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T-Mobile vets lead startup selling AI-powered tech that reminds customers to pay bills

GeekWire

Former T-Mobile execs Balaji Sridharan and Dave Thoms are the co-founders of KredosAI , a company that uses behavioral economics and AI to learn which words, channels and times are the most effective at nudging a customer to pay off their tabs. . The startup has fewer than 10 employees.

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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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Former Microsoft president donates 48 Alexander Calder works and $10M to Seattle Art Museum

GeekWire

The collection centers around a group of hanging and standing mobiles dating from the 1930s to the 1970s. He retired in 1990 and left the board of directors in 2008. Jon and Kim Shirley currently serve on the museum’s board of trustees, and Jon Shirley served as chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2000 to 2008.

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Ookla acquires RootMetrics in Seattle wireless analytics deal

GeekWire

Founded in 2008, RootMetrics tests the speed and reliability of mobile network operators. It sells data to government agencies, mobile network operators, tower and infrastructure providers, fleet management companies, and more. Ookla announced that it has acquired RootMetrics , a Bellevue, Wash.-based

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Have You Correctly Estimated Your Company’s Demand For Mobile?

The Accidental Successful CIO

First it was mobile phones, now its tablets… Image Credit: Nana B Agyei. Before then, mobile phones were just that – phones. What might surprise a number of people with the CIO job is that there is one department in the company in which the mobile properties of an iPad tablet most appealed to. It’s All About Sales.

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I Miss the Peek, My Cheap and Simple Email-Only Travel Buddy

Gizmodo

A mobile device capable of only email, released just a year after the game-changing first generation iPhone. It seems silly now, but when the Peek debuted in 2008, it delivered something smartphones couldn’t. It sounds like a ludicrous idea. At 1/6th price of the iPhone, the Peek provided an affordable way to get… Read more.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008.

Sean Daniel

Announcing Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. This morning, building on the Windows Small Business Server 2011 Announcement , we are announcing a new edition targeted at Small Business called Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials. What is this Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials? SeanDaniel.com [tech].

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