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Did T-Mobile just pull an Android on U.S. banks?
Operators have been trying for ages to launch mobile banking schemes hoping to create new revenue opportunities for themselves. T-Mobile’s latest attempt, dubbed Mobile Money, offers a refreshing new perspective on the space. Drawing on the playbook of innovators like Google and Amazon, T-Mobile uses two strategies that are indeed quite un-carrier-like.
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- Technology
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mHealth Alliance to move head office to South Africa
The move is to scale up mHealth projects at country levels in the global South.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ethiopia breaking new technology ground
At the beginning of 2013 when Ethiopia’s government approved mobile money in the country, allowing banks and micro-finance institutions to provide transaction-based banking online.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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SRL Diagnostics to enter CIS, Africa
SRL Diagnostics, the healthcare arm of Fortis, is eyeing expansion into fast-growing markets of Africa and CIS countries. SRL, which has about 40 per cent share of the organised diagnostic market in India, plans to open labs and collection centres countries such as Congo, Kenya and Nigeria in Africa. It is also looking at tie-ups in CIS countries.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Bill Gates supports affordable bio-toilets for Ghanaians
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has offered a grant of one million US Dollars to the Biofilcom, inventors and producers of biofil toilets to scale up to make the toilets available at cheaper cost.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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Doctors Without Borders Pioneers Opening Up Access to Humanitarian Data
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is pioneering an open-access approach within the humanitarian sector in the hope that other medical aid organisations will follow suit.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Smartphone uptake boosts mobile banking
The growing demand for smartphones, mass adoption of cashless services and hotspot services that provide free Wi-fi to customers has resulted in the expansion of the mobile wallet industry, according to a new report.
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- Education, Technology
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- mobile finance, research
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German Firms Seed Web Shopping in the Developing World
The message from his boss on the phone from Germany was straightforward, recalls Hendrik Harren, a former website manager in Africa: "I want you to build the Amazon of Nigeria for me."The caller was Oliver Samwer, an Internet tycoon in Berlin who had already cloned American e-commerce businesses for Europe's market. By 2012, his focus was shifting to the developing world.Mr. Harren found his new assignment daunting. "I had never founded an Amazon," he says.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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