Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

But AI adoption comes with challenges. The inequity in AI adoption today has parallels to the early days of seat belt installation in cars. We bear the responsibility to ensure AI adoption is equitable, ethical, and inclusive. Yet significant barriers to AI adoption remain. Adopt equity-driven frameworks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

The adoption of financial apps is surging in Southeast Asian markets like Indonesia , the region’s most populous country. The most obvious comparison for Brick is to Plaid, the financial API provider that helped enable the adoption of open banking and open finance in the United States, Canada and European countries.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Earlier this year, Ning announced that it would be dropping 40% of it’s staff and dropping the free service which came as a shock to much of the community, including author of the Ning for Dummies book Manny Hernandez and spurring many forums and blogs to create lists of Ning alternatives that were still free. Where are you looking to build?

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Tenyx, which builds voice-based customer service apps, today announced that it raised $15 million in a seed round from AME Cloud Ventures, Cota Capital, Morado Ventures, Pathbreaker Ventures, Point72 Ventures and StageOne Ventures. But agents can only field so many calls.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Subscribe to receive text alerts from the early adopters in the nonprofit sector. I have always been an advocate of following, liking, and subscribing to the large organizations who are known for being early adopters. WWF Mobile. WWF Desktop. Here are 10 nonprofits currently using text alerts with links to their subscription pages.

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Towards Data Science

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Therefore, we are supposed to know at the build time of each client application whether it will run via Spark Connect or not. The following describes our approach to launching client applications, which eliminates the need to build and manage two versions of JAR artifact for the same application. But we do not know that. entrypoint.sh

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Be an early adopter of digital payments. Instagram: Post or regram once per day alternating between morning and late afternoon. Build your email list and then use your email newsletter to grow your social media followers. Online giving is set for exponential growth over the next decade ( especially through social networks ).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

Daylight says its mission is to “build a more equitable financial life for LGBTQ+ folks and their chosen families.” It also plans to build out a LGBTQ+ business marketplace and a platform that offers discounts and rewards when members shop at merchants whose actions support the queer community. Which neobanks will rise or fall? “By

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

Survey Says: Here’s how NPOs told us they are making the most of the data in their DonorPerfect system to fundraise during COVID-19: “Our strategy is to build a strong relationship with individual donors through our DP database, learn about their giving patterns, and establish appeals related to those patterns.”. Be honest about your needs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

His pitch made perfect sense: create a biodegradable alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam using a material provided in abundance by nature. They soon found out everyone is quietly on the lookout for something better, and existing green alternatives haven’t panned out. ” In the Accelerator over the Sea.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

“Ultimately,” Tossell wrote, “Makerpad’s vision is to educate as many people as possible on the possibilities of building without writing code.” The latter has seen recent rounds in the nine figures , as some corporations turn to low-code tools to help them more quickly build internal software.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Consider how the accessible online library Bookshare – an initiative of Benetech , a Silicon Valley non-profit that builds technology solutions addressing social problems – is transforming the lives of American students with print disabilities. What can be done today to build this accessible tomorrow?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

“However dedicating a product and engineering team to this initiative puts at risk core feature building, which leads to the gap of communicating functional value without a means to — and where Chameleon fills the void.” Image Credits: Chameleon.io. “Normally, this is digital product teams in large companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

In an email interview with TechCrunch, CEO Nikita Shamgunov, who described the tranche as “oversubscribed,” said it would be put toward growing Neon’s engineering team, bootstrapping its go-to-market team and building developer relations with new partnerships and integrations. Findings on that last point are mixed.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In the short term, the startup wants to expand into new cities, countries and verticals, but the long-term goal is to build out a platform that can deliver vehicles via teleoperation or an autonomous system. . “We based Onto, it revolves around providing alternative access to electric vehicles.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Co-founder and CEO Matt Welsh describes it as the first enterprise-focused platform-as-a-service for building experiences with large language models (LLMs). He also conceded that fine-tuning alternatives to the Fixie platform exist, like the open source LangChain and Llama Index. Google Calendar) and public data sources (e.g.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

But as startups are racing to bring low-emissions alternatives to market, some of those new products may be at a tipping point. This is cost-competitive, says C-Crete CEO Rouzbeh Savary, who began working on a more sustainable cement alternative as a PhD student at MIT.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

Finch , which builds APIs to connect corporate payroll, HR, and benefits systems, today announced that it raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Menlo Ventures with participation from General Catalyst, Bedrock, Sempervirens, and Y Combinator. But it requires setting up SFTP servers and lacks standardization across companies.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Instead, its actively building platforms for everything from drug discovery (Clara for Biopharma) to autonomous vehicles (Drive AGX) to video production (Holoscan) to digital twins (Omniverse). It can complete tasks such as building a personal website or sorting the logistics of a day trip.

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Towards Data Science

JULY 13, 2023

Building a maintainable and modular LLM application stack with Hamilton in 13 minutes LLM Applications are dataflows, use a tool specifically designed to express them LLM stacks. Hamilton is great for describing any type of dataflow , which is exactly what you’re doing when building an LLM powered application. Image from pixabay.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Others have been busy building another kind of workforce: construction robots. Photo: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia/ IIT] The hurdle to broader adoption so far has been that many of these robots can only perform a limited number of very specific tasks. Over the past decade, dozens of construction robots have cropped up on the market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

so that the nonprofit groups that have been increasingly adopting Ning (while possibly buried in the long tail) will not be left to fend for themselves. If you’re the creator of a social network, you should probably be passionate about the hobby, interest, community or business you decided to build a network around. Start a Petition ».

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

California-based Solo Advanced Vehicle Technologies wants to build electric, purpose-built heavy-duty truck platforms for autonomous freight. Swedish freight technology company Einride is also building an autonomous electric solution to the trucking industry.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

Although there are potential opportunities for DriveNets to work with the biggest enterprises that are building their own networking systems, today service providers account for the majority of DriveNets’ user base. While it first made its name in the U.S., it’s in the last year expanded deeper into Asia and Europe, too.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

And that’s what we’re doing, building that capability to get there, which today involves a lot of different things that Credable takes the lead on when launching new digital banking products.” We think no one’s really cracked that because you have to provide an end-to-end solution and adopt a partnership approach with banks and businesses.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

For example, this week, Planetary announced an $8 million investment toward building facilities to help companies leveraging fermentation technology create and scale their alternative proteins quicker. Now the company is focusing on building out the supply chain and consumer adoption. billion in investments in 2021.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Far enough to create alternative spelling for common, every day words, says Utsav Agarwal, founder and CEO of the gamified music sharing app nwplying. Another overwhelming trend: Adopting the Country Code Top Level Domain (CCTLD), such as.ly,be,us Qustodian was the closest available domain name!”. be,us and the likes.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

But in building that argument, Federighi also made some surprisingly blunt concessions about security on macOS. “If Federighi made the claim as part of a broader argument for why iOS could not adopt the same software model as macOS, which allows for alternate software sources like the Epic Games Store.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

He will be taking an active role building DeFi products on top of Bitcoin, starting with a marketing partner role at Bitcoin-focused ecosystem and platform, Trust Machines. DeFi has long been the playground for alternatives to Bitcoin that maximalists have largely written off, like Ethereum. “Bitcoin is what I care about.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2021

Founded as a rollup for a number of different vegetarian and alternative protein food brands, the LIVEKINDLY Collective is now one of the largest plant-based food companies, by funding. Startups making meat alternatives are gaining traction worldwide. “We The company said it would use the money to expand into the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And when Bose gave up on making earbuds for sleep, a new startup called Ozlo picked up the slack, licensing Boses design for tiny sleep buds and building out new features such as Bluetooth audio and sleep detection. Meanwhile, the hardware provides a starting point for Apple to build new kinds of content partnerships.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

“Both Citrix and Microsoft will maintain their long-standing policies of supporting choice for those customers who request alternatives to meet their business requirements,” says a Microsoft spokesperson. The deal is clearly the result of increased adoption of cloud solutions, virtual desktops, and remote working during the ongoing pandemic.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

A discussion paper is now available online to stimulate dialogue and engagement (and a call for partners) to build the Talent Bank together. Fission Strategy | Fast Company - Based on recent studies about Internet and communication technology use or adoption, the Digital Divide doesn't seem to necessarily be disappearing.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Convincing meat eaters to adopt a climate-friendly diet might get a little easier thanks to Slovenian startup Juicy Marbles , which has come up with a way to create plant-based whole meat cuts, if that doesn’t sound too oxymoronic. So going big and chunky is one way to stand out in the sizzling alternative protein space.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Protagonist Therapeutics For expanding peptide-based therapies beyond obesity Protagonist Therapeutics makes novel drugs based on peptidesthe building blocks of proteins, and the basis of drugs including insulin and obesity medications like Wegovy and Zepbound. In October, the company raised a $60 million SeriesB.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

If these proposed provisions took effect, it would be easier for communities of people with disabilities to build their own accessible collections inside their own countries. This places them at a tremendous disadvantage in having equal opportunity, especially in the areas of education and employment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Covid has also taught us that building a program that is remote and more software based makes YC more accessible to founders around the globe,” the firm said in a statement to TechCrunch. Leap Club is attempting to build a Good Eggs for India. CashBook is building a cash account app for small businesses in India.

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