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Digital banking boosts financial inclusion, new business models in Africa

CIO Business Intelligence

It was introduced by Safaricom, a Kenyan telecommunications company associated with Vodafone, in 2007 as a phone-based payment scheme where users can transform messages into cash at authorized shops and agents across the country. The most famous provider of mobile money is Kenya’s M-Pesa (M for mobile and “pesa” for money in Swahili).

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How The Cloud Made ‘Data-Driven Culture’ Possible | Part 1

BizAcuity

14 years later, in 2020, the pandemic demands for remote work, and overnight revisions to business strategy. 2007: Amazon launches SimpleDB, a non-relational (NoSQL) database that allows businesses to cheaply process vast amounts of data with minimal effort. The platform is built on S3 and EC2 using a hosted Hadoop framework.