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60 Minutes Investigates Medical Gear Sold During Ebola Crisis
During the most recent outbreak of the Ebola virus, more than 500 health care workers died of the disease, and something called Personal Protective Equipment became essential to preventing the deaths of even more. We're talking about gowns, gloves, masks and other gear designed to block the transmission of deadly bacteria and viruses. They're used every day in hospitals to protect doctors, nurses, and patients. But Ebola was so lethal, it raised the stakes enormously. If the protective equipment fails, infectious bodily fluids can get through -- a problem known as "strike-through." At the height of the Ebola outbreak, we received a tip that a major American manufacturer had knowingly provided defective protective equipment to health care workers in the U.S. and abroad. It's a serious accusation that's never been publicly examined -- until tonight.
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E-wallet Companies Struggle in India, as Initial Euphoria Dies Down
After a flurry of activity with almost two dozen companies launching prepaid wallets in the last couple of years, the initial euphoria around wallets may be dying down. Many players — with the exception of dominant Paytm or -owned Freecharge — concede that the numbers of wallet users is stagnating and companies are struggling to get existing users to transact more using their digital money.
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France Gets G7 to Discuss Global Regulation of Medicine Prices
France will press its G7 partners this month to launch an "irreversible" process to control the prices of new medicines, part of a global drive to make life-saving drugs more affordable, three sources told Reuters.
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Tanzania’s State-Run Telco Ventures Into Mobile Money
The State-run Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited (TTCL) is now venturing into mobile money transfer services as it seeks to enter the competitive market that already has four players.
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In China’s Tougher Drug Market, Minnows Open Back Door for ‘Big Pharma’
Armed with Beijing funds and friends in the right places, Chinese drug minnows are thriving, luring money from 'Big Pharma' majors struggling to restore the strong growth they once enjoyed in the world's second-largest medicine market.
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Why Cash Will Remain King, Even in the Promised Land of Digital Money
If you talk to tech companies, telecom companies, and even some NGOs, they will tell you that the future of money in Africa is based on technology.
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If You Think She Looks Like An Avon Lady, You’re Half Right
In the 1990s Chuck Slaughter built the online clothing retailer, TravelSmith, from a startup to a company with sales in excess of $100 million a year. Then he signed up to be an Avon lady.
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What Would Happen if We Just Gave People Money?
Daniel Straub remembers the night he got hooked on basic income. He had invited Götz Werner, a billionaire owner of a German drugstore chain, to give an independent talk in Zurich, where Straub was working as a project manager for a think tank. He had read an article about the radical proposal to unconditionally guarantee citizens an income and spent a few years casually researching the idea. Straub had heard Werner was a good speaker on the topic, and that night in 2009 he was indeed excellent at connecting with the audience, a sold-out house of 200. “It was a very intense evening; people were paying attention,” Straub recalled.
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