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Inside the Technology That Can Turn Your Smartphone into a Personal Doctor
The fantastic tricorder device that “Bones” used to scan aliens on “Star Trek” is nearly at hand—in your cellphone.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Mobile payments will exceed half a trillion dollars worldwide
The value of global payments via mobile devices will reach around $507 billion this year, a rise of nearly 40% year-on-year, according to Juniper Research.
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- Technology
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OPINION: How to Keep the Asian Development Bank Relevant in a Changing Asia
If any economist had said when the Asian Development Bank was founded, that in just 45 years China would become the world's second-largest economy and India the fourth in terms of purchasing power parity, he would have been dismissed.
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- Environment, Technology
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- South Asia
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- lending
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Uber-Like Service Works Without A Smartphone And Calls You A Rickshaw
Oddjobber is bringing the gig economy to feature phones in the developing world, allowing people who do all kinds of service and manual labor to bid for work.
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- Technology
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How Mobile Tech is Changing Africa’s Landscape to Create Opportunities for Women
For years analysts have said that “Africa is Rising,” but now it’s really happening. With an expanding population and steady economic growth, social enterprise in Africa is today seeing real returns on investment. This “double-bottom line” success — financial plus humanitarian gains — is drawing new attention to Africa to not only advance, but also yield change.
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- Technology
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- impact investing
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Converting Small Change Into Savings
Mobile phones have been a blessing for the unbanked. Services like M-Pesa, which started in Kenya, have allowed millions of people to transfer and save money securely for the first time, and inspired dozens of copy-cat businesses around the world.
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- Technology
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- savings
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India’s mobile operators dial migrants to power money transfers
Money transfer through mobile phones is slowly becoming popular with the country's top two operators — Bharti Airtel and Vodafone — together having notched up more than 2 million subscribers. Business is slowly gaining traction, say industry watchers, with the subscriber base growing at close to 15% growth month-on-month. Idea Cellular has made a start and Reliance Communications has just won a licence to offer money transfer services.
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- Technology
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- digital payments, migrants
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Genetically engineered mosquitoes could be vital weapon against malaria
An Oxford-based biotech firm is modifying the males of the species to be sterile, effectively making the killers kill themselves.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- research
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