{"id":737719,"date":"2023-12-19T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=737719"},"modified":"2023-12-19T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T10:27:11","slug":"business-talk-mediatek-and-yoco-experts-unpack-the-mutual-benefits-of-their-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/737719\/business-talk-mediatek-and-yoco-experts-unpack-the-mutual-benefits-of-their-collaboration\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 MediaTek and Yoco experts unpack the mutual benefits of their collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this Business Talk with Michael Avery interview, MediaTek\u2019s Rami Osman and Yoco\u2019s Berno Potgieter discuss the collaboration between their companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Osman is the MediaTek Director of Corporate Sales and Marketing for the MEA region and has been with the company for almost a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He previously worked as a Corporate Account Manager at Microsoft and then as a Country Manager for GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) and Levant countries at Qualcomm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Potgieter is the Hardware Product Lead at Yoco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this position, he works with internal designers and engineers, as well as supply chain partners and customers to develop the latest innovations for the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Business Talk interview<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>In this interview, Osman begins by talking about MediaTek\u2019s Embedded IoT programme and its Genio IoT platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He explains why MediaTek chose to work with Yoco to support its card machines with these offerings, and the importance of building strong relationships with African businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Potgieter then talks about Yoco\u2019s decision to equip its machines with MediaTek\u2019s IoT platform and chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also discusses Yoco\u2019s plans for the future, and explains how its collaboration with MediaTek is instrumental to achieving these goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lastly, Potgieter explains how businesses can get their hands on Yoco\u2019s MediaTek-powered devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full Business Talk interview is embedded below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Business Talk - MediaTek and Yoco experts unpack the mutual benefits of their collaboration\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aAzuCfm1pV0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MediaTek\u2019s Rami Osman and Yoco\u2019s Berno Potgieter discuss the partnership between their companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":737723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[18979,14159,18977,12503],"class_list":["post-737719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-berno-potgieter","tag-mediatek","tag-rami-osman","tag-yoco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737719","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=737719"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738553,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737719\/revisions\/738553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}