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What Kenya can teach its neighbors — and the US — about improving the lives of the “unbanked”

Vox

With cellphones in widespread use, getting everyone access to banking is within reach. She needs cash before she heads to the market, but the nearest bank would be several days’ walk. Welcome to the world of mobile money banking. In much of the world, people don’t live near banks or have bank accounts.

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Tech Moves: Expedia and F5 Networks add board members; Madrona principal departs; and more

GeekWire

Buse previously served as co-CEO and CEO of Monitise, a global mobile banking and payments company, from 2014 to 2015. based drugstore.com, which was acquired by Walgreens in 2011 for $429 million. T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert announced the mobile carrier’s new 14-member external diversity and inclusion council.

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Fountainhead: The Growth of Data Growth: My Digital Contrail

Fountainhead

Although Im not a Big Data aficionado, Id recently been struck by a few statistics from the IDC Digital Universe study: It is estimated that in 2011, 1.8 from towers) created and tracked by the carrier; phone log files; data created and stored by multiple mobile apps and their own hosting infrastructures. Mobile Work. (4).

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Fed News Roundup 16 July 2015

CTOvision

NJ partnership fights financial cyber threats - GCN.com GCN (Today) - NJ partnership fights financial cyber threats In order to better protect state banking institutions from cybersecurity threats, the New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Cell (NJCCIC) is partnering with the.

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Analyst One Announces Top Analytical Technologies List

CTOvision

In March 2011 Businessweek quoted Cloudera’s Mike Olson describing a “Cambrian explosion” of corporate analytical technology. Leading organizations including Merck, Bank of America and Mu Sigma rely on Revolution R Enterprise for their data analysis, development and mission-critical production needs. The result?

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Sunburn - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

It’s not unlike what happens with many people as they go mobile. One of the things that you find as people go mobile at work, is that they are looking for the experience to be as frictionless as possible. Do they want someone to be able to get into their bank account? Going Mobile. Enterprise Mobility. Enablement.

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Our favorite startup pitches from Techstars Seattle Demo Day

GeekWire

Techstars expanded to Seattle in 2010, and since then 132 companies have gone through the program. The 2011 class alone produced three unicorns. The startup sells a small piece of hardware that locks and unlocks mobile apps to wean users off digital distractions. They have collectively raised more than $2.5