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Starbucks Debuts Mobile App In India
To many, it was a disturbing notion: why was Starbucks taking so long to bring its wildly successful mobile app to its fastest-growing market, India? Almost every day that went by made people only wonder more just what was going on. New word says that it’s finally landing, though, and bringing with it many of the same features that made the original great.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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Is Wastewater the New Black Gold?
What if we were to consider the vast quantities of domestic, agricultural and industrial wastewater discharged into the environment everyday as a valuable resource rather than costly problem? This is the paradigm shift advocated in the United Nations World Water Development Report, Wastewater: the Untapped Resource, launched today in Durban on the occasion of World Water Day.
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- Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- waste
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US-based Tricolor Cleantech Capital to invest up to $5 mn in JanaJal
US-based social impact fund Tricolor Clean Capital has committed to invest up to $5 million (around Rs 33 crore) into hybrid drinking water dispenser maker JanaJal, the company announced in a statement.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- North America
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Samsung Pay beats Apple and Google to launch mobile payments service in India
Samsung has launched its mobile payments service in India.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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- digital payments, fintech
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Apollo Health to expand network pan-India
Apollo Health & Lifestyle Limited (AHLL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited (AHEL) is planning to expand its network across India across verticals.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Latin America impact investors set sights on social returns
After six weeks at the Aravind Eye Hospital in the Indian city of Madurai, talking to everyone from the janitors to the head of the low-cost eye-care centre, Javier Okhuysen and his partner flew back to Mexico City with a business plan, and opened their pilot eye clinic four months later.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Latin America
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- ESG, impact investing
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Ecobank plans to use its app to make traditional bank accounts relevant in Africa
For the past 15 years, the growth of mobile phones in Africa has helped fill the void poor banking infrastructure has created – with the technology being used to address the needs of the unbanked.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Belu hits landmark figure for WaterAid
After six years of operation, Belu has annouced it has reached a landmark figure – £2m of profit has now been handed over to WaterAid, which provides clean water and sanitation in developing countries. The announcement coincides with World Water Day. The bottled water is one of the poster children for social enterprise.
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- Environment
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