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PRESS RELEASE: Citi Convenes Developers from around the Globe to Unveil Innovative Digital Banking Solutions
More than 60 Teams – Chosen from More than 700 Submissions across 62 Countries – to Present Innovations at Events in Silicon Valley, New York and MiamiCiti Mobile Challenge Developer Survey: 88 Percent of Developers See Potential for Financial Innovation in Wearables, but Many Say Banks Are Not Doing Enough to Innovate and Keep Up with Other Industries
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Indian hospital shows how mobility can improve healthcare in rural areas
By using telemedicine application for mobile devices, Balabhai Nanavati Hospital is demonstrating how mobility can truly transform the way healthcare services are delivered to rural communities.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Weekly Roundup 11-8-14: Alibaba is now bigger than Walmart, but will it benefit the still unconnected masses
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is now more valuable than Walmart. At the same time, Google, Mozilla and mobile operators are making a big push to connect people in emerging markets with content in local languages. Are we finally seeing connectivity, content and dialects finally align for the BoP?
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- NextBillion Originals, Technology
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Most Viewed, Most Shared Posts for September: Why Vitanna called it quits, Yunus unvarnished and the SME puzzle
The trend on NextBillion during September was authors speaking the plain truth: a social entrepreneur sending out a clarion call for honesty; Muhammad Yunus chastising those who would benefit personally from microfinance; and an inside look at the inability of small firms to access adequate financing.
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- Entrepreneurship, NextBillion Originals, Technology
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Airtel joins GSMA’s mobile health programme
Bharti Airtel today said it has joined GSMA's mobile health partnership programme which aims to provide a range of services to women and children across 11 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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AddressHealth bags global award for innovation in tele-enabled school health centres for urban poor
AddressHealth, India’s first paediatric primary healthcare network, has won the prestigious ‘Stars in Global Health’ grant competition from Grand Challenges Canada. The company bagged the honours for its innovative model to provide comprehensive healthcare to children in low income groups through tele-enabled school health centres.
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Facebook And Alibaba Will Turn The World’s Poor Into Entrepreneurs. Xiaomi Will Sell Them Smartphones
Facebook and Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) Limited are on a new mission: solve world poverty by helping more than 4 billion people from low-income countries get access to the Internet — and engage in e-tailing entrepreneurship.
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Weekly Roundup – 11/1/14: Apple Pay is here – should low-income consumers care?
As you may have heard, Apple recently launched a mobile payment app in the U.S. Within three days, it had become the top mobile wallet in the country - and sparked some surprising resistance. We discuss the implications for low-income consumers in the U.S. and emerging markets, along with some good news in global development, in this Roundup.
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- Impact Assessment, NextBillion Originals, Technology
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