer was actually the last…
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…
What lies ahead: Online mobile payments and Africa’s small merchants
I’ve been pondering small business, payments and incentives quite a bit recently. Partly because of the web startups I’ve been seeing crop up locally,…
