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Telecash zero-rates mobile money transfers
In a move that will definitely change the competition dynamics of local mobile money, telecash, the mobile money arm of Telecel has made it free to transfer money to a registered telecash...
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PayPal hits 1 mil users SA. What’s the payments opportunity in the rest of...
PayPal has just announced its active user base figure in South Africa, and it’s 1 million! Great yes, that so many more people can pay using what has become the defacto payment gateway of the internet....
View ArticleLatest Techzim Podcast: Ice Bucket Challenge, Kingdom CellCard, ZOL Startup...
In this podcast we discussed the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and the twist Zimbabweans have made to promote HIV-testing. We also touched on the termination of the Kingdom Cell Card. We briefly discussed...
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EcoCash online payments through MasterCard
Recently Ecocash introduced the EcoCash MasterCard Debit Card that undoubtedly was a game changer, allowing millions of ‘unbanked’ people the opportunity to have the convenience of making payments...
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Dear Telecash…… How about this for improving the cash-ins?
We have been following your recent entry into the local market and the waves that it has created. Not too sure if we got to tell you this, but well done!Imagine our excitement when we found out earlier...
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Telecel partners Mukuru to enable remittances to telecash
In a fulfillment of promises made a few months ago Telecel has, through a partnership with Mukuru, now enabled the remittances of diasporan funds straight into the mobile wallets of its mobile money...
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Dear Borrowdale Brooke SPAR…now that you’ve closed…
It was with great sadness that we read of Borrowdale Brooke SPAR shutting down. Many of us were shocked and wondered what exactly went wrong, and if things were bad for you what more for the average...
View ArticlePodcast: Jive Zimbabwe, telecash,TelOne Ts &Cs & Twitter Analytics
Here’s this week’s edition of the podcast. We discussed the new online music platform, Jive Zimbabwe and its impact on the fight against piracy. We also touched on Telecel’s new arrangement with...
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Here’s why Zimbabwe is not ready for e-commerce
“Nobody wants to buy their Tomatoes online!”This weekend we (my friends and I) decided to have a little get together and watch all the airing football matches together, something that we do every other...
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Evernote’s Africa Innovation Award goes to Kenya’s Chamasoft
Martin Njuguna of Chamasoft at PIVOT EAST 2014A couple of months ago Evernote passed through Zimbabwe looking for design and development talent keen on using Evernote’s open API to develop solutions...
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“Just Swift It” campaign introduces e-commerce to Zim logistics
With online payments and e-commerce pretty much figured out thanks to various options like Paynow, Pay4App and vPayments, everyone who prefers “e-simplicity” is looking at how local merchants and...
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Forget John Legend, James Blunt is coming to Harare
image credit: daviesevents.comAlmost two weeks ago the rather disappointing bit of news about the cancellation of John Legend’s Harare concert was announced by the organisers of the event. This meant...
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Twitter “Buy” button an affirmation of social media m-commerce?
image credit: Twitter blogYesterday Twitter announced on its blog that it had started testing the use of a “Buy” button feature on tweets. The add-on allows users to initiate a purchase or buy a...
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Hand2Hand enables global (South Africa) credit card remittances to EcoCash...
You may have noticed increased visibility of a money remittance service called Hand2Hand. They are interesting in a couple of ways but mainly that they got access to what so far we thought was only...
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Apple: good things come to those who wait…
The Apple event has come and gone, and all that can be said about the whole thing is, wow. They took their “do it late but do it right statement”, and went all the way home.Not only have they made...
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Africalotto introduces online gambling to Zimbabwe
Hammer and Tongues Holdings, through its lottery gaming provider, Africalotto, has introduced mobile and online gambling to the Zimbabwean market with an Android application called The Africalotto...
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Nettcash introduces brand ambassadors to grow agent network
Some months ago we wrote about Nettcash and their official launch in the Zimbabwean mobile money space.The independent service was applauded as a sign of healthy competition in a market dominated by...
View ArticleWelcome to 2012, Apple
Recently, I was looking for as many NFC capable devices as possible to pair with an audio system just for cheap geek thrills. Having noticed a young man carrying a tablet I politely asked if his device...
View ArticleEconet set to introduce NFC payments through EcoCash?
Here’s something interesting that I spotted while paying for lunch at an eatery in Harare – the cashier was handling payments through a card based system that works through a tapping mechanism. No, it...
View ArticleEzzytickets out to offer comprehensive online ticketing solution
While we debate on how e-commerce and the online payment phenomenon is now in our backyard or whether we are ready for it or not, one service that we definitely need is online ticketing. The numerous...
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