YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2017

While many Indians are unbanked, mobile phone adoption is on the rise. India has about 200 million mobile subscribers and is adding 5 million new users monthly. What are mobile payments? Mobile payment technology removes the need for direct access to a bank or credit union.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

With Safari Yetu, you pay online or via mobile, receive an SMS reservation or ticket and go to the bus station once; the day you are traveling. Africa ahead in mobile. In both Rwanda and Tanzania ministers for technology spoke about how they see technology as the future for their the economic wealth of their country.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network. At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. Now, the present.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

So I think at that point, in fact I've started looking into this and you actually can see the mobility in different Western countries dramatically go down after March 10th. So it's the first time in my life that I pushed this to all my networks as hard as I could, and I was also very aggressive on the viral mechanics that I plugged into it.

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