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MTN Introduces Africa’s ‘First’ AI Service For Mobile Money
The AI mobile money “assistant” enables customers to engage with MTN’s MoMo services, including payments, on various social media platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, and via SMS.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: MacKenzie Bezos’ Philanthropy: A Force For Good Or Empty Gesture?
With social responsibility and philanthropy low on Amazon’s priority list until recently, understanding where the recent divorcee may invest her resources is at best a guessing game, though her statement made clear it is a decision to be made with “time, effort and care.”
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- Technology
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- North America
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Tech Companies See Big Opportunity in an ‘Undercounted and Underestimated’ Africa
Ntshingila said that as a technology company, Facebook’s biggest aim in Africa is to bring people online. Facebook has 145 million users on the continent with the highest percentage accessing the social media site via mobile phone compared to any other region in the world.
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- Technology
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Trulioo Teams With Refinitiv To Bring 5B Consumers Into The Financial Mainstream
Trulioo said it is teaming with Refinitiv — operator of the World-Check Risk Intelligence database — to promote global financial inclusion and fight fraud.
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- Finance, Technology
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Report: Global Fintech Adoption Grew 64% in 2019; India and China ahead in Emerging Markets
In the emerging markets, Russia and South Africa are trailing closely behind China and India.
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- Finance, Technology
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How Technology Could Help Rural South Africa Turn Sunshine Into Income
If South Africa positions itself well, it could become a test bed for these technologies and thereby benefit from investments in research and development by major international corporations that have an interest in driving these trial runs.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Technology Can Transform Global Health and Education, but It’s No Silver Bullet
New report offers a blueprint for prudent investments in technology, through which governments can create effective and fair health and education services.
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- Technology
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Airtel Africa Looks at $1 Billion London Listing
Airtel Africa is looking to trade on the main market of the London Stock Exchange , using its premium listing segment, which has more stringent rules than the European Union’s minimum requirements, and sell 25 percent of new shares to reduce existing debt.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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