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Orange Brings Mobile Crowdfunding To Africa
Mobile Commerce // September 15, 2015

Many westerners are already familiar with crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, GoFundMe and Indiegogo, but thanks to a new service from Orange, African cellphone users won’t be far behind. The French telecom giant, in partnership with HelloAsso, the French leader in crowdfunding for charities, has officially released Orange...

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Shopify Acquires Kit CRM To Bolster Messaging Commerce

April 14, 2016
It would appear that Shopify has chatbots on the mind. A day after the eCommerce platform announced its integration with Facebook Messenger (as part of which it will be building bots), Shopify released the news yesterday (April 13) that it has agreed to acquire Kit CRM, a virtual marketing assistant that leverages messaging to help […]

Orange Brings Mobile Crowdfunding To Africa

September 15, 2015
Many westerners are already familiar with crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, GoFundMe and Indiegogo, but thanks to a new service from Orange, African cellphone users won’t be far behind. The French telecom giant,...