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Why mHealth Alliance is moving to the Global South
The company which champions the use of mobile technologies to improve health around the world will move its headquarters to South Africa.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Masimo and Newborn Foundation Jointly Announce Mobile Health Initiative to Reduce Global Newborn Mortality
The Newborn Foundation’s BORN Project launches with new iSpO2 Rx mobile technology for early detection of health conditions in newborns in low-resource settings.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Health conference on social marketing and franchising
The first global health conference on social marketing (SM) and social franchising (SM), the two emerging tools to help India achieve the universal health coverage, will be held in Kochi from December 3 to 5.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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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
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- 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
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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