Tag Archives: m-money

TEDx Week

November 28, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
This week we’ll be distributing all the talks recorded last week at TEDxKampala. What was TEDxKampala? On November 23rd, 2009, Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor ...
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Mobile Money Comes to Ghana

November 2, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Four months after MTN’s Mobile Money launched in Ghana, it has 20,000 users and 1,200 merchants. Uptake has been slow, but as Bruno Akpaka ...
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MTN Uganda, Rwanda Add New Mobile Money Services

October 16, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
MTN Uganda announced that it will be joining Zain and Safaricom in offering international mobile money transfers to its subscribers. Zain announced a parternship ...
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Safaricom to Pay Dividends Via M-Pesa

September 8, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Safaricom’s 829,000 shareholders have until the end of September to register to receive their dividends via the popular M-Pesa mobile payment service. Bankele reports on ...
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PayPal’s Electronic Profiling

September 7, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
I don’t know whether it’s laziness, callousness, indifference or all three but PayPal, intentional or not, are sending a very strong message to the rest ...
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Nokia is Newest Entrant in Mobile Money Market

August 27, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Nokia just announced Nokia Money, a new mobile payment service that will allow mobile users to send and receive money using their phone number. TechCrunch ...
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Banking Anywhere: Deposit Checks From Your iPhone

August 10, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
While mobile operators in emerging economies are rolling out mobile money, banks in the States are developing iPhone applications that allow banking anywhere. USAA, an ...
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