Start-up LiveBids: online buying rethought

Launching on 19 March, a new Internet start-up, LiveBids, hopes to shake up the SA online retail market with a combination of online auctions, pay-per-bid sales and group buying. Conceived two-and-a-half years ago, LiveBids is the brainchild of two Capetonians ...

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Published By: Tech Central - Thursday, 23 February, 2012

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