{"id":67598,"date":"2014-09-04T09:46:56","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T07:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=67598"},"modified":"2014-09-04T09:51:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T07:51:24","slug":"takealot-makes-a-loss-on-r27000-google-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/67598\/takealot-makes-a-loss-on-r27000-google-glass\/","title":{"rendered":"Takealot makes a loss on R27,000 Google Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Takealot CEO Kim Reid says that the online retailer has sold 12 sets of Google Glass in South Africa \u2013 and quipped that it made a loss on each one.<\/p>\n<p>Reid was speaking at the 2014 uAfrica eCommerce Conference in Midrand, when he made the remark.<\/p>\n<p>Takealot has announced on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takealot.com\/google-glass\" target=\"_blank\">its website<\/a> in mid-August that it has a limited number of the Google Glass Explorer Edition wearable computers available for R26,999 ($2,500).<\/p>\n<p>This followed Google\u2019s announcement in April 2014 that it would let users outside its Glass Explorer programme buy the device.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports at the time, Google was to sell Google Glass to these users for $1,500 \u2013 though this excluded sales taxes, import duties, and shipping.<\/p>\n<p>Google Glass features a 5 megapixel camera capable of 720p video recording, and 16GB storage (of which 12GB is usable).<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Google Glass<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Takealot.com targets mobile with new site\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/66294\/takealot-com-steps-up-for-mobile\/\"><strong>Takealot.com targets mobile with new site<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Takealot now accepts Bitcoin\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/63263\/takealot-now-accepts-bitcoin\/\"><strong>Takealot now accepts Bitcoin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Takealot CEO Kim Reid says that the online retailer has sold 12 sets of Google Glass in South Africa \u2013 and quipped that it made a loss on each one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":59133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[53,26,3314,6634],"class_list":["post-67598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-google","tag-headline","tag-takealot","tag-uafrica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67604,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67598\/revisions\/67604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}