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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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Zain Offers Relief, Free Money Transfer to Philippines

October 5, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Zain’s money transfer service between Bahrain and the Philippines has launched free money transfers between the countries in order to provide relief to victims of ...
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Twitter ya Kuweereza SMS ku Zain

September 7, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Twitter yandiba mu nteeseganya okuleeta SMS ezigenda wonna wabweeru wa America, Canada ne Bungereza. Enteeseganya zino ezirimu ne Zain. ArabCrunch n’ebisingawo… Kampuni y’omu Kuwait eya Zain ...
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Week in Review: Twitter Courts Zain, African Cybernetics and Mobile Penetration Worldwide

August 16, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Appfrica’s weekly review looks back at popular stories from our own blog and others from the week gone-by. This week: Twitter courts Zain, Theresa wonders ...
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Who’s that Tweeting in Zain’s Ear?

August 16, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Twitter could be in negotiations to bring outbound SMS back to the world outside of U.S., Canada and the UK in a deal with Zain. ...
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GSM securing lives on Lake Victoria

July 30, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Lake Victoria is Africa’s largest lake and the source of Africa’s longest river, Nile. The lake provides livelihoods for more than 3.5 million people in ...
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Update: Vivendi No Longer Wants to Aquire Stake in Zain

July 20, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
In an update to last week’s post on Vivendi’s acquisition of Zain, Viviendi has pulled out of the deal. “Vivendi has applied its usual criteria of ...
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Is the Sun Setting on Zain?

June 25, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
The rumor mill has it that the mysterious ‘French company’ trying to buy Zain is actually Orange Telecom. That would make perfect sense as I ...
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