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Amazon’s Internet is a new lightweight browser app for emerging markets
The aptly named app is the latest product to emerge from Amazon, and it’s an Android web browser meant specifically for emerging markets. On Google Play, the full name of the app is “Internet: Fast, lite and private,” and it promises to be “lighter than the competition.”
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- Technology
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Huawei initiative focuses on connecting emerging markets to wireless networks
Huawei is looking to help local carriers, governments, and industry to deploy wireless networks in emerging markets and rural areas, spruiking its solutions and partnerships.
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- Asia Pacific
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9 Mobile Apps That Are Taking Social Entrepreneurship to the Next Level
As information technology has become more ubiquitous with business, its effect on social entrepreneurs was all but inevitable. The democratization of technology is empowering more people with information and creating value like never before. The mobile revolution has only taken this idea even further.
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- Entrepreneurship
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Press release: Ulula Raises $1 Million in Seed Funding to Improve Labor Conditions in Global Supply Chains
Ulula, a software and analytics platform that equips companies with tools to monitor human rights risks, announced today it raised $1 million in private seed funding to expand its mobile platform that enables organizations to engage workers directly, in real time, across global supply chains.
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Opinion: What the debate about Safaricom dominance is really about
That Safaricom is dominant in the voice, data and mobile money markets is not really debatable. What is debatable is what the regulator plans to do about it.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya ops slam regulator for failing to curb Safaricom
Safaricom’s rival operators hit out at the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) for failing to deal with the market leader’s dominance, after it removed controversial recommendations to split the company from a competition report.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Top 4 African tech trends to look out for
With a young population of early-adopters and an improving infrastructure from telecommunications to payments, investment in Africa in 2018 is likely to eclipse record-breaking growth, and be driven by more post-seed capital.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Study: Access to mobile phones won’t magically fix youth unemployment in Africa
In reality the extent to which the mobile phone can support and sustain real improvement in young lives is depressingly finite unless significant interventions occur – particularly in the education and technology sectors.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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