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2014 Mobile Money Transfers Up By 80 Percent in Zimbabwe
The value of mobile money transfers rose by 80 percent to $1,4 billion in 2014 against the prior year in tandem with the now widespread use of cell phones in Zimbabwe.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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China Is Fertile Ground for Growing Internet Finance
The recent establishment of private Internet banks has ushered the banking industry into an era where banks need no brick-and-mortar offices. Technologies like big data make this possible, yet there is disagreement over how much potential Internet finance has.
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- South Asia
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15 Years of The Tech Awards: A look back, a look forward from Smile Train
The Tech Awards will celebrate its 15th anniversary this fall when it again honors 10 laureates who are using technological innovations to solve the world’s biggest challenges. As part of that milestone, NextBillion has teamed up with the organization to feature some of the stories from winning laureates over the years who have gone on to develop game-changing social enterprises and nonprofits by harnessing the right technology at the right time for the right impact.
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Airtel Money Hits Over 1 Million Transactions in a Month in Ghana
Airtel Ghana, multiple award winning company has attained another great milestone with its Convenient, Secure and Instant mobile money service.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Consumers Trust Their Bank Most to Provide a Mobile Wallet
When it comes to mobile wallets, journalists and bloggers have focused on offerings from tech companies like Apple and Google, but consumers are more likely to trust their own bank as a provider, a new ING International Survey of 10,169 mobile users shows.
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China’s Financial Repression and Alibaba’s Banking Arbitrage
There’s much stock market excitement about the various Chinese internet companies, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, and their move into what is essentially online banking. Will they be able to capute significant percentages of the market, just how dang big is that market anyway and which of them is going to do best? We, here at this particular part of Forbes, don’t do technology nor stock markets, but macroeconomics. And truth of the matter here is that all of those things are going to depend upon the Chinese Goivernment’s macroeconomic policy making. Specifically, how much are they going to relax the country’s current financial repression and how much are they going to allow these companies to arbitrage around it? Absolutely nothing else is going to have an effect as large as that one single decision.
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Wells Fargo Selects Clean Technology Startups for Innovation
$10 million program to help four winning companies develop energy-efficient smart glass, cooling, battery and smart metering technologies.
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- Energy, Environment, Technology
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The Missing Link in Africa’s Tech Eco-System: From idea to biz plans, we need more pre-incubation – and this is how
There are now more 100 tech hubs across Africa. While we have been successful in creating spaces for innovators, the next task ahead of us as an ecosystem is to develop services that help young innovators to better define the problem they want to solve and develop a truly convincing value proposition that can scale.
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