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SA-based Bitcoin Wallet Gets Funding from Global Bitcoin Firm

nChain Group, a blockchain research and development firm, has taken an equity stake in Centbee, a Bitcoin wallet provider that makes it easy for a global consumers to acquire, hold

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Tech

SA Startup I-Drop Partners With Swedish Company to Improve Access to Clean Drinking Water in Africa

Bluewater, a global water technology company based in Sweden, has partnered with I-Drop Water – a South African water solutions startup – to provide better access to clean drinking water

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Business Skills & Planning

What YOU and a World-Class Athlete Should Have In Common

Shirley Anthony is an author, speaker and owner of Marketing Breakthroughs, a marketing consultancy operating for over twenty years.  Do I hear you spontaneously say, “Fame, fortune and a high-flying

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Articles Funding

IFC Extends R740 million in Finance to Mercantile Bank to Expand SME Lending

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced that it will extend a seven-year R740 million term loan to Mercantile Bank Limited, to allow the bank to grow

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Franchising

Restaurant Group Spur’s Franchised Sales Down 2.6 pct in Half year to Dec 2017

Restaurant group Spur said on Monday franchised restaurant sales declined by 2.6 percent to R3.7 billion in the six months to December 2017 as economic conditions deteriorated in most of

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Funding Tech

These are the 10 African Startups that Received the Most Funding in 2017

Last year was the most successful year of fundraising by African tech startups, according to the Disrupt Africa African Tech Startups Funding Report, with the continent’s startups raising in excess of US$195 million.