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Tigo Pesa Customers Pocket Tshs. 5.6b /- ($2,570,120) in Ninth Quarterly Profit Share

August 12, 2016/Tigo Tigo Head of Mobile Financial Services, Ruan Swanepoel said cumulatively the company has paid its mobile financial services users a total of Tshs 46.2 billion (US$ 21,203,490) in quarterly payments since the launch of the service in July 2014 Tanzania’s leading digital lifestyle company, Tigo has announced […]

Mastercard Helps Chinese Students Pay U.S. Tuitions

August 10, 2016/MasterCard Mastercard is offering cardholders in China the ability to use local credit and debit cards to pay U.S. tuitions and other costs through a first-of-its-kind online payment service found at www.plastiq.com/mcuni. Largely created for Chinese students studying abroad, the site addresses international payment challenges, including limited payment […]

Stanford Seed Entrepreneurs Join Obama, Top Silicon Valley Business Leaders, at Global Entrepreneurship Summit

August 10, 2016/Stanford Graduate School of Business Milling around him were 700 other entrepreneurs from 170 countries, all gathered to participate in the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit Afolabi Abiodun, CEO of Nigeria-based telecommunications company SB Telecoms, couldn’t quite believe his eyes as he stood on Stanford University’s bustling Silicon Valley […]