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Viewpoint: Stop Marketing, Start Elevating
The next five years will throw a lot of cold water on marketers, waking them up to a burning challenge. At the heart of it is a global tech-fuelled surge of power from brands to people, and today it is sweeping through a younger, assertive hooked-up India.
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- Technology
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Press Release: U.S. Small Business Administration’s Impact Investment Fund Grows Threefold in Last 12 Months
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced today that the Impact Investment Fund of the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program has tripled in the last 12 months.
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- Education, Energy, Technology
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Safaricom Launches Ideas Portal
Safaricom has launched an interactive portal dubbed Zindua Café (www.safaricom.co.ke/zindua) through which external innovators and developers countrywide will be able to share their ideas, applications and prototypes with Safaricom.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India Turns to Corner Shops, Mobile Phones for Banking Revolution
India is betting that mobile phone vendors, fuel stations and corner stores can help it put basic banking within the grasp of hundreds of millions of its poor people living beyond the reach of traditional bank branches.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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In Zimbabwe, All Bets Are On Mobile Money & Data As SMS Declines and Telecoms Shifts
Numbers don’t lie, especially in business, and when the right sort of numbers are going up it becomes a celebrated truth.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Vodacom Adds EMV Banking Card to Complement M-Pesa Mobile Money Service in South Africa
Leading digital security company, Gemalto has announced the deployment of prepaid EMV banking cards to complement Vodacom’s m-pesa mobile wallet service in South Africa.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Twitter Confirms Acquisition of India’s Missed Call Marketing Platform ZipDial
Last week TechCrunch reported Twitter was in final talks to acquire ZipDial for between $30 million and $40 million, and today the company announced the deal has closed. ZipDial allows people to call a special phone number for a business, hang up before they incur a charge, and then receive a phone call or SMS with information about the business. This “missed call” marketing platform allows people to access content for free, which is especially useful in the developing world where many can’t afford data plans.
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- Technology
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Press Release: WorldRemit and MTN Agree to Major Mobile Money Partnership
Online money transfer service WorldRemit and telecoms operator MTN have signed a global partnership that will enable WorldRemit customers to send remittances instantly to MTN’s Mobile Money customers.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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