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Caricoin and Bank of Jamaica to Launch First Licensed Bitcoin Exchange in Jamaica
Bitcoin wallet Caricoin Ltd. that launched its first mobile money wallet to Caribbean users in June, has announced that it is in talks with Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) in order to set up first licensed bitcoin exchange in Jamaica.
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- Technology
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- North America
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- fintech
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Virtual Network Operators in India Band Together in Attempt to Develop $4 Billion Industry
Virtual Network Operators Association of India (VNOAI) has been incorporated with the objective of promoting activities geared towards the development of Virtual Network Operators industry, US$ 4 billion business opportunity in India.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Safaricom Pioneers Adoption of UN’s SDG’s in Kenya’s IT Sector
Safaricom’s has successfully integrated a customised shared prosperity and responsible business initiative across the firm making the telecom the first IT local company to adopt the United Nations fronted Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) in Kenya.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania Becomes 1st Globally Achieving Full Mobile Money Interoperability
The interoperability means mobile phone subscribers transfer money across multiple networks thus enabling the country becoming first in the area. Bank of Tanzania Governor Prof Benno Ndulu said today that mobile phone active account represents 21.9million out of 62.8million accounts registered by five major tele-financial service providers.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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Visa Begins Mobile-Money Service to Rival Safaricom’s M-Pesa
Visa Inc., the world’s largest payments network, introduced a mobile-phone application to enable cashless transactions in Kenya, where the majority of wireless payments are being done through the nation’s biggest telecommunications company, Safaricom Ltd.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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Australian Social Enterprise Lights Up India’s Slums
Pollinate Energy was founded by six young Australians in 2012, following a blackout in India that left more than 600 million people without power.
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- Energy, Technology
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- South Asia
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Doctors Test Drones to Speed Up Delivery of Lab Tests
Three years ago, Geoff Baird bought a drone. The Seattle dad and hobby plane enthusiast used the 2.5-pound quadcopter to photograph the Hawaiian coastline and film his son's soccer and baseball games.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Apollo Spectra Hospitals, Quadio Introduce Net Audiometry Services
Apollo Spectra Hospitals, part of Apollo Health and Lifestyle Ltd. (AHLL), one of the largest players in the healthcare segment, for the first time has partnered with Pune based hearing health care provider Quadio Labs for their maiden telemedicine services.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia