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Pokemon Go Probably Didn’t Make Its Users More Active After All
In July 2016, when Nintendo unleashed its Pokemon GO game (which uses augmented reality to let players find Pokemon in the real world), many salivated over an enticing idea: at long last, a video game—a video game—had successfully convinced people to get more exercise.
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Study: Mobile money drives financial inclusion
Financial inclusion expanded 8 percentage points year-on-year in 2015, driven by growth in mobile money, according to a recent study. About 43 percent of Bangladeshis are financially included, says the study conducted by Washington-based research company InterMedia with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation based on statistics of 2015.
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Kenya: Thousands of Kenyan Single Mothers, Widows Use Mobile Money to Escape Poverty
Almost 200,000 Kenyan households, many headed by poor, rural women, have lifted themselves out of poverty using mobile money services, experts said on Thursday, calling for the technology to be introduced in other developing countries.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Novartis’ innovative technology-based healthcare program to increase availability of essential medicines
SMS for Life 2.0 is a joint public-private partnership led by Novartis and supported by its partners, the Kaduna State Ministry of Health and Vodacom.
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Online Micro Credit on the Rise in India
Paving the way for migration of a large section of the population dependent on unofficial credit transactions into the formal sphere, the demonetisation move by the central government has boosted the prospects of online credit platforms.
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Visa And Nest To Roll Out FinTech Bootcamp In Africa
Mobile service provider Safaricom has announced that it is in discussions with five companies to broaden the availability of M-Pesa services.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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This Handheld Breast Scan Is Revolutionizing How Indians Detect Cancer
For 18-year-old Farheen Jahan, life took an ugly turn when she discovered a stiff growth in her breast. However, initial blood reports failed to detect anything serious. Later, in a health camp clinic set up in her locality in rural India she got herself scanned again with something called iBreastExam – a diagnostic tool designed to perform painless and radiation free breast scans, providing results instantly at the point of care.
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- South Asia
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Nigeria Still At Outskirts of Mobile Money Remittances
Nigeria is still struggling with low adoption and highly fragmented agency networks and both are conspiring to hobble the growth of the industry.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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