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From product to customer: Omni-Channel Retail next step in ecommerce
In the early 2000s, online retail threatened the “bricks and mortar” stores with extinction. The talk was of being “Amazoned,” meaning Amazon.com would add…
Twenty Fifty is Cape Town’s clubhouse for freelancers and entrepreneurs
Seventeenth century English coffee-houses, to quote Steven Johnson, were places where people “would get together from different fields of expertise and their ideas could…
How tech solutions could save Africa’s energy and natural resources sectors
Right now, the energy industry in sub-Saharan Africa is at a crossroads. Faced with booming demand from a growing industrial sector, urbanisation and an…
Built in Africa: Olivia Mukam on solutions for Africa’s micro problems
Built in Africa focuses on entrepreneurs, startups and technologies that are affecting the continent and empowering African people. Non-profits are important and harnessing the…
