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Yalo Raises $50 Million to Build ‘C-Commerce’ Services for Chat Apps Like WhatsApp
Facebook has long been working on raising WhatsApp’s profile as a channel for businesses to interact with (and sell to) their customers.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Global
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Microsoft, NSDC Collaborate To Empower 1 Lakh (100,000) Women in India With Digital Skills
Microsoft on Wednesday said it has collaborated with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to impart digital skills to more than one lakh underserved women in India over the next 10 months.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Enterprise in the Time of Coronavirus: How NextBillion and the Businesses We Cover Are Responding to the Pandemic
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads around the world, it will have an immense impact on emerging markets communities and the businesses that serve them. So we wanted to take a moment to explain how NextBillion will be responding to these extraordinary times. We’re instituting a number of measures that will affect our coverage of coronavirus and other topics in the coming months.
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- Coronavirus, Entrepreneurship, Health Care, NextBillion Originals
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Soap Opera Could Be Unlikely Form of Birth Control in Uganda
Uganda has one of the highest birth rates in the world. It also has some of the most dedicated soap opera watchers anywhere in Africa. Now a group of enterprising Ugandans is aiming to tackle the former through the medium of the latter.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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It’s That Time Again – Here’s Your Official SOCAP19 Conference Preview
October is in full swing, and that means it’s time for SOCAP – the 12th annual gathering of investors, entrepreneurs and others helping to drive mission-focused business. It all happens next week, when SOCAP19 will host over 500 speakers and hold more than 150 breakout sessions at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco. Team NextBillion will be there too - here's what to expect.
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- Entrepreneurship, Investing
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The Development Tool Nobody’s Using: Why it’s Time for the Women’s Empowerment Sector to Leverage Media and Advertising
In women’s economic empowerment circles, there’s no shortage of initiatives involving corporate partnerships with NGOs - often focused on agriculture or garment supply chains. But as Mara Bolis at Oxfam points out, this focus has led the sector to overlook other potential areas of impact – including media and advertising. Sharing some compelling examples, she argues that media could have as much – or even more – influence in shaping women’s economic opportunities as changes to global value chains.
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- Technology
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Press Release: New Design Challenge Empowers and Informs Responses to Global Water Crises
Designing Water's Future, will leverage the power of creative design and communications, citizen science, frontier data analysis, visualization tools, and Artificial Intelligence-powered analysis to advance responses and solutions.
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- WASH
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Cool But Confused: Social Entrepreneurs Find It Harder to Explain Their Work
A Thomson Reuters Foundation poll in 2016 found almost 60 percent of social enterprise experts in the 45 biggest economies said there was a lack of public awareness about their work which made it harder to raise funding and sell products and services.
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- Entrepreneurship
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