Browsing: Start-ups

SA start-up Snaply on Tuesday took the covers off a platform that will allow ordinary SA businesses the chance to run their own online stores. The idea was conceived by Jonathan Page and

Cape Town-based start-up Afrozaar thinks there’s a big future in merging cloud computing (computing on the Internet) and mobile telephony to offer hosted mobile applications to the corporate market

Auction website Smokoo.co.za has swept into SA’s online space, stirring a flood of criticism and scepticism about its business model. However, founders Jian Li and Thomas Pays are adamant

The backers of a new social networking site, Mobilitate, hope to help stem the tide of poor service delivery in SA municipalities, help communities keep track of crime and keep abreast of developments in their neighbourhoods

A new start-up is hoping to change the way South Africans buy wine, benefiting both consumers and farmers in the process. The site, SaleWine.co.za, founded by local wine expert AJ Ray, is modelled

Yellow Pages and Brabys have long dominated the online directory market. Now, though, a new SA start-up, Safindit, is hoping to muscle in on the incumbents’ turf

A fast-growing online publishing industry has been waiting for an easy-to-use, versatile and affordable publishing system for years. No one knows this better than Jason Norwood-Young, founder of start-up 10Layer, who wants to rival large international development houses with a new publishing framework.

A technology start-up’s biggest enemy is technology itself, says local business incubator Aurik Business Accelerator. Aurik CEO Pavlo Phitidis says technology innovation often becomes the be all and end all of a start-up and many of the other business processes get left behind.

Finding locations on GPS devices can sometimes be a pain. Entering address information can take a long time. And enter one thing wrong, and you have to start again. Now, though, SA start-up Waytag has developed a solution it says will make it easier for people to find what they’re looking for in navigation software

An easy-to-use, simple and global micropayments system for publishers — it’s long been the missing link in the digital content game, especially for smaller publishers. Now, three SA Web entrepreneurs hope to plug the gap. Saul Kropman, Toby Kurien and Jason Kramer, who head up start-up technology business JTS Technology Concepts, have developed a micropayments system called Cred that they say will make it easy for publishers