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Cisco, Narayana Health Team Up to Protect Data in Telemedicine Services
As digital transformation brings more users, devices and applications online, corporates and even hospitals are struggling to protect malware attacks.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Siemens Stiftung Announces Winners of the Empowering People Award
Global contest awards 200,000 Euros prize money to most innovative low-tech solutions that sustainably help improve lives in developing countries.
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Mobile Transactions Market to Exceed $500 Billion By 2018
The value of domestic money transfers, including operator money and social media money services, will reach $520 billion in global mobile transactions by 2018, up nearly 200% from an estimated $178 billion last year.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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South Africa Plans Health Study to Track Half a Million People
South Africa's government has announced that it will expand the country’s existing demographic studies to create a project that will be the largest of its kind in Africa — tracking the health, income, and educational attainment of around 1% of South Africa’s population.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- research
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One of India’s Leading Handset Makers Enters Mobile Wallet Business
Intex Technologies, one of the leading Indian handset player said it has partnered with Tata Teleservices subsidiary mRUPEE to launch their first ever mobile wallet.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Global Health: Longer Lives, More Lifestyle Disease
Life expectancy worldwide has jumped by a decade since 1980, rising in 2015 to 69 years for men and nearly 75 for women, according to a comprehensive overview of global health released Thursday.
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- Health Care
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Making Microfinance More Effective
For the 2.5 billion people who live on less than $2 per day, shocks such as illness, crop failures, livestock deaths, farming-equipment breakdowns and even wedding or funeral expenses can be enough to tip them, their families, or even an entire community below the poverty line. A major challenge for international development efforts is determining which financial tools provide durable buffers against such setbacks.
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Viewpoint: After Hurricane Matthew, Will Aid Predators Ravage Haiti?
n Tuesday, Hurricane Matthew moved slowly through Haiti’s south-west armed with heavy rain and 145 miles per hour wind. Any country subjected to a category 4 hurricane would suffer great damage to its infrastructure. Haiti, however, experienced a catastrophe.
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- Environment
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- North America
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