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What telco mobile money licenses mean for Nigeria’s financial services sector

CIO Business Intelligence

Over the last decade Africa has gained a reputation for global leadership in mobile money, with Kenya at the forefront, but up to now financial services via mobile phones have not taken deep root in the continent’s most populace country — Nigeria. Mobile money is not entirely new to Nigeria.

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Fountainhead: Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the.

Fountainhead

Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in the Field. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Only in Silicon Valley: License Plate Sightings in. ► 2006. (2). ► 2006. (2). Today at Citrix I'm helping others understand opportunities and pathways for mobility and cloud infrastructure. / /.

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The new class of CEOs at Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile

The Verge

Over the past decade, the leaders of Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T oversaw a shift from simplistic feature phones into the era of smartphones and streaming. If you “believe that mobile consumption is the future,” Smith says, “which clearly AT&T does, then you’re going to need a channel to deliver.”. Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg.

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Google class action lawsuit claim: Get your share

Dataconomy

People who used Google between October 2006 and September 2013 to do searches and click on search results may be eligible to earn a portion of the $23 million settlement Google has agreed to pay. According to reports, almost 77 million consumers’ personally identifiable information was stolen due to the T-Mobile data breach.

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Seattle approves law authorizing more automated speed cameras in bid to curb street racing

GeekWire

Seattle has used automated traffic safety cameras since 2006 to enforce red light laws , school zone speeding , bridge closure restrictions , transit-only lanes , and “block the box” rules. Seattle uses speed cameras manufactured by Verra Mobility, a publicly traded company based near Phoenix.

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Eight key developments in the global media industry: July 2006 – June 2007 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Layoffs and closures There are 4,391 media layoffs in the US in first quarter of 2007 are, up 93% on the same period in 2006. An unauthorised video of Saddam Hussein’s execution filmed on a mobile phone is broadcast around the world. ITV offers viewers ‘mobile coupons’ linked to advertisements. AOL Time Warner sacks 5000 staff.

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Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Arrington writes: A few years from now we’ll use our mobile devices to help us remember details of people we know, but not well. What is a certainty is that we will be using mobile social networks even more centrally to our lives than the role of Facebook and other browser-based social applications today.

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