The Verge

JANUARY 11, 2022

A ransomware attack last week has left an Albuquerque area jail without access to its camera feeds and rendered automatic door mechanisms unusable. As first reported by the Albuquerque Journal , visitor access to the Metropolitan Detention Center was completely suspended as the jail was put into lockdown. “One

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

Many of the startups raising capital in Mexico are focused on financial inclusion, aiming to level the playing field in a country that is largely unbanked and has a burgeoning middle class. million in debt from Banco Sabadell Mexico — brings minu’s total raised since its 2019 inception to a total of $20 million. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Mexico City-based digital bank Klar has raised $70 million in equity funding at a valuation of $500 million, the startup announced today. When Klar originally started, its mission was to become the “Chime of Mexico.” On top of that, only about 15% have access to formal credit. “ But in Mexico, it’s a different story. ‘We

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Enter Nelo , a startup founded by former Uber international growth team leads, which is building buy now, pay later in Mexico. He and co-founder Stephen Hebson used to work for Uber’s international growth team, growing financial services products in India, Mexico, China and Brazil. “We We were solving a real pain point.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Steffon Middleton and Jessica Pinto have both mastered the art of searching and downloading Bookshare’s accessible texts. He downloads Bookshare texts to a portable device called a BrailleNote that allows blind people like him to read digital Braille. You can read our full profile of Steffon here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Fintech companies and other entities have moved the needle for consumer payments in Latin America, particularly during the global pandemic, prompting consumers to be more comfortable with digital payments. Businesses of means have access to bank funds, but around 95% of small and medium businesses are unattended.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

With nearly half a million customers across Mexico and a network of 30,000 retail locations where representatives can take deposits, the challenger bank albo is already on its way to becoming a dominant player in Mexico’s emerging fintech industry. Valued at $10B, Nubank launches it’s Nu credit card in Mexico.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We knew the racing sim was going multiplatform , and now we have a legit date when players will be able to race around a digital replica of Mexico. If you pre-order the Premium Edition you also get early access to the game on April 25, though does it count as early access when the game's been out for over four years on Xbox and PC?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Nelo , a startup founded by former Uber international growth team leads, began offering buy now, pay later services to Mexico earlier this year. The Mexico City-based company already is live with over 100 merchants, including Steve Madden and Ben & Frank. The company has hubs in Mexico City, New York City and remote employees.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Access this free streaming service from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. Tubi is the exclusive home of the Concacaf Champions Cup in Mexico, but anyone can access these free live streams with a VPN. If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming services from around the world, you'll need a subscription.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

La Haus , which has developed an online real estate marketplace operating in Mexico and Colombia, has secured $100 million in additional funding, including $50 million in equity and $50 million in debt financing. In the last six months, our chief product officer has built a product that allows this to happen 100% digitally,” he said.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Access this free live stream from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. This fascinating battle is difficult to predict, so all eyes will be on the first leg in Mexico City. Fortunately, fans in these excluded territories can still access this free live stream with a VPN. What is the best VPN for YouTube?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Transportation startup DeltaX is accelerating its plans to digitize the trucking industry in its native Bolivia and beyond thanks to a recent $1 million seed round. Digitization is undeniably a shared need around the world for logistics, a sector that until recently largely operated on phone calls, printouts and faxes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Earlier this month, Citibanamex — Mexico’s second-largest bank — announced that it is building new APIs to allow fintech companies real-time access to information like its services and ATM locations. Mexico has been — and still is — leading the fintech charge in Latin America.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2021

Flink , a Mexico City-based neobroker, has raised $57 million in a Series B round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. For Mexico City-born Sergio Jiménez Amozurrutia, the fact that in his country of more than 120 million people, only a tiny fraction of the population has the ability to invest in the capital markets felt unfair.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The Mexico City-based B2B software and payments company provides three products, VendorPlace , P-Card and PorCobrar , for managing cash flow, optimizing access to smart liquidity, and connecting small, midsize and large businesses to an ecosystem of digital tools. In total, Yaydoo has raised $21.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

The B2B payments space has seen an explosion in demand, and investor interest, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as businesses try to figure out how to pay each other digitally. Companies in this new economy are digital and global first. We’re incredibly excited by the future ahead of us in Mexico and beyond.” .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Founded in July 2019, Mexico City-based Flat.mx That September, the proptech startup had raised one of Mexico’s largest pre-seed rounds to take the Opendoor real estate marketplace model across the Rio Grande. The real estate market in Mexico is broken,” said co-founder Bernardo Cordero. Previously, Flat.mx Unlike in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Mexico City-based Valoreo aims to invest in, operate and scale e-commerce brands as part of its self-described mission “to bring better products at more affordable prices” to the Latin American consumer. Tech in Mexico: A confluence of Latin America, the US and Asia. The company says its model differs from that of its U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Tala , an emerging markets digital lender that offers loans between $10 to $500 to consumers and small business owners, has raised $145 million in Series E funding. She discovered that many people she talked to in emerging markets were creditworthy but lacked immediate access to credit and quick loans.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Santiago-based Houm plans to use the new capital mostly to expand to 15 new cities across Mexico, Colombia and Chile — the three countries in which it currently operates — as well as to triple its current headcount of 350. The startup had used its seed capital to expand and consolidate in Bogota, Colombia, and Mexico City. (It

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In Mexico in particular, cash remains the dominant method of payment with an estimated 86% of all payments being in the form of cash. According to one recent study , Mexico topped the list of the world’s fastest growing e-commerce markets. And for the founders of Mexico City-based startup Stori , they spell opportunity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

Nicolás de Camino and Sebastian Kreis founded Xepelin in mid-2019 with the mission of changing the fact that “only 5% of companies in all LatAm countries have access to recurring financial services.”. “We We want all SMEs in LatAm to have access to financial services and capital in a fair and efficient way,” the pair said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

With a focus on Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and India, selected startups receive £80,000 (~$100,000) in grant capital, six months of support and connections with follow-on investors. Lami is an insurance platform and API that enables more individuals and businesses to access insurance coverage.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

The startup’s goal with its developer-first API platform that can be used to access and interpret end-user financial data is to build better, more efficient and more inclusive financial products in Latin America. Specifically, Belvo plans to hire more than 50 engineers in Mexico and Brazil by year’s end.

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The Verge

JULY 3, 2020

But it’s possible the acquisition will be delayed over fears about the search giant’s increased access to sensitive data from Fitbit’s hardware, including users’ heart rates, their fitness activity, and their sleep patterns. Google announced it was buying Fitbit last year for $2.1

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

That's what the Digital Storytelling Challenge seeks to accomplish every year. At the 2013 Digital Storytelling Awards Gala on May 28, the community's successes were clear. Congratulations to all of these award winners, and collective gratitude to all the participants in this year’s digital storytelling challenge.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

The co-founders want to bridge the gap in technology-enabled financial services that they found in Mexico. Colyer worked for G2 after a stint at Stanford, eventually moving back to Mexico and working on a micromobility startup called Uva Scooters. What sort of tweaking was needed? Regarding the company’s $3.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Valoreo , a Mexico City-based acquirer of e-commerce businesses, announced Tuesday that it has raised $50 million of equity and debt financing in a seed funding round. Like Thrasio, Valoreo says it’s able to help entrepreneurs who may lack the resources and access to capital to take their businesses to the next level.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Six years after the launch of the Mexico-based cryptocurrency exchange and financial services platform Bitso , the company revealed it has closed on $62 million in financing to capitalize on the cryptocurrency boom investors expect to hit Latin America. . He thinks that access to stablecoins will lead the way.

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The Verge

JANUARY 15, 2021

Amazon is giving car companies the unprecedented privilege of accessing the core artificial intelligence underpinning its Alexa digital assistant, a first for the company’s AI platform. While Echo Auto can be access via a mobile app or through a dongle you plug into your car , it’s not as seamless as the competition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

While it is remote first, Mundi does have operations in Mexico City. The startup built its platform from scratch with the goal of underwriting SME exporters in Mexico. Pustilnick described FX as “the first 100% digital offering in LatAm that allows companies of any size to lock in currency exchange rates up to one year in advance.”.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Access this free streaming service from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. Tubi is the exclusive home of the Concacaf Champions Cup in Mexico, but anyone can access these free live streams with a VPN. If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming services from around the world, you'll need a subscription.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

With shrinking budgets, providing increased access to the Internet and training for computer literacy can be particularly challenging for libraries and public computing centers. read more.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

In an attempt to remedy that problem, São Paulo -based Kovi was founded in 2018 to give those people access to those opportunities. . Also, financing is often difficult and expensive to obtain, as credit is difficult to access in most Latin American countries. Image Credits: Kovi. The model has worked very well for drivers, he added.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Access this free streaming service from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. Tubi is the exclusive home of the Concacaf Champions Cup in Mexico, but anyone can access these free live streams with a VPN. If you want to retain permanent access to free streaming services from around the world, you'll need a subscription.

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