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Did T-Mobile just pull an Android on U.S. banks?
Operators have been trying for ages to launch mobile banking schemes hoping to create new revenue opportunities for themselves. T-Mobile’s latest attempt, dubbed Mobile Money, offers a refreshing new perspective on the space. Drawing on the playbook of innovators like Google and Amazon, T-Mobile uses two strategies that are indeed quite un-carrier-like.
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- Technology
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Pushing the Boundaries of Health Care Localization: Feb. 5 TweetChat to explore the increasingly disruptive role of technology in serving low-income populations
Is it true that global solutions cannot be created to tackle local problems? Not necessarily.
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- Health Care, Technology
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mHealth Alliance to move head office to South Africa
The move is to scale up mHealth projects at country levels in the global South.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ethiopia breaking new technology ground
At the beginning of 2013 when Ethiopia’s government approved mobile money in the country, allowing banks and micro-finance institutions to provide transaction-based banking online.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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SRL Diagnostics to enter CIS, Africa
SRL Diagnostics, the healthcare arm of Fortis, is eyeing expansion into fast-growing markets of Africa and CIS countries. SRL, which has about 40 per cent share of the organised diagnostic market in India, plans to open labs and collection centres countries such as Congo, Kenya and Nigeria in Africa. It is also looking at tie-ups in CIS countries.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Bill Gates supports affordable bio-toilets for Ghanaians
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has offered a grant of one million US Dollars to the Biofilcom, inventors and producers of biofil toilets to scale up to make the toilets available at cheaper cost.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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Doctors Without Borders Pioneers Opening Up Access to Humanitarian Data
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is pioneering an open-access approach within the humanitarian sector in the hope that other medical aid organisations will follow suit.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Smartphone uptake boosts mobile banking
The growing demand for smartphones, mass adoption of cashless services and hotspot services that provide free Wi-fi to customers has resulted in the expansion of the mobile wallet industry, according to a new report.
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- Education, Technology
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- mobile finance, research
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