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Boom mobile money service helps spread the wealth

Boom isn’t your everyday mobile banking service. M-Via CEO Bill Barhydt. M-Via While much of the attention in mobile payments has focused on affluent smartphone-wielding consumers and their top-tier banks, m-Via has gone the opposite route. The company has built Boom as a service almost entirely devoted to the migrant worker population in the U.S., allowing them to easily set …

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AT&T: Sprint’s public, private claims are two

AT&T’s fight with Sprint Nextel over its right to buy T-Mobile USA keeps getting uglier. The latest move by AT&T: claiming Sprint is two-faced, pointing out contradictions between its publicly made arguments and its confidential responses to the Federal Communications Commission. AT&T won the right to access Sprint’s confidential documents because it needs to prepare for its defense against the …

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