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Kenya: Concern grows over mobile money user information
According to Business Daily, Safaricom is already planning to introduce a platform that will host digital identification for customers.
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Huawei Agrees to Deal to Help African Expats Send Money Home
The deal will let Huawei and WorldRemit tap into growing demand for money transfers from Africans living abroad using mobile-payments services, which are popular in places where banks are scarce or unreliable.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Micro credit: Good or bad for Uganda’s poor population?
The experts says the micro-credits are also geared mainly towards consumption and emergences rather than investments.
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This phone solves one of tech’s biggest frustrations by removing the need for a battery
In an attempt to deliver a long-term solution, researchers at the University of Washington are exploring what happens if we remove batteries from smartphones altogether.
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BASF unveils new mosquito net in battle against malaria
A new mosquito net made by German chemicals company BASF has been given an interim recommendation by the World Health Organization (WHO), containing a new class of insecticide that the company hopes will aid the fight against malaria.
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CompareAsiaGroup scores $50M from investors including IFC, Alibaba and Goldman Sachs
CompareAsiaGroup claims that more than 28 million people used its sites last year, making it the largest personal financial management platform in Asia.
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UBS Raises $325 Million for Bono-Backed Impact Investment Fund
The Rise Fund, which counts Irish rock star Bono among its co-founders, aims to achieve "measurable, positive social and environmental outcomes alongside competitive financial returns", UBS said in a statement on Monday.
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Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg are backing a controversial education program in East Africa
Though it operates with the mission of providing high-quality, low-cost education for all, Bridge has drawn criticism from some education experts and teachers unions for the model it uses to make good on that mission.
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