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Intel Unveils New Chip for Mobility Healthcare Delivery
World's largest chip maker Intel Corporation has unveiled a new sensing platform for enabling mobile-based healthcare delivery to masses.
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- Health Care, Technology, Transportation
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- transportation
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Viewpoint: The Entrepreneurial Mind at the Bottom of Africa’s Pyramid
Africa is a young continent with a large so-called “bottom of the pyramid” population. There has been growing interest in the continent from investors and multinationals alike, with many South African firms in particular aggressively expanding into new markets and heightened mergers and acquisitions interest from abroad.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESS RELEASE: Unitus Seed Fund adds more prominent investors
November 16, 2014. Bangalore: Unitus Seed Fund announced that it has now raised over USD $4 million from 16 high net income Indian investors in its Indian rupee fund, and Seattle area tech executives, including Steve Singh, Diego Piacentini, and Bill Gates have invested in Unitus Seed Fund’s affiliated offshore venture fund.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Africa: Combatting Health Risks and Promoting Better Hand Washing and Hygiene
Saraya Co. Ltd, a Japanese manufacturer of hygiene and sanitation products, joined the Business Call to Action (BCtA) with an initiative to decrease healthcare associated infections in Uganda.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pfizer and Aid Groups Team Up on Depo-Provera Contraceptive for Developing World
Depo-Provera, an injectable contraceptive given once every three months, is already a popular choice of women in developing countries, who value the convenience and discretion of not having to take a daily birth control pill. But the injections are out of reach for many more women.
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- Health Care
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Can innovation help stop children dying from pneumonia?
Pneumonia is the world’s number one cause of preventable death among children under five years old. Every year, pneumonia kills nearly one million children – more than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. What makes this number of pneumonia deaths so unfathomable is that its cure is well-known, inexpensive and widely available.
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- Health Care
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Turning the tap on: Water as a business model
Too many people in the world don’t have access to safe drinking water in their homes. This month’s meeting of theWorld Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council in Dubai could be the first step to changing that.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Injections could be a thing of the past with scientists developing a way to inhale vaccines
Fear of a trip to the doctors and a jab of a needle could be a thing of the past, with scientists developing a world-first needless injection to dispense vaccines.
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- Education, Health Care
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