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From: Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Facebook buys drone technology
Date: 31 Mar 2014 19:52:47 GMT
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On 2014-03-31, Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> wrote:

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> In Kenya they have a successful micropayments system which runs over
> SMS; they don't even need web enabled phones to use this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa

> In the following BBC podcast from last July, Peter Day "visits Kenya's
> high-tech incubators and talks to the innovators building on the success
> of the mobile money system M-Pesa."

Ahh. Should have read further ahead.

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