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Safaricom Extends Lead on Mobile Money Transfers
Safaricom has expanded the value of mobile money transfers under its M-pesa platform by 4.45, latest industry data shows, as the company continues to lead in the mobile money market.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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Kenya Targets 1 Million Digital Jobs for Youths in a Year
Kenya has started a digital skills training program to enable 1 million young people to secure freelance online work in the next year, in a bid to tackle the country's acute youth unemployment problem.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- employment
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Cuemath raises $15 million in Series B round from Alphabet
Education start-up Cuemath, run by Cuelearn Pvt. Ltd, has raised $15 million in Series B round of funding led by equity investment fund of Alphabet Inc., CapitalG (formerly known as Google Capital), the company said in a statement on Monday.
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- Education, Investing, Technology
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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What does it mean for technology to be innately African?
Mobile and cloud may be global technologies, but African startups have explored their functionalities, shaped their applications and used them to build differentiated business models suited to their markets, writes Amrote Abdella, regional director of Microsoft 4Afrika.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New mobile payments facility to help enhance financial inclusion in Rwanda
Rwanda’s cashless economy push has received a timely shot as regional lender KCB Bank Rwanda prepares to launch a new payment system that is tipped to expand digital and mobile banking services across the country.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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Ayo Uganda Launches with two mobile based Micro-Insurance Products
MTN Uganda, in partnership with aYo, today announced innovative micro-insurance products, Recharge with Care and Send with Care. The two are the first products launched by aYo – a joint venture between MTN and MMI Holdings – announced in September last year. aYo was formulated to have a strong focus on delivering micro-insurance solutions across the African continent.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- innovation
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Family offices are far more active in impact investing than originally thought
According to legend, The Rockefeller Foundation coined the term ‘impact investing’ in 2007, putting a name to investments made with the intention of generating both financial return and social/environmental impact. Has the concept reached maturity nearly a decade later?
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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Legitimate MFIs to Be Distinguished By Logo in Ghana
The Ghana Association of Microfinance Companies (GAMC) is to introduce a corporate signage for all licensed institutions in the sector by mid-2017. The signage, which would be present at the premises of all registered microfinance institutions in the country from January, is to help the public identify licensed companies to do business with.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance
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