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Amazon bets big on mobile payment wallet in India
The US e-commerce giant has secured payment wallet license from Reserve Bank of India, struck partnerships with various players for its Amazon Pay.
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A new mindset for the SDGs? Top takeaways from Singularity University’s Global Summit
Singularity University faculty explain how exponentially growing technologies — such as artificial intelligence, digital manufacturing and synthetic biology — will enable us to make dramatic gains in the years ahead.
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Gates Foundation to Improve Enterprise Productivity in Tanzania
The co-founder of Microsoft landed in Dar es Salaam to support Tanzania’s financial inclusion agenda. The project has been launched by Gates and other joining leaders from government, financial service providers, mobile network operators and digital financial service providers.
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Communications tech biggest catalyst for ICT in Africa – Gartner
Speaking to ITWeb Africa ahead of the Gartner Symposium scheduled for September in Cape Town, principal research analyst William Hahn said Gartner's 2017 Hype Cycle for ICT in Africa confirms that communication technologies are setting the ICT agenda for the region.
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Google buys Seattle health monitoring startup Senosis, bolstering digital health push
Patel, who founded Senosis Health with four other clinicians, researchers and tech transfer experts from the University of Washington, won a MacArthur genius grant in 2011 and his past innovations have ranged from energy meters to air quality sensors.
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- North America
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Fintech firm Payworld focuses on insurance, loans for growth
Payworld, a nine-year old fintech firm, provides digital transaction services like mobile recharge, e-payment, railway reservation and remittances facilities.
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To Feed the World, Improve Photosynthesis
By reworking the basic metabolism of crops, plant scientists hope to forestall devastating food shortages.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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Microsoft has found an inexpensive way to save lives in India
Microsoft Research India works on projects in areas of machine learning, natural language processing and it explores creating technology for emerging markets. One of the projects, 99DOTS, has looked at low-cost ways to ensure tuberculosis patients regularly take their medication
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia