INDUSTRY NEWS DIGITAL 23 June

SA Bookfair

Payment Methods

Amazon

Kalahari

SA Bookfair

SA Bookfair

SA Bookfair

SA Bookfair

SA Bookfair

E-Learning

-Riaan Jonck, Pearson

-Barbara Mallinson, Obami

-Alex Polzin, Worldreader

Assesments

Social learning

Literacy

Payments

FourSquare and GrubHub

• Foursquare gamified geo-location

• Grub hub is a “Mr Delivery” with scale– 20 000 restaurants– “Seamless” integration with

restauranteurs– Friend / Customer

recommendations is key

Payments

• Bluetooth/ Plugin• Device costs• Usage fees on transactions

Standard Bank #Snappy

FNB GeoPayments #GeoPay

Kindle Fire Phone

• Snapdragon• Tilt/swivel• Premium phone features at

Premium price• Less “ratchet” android• Front/Back cameras

Kalahari SmartPhone

• 2 versions• Dual SIM• Dual/Quad core• Front+back cameras• Android• R999/R1699

Fire Phone

Since the e-ink dried, Amazon's Bezos has worked to identify new (Steve) Jobs-like advances his company could exploit to differentiate its products. That's a difficult proposition…. Apple's ability to identify original new technologies and turn them into products that outsell the global collective of Android flagships has grown legendary, from Siri to Touch ID…

-DE Dilger , Apple Insider