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Barely two years ago, foreign businesses and analysts were hailing Africa as the world’s economic miracle. With economic, political and social reforms sweeping the…

The following article is written by Andre Hugo who is co-founder and CEO of micro-jobbing service M4JAM. With over 22 years of business startup…

One of the things that’s become abundantly clear as the first season of Dragons’ Den SA has progressed is that, unless you’ve got an…

I can’t tell you how relieving it was to reorganize my priorities at the end of 2013 and simply say no. No more entrepreneurship…

The South African digital economy is booming – with rapidly decreasing prices of connectivity, coupled with more and more cheap and cheerful entrants into…

A startup is like an infant: it keeps you awake from early in the morning, until late at night. An established business is when…

There’s such a vast range of mobile apps on the market, all aiming to provide that one kick-ass, differentiating service. Over on Gearburn, we…

We’ve been touring emerging markets for more than a year now, and are quite excited to visit Bangladesh soon — a country better known…

We’re now starting to get towards the tail-end of the first season of Dragons’ Den SA. The episodes broadcast so far have shown that…

Last year we wrote about how South Africa-based company WooThemes and its popular online retail theme WooCommerce were making waves in the online world….

Deloitte’s, digital arm, Deloitte Digital has made its first acquisition in the South African digital space, with a 100% buyout of Cape Town-based user…

The internet is a wonderful thing. Besides giving us the ability to watch Gangnam Style over a billion times, it allows creative ideas to…

Just over a year ago, we told you about Mobicred, South Africa’s first online-only credit facility. The brainchild of Jason Sive, who is also…

If you haven’t heard of it yet (where have you been?), AMC’s popular Breaking Bad TV series stars an over qualified science teacher, Walter…