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The Largest Payment Platform On Earth Can Reach 2 Billion People–So Why Haven’t You Heard Of It?
When Jana co-founder Nathan Eagle needed to connect to a cell carrier in the developing world, he’d come to meetings with a duffel bag full of cash and say that he wanted to buy airtime. For carriers who were taking on more customers than ever, but struggling with declining revenue per user, it was an irresistible sales pitch. The result, two years later, is that Jana is now the largest payment platform in the world. Read More »
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U.S. Consumers Pay More For Drugs
U.S. consumers and taxpayers usually pay more - often much more - than people in other developed nations for brand-name drugs, according to a series of papers published Monday in the journal Health Affairs. Read More »
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VC Funding for Health IT Sets Yet Another Record
Health IT venture capital funding set a 'torrid' pace in the first quarter, but Q2 deals have topped even that, as records continue to topple. There were 168 funding deals this quarter, compared to 104 in Q1 and 163 in the whole of 2012. Read More »
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Vermont's HIX As A Path To Single Payer
Vermont health officials have a challenging task explaining to consumers the details and benefits of the state health insurance exchange without being able to say much about how insurance and healthcare will (or will not) change in 2017, when the state is set to transition to a single payer system. Read More »
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Wanted: mHealth Startups Seeking VC And Vice Versa
What with so many new regulations and payment reforms driving investment in healthcare innovations, it’s not always easy for entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to find each other. Yet, huge market opportunities are opening up in health IT — and perhaps nowhere more so than in mobile technologies. Read More »
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What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online?
A scholar argues that the core issue is protecting consumers from corporations that are developing ever more sophisticated techniques for getting people to part with their money. Read More »
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What To Expect At Government Health IT Conference
At the Government Health IT Conference & Exhibition 2013 next week, the apex of all the tracks, breakout sessions and likely hallway conversations will be engaging patients while lowering care costs. Read More »
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White House Orders Agencies To Follow New Open Data Standards
Government agencies must collect and publish new information in open, machine-readable and, whenever possible, non-proprietary formats, according to a White House executive order and open data policy published Thursday. Read More »
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White House Petition On Cellphone Unlocking Receives Over 100,000 Signatures
At 7:37 AM EST on February 21, 2013, a White House petition on cellphone unlocking went over the 100,000 signature threshold on the White House’s “We the People” website. This was the threshold for a White House response. Now they will will wait to hear from the White House. How did we get here and what is cellphone unlocking? Read More »
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Why Apple And Google Can't Sync Right—And Don't Care If You Suffer
There's a mobile ecosystem battle raging, with Apple and Google racing to build end-to-end mobile monopolies. According to VisionMobile, "The triumph of iOS and Android is a testament to the superiority of ecosystems economics over legacy business models." Sadly, this triumph has a casualty, and that casualty is you.
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Why Mobile Developers Are Really Starting To Embrace The Enterprise
Big businesses have gotten a taste of mobile's productivity bump. Now they're craving more. Read More »
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Why US Power Companies Don’t Want You Putting A Solar Panel On Your Roof
The short answer: It will destroy their business model forever. Read More »
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Why We're Still Waiting On The 'Yelpification' Of Health Care
Reviewing doctors -- what seems like a simple, effective way to empower and inform patients -- isn't so straightforward. Read More »
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Windows 8 Destroyed PC Sales
PC sales fell 14 percent in the first three months of the year in what is the biggest decline in two decades. Read More »
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Your TV Is Spying On You
Political messaging is moving back to the living room. After an election in which Internet tactics seemed to captivate the public, political strategists are turning—or perhaps more accurately, returning—their attention to television advertising. Read More »
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