Facebook is looking to help small and medium-sized businesses in India to secure loans and expand their business. The Small Business Loans Initiative is a partnership with online lending platform Indifi that aims to address some of the major pain points small businesses face.
Dawa Health, an e-health start-up company in Zambia, has announced plans to expand its digital health platform across nearby countries. It aims to empower women to receive remote maternal health services, thereby reducing the mortality rate of mothers in the region.
Unocoin, a Bengaluru-based blockchain and crypto asset company, is letting its users buy gift vouchers via bitcoins, which can in turn be used to purchase common, everyday items. The vouchers are from as many as 90 brands that include CCD, Domino’s Pizza, Prestige, Baskin-Robbins, etc, among others.
GrowthLoop will use TransUnion identity data to improve U.S. consumer match rates on client files sent to advertising media such as Facebook and Google Ads. The data should also help clients to find matches among records within their files, building more accurate customer profiles. GrowthLoop calls itself a “composable CDP”, meaning it works with data assembled in external data warehouses.