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Telecoms and Banks lock horns over mobile banking in Zimbabwe
The bankers association accuse the mobile telephone operators of exploiting a grey area in the Banking Act.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Four World-Changing Products Dreamed Up by Bill Gates
This holiday season, Bill Gates wants stuff that doesn’t exist. Not for himself, mind you, but for the developing world. Gates has tons of ideas for products that would improve lives there, if only someone would build them.
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- Technology
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Open source can help the developing world, but it’s not without challenges
Many see open source technology as an ideological tool -- a way to promote freedom in a world of closed, proprietary systems.
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- Impact Assessment, Technology
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Apollo inks MoU with CSC to offer healthcare via telemedicine
Apollo Hospitals Group today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Common Services Centers (CSC) Scheme of the government to deliver healthcare using telemedicine platform to patients in rural areas.
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- Health Care, Technology
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China’s Alipay mobile wallet app users have almost reached 100 million
China's largest e-payment company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's Alipay Wednesday said that users of its "mobile wallet" app have reached nearly 100 million across the nation so far.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Patient Data Company Commits to the Business Call to Action While Expanding Low-cost Mobile Health Services in India
Company links health security with better medical outcomes
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Mobilium Smart Health app launched
Samsung and Mobilium Global have joined forces to distribute the Mobilium Smart Health app - a "Made For Africa" mobile health and wellness, smart device application.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Crowdfunding: a New Danger for Inexperienced Investors?
Financial planners may soon have one more investment option to counsel clients about.
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- Technology
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- impact investing
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