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GeeRemit App Moves Money and Saves It Too

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For a fee, people send money to friends and family, pay bills, and buy groceries using a mobile wallet app. Johnson is working to change those shortcomings with her fintech startup, Global Mobile Finance , which is based in Morrisville, N.C. magazine included her on its 2020 Top 100 Female Founders list. IEEE Fellow Sandra K.

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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas emitters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there has been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. Schapiro, Mark, “ Conning the Climate: Inside the Carbon-Trading Shell Game ,” Harper’s Magazine (February 2010).

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Andy Grove: The U.S. must create an electric car industry - Apr. 17, 2009

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No party for Citis owners: You and me FORTUNE 500 Current Issue Subscribe to Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- When gas was topping $4 a gallon last summer, the urgency to find alternative sources of energy to power cars and trucks became clear to most Americans. and it still leads globally. It hung in as other industries left the U.S.,

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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More from Fortune No party for Citis owners: You and me Is it time to buy American Express? It was announced in late September, as the global financial markets teetered on the abyss. Wang entered the automobile business in 2003 by buying a Chinese state-owned car company that was all but defunct. "Too many new roads."

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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Giving you access to perks, including Spectrum magazine and many education and career resources. It’s the famous example of solutionism as when Wired UK famously wrote, “You want to help Africa? I mean, when I go and I buy a ladder at the big-box hardware store, if I fall off of it because it’s faulty, there’s somebody I can sue.

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