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India to enter top two markets for health company Abbott
Close on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Make in India" call, global health giant Abbott is setting up a Rs 450-crore plant for manufacturing nutrition products in Jhagadia, Gujarat.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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IBM Teams on First Watson Application in Africa
IBM and Metropolitan Health of South Africa have teamed to create a new health care customer service service based on Big Blue's Watson cognitive computing system.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Doctors Without Borders Is Experimenting With Delivery Drones To Battle An Epidemic
Drones aren't delivering pizza just yet. But they could soon help save lives in places where health care is hard to reach.
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- Health Care
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Equity Bank to issue American Express cards across Africa
Equity Bank's deal with American Express gives the Kenyan lender exclusive rights to issue AmEx credit cards across the continent outside South Africa.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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ClearlySo raises £800,000 to help support social entrepreneurs
Big Society Capital and Body Shop co-founder amongst backers of social impact investment intermediary
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- Uncategorized
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- impact investing
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Equity set to offer free money transfer services
Equity Bank will not charge for mobile money transfer services on mobile virtual network, it said yesterday, but subscribers also have to hold accounts with the lender.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN set to support money transfers between Rwanda and Uganda
In a move aimed at warding off competition and increasing revenue collection from its mobile money service, MTN Uganda has partnered with MTN Rwanda to deliver cross border transactions between the two countries.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania: Mobile Technology to Benefit Local Farmers
CONNECTED Farmer Alliance (CFA), a public-private partnership between Vodafone Group, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and TechnoServe, has announced an agreement to use mobile technology to increase productivity of thousands of smallholder farmers.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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