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Vodafone Aims to Replicate M-Pesa’s Success in India
M-Pesa, the mobile-based money transfer and payment service that has been highly successful in Kenya since its launch in 2007, is now available in India by Vodafone, working through its fully-owned subsidiary Mobile Commerce Solutions Ltd (MCSL), and ICICI bank, the country’s largest private sector bank.
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Affordable houses, but for whom?
The new launches in the affordable category could just be another marketing gimmick to push sales and mop up money
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Instilling soft skills in chauffeurs
In the travel industry, the bottom of the pyramid is the driver.” Ram Badrinathan, Founder & CEO, GlobalTHEN.
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Entrepreneurship and Social Impact in the Middle East — Business as Unusual?
It is a striking feature of the growing startup ecosystems in the Middle East that the lines between “entrepreneurship” and “social entrepreneurship” — that is, entrepreneurship that makes a social impact — often blur.
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Anti-diarrhoea vaccine: Why social innovation is the way ahead for Indian healthcare
After nearly 25 years of work involving multi-institution, multi-country collaboration, India yesterday announced its first locally developed anti-diarrhoea vaccine.
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Acumen Fund announces first energy investment in Pakistan
Acumen, a pioneering non-profit global venture firm addressing poverty across Africa and in South Asia, on Monday announced its first investment in the growing rural energy sector of Pakistan.
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Dirty medicine
The epic inside story of long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy, the Indian drug company that makes generic Lipitor for millions of Americans.
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Source code: PharmaSecure goes mobile in battle against fake drugs
An initiative allowing the provenance of medicines to be verified using mobile technology is taking aim at the illegal drug trade.
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