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Putting a potential business idea into action from scratch is difficult. As it stands, there are applications for everything these days. Many apps try to help you overcome your business issues but are pricey or cater for specific market groups. Problemio is an app that wants to change this.
Problemio is an app course created by Alex Genadinik to help potential SMMEs with coaching, planning and collaborating their business ideas. Drawing from the experience of more than 10 000 businesses, this ... 
PromiseUP, a free app that tracks and incentivises the promises we make, launched this week on iOS. The goal of the app is to use social gamification to rid the world of broken (or forgotten) promises and ultimately improve the relationships in our lives.
The idea is to make us accountable for the things we say we'll do, and when we'll do them. Each promise is custom-made, with a simple and intuitive UI. A wager is placed on that promise (with ... 
Research commissioned by the World Bank has predicted that Sub-Saharan Africa's travel and tourism industry is expected to achieve an annual growth rate of 5.5% over the next ten years.
The world average, by comparison, is a paltry 4.1%.
Taking this into account, Visa - the global payments technology company - and South African Tourism (SAT) have officially cut the ribbon on the Africa App Quest (AAQ).
In the form of a competition, the AAQ is a challenge to developers to build ... 
Nedbank seems to be on a bit of a mobile and digital banking innovation streak at the moment. Friday 8 February marked the launch of PocketPOS, Africa and the Middle East’s first live EMV--certified mobile point of sale (POS) solution, specifically targeting small to medium-sized businesses.
PocketPOS™ uses ‘CHIP & PIN’ technology to process debit and credit card transactions via a smartphone connected to a secure card reader.
According to Sydney Gericke, Managing Executive of Nedbank Card and Payments people including "plumbers, ... 
RIM is doing something really interesting in the education sector. While the Canadian headquartered BlackBerry manufacturer is preparing to launch its make-or-break Blackberry 10 platform, its efforts to grow its BlackBerry developer ecosystem in South Africa is continuing to cultivate entrepreneurs.
RIM has established two BlackBerry apps labs in the country with which it hopes to both accelerate mobile apps development for its own platform, and to create new job opportunities in the mobile space. Recently, its apps lab at ... 
Ever think there's just too much noise on your social networks? LifeCrumbs is a new social journal that allows you to share memorable moments in your everyday life. It aims to minimise the hassle of all the social networks, presenting you with the most important events in a calendar format. Users can import posts, including the ones you write on your friends’ walls.
The Taipei-based startup was the winning idea in an internal rocket pitch within the team back in May. ... 
Geo-location is a becoming a hotly contested space right now. The latest entrant in the space is South Africa's appening, a mobile event app that allows users to keep up to date with local events. The apps targets events to users in their specific areas pushing the information to their mobile phone or tablets.
The creator of the app, Dale Amler, reckons "appening answers a question that we have all asked, what is there to do."
Amler says the app can ... 
South African instant messaging startup 2go is getting some good traction in Nigeria. The company is reporting that it recently crossed the 10 million user mark. That’s a significant number seeing as Facebook has managed to attract just over five-million users in the Nigerian social networking market.
The service claims to have more than 21 million registered users in total and is reporting an average of 50 000 new registration per day. Its biggest direct competitor, Mxit reported just over 50 ... 
Did you know that you can now compare prices of goods between supermarkets, while standing in one of them? Imagine, walking through Woolworths, thinking about buying a two litre bottle of cola, but by scanning it’s barcode, you find that it costs R5 less in a Pick ‘n Pay nearby.
This is now totally possible, and a bit scary for retailers. A great example of this comes from Price comparison service PriceCheck. The company has launched the latest version of its ... startups | entrepreneurship | startup-news | ecommerce |
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