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PayPal to protect purchases of Uber rides, digital music

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork On July 1, the payment-services company will start offering buyer protections for services, e-books, software downloads, digital music and much more. A lot of the stuff you buy these days isn’t stuff at all. With consumers spending more money on digital goods, PayPal decided it was time to start offering […]

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Disparities in health outcomes by race and ethnicity and by income status are persistent and difficult to reduce

follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork JAMA Achieving Health Equity by Design April 14, 2015 Disparities in health outcomes by race and ethnicity and by income status are persistent and difficult to reduce. For more than a decade, infant mortality rates have been 2 to 3 times higher among African American populations, rates of potentially preventable hospitalization

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Young African American Men Experience Little Benefit from the Considerable Health Care Spending in the United States

follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork JAMA April 14, 2015 The Health of Young African American Men Deaths in Ferguson, Missouri; New York City; Sanford, Florida; and other areas have focused international attention on young African American men. In a recent campaign, young African American men draw attention to key overlooked facts that describe their demographic: 1

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Google’s wireless service expected to launch soon, report says

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Google has been readying its own wireless service for smartphones, and it could launch in the US as early as Wednesday, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The service, which would compete with local wireless providers like AT&T and Verizon, is expected to let customers pay only

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Requirements to Become a Police Officer

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Learn about the education and preparation needed to become a police officer. Get a quick view of the requirements as well as details about education, required examinations, training and job duties to find out if this is the career for you. View 22 Popular Schools Essential Information Police officers are

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Amazon to Sell Predictions in Cloud Race Against Google and Microsoft

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork Welcome to the era of low-cost predictions. Your products and services will never be the same, and a couple of big companies may wish we’d never arrived. On Thursday, Amazon Web Services announced that it was selling to the public the same kind of software it uses to figure out

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Amazon, Google and More Are Drawn to Home Services Market

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The installation of Deborah David’s new kitchen faucet was a $180 job. But it lies at the heart of an expanding $400 billion commercial war. Some of the biggest names in e-commerce, along with a growing pool of start-ups, are vying for a chunk of the fragmented, quotidian, heretofore entirely

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Vapour trail

follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The Economist Electronic cigarettes and health The latest investigation of vaping suggests it can help you quit smoking   Dec 20th 2014 | From the print edition THERE are few more reliable routes to an early grave than cigarette smoking. But despite the dangers, nicotine addicts find it almost impossible

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Black Immigrants Have Quadrupled Since 1980, Study Says

Follow us on Twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork The number of black immigrants in the United States has more than quadrupled since 1980, a new study has found, and that group is expected to make up an increasing share of the nation’s black population in the decades ahead. The study, released Thursday by the Pew Research Center, found

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This Drink Could Protect You From Skin Cancer

follow us on twitter: @GoAfricaNetwork TIME  HEALTH CANCER Jan. 20, 2015 The sun is the biggest culprit in causing skin cancer, but there’s a beverage that may thwart some of the tumor-causing effects of ultraviolet rays   You may grab a cup (or two) of coffee every morning to help you wake up and face the

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