Paypal expands to more African countries
Paypal has expanded even further in more countries in Africa, and other parts of the world. I have highlighted the African countries below:
The new markets that can now use PayPal to send money online include: Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, [...]
Buying and selling online gets better
The World Wide Web can be mischievously called the Wild Wild Web. And why not? The risks associated with surfing the WWW are innumerable. Virus, trojan horses, spy ware, spam, hacking, fraud, name them.
One that seems to stick with South Africa is online fraud. Hacking into user’s bank accounts is widespread and so one would [...]
I’m in love with Afrigator :)
Just yesterday evening, I was chatting with a good friend via Yahoo! Messenger, and he pointed me to Afrigator.com, asking for my comment about the website. I immediately signed-up on the website and now I proudly carry an Afrigator badge on my personal blog.
Afrigator is more than a regular blog aggregator. It comes with nice [...]
AfricanPath.com - News & Blogs from Africa
Happy New Year to you all my cherished readers. Its good to be alive, in 2007. It has been so cold, since January 1st 2007, here in Accra - Ghana. The harmattan has been really getting to me. Well, enough said about the dry cold. Welcome to 2007.
The thrust of this blog post is [...]
Paypal moves deeper into Africa
I found out (to my pleasant surprise), while browsing through the Paypal website yesterday that the service is now accessible in more African countries. The recent expansion of Paypal is not limited to African countries but my focus is on Africa.
Hitherto, South Africa had been the only African country supported by Paypal. The popular online [...]
Tumi Makgabo leaves CNN
Many of us got to know of Tumi Makgabo via global news network, CNN International. Hitherto, she had been a popular current affairs anchor with South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC 3) and was born in South Africa.
Since joining CNN in July 2000, Tumi has covered numerous world events and issues including the fall of Liberia’s [...]
Virgin Money in South Africa
Like many of Sir Richard Branson’s enterprises, Virgin Money has been launched in South Africa just one week after the launch of Virgin Mobile.
Virgin Money essentially offers permanent South African residents who earn over R2,500 (about USD 360) a Mastercard credit card.
Users can use the card to pay at stores in South Africa, and withdraw [...]
