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Another Misstep for Microsoft?
Over the weekend, Microsoft posted information about the six editions of Windows Vista it plans to offer -- only to remove the information from its Web site a day later, saying it has yet to make a final decision. Interestingly, one of these editions appears to be a more limited version aimed...
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Insights from the field: Interviews with social entrepreneurs
Rob Katz, a NextBillion staff writer, recently interviewed Martin Fisher, co-founder of KickStart, and Upendra Bhatt, co-founder of Aavishkaar, in writing an article for GreenBiz.com. KickStart and Aavishkaar are, dare I say, two of the most innovative and robust businesses operating at the...
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Acumen Fund Launches Blog
We?ve talked about Acumen Fund before here at NextBillion ? the non-profit venture fund that supports BOP enterprises delivering critical goods and services to the world?s low-income communities through investments. Like us, they too believe in using entrepreneurial, private-sector...
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Small Grants from a Big Institute
Thirty Chinese NGOs recently won awards totaling $650,000 from the World Bank. The winning ideas included projects that supply environmentally sustainable bio-gas to single mothers, create support networks for waste collectors, and establish community service centers to teach deaf youngsters...
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Ms. Smith Goes to the BOP – To Design
Interested in design for the base of the pyramid? MIT?s Amy Smith is your kind of person. Ethan reminded me about Dr. Smith?s work designing ?really simple things needed by an enormous number of people? with his blog post from the TED Global conference in California.I was lucky...
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New Report on the Socio-Economic Impact of Mobile Phones in the Arab World
Earlier this week I wrote about the rapid rise in mobile phone penetration in emerging markets and the resulting impact on poverty reduction. Now a first-of-its-kind report titled ?Mobility for One Language, Diverse Cultures? details the socio-economic impact of mobile phones in the Arab...
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Who Said It? A New Manifesto for Sustainable Business
Let?s play a game of name-that-quote. I?ll reproduce a quote below, and you guess who said it. Ready? No cheating...Business does good by doing businessDid anyone guess Milton Friedman? Heck, how about Adam Smith? Maybe Martin Feldstein? Wrong. Here?s another excerpt from the...
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Cellular Growth and Poverty Alleviation
Hardly a day goes by where I don?t read something about the rapid expansion of mobile phone services in emerging markets. According to one recent article, ?industry analysts forecast that 80% of the next billion mobile phone customers will come from emerging markets. Africa, for example,...
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