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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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RideWithGPS, a Portland startup that makes bicycle route planning tools, lands $3M

GeekWire

The startup offers a mobile app and web tool to map, analyze, and track rides. based business was co-founded in 2006 by CEO Zack Ham and Cullen King , who teamed up to start the company while in college. It also features a social platform for ride-sharing and stats. The Portland, Ore.-based

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Former head of Sonic Team releases new self-made mobile game

The Verge

Naka was the lead programmer for the original Sonic the Hedgehog (which seems to be playable everywhere nowadays) and most recently left his short stay at Square Enix to spend his time working on this hyper-casual title for mobile. I won once in Shot2048, might be worth playing again but definitely not with the pay-to-win transactions.

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Microsoft invests in startup Mistral AI, outlines broader AI principles

GeekWire

Microsoft President Brad Smith at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Smith said the AI principles build on Microsoft’s “Windows Principles,” which the company outlined in 2006 in an effort to address and move on from longstanding antitrust challenges over its dominant PC operating system. Screenshot via webcast.)

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KKR-backed customer feedback company Alchemer acquires Seattle startup Apptentive

GeekWire

based survey software platform, acquired Apptentive , a Seattle startup that helps mobile app-makers gather customer feedback. Alchemer, founded in 2006 and formerly called SurveyGizmo, gives businesses tools to aggregate and analyze customer and employee feedback. . Apptentive CEO Robi Ganguly. Apptentive Photo).

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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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FlowPlay buys out investors as Seattle gaming startup sees revenue spike 50% amid pandemic

GeekWire

Morton, a former exec at GameHouse and RealNetworks, co-founded FlowPlay in 2006 with CTO Doug Pearson , who previously founded and led mobile game studio ThreePenny Software. Previously: 6 ways the pandemic will change gaming forever.

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