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The recent launch of mobile app developer Snapplify gives the publishing market a full turnkey solution for transforming their content into mobile apps, for global distribution via the Apple App Store. It is the first to offer this kind of service to…

Hi South Africa, 

It has been 4 months since I left your shores to pursue a software career in Silicon Valley. What an huge learning curve it was being among all these tech giants. There are so many events, meetups and learning opportunities that you are going to become a better software developer or engineer. 

There are so many startup companies just jumping up everywhere and allot of money is being thrown at some of them. Some are really good ideas while others just wait to…

Established businessman, Nick Essame, and young entrepreneur, Martin Ras, are launching an exciting new initiative on 1 February 2012. The idea revolves around the notion of a collective co-operation of people who network and pool their resources together to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations- also known as crowd funding .

Crowd-funding.co.za will be slightly different, even better than the original manner of crowd funding.…

We:

Siteta, a Cape Town-based company focusing on User Experience, are reaching out for UX talent to help us cope with the increasing demand for our User Experience services in South Africa.

You:

You consider yourself a big, medium or 'short' hitter (in terms of UX skills and experience).…

Early stage, fast-paced startup looking for ambitious individual(s) that are great at what they do, want to grow with the company and keen on building a very innovative and highly scalable infrastructure with the aim of disrupting the recruitment industry. Or alternatively, if you'd rather take to it has an outsourced developer- lets chat!

These are absolutely necessary:



- At least one year of full-time Python…

Research conducted during 2011 has revealed a significant upturn in e-commerce in South Africa over the last year. It’s been suggested that the recent explosion of group-buying sites, and the success of companies like Groupon, may be at least partially responsible for this growth spike.

SA e-commerce by the numbers

The MasterCard Worldwide Survey 2011 revealed that 50% of South Africans with access to the internet are now making purchases…

Mobiflock makes smartphones and tablets safe for children, individuals and businesses, by providing services to monitor and manage mobile devices, secure private information, manage mobile workforces, and protect devices from viruses and malware.

GigaOM named the company one of the 10 most promising mobile startups in 2011, and they were recently awarded first place in the first South African This Week In…

Umbono-funded company LocalSort is looking to disrupt the informal way hotels and guesthouses recommend services to their guests.

The company offers a marketplace where service providers like shuttle and tour operators can bid on how much commission they’re willing to pay for new business. Hotels can use the web interface to find local services to recommend to their guests, and they earn commission for doing so. LocalSort…

The Cape Town metro ring is a municipal fibre network providing a single shared infrastructure capable of supporting multiple networks. It's expected to result in more local bandwidth and lower costs due to increased competition between ISPs.

What is the metro ring?

The metro ring is a municipally-owned, open access, optic fibre infrastructure, including purpose-built optic fibre and new switching centres. Phase 1 of the project, completed in December 2011, had a…

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Hi,

Anyone hear of someone offering a photobooth service where the photo can immediately be uploaded to facebook or any other social site?

Ad Dynamo™ has launched Ad Dynamo Social, a new offering that builds on the successful contextual advertising marketplace developed over the past 2 years.  Ad Dynamo Social will offer advertisers the ability to reach leading social networks and engage their targeted customers in a more personal, engaging manner.

Advertisers can now seamlessly reach the Facebook audience through Ad Dynamo.  Audience targeting on Facebook is further refined with strong demographic and location…

Lead Developer / Development Manager 

Our online travel company http://www.discoverafricagroup.com/ (est. 2002) requires an experienced senior developer to manage the in-house development team and play a lead role in all digital projects.

You will be responsible for enhancing and fine-tuning the companies e-commerce travel websites and their accompanying web applications; primarily from a technical/architecture…

Developer that is proficient in web development from front-end to back-end with an emphasis on back-end.

Whenpages is a 4 months old start-up based in Pretoria ( See www.whenpages.com ). We are launching our global time based platform at the end of January 2012.



We're looking for the best and brightest to join our team and develop  a product that that will…

Hi,

Looking for anyone that offers live/camera video streaming services for the web.

thanks!

Hi all,

I am starting a South African first - SUP Pilates. Stand Up PaddleBoard (SUP) Pilates is the practice of doing basic Pilates movements whilst floating on your Stand Up Paddleboard. http://www.facebook.com/SUPpilates…

No not guitar hero. :)

Here is an original song penned a week or so ago. I'm an obsessive songwriter.

Everyone needs a hobby. What do you do?

http://youtu.be/tRo5zEMjUtU

One of the challenges of launching a global business from South Africa is that it's literally half a world away from one of the biggest markets, the United States (US). A couple of South African startups have managed to bridge this gap. Read on to find out why and how.

Why look for a market in the…

ScaleConf, taking place at the end of January 2012, is the first conference of its kind to be hosted in South Africa. The two-day event will bring together local and international experts to talk about the challenges and future of building and running online sites and services.

The growing…