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Taxi-hailing smartphone app Uber to launch mobile wallet in India
The taxi-hailing smartphone app Uber will launch a mobile wallet in India after its payment mechanism came under the RBI scanner for flouting the mandatory two-step verification on card transactions earlier this year.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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SunFunder Completes New Round Of Funding
SunFunder, the US crowdfunding company dedicated to funding off-grid solar projects in developing countries, announced Wednesday that it had completed its Series A equity round of funding, raising $2.5 million. The announcement came following investments from Schneider Electric, Better Ventures, and a private family foundation based in Palo Alto. This latest announcement follows on from an original Series A investment made by Khosla Impact and a group of existing angel investors.
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- crowdfunding, solar, venture capital
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Mobile technology reduces maternal mortality
Abdul-Rashid Imoro, Project Officer of Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) of Savana Signatures, a Tamale NGO, has said some health facilities in the Northern Region had recorded zero maternal mortality due to mobile phone technology the NGO had introduced in the area
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: Sterlisation deaths: A rotten healthcare system continues to play havoc in Chhattisgarh
The sterilization camp that left 13 women dead and many battling for life has exposed the rotten healthcare system in Chhattisgarh, yet again.
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- Health Care
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India takes action on spurious and sub-standard drugs
An American pharmacist and an Indian pharmacologist charged with smuggling four million fake pharmaceuticals into the country earlier this month may have been the last straw for the Indian government battling counterfeit drugs.
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Bangladesh installs 3 million residential solar systems
Bangladesh’s Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (Idcol) last week marked the installation of 3 million residential solar systems in the country.According to Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star, the 3 million systems installed under the Idcol program in off-grid areas have a combined capacity of 135 MW.
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- Energy
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- South Asia
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- solar
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Mahindra Comviva builds interoperability between Tanzanian telcos for mobile money exchange
Mahindra Comviva has announced that it has enabled the world’s first domestic interoperable mobile financial service between Airtel Money and Tigo Pesa in Tanzania.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance
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OPINION: Start a Business – Not a Social Enterprise
If do-gooder entrepreneurs and innovators aim to have a lasting impact, they should consider skipping over the strict "social" in social enterprise.
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