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M-Pesa’s success has been phenomenal. Recent statistics show that fully one-quarter of the Kenyan economy flows through M-Pesa.

Other countries are taking a crack at a similar mobile digital currency. Vodacom

has launched M-Pesa in other African nations, as well as India and parts of Eastern Europe. In Latin America, Ecuador recently announced it would launch a nationwide digital currency, residing largely on people’s smartphones

Cheapest Labor Since Tsars Ruled Russia a Draw for Samsung, Ikea

A combination of the country’s worst currency crisis since 1998 and an unprecedented slide in real wages for most of the past two years has resulted in salaries that have become “broadly competitive” with China’s for the first time since the tsarist era ended a century ago, according to Renaissance Capital.

“It won’t be an exaggeration to say that Russia may become the region’s factory,” said Yaroslav Lissovolik, chief economist at the Eurasian Development Bank. “The goal of our manufacturers in Russia is to create alliances with foreign companies, to become part of regional and global chains of added value and thus to increase not only the country’s competitive potential, but also its export potential.”

In 2007, Netflix changed the landscape by introducing streaming on PC, allowing customers to instantly watch shows. By 2010, Netflix video streaming became available on additional platforms, including iOS devices. Today, video streaming services Netflix and Hulu have a strong hold among combined iOS and Android Top US Apps.

These convenient apps have set the stage for a preferred entertainment delivery. A whole generation of consumers have grown up with video streaming, rather than (or in addition to) paying for cable television: cord cutters and cord nevers. Major premium cable networks, HBO and Showtime, are now after a piece of the pie Netflix and Hulu have carved out

Both HBO NOW and Showtime are taking different approaches to standalone streaming partnerships. HBO NOW has gotten more traction in part to a heavy promotion from Apple, resulting in positive metrics. Showtime’s success is less clear, being married into Hulu’s already strong performance

Что скоро уничтожит Uber, Gett и «Яндекс.Такси»?

После удачного тестирования системы Ethereum консорциумом крупнейших мировых банков появилось сообщение о первой небанковской компании, которая будет работать на принципах заключения контрактов, уже несколько лет используемых криптовалютой Bitcoin

Blockchain грозит изменить мир: в Калифорнии появился сервис такси, создатель которого грозится «похоронить» Uber и подобные ему буквально за несколько месяцев. Arcade City, основанный на принципе Blockchain и созданный бывшим водителем сервиса Uber Кристофером Дэвидом, абсолютно децентрализованный, как распределенная облачная технология: водители и клиенты могут самостоятельно устанавливать в нем тарифы и совершать платежи.

The social media giant will roll out the digital currency in around a dozen countries by the first quarter of next year,

Facebook has a huge ecosystem of users it can provide new value for using the nascent asset class. Its crypto can reduce friction for these users, enabling them to make purchases or make transfers to each other without having to leave the platform,