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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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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. AT&T has a big couple of years ahead of it building out its 5G network. Price hikes have led to other parts of AT&T’s cable business to start bleeding customers.

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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. I wrote about proximity dating in my 2002 book Living Networks and on this blog in early 2003 , at the time referring to Imahima, an early player in this space in Japan.

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

Trends in the Living Networks

Major acquisitions by tech companies Microsoft acquires aQuantive for $6 billion and TellMe Networks (est. 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. ITV offers viewers ‘mobile coupons’ linked to advertisements. 800 million).

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What accelerates – and slows – the development of social networking mobile platforms - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market. Although the mobile phone offers an "extremely appropriate platform for social networks," he said current pricing structures were holding back the market.

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Interviews: Six important forces that will shape 2009 - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Future Exploration Network. Technology ranging from mobile applications to online gaming will become an everyday part of our work lives. With increased access to online video technology, and mobile data plans getting cheaper, sending video updates of our every move will seem normal. About Ross Dawson. Keynote Speaking/Strategy.

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