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Silicon Valley VC firm Social+Capital Partnership lines up over $1B for India by 2025
Four-year-old Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Social+Capital Partnership plans to invest over $1 billion in Indian companies in sectors such as financial services, energy, infrastructure and agriculture.
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Visa to launch payments service for mobile phones in September in India
Close on the the heels of MasterCard launching a digital wallet for Citibank India customers, rival global payments gateway Visa will be starting a new payments service for Indian customers in September.
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Google, Apple, Xiaomi and Foxconn Rush in as India Becomes World’s Hottest Smartphone Market
China may be the world’s biggest mobile market, but all eyes in the tech industry are now turning toward India, with its rapidly growing appetite for smartphones.
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- South Asia
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Only 15% of Pakistanis Use Digital Financial Services
Only 15% of Pakistanis use Digital Financial Services, and there has been no significant increase in the user base or registrations between 2013 and 2014, said a Financial Inclusion Insights (FII) survey report.
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India’s missing patients
Lack of awareness and inaccessible healthcare have led to gross under-reporting of illnesses in India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- infrastructure
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OPINION: 10 developments that could transform the future of Indian banking
With emerging needs in urbanisation, industrialisation, digitisation, education, financial inclusion, and global integration, the following 10 developments will shape the banking industry in India’s journey towards a $20 trillion economy.
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Beijing gets 1st private mental hospital
Beijing got its first privately owned mental health clinic on Sunday. This is part of a larger drive by the government to shake up the monopoly of state-owned hospitals in a country where private hospitals have less than one percent market share.
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PRESS RELEASE: National Skill Development Corporation, Ennovent to help skilling firms in India get funding
The initiative aims to create opportunities and aspirations for skilling as an entrepreneurial opportunity in different sectors to fill the demand of trained skilled workforce in the country.
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- Education
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