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I’m 29, but 30 is just a few months away so my chances of being a millionaire before 30 aren’t looking too positive. Although, what exactly is a millionaire, if I had my assets up I would be one, I think? *shrug* Who cares, let’s rather get to the point, the point being an infographic featuring 9 technology millionaires under the age of 30, put that green tee on and enjoy:

Quite incredible to see the amounts of money these youngsters have and how successful they are!

I’m not accountant nor am I completely clued up on real estate, but one thing I can tell you, and you’ve probably heard it plenty of times before, is that property is potentially the best place to invest your money.

In most cases when it comes to investing money in a money market account you’re probably going to get between 2 and 6 percent interest depending on the account’s rules. If your money is tied up you normally get more interest, whereas if you want your money to be tangible, then you’re going to get less. That’s the premise behind investing with your bank in most cases.

When it comes to property the two most obvious things are that you create an average rental yield of up to 10% which is higher than the banks offer, but not only that, your property will increase in value as the years go by, the joys of an appreciating asset.

Longain Realty specializes in discounted property and they have a number of properties for sale, a lot of which are really good investments. Again, please remember that I’m not an expert so this is just my opinion based on my reading and research.

I was having a look through their properties, which are in the Western Cape and Gauteng, and there are 22 properties for sale, in these areas: Brackenfull, Goodwood, Parow and then Boksburg, Germiston, Kempton Park, Krugersdorp, Pretoria and Roodepoort. Most of the properties are between R250,000 and R500,000 so we’re talking investment properties here.

If you’re interested in looking through the properties, please visit www.longainrealty.com

To save you some time, here are the properties in PDF download:

• Western Cape
• Gauteng

Have any questions, leave us a comment.

Statistics report that 80% of active PayPal users are also Facebook users, so what makes perfectly logical sense is to noble PayPal payments through Facebook and that’s exactly what PayPal are doing. PayPal announced on November 17th that their new Send Money application on Facebook will allow users to do exactly this.

The Greeting Card association reports that Americans send 500 million e-cards every single year, so imagine you could send that e-card with some funds attached to a friend or loved one on a special occasion? Think about it, popping your mate $100 to say Happy Birthday is going to be so much easier on Facebook than it would be to track his bank details down and perform an EFT.

So here’s how it works:

1. Log into Facebook
2. Click through to the application
3. Select a card for your occasion
4. Choose the recipient
5. Authenticate against PayPal
6. Select the amount to send
7. Send

That’s if you want to do the Birthday thing or whatever, you can just transfer money if you so wish.

About 18 months ago PayPal and FNB signed papers to allow FNB customers to make use of PayPal’s services. With an FNB account you are able to withdrawl your funds from your linked PayPal account and move funds into your PayPal account to purchase products and services anywhere in the world. The deal was really exciting for South Africans, but at the same time a number of non-FNB bankers were annoyed.

It has just been announced that PayPal will now be available at all South African banks! Michael Jordan, CEO of FNB commented, “major milestone for e-commerce in South Africa”, and in my opinion he’s dead right.

FNB customers have ranked up 20,000 merchant and individual accounts and FNBs monthly payment volume has seen a growth of 8% month-on-month. In total there are 50,000 South African PayPal accounts – quite a bit less than I thought there would be, but that’s still 50,000 people transacting via one bank, so the opening up to the other banks will no doubt quadruple that number and there will be a huge increase in awareness, which might result in even more customers.

I’m interested to watch and see whether this movement will also result in a more seamless process, where withdrawing funds doesn’t take as long as it does and that access will be easier.

Must admit, a bit annoying for those people who opened up FNB accounts just for PayPal usage, I wonder if FNB will see a number of accounts being closed?

Studying via the Internet has been growing in popularity over the past few years. I have friends, and family, who operate in the space and thus have access to the latest pieces of information, such as this infographic that I was sent. The infographic explains how online learning came about, and importantly, why it’s beneficial.

I’ve found many courses to today online that interest me, from starting a business to interior design, so there’s definitely something for everyone, but right now I’m most interested in sharing some statistics and information with you from the Quirk Education team.

Here you go, click the image to see the whole infographic:

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So, you want to invest in a startup, but you don’t have the cash to do it yourself. If you’re into business, money, and technology, you’ve more than likely thought about investing in a startup a few times and in most cases you just don’t have a couple bar to throw at it.

Wahooly aims to solve this, imagine you had just a percentage of LinkedIn when it went public? What if you had a piece of Google?!

Well, Wahooly’s here to give us all a chance to invest in startups and the amazing thing is that you don’t’ even have to pay. Seriously? Yup.

As a member of Wahooly, you will be presented with 200 startups over the next 12 months, if you like a startup or even a few, you can become a user of the startup and by doing so, you become a shareholder in the startup.

Let’s look at an example:

Let’s say you launched a new startup, you would approach Wahooly and negotiate a percentage of equity you’re willing to give u; So, a startup could offer 50% equity to 5000 users, meaning that each user who signs up gets an equal share of 5% – There’s another layer to this, if you want more of that 5% than a 5000enth, then by representing the brand and talking about it, Wahooly will track your brand advocate actions and award you personally.

It’s an awesome idea, one which I’ve already signed up for and am looking forward to seeing which startups get involved.

Click here to visit Wahooly.

Received a notification this morning alerting me to the fact that I can now spend my eBucks at HiFi Corporation! If you’re like me, AV mad and an FNB customer, you’ll be jumping up and down. Racking up eBucks isn’t too hard, especially with the amount of petrol we all go through, so next time you look, you might be able to buy yourself a Bluray player, LED monitor or the likes.

Another cool thing is that it’s not only about spending your eBucks at HiFi Corporation, you can also earn 2.5%+ back when you buy something at HiFi Corporation, so that’s another way to rack up your eBucks!

I’m really stoked to see a great stall join forces with eBucks.

Google Wallet is an Android app that makes your phone your wallet. It stores virtual versions of your existing plastic cards on your phone. Simply tap your phone to pay and redeem offers using near field communication, or NFC (what?).

Google Wallet has been designed for an open commerce ecosystem. It will eventually hold many if not all of the cards you keep in your leather wallet today. And because Google Wallet is a mobile app, it will be able to do more than a regular wallet ever could, like storing thousands of payment cards and Google Offers but without the bulk. Eventually your loyalty cards, gift cards, receipts, boarding passes, tickets, even your keys will be seamlessly synced to your Google Wallet. And every offer and loyalty point will be redeemed automatically with a single tap via NFC.

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PayPal, like all companies, is looking to constantly evolve, set trends and keep abreast of competitors. PayPal’s next generation payment platforms are said to make us all think differently about how money works.

PayPal’s CEO recently announced that they plan to roll out the new platform over the next few months. I must admit, PayPal’s a huge company, so when they start talking about re-imaging money, you kinda have to stop for a second and actually realize that they’re going to be doing something incredibly big.

Anyway, PayPal has launched this video that’s starting to trend:

A 19-year-old New York man who created a program that allows iPhone users to “jailbreak” the device to run unauthorised applications claims to have landed an internship at Apple.

Nicholas Allegra, creator of the site JailBreakMe, announced the news on Thursday on his Twitter feed @comex.

“The week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple,” Allegra said.

Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at computer security firm Sophos, said in a blog post that Allegra has “given Apple plenty of headaches in the last couple of years” finding security vulnerabilities in the iPhone.

“Each time Allegra has found a flaw in Apple’s software, the company has been forced to rush out a security patch,” Cluley said.

Commenting on an internship for Apple’s nemesis, he said: “From Apple’s point of view it’s a case of: If you can’t beat them, get them to join you.”

In June, Facebook hired George Hotz, a hacker known as “GeoHot” who was sued by Sony for hacking the PlayStation 3 game console and is credited with being the first person to go public with a way to hack into an iPhone.

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