Fintech startups are pushing to bring Nigeria’s “side hustle” economy online
One grand promise of Nigeria’s tech ecosystem is to bring hundreds of thousands of small businesses in the sprawling informal economy online. But, because ecosystems don’t exist in a vacuum, small...
View ArticleFintech Nation: Innovate Finance Publishes Compendium of Essays by UK Fintech...
Innovate Finance, an association that represents the UK’s global Fintech community, has recently published a collection of article discussing the growing sector of innovative finance. Said to be an...
View ArticleTencent launches Robotics X to prop up its AI and robotics
China’s tech giant Tencent is going into robotics with the establishment of the Robotics X laboratory in Shenzhen, the company announced on Thursday. Under the slogan of “Make AI Everywhere,” Tencent...
View ArticleFHS Robotics team earns high marks in engineering contest
A robot named Joseph equipped with a motorized elevator and omni wheels helped the Faribault High School Robotics team earn 13th place ranking at the Northern Lights Regional FIRST Robotics competition...
View ArticleDefense Sector to Lead Global Service Robotics Market through 2022: TechSci...
Surging deployment of service robotics in healthcare and defense sectors, increasing adoption of Unmanned Ground Vehicles and rising investments in development of autonomous and mobile service robotics...
View ArticleMIT & Mastercard Launch 2018 Zambezi Prize For Innovation In Financial Inclusion
The Zambezi application is now open for early-stage African tech start-ups who are furthering financial inclusion in Africa … the scale of their innovation; and the feasibility of the solution. The...
View ArticleUsing Blockchains For Traditional Financial Transfers
Notably, large financial institutions are quickly embracing blockchain technology because of its advantages, and many governments are beginning to explore regulations on how crypto can be incorporated...
View ArticleLocal teens battle for glory at regional robotics competition in Portsmouth
As teams fought for points on a soccer field across from Churchland High School on Saturday afternoon, many more battled inside the school’s gym for a different kind of score: the kind won in a...
View ArticleInnovation is the way forward, says Paul Chan
The Financial Secretary, Paul Chan, says expanding and diversifying Hong Kong’s economy is critical to its future. Speaking on RTHK’s Letter to Hong Kong, Chan said the key to achieving this would be...
View ArticleMercury-free dentistry and health care week opens in Chitwan
Mar 18, 2018-Mercury-Free Dentistry and Mercury-Free Health Care Week of Action 2018 campaign opened in Bharatpur, Chitwan on Saturday. The campaign encourages people to go for mercury free dentistry....
View ArticleImproving healthcare for refugees in India
Act for Peace and its local partner, the Organisation for Eelam Refugees Rehabilitation (OfERR), are improving the quality of health care across 107 refugee camps in India. These camps house over...
View ArticleFinancial inclusion: Transaction settlement cycle frustrates agent banking...
A survey by Enhancing Financial Innovation and Access (EFInA), on access to financial … Those who are in the space are still grappling with the challenges of fine-tuning their technology and their...
View ArticleWhat are the alternatives to doorstep lending, rent-to-own and how to avoid...
MILLIONS of families turn to high cost credit every year to help buy new furniture or pay bills. The firms are used by people with poor credit ratings who may be unable to borrow from normal banks or...
View Article‘Healthcare Commission to fight quackery’
KARACHI – The provincial government has formed a Healthcare Commission which would be a great achievement for patients. He said the government should not only monitor services of hospitals and...
View ArticleWomen doctors bring online healthcare to rural Pakistan
BHOSA MANSEHRA: In a remote village surrounded by lush green hills, Mohammad Fayyaz brings his two-year-old son to a clinic so that a female doctor sitting hundreds of kilometres away can examine him....
View ArticleHealthcare experts call for more human trials on bionic kidneys as they are...
With bionic kidneys expected to enter into market to cater to the needs of patients suffering from renal diseases, healthcare experts have expressed apprehensions that these bionic kidneys may not give...
View ArticlePenn Prof. argues the high cost of U.S. healthcare is due to more than just...
A Penn Medicine professor recently wrote an editorial for JAMA, arguing that numerous factors, beyond high prices, contribute to extensive healthcare costs in the United States. Ezekiel Emanuel, chair...
View ArticleConsumer focus driving hospitals’ construction and design, according to...
Enter a destination, and follow the colored path to the blue pin. The seemingly routine process of navigating with a mobile GPS app can also be used inside Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center....
View ArticleWeek In Review: Alibaba Bids $1.4 Billion For iKang, A Chain Of China...
Alibaba’s (NYSE:BABA) investment arm and Yunfeng Capital offered $1.4 billion to acquire iKang Healthcare (NASDAQ:KANG), a chain of private China healthcare clinics. Yunfeng is a venture capital firm...
View ArticleNeanderthals Knew Something About Healthcare That America Has Forgotten
Over 40,000 years ago a Neanderthal male — let’s call him Neanderthal Joe — between the ages of 25 and 40 suffered from a myriad of health issues in his last year of life, including a degenerative...
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