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How to Make a Smartphone Detect Anemia
A new way of detecting anemia, a condition caused by a lack of oxygen-carrying red blood cells, using a smartphone camera hints at how such devices might be used to provide early warning of an illness without the need for expensive equipment or a hospital visit.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Tech Entrepreneurs Find an Oasis in Startup-Parched Myanmar
On a recent evening, a group of aspiring young tech entrepreneurs packed a room in downtown Yangon to learn how to pitch their ideas to venture capitalists. The venue, Phandeeyar, means "creation place" in Burmese, a lofty goal captured in its full title, Myanmar Innovation Lab.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Portable Chemical Cooler Can Maintain Cold Chain for Vaccines Which Will Save Millions of Lives
A new portable cooling device to improve vaccine transportation in developing countries has been announced as the UK winner of the 2016 James Dyson Award.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Hewlett Packard’s eHealth Center Curing Poor Patients
Today, the primary healthcare infrastructure covers less than 20% of the country’s primary healthcare needs. To address this issue and help patients in the rural and remote areas, in 2012 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) launched the eHealth Center (eHC) initiative which is simple, easy to deploy and rapidly scalable solution that leverages technology to create patient-centric healthcare systems at affordable costs. The solutions include a shipping container which is low cost and easy to deploy in the remotest of villages and carry medical instruments like a small laboratory, ECG, spirometer, digital thermometer and other basic medical equipments. To understand more about this, Dataquest spoke to Lux Rao, Chief Technologist, Technology Services, HPE India.
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MTN South Africa May Pull Plug on Mobile Money
South Africa’s second largest mobile network by subscribers, MTN South Africa, has stopped signing up new Mobile Money customers as it studies the feasibility of the product.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Google Plans to Develop Website to Help Indians With Financial Planning
Google wants to help you save more and invest better. The US-headquartered technology company with a large India presence is planning to develop a website, Bharat Saves, which will offer information on financial planning.
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How Your Social Media Reputation Could Secure You a Loan
Traditional banking in Africa has failed - 80% of the continent's 1.2 billion people do not have a bank account or access to formal financial services. So mobiles and web-based services are stepping in to fill the gap. But there is much more to Africa's financial services story than M-Pesa, the wildly successful mobile banking platform launched in Kenya and Tanzania in 2007.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- credit scoring
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Nigerian Regulator Restores WorldRemit, 10 Other Money Transfer Operators
The Central Bank of Nigeria has given new operating licenses to 11 International Money Transfer (IMTOs) service providers, in efforts to open up the market and make foreign exchange readily available to the nation’s low income earners.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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