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In Texas, ‘water is the new oil’ as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out

Fast Company Tech

Five years ago, San Antonio started pumping up to 49 million gallons per day through a 140-mile pipeline from the Carrizo Wilcox Aquifer. That same year, San Antonio, 140 miles away, announced plans to import 49 million gallons per day from wells in Lee County on the site of an old Alcoa aluminum smelter.

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Melbourne-based mobile ordering platform Mr Yum lands $65M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

QR code ordering at restaurants has been around for years, but the pandemic increased its adoption as social distancing and hygiene measures went into place. Mr Yum began pitching its mobile ordering platform to businesses before the pandemic, but the pandemic has accelerated adoption. Returning investors included TEN13 and AirTree.

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Methodist Unveils $181 Million Investment

The NonProfit Times

In 2024, SA Digital Connects received a $110,000 grant to support staffing for programming and implementation of the San Antonio and Greater Bexar County Digital Equity Plan. Examples of the types of initiatives MHM is investing in include: economic mobility, access to clean water, and community-led collaboration initiatives.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Today I’m in San Antonio, Texas, for the American College of Preventive Medicine annual conference. It is not just that people need to know of a technology, but they really need to have it already integrated into the way they communicate and share for adoption to take hold during a crisis.

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Get Social Covered: 13 Lesser Known Social Media Sites for Your NPO

AFP Blog

Please—you were an early adopter. At the 2014 AFP International Conference on Fundraising in San Antonio, Lisa Chmiola and David Tinker helped us through some of the lesser known social media sites that can help your nonprofit with efficiency and productivity.' And Twitter? You could do 140 characters or less in your sleep.

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Get Social Covered: 13 Lesser Known Social Media Sites for Your NPO

NonProfit Hub

Please—you were an early adopter. At the 2014 AFP International Conference on Fundraising in San Antonio, Lisa Chmiola and David Tinker helped us through some of the lesser known social media sites that can help your nonprofit with efficiency and productivity. You’ve got social media covered. And Twitter?

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

The Verge

And when I talk to school districts in even urban cities like San Antonio, there are kids with their parents driving to buses parked around the city every night to hook up their computers because sometimes they have Chromebooks. And California has adopted a version of that. And they feel very strongly about it.