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Remittance Cash Pickup Not Possible During Lockdown? There’s Another Way.

YoungUpstarts

These include the Ria website, the mobile web, as well as the Ria mobile app. Ria will also continue to provide cash home delivery services in Armenia, the Dominican Republic, Hungary, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Sending digital remittances.

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Why Moving Your Small Business Online Doesn’t Have To Be Scary

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Make sure the design is clean, contemporary, and mobile friendly. ShareMoney makes it easy to share money with someone in Mexico , start sending money to the Dominican Republic , and more. Your website is the mainstay of your business’s web presence, so you’ll want to start there. Leverage the Power of Social Media.

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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

The Next Web

Soko is a Nairobi and NYC-based, women-founded and run social enterprise system, equipped with mobile technology in developing markets. Cisse Trading ’s aim is simple: buy Fair Trade noms, from cookies to cocoa, on-site or in grocers from main to Virginia, where you’re immediately giving back to the Dominican Republic farmers who grow ‘em.

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Micro-Multinationals, And How They Will Define Our Era

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Today, all you need is a mobile device, a shipping platform and a big idea. By combining virtual networks (high-speed internet, mobile communication and other digital technologies) with physical networks (transportation systems and logistics platforms), micro-multinationals have the potential to disrupt industries virtually overnight.

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

In 2010 not "very smart" feature phones - handsets that are dumber than smartphones - comprised over 75 percent of the mobile market. with less competition and a large market, Snaptu has been able to generate revenues through mobile ads and operated a revenue share with its partners. source: [link].

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Invest in Israel Newsletter January 2012

VC Cafe

a Cambridge company that manages Web traffic for some of the Internet’s biggest sites, is acquiring website and mobile acceleration technology vendor Cotendo. Though a small competitor, Cotendo had been making big strides speeding up Web access on mobile phones, a fast growing segment of Akamai’s business. Akamai Technologies Inc.,