Author: Gugu Lourie
FlipSell, a new online classified firm based in Cape Town, on Thursday said its platform is scam free. By Staff Writer “There have been numerous reports on online classified scams, with little being done to improve the experience for general consumers,” says Anree Malherbe, Head of Operations at FlipSell. “We saw this as an opportunity, and designed FlipSell to protect unsuspecting consumers from being targeted by criminals.” Fraud, theft and personal security are some of the issues consumers contend with when buying or selling second-hand goods through online classifieds. In response to fraud and other challenges facing online classified services,…
“The Nissan Leaf is a lovely electric hatchback car that will help you to say goodbye to petrol or diesel, oil changes and emitting carbon dioxide. It’s a car that redefines the way you drive a vehicle.” The Nissan Leaf, which stands for Leading Environmentally-friendly Affordable Family car, was introduced three years ago in South Africa and remains an affordable electric car, especially when compared to the futuristic rival BMW i3. By Gugu Lourie The formulation of our positive impressions of the Nissan Leaf 2016 model began the moment the electric car was delivered. Earlier the delivering driver called…
We are really slaves to our smartphones – we tap at our screens every four minutes as we suffer from FOMO (fear of missing out) – and we rely on them to in most of our life situations. We use them to navigate, telephone friends, enjoy music and much more else – the skills of modern smartphones are multiple. By Staff Writer However, as the smartphone continues to advance it has not been made part of a motorcycle or scotters. But BMW Motorrand is changing this. It has designed a smartphone cradle being able to fasten smartphones up to a size of…
For years everyone has been told that they should run antivirus software on their computer for the best possible protection against the ever growing tide of viruses, trojans and general malware on the Internet. By David Glance Now it seems, another security expert is adding his voice to the growing concern that using antivirus software may actually make your security worse, not better. Tavis Ormandy and the Project Zero team at Google has discovered a slew of vulnerabilities with antivirus software from Symantec and Norton. The most particularly worrying vulnerability allows anyone to trigger it by simply emailing a link or…
The new Puma BMW X-Cat Disc sneakers covered in a single, seamless piece of metallic fabric will launch on July 1 2016. By Staff Writer Designworks, a BMW Group subsidiary, looked to Puma to develop the special fabric applied over the metal chassis. Through this collaboration, Designworks led the design process for the ultramodern Puma X-Cat concept shoe inspired from the revolutionary concept car with a seamless material outer shell. Puma is a German sports brand. This striking shoe showcases Puma’s reinvented DISC technology, which provides ultimate comfort and a snug fit. Originally launched in 1991, the system worked as the…
In the modern era of cloud and third platform technologies, microservices are fast becoming the de facto development method to ensure applications that are robust, highly scalable and easy to pivot for any challenge. By Staff Writer Whereas traditional monolithic applications are layered and hard to separate, microservices are independent components to a larger whole, fulfilling individual tasks. Developers are able to make changes without causing larger cascading issues across the application stack. Through microservices it is easy to test and deploy more features, spin up multiple instances as demand grows and handle errors without halting the entire environment. Warewolf…
National Treasury’s Central Supplier Database (CSD) has passed the 150 000 mark, the department said on Tuesday. By Agency Staff Launched in September last year, the CSD was introduced to simplify the process of doing business with government, as well as making the procurement processes fair, equitable, transparent and competitive. The system also reduces the carbon footprint for both government and the private sector by moving away from paper by enabling an electronic registration and verification process. “It also brings about significant cost savings in terms of reduced paper use and less time spent on the procurement process. Suppliers save…
Spotting an opportunity that sparks an entrepreneurial idea is a dominant driver of startup businesses in South Africa, but they are not creating jobs at the scale and rate South Africa so urgently needs. By Seed Academy This is just one of the findings of South Africa’s largest startup survey announced last night by chief executive officer of Seed Academy, Donna Rachelson. The survey was conducted this year by Seed Academy when the views of almost 1500 startup entrepreneurs in South Africa were gauged. Nearly 50% of the entrepreneurs surveyed said creating a business out of an idea that came…
Movile, Latin America’s mobile commerce platform, on Tuesday announced it has raised R606 milillion ($40 million) in Series F funding from Naspers through its Naspers Ventures division to invest in ticketing industry. By Staff Writer Naspers, a strategic partner and majority shareholder of Movile since 2008, led the round with participation from Innova Capital, an investment fund focused on high growth companies with expertise in technology. The new funds will be used to accelerate the continued growth of its suite of apps and services in Latin America and beyond, as well as enter the ticketing industry through a $4 million investment in…
Comsol, backed by Convergence Partners, Nedbank Private Equity and the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) as investment partners , plans to launch Comsol Fibre Connect – South Africa’s first and only nationwide open access high-speed carrier grade data network. By Staff Writer The initial funding which equates to over R500 million will be provided by Convergence Partners, Nedbank Private Equity and the IDC. In addition to the funding raised for the initial rollout, Comsol expects to reinvest and spend a further R1-billion on existing fibre infrastructure and leased fibre, creating a massive opportunity for existing fibre players in the market. The company…