With Valentine’s day around the corner a lot of romantics are scurrying in a last minute ditch to find that perfect gift.The tech-savy might want to try online but one […]
Microsoft has announced five African startups that will receive grants as part of the Microsoft 4Afrika program, an extension of the Microsoft Ventures program. You will quickly notice that the […]
South African leading multi-media and e-commerce multi-national Naspers has apparently entered the Zimbabwean web space with the launch of www.property24.co.zw. Naspers, you would probably know, is the company that owns […]
Back in December 2010, when the eCommerce opportunity in Zimbabwe was all but invisible, a startup launched with a name all too obvious – zimazon.co.zw. They were going to be the […]
Two USA based entrepreneurs Haji Mupakura and Freeman Chari are looking to compete in the “social shopping” space through a platform called Endosit. Social shopping is described as “a method […]
This analysis shall be in three parts. To thoroughly assess the payments landscape in Zimbabwe, I shall use three frameworks, or if you like, perspectives or concepts. These are; disruptive […]
A recent funding development with an eCommerce startup in Nigeria got us discussing here about the chances locally for successful eCommerce startups and the conditions conducive for this. When there’s […]
Local e-commerce startup Zimbogini officially launched revamped e-commerce website with new feature at an event held in Harare torwards the end of last year. Although Zimbogini has been around for […]
A few days ago I noticed vPayments finally has easy to integrate plugins for e-commerce CMS like Opencart, Magento and OScommerce and I immediately downloaded for an Opencart store I was […]
Late last month the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) took the radical step of approving nine new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs): .bike, .clothing, .guru, .camera, .lighting, […]
As we continue to review the success and failures local startups, Pay4App is one of those that can’t go unnoticed simply because their product is designed to solve the major […]
Following our commentary below on the 2013 ICT Achievers Awards, I have received a letter from one Simon Sadomba of law fim – Gill Godlonton & Gerrans representing Sadomba Mahari […]
About $7.6 Billion is lost to credit card Credit Card fraud each year. Now if you’re a merchant, your biggest fear is probably not that someone is going to steal […]
In this series we will look at how you can use PayPal to buy and sell in a country where has restrictions, like Zimbabwe. This is the second article in […]
This is an SSL certificate primer for dummies, it is not intended to be exhaustive or turn you into an expert, it is merely an initiation.Feel free to add tips you feel are important in the comments section however.
Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg have launched a new project dubbed internet.org in a bid to bring internet access to the “next five billion people.” According to the United States Census Bureau, there are about 7.106 people in the world.
There has been a number of discussions on the issue of ecommerce is Zimbabwe. Some have predicted its success and some were sceptical that e-commerce will experience significant adoption in […]
Over the past 2 years there has been an increasing amount of talk on the readiness of Zimbabwe to adopt e-commerce. A number of articles published either imply or affirm […]
Through the MasterCard Mobile Money Partnership, you will be able to use your EcoCash wallet wherever MasterCard is accepted with the option to have a prepaid MasterCard that you can also use wherever MasterCard is accepted.
Ever since the introduction of the multiple currency system in Zimbabwe, online shopping has become somewhat simpler. Hitherto problems like obtaining an internationally accepted Visa/ MasterCard, hyperinflation and limited internet connections had hampered the widespread adoption of e-commerce.