Good News For South African E-commerce and Online Payments

South Africa-For those living in South Africa and working online, sending and receiving money over the Internet has been a real challenge. PayPal only allows locals to send funds but not withdraw any. This limited option effectively prevents South Africans from accepting credit cards and PayPal.Most people there are using e-gold or Pecunix and they cringe at even the mention of PayPal. However, unhappy as they may sound, I think they would all add PayPal given that option and now its on the way. PayFast will soon be a new online payment system for South Africa. Read more

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Grace Cheng- Online forex trader and personality

Jamaica-In my own quest to know more about online forex trading, living in Jamaica, where the forex trading subject has left the country polarised. I found gracecheng.com a person and site recommended by John Chow, an influential blogger I read regularly.
Grace Cheng is a online forex trader and educator, very successful and has written a book about online forex trading. What I find interesting about her story, her site is that there is no hardsell, typical of American styled educators we’re used to here in Jamaica. When you read her profile, her trading and personal philosophy on forex trading, it’s almost zen like, yet shrewd.
She takes the edge off the aggressive in your face guys some of who try to sell you on a get rich quick scheme. Is she genuine, maybe and hopefully or maybe this is her slick marketing angle, who knows, but at least I don’t feel dirty when I leave her site, like someone’s been breathing all over me with a hard porn like sell. I’ve bookmarked her site for further reading. Check her site and tell me what you think.
Previous Forex stories we’ve written
Is the online forex fever, the 90s day trading disaster in waiting
Capitalor-Swedish forex company targets Jamaica
Selftaught Jamaican forex trader charts his journey to forex riches

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Report:Internet Users spending half their time online with Content

US- A four year study of how internet users have been spending their time online has revealed that they are now spending 47% of their time with content (text,audio,video). The Internet Activity Index report was conducted by Online Publishers Association in association with Nielsen//NetRatings. The gain in share for content is followed closely by a gain in share for search. So what’s driving this increased play with online content. Read more

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Wamba a Spanish Social Network for Latin America

Wamba is a Spanish social network focused on Latin America seeking to compete with Myspace and Orkut. The company also has plans to launch an IPTV called WambaTV and a radio music service called WambaFM. The company which was founded by Spanish entrepreneur Enrique Dubois is no valued at 7.5 million euros.

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Is the online forex trading fever the 90s day trading disaster in waiting?

Jamaica- Jamaica leads the island in the forex fever. It was started by Olint, being fed by the Ceo’s training entity, MTI traders. And no they’re mushrooming investment clubs, forex trading platforms service. Since running the stories “Jamaican online fx trader blogs his journey to fx riches“ and Capitalor-Swedish forex company targets Jamaica. The Ceo Interview” the response has been fast and in a flood. We’re still sent new information daily about investment clubs and other companies targeting Jamaicans. There’s Worldwise,f1investments.com,a3union.com.

Why is Jamaica such a hot forex target? Read more

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Non-profits using Social networks to reach young volunteers

by David MullingsNon-profit organizations tend to lack much in the way of young volunteers and a number of Jamaican ones have turned to the web as a means of promoting their causes and projects.

Social networking sites like Facebook.com allow groups to be formed and organizations like Upliftment Jamaica and United for Jamaica have created a presence. These groups allow people to interact and share ideas, offer help, coordinate hurricane relief and recruit new members.

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Zero cents per minute only if you’re a British Gen Y

UK- Blyk, the mobile virtual network operator we launched in the UK two days ago. The company, which bills itself as a pan-European free mobile operator for young people, offers 16 to 24-year-olds 217 texts and 43 minutes every month, for free. As can be expected, the free part is made possible by advertisers keen to reach the age group up close and personal on their cell phones. Advertisers (”brands you like”) can send the youthful eyeballs up to 6 messages a day. Read more

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America Movil to buy MiPhone for…US$70 million. And now the rumours and questions.

News AnalysisJamaica- America Movil, Latin America’s cell phone goliath with 137 million customers, a Fortune Global 500 status has agreed to buy Jamaica’s smallest cell company Oceanic Digital which operates under the MiPhone brand for a reported US$70million. The deal offered by the Carlos Slim-owned company is expected to be finalised in the fourth quarter. This was reported by Telegeopgraphy.com, a 30 year old Telecom research company with offices in USA and London.This news of MiPhone’s sale broke late August in Jamaica, but no local newspapers published figures. Read more

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Idletribes.com opens a RumBar Online

Jamaica-Idletribes.com a fast growing social networking site spawned has spawned a rum bar online. They are beta testing rumbarjamaica.com-a social site encouraging its members to link and drink. I figure the rumbar label is appropriate as we have more rumbars than churches per square mile in Jamaica and no matter if it’s up town, downtown our out of town, going to a bar, a rum bar is part of the Jamaican lifestyle.

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Capitalor-Swedish Forex company targeting Jamaica. The CEO Interview.

Jamaica- We saw a doubling of traffic to our SiliconCaribe site because of a single story on Forex trading. We knew it was a hot topic in Jamaica and the Caribbean and now we have even a more direct experience as proof. On that day we spotted this ad that was directly targeting Jamaicans.

Forex Trading in JamaicaLiving in Jamaica and interested inForex? Come trade 4X at Capitalor!www.capitalor.com

We got curious, then requested an interview with CEO of Capitalor, Jonas Duxén. Read the complete interview. Read more

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