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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. This is because the process to open a bank account is very tedious in comparison to getting a sim card and adding cash through a local M-Pesa agent.

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Apple and Epic both lost today

The Verge

In a win for developers — but not Epic — Rogers ruled for a permanent nationwide injunction blocking Apple not only from keeping iPhone users in the dark about alternate ways they can pay, but potentially allowing developers to actually stick their own purchase mechanisms into their own apps. ( But Epic arguably lost more.

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Amazon’s palm reading starts at the grocery store, but it could be so much bigger

The Verge

In the future, it says, Amazon One could not only be used for shopping but as a replacement for tickets at music and sporting events, and as an alternative to your office keycard, letting you scan in with a swipe of your hand. It’s much harder, by comparison, to snap a picture of someone’s hand and use that to spoof their vein patterns.

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Today’s real story: The Facebook monopoly

TechCrunch

As an alternative pleading, though, the government can present a compelling case that Facebook harms consumers by suppressing wages in the creator economy. Value in social networks is calculated, depending on whom you ask, algorithmically (Metcalfe’s law) or logarithmically (Zipf’s law). The harms are too abstract.

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Y Combinator’s new batch features its largest group of Indian startups

TechCrunch

For comparison, the W20 batch had 25 Indian startups, up from 14 in S20, 12 each in S19 and W19 and one each in W16, S15, and W15.). “YC Chatwoot is an open source customer engagement suite alternative to Intercom and Zendesk. Pragmatic Leaders is attempting to build a platform to provide cost-effective alternative to an MBA.

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Echelon persuades USPTO that Peloton’s streaming tech is unpatentable

The Verge

The decision was made last week by the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board as they were found to be “ obvious inventions ,” according to Bloomberg Law. If you’ve ever considered buying a connected fitness bike, you’ve probably come across Echelon as a popular Peloton alternative, as they cost a fraction of the price.

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Why Nonprofits Are Needed in the Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

Sharing companies/platforms are just one place alternatives abound and money is flowing and good is getting done. Dubal has been studying the impact of the casual labor force of ride-sharing companies in comparison to the mostly unionized, professional labor force in the cab industry.

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