Steven Liversedge

If you’re not trusted, you can’t do business online. This was a key message delivered by three speakers at the Digital Interactive Media Association’s (DIMA) conference on South African e-tailing Thursday morning. Speakers from online financial services agent Mylife@bluebean, eBucks — “The worlds first real electronic currency” — and online grocer Inthebag all discussed their […]

SOUTH AFRICA — Hailed by many as the key to inflating e-profit margins, data mining is regarded by many analysts as one the emerging technologies that will change the face of e-business. Data-mining (sometimes known as content management) — the use of statistical analysis to uncover hidden patterns in otherwise random information – is an […]

The online auction titan, eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY), announced on Monday that they would be teaming up with online employment agency, eLance to allow users to place their services and projects up for auction. A new section, “Business Services,” has been created to accommodate to host the new service, with links to listings on both eBay […]

[05 February 2001] – As the PC’s hold on the Internet and Web continues to slip, businesses and individuals are looking for ways to derive profit from the blending of the Net and the phone. M-commerce, paying with your phone, is an idea whose time might soon be here. A South African company, Fundamo, is […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] – According to Ultra Network Solutions (UNS), 20-30 percent of Microsoft products being used by the South African local authorities is unlicensed, with the rate for some applications like Microsoft office as high as 50 percent. Ultra Network Solutions arrived at the figure while working on the networks of the local governance bodies […]

[01 February 2001] – Johnnic e-Ventures (JeV) will acquire 42.5% of TicketWeb, with sports brand investor South African Investments Pty. Ltd (SAIL) purchasing another 42.5%; the remaining 15% will be held by TicketWeb management. It has not been said how much money changed hands. The deal is subject to Competitions Commission approval. Upon approval, it […]

[31 January 2001] – Given the ease of anonymity and identity forging on the Net, many companies simply dont trust e-commerce. Moving to answer this need for trust, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) detailed their foray into the world of Trust Certification- beTRUSTed – at a function in Johannesburg today. Essentially, beTRUSTED is a Trusted Third Party (TTP) […]

[30 January 2001] – Last week Prism Holdings announced the acquisition of Linkdatas Malaysian operations. A few days previously theyd announced the acquisition of 2 divisions from Nanoteq. This Tuesday theyve announced the acquisition of 30 percent of Telekom Applied Business (TAB), the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) arm of Telekom Malaysia (TM), for R30 […]

[26 January 2001] – Over the past months, there have been many rumors of the imminent demise of the Dot.Com. These rumors are fast becoming reality and the end of the hype surrounding Dot.Coms and the ‘New Economy’ will be a relief. This is according to Mark Gilfillan, managing director of MB Worksoft, the e-business […]

[SOUTH AFRICA] – The Internet was created by Americans and they have remained the dominant cultural force on the Web. But they are no longer in the majority, according to a study by WebSideStory, the company behind HitBox. The survey was carried out by StatMarket, the statistics division of WebSideStory, who monitored 200 000 websites […]

[24 January 2001] – Microsoft is paying Sun Microsystems US$20 million to settle a lawsuit initiated in 1997. In addition, Microsoft is banned from the unauthorized use of the JAVA COMPATIBLE trademark and has accepted Sun’s termination of the prior license agreement. Sun has said it will continue to support existing Microsoft commercial products based […]

[23 January 2001] – Essential for a successful business is trust and online trust arises from privacy and security. In the wake of the dot.correction and the struggling B2C market, the Knowledge Economy requires current consumer mistrust to be addressed. To this end the e-privacy survey released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers reveals both South African and […]