Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Much of Teslas recent stock declines have been attributed to the public souring of the company as its CEO, Elon Musk, has become increasingly involved in politics in both America and Europe. The stocks decline this week comes after the company shed nearly 15% of its value in a single day last week.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 25, 2019

The government printed money like never before to pay for quantitative easing in an attempt to save the economy, devaluing everyone’s savings in the process. Bitcoin is a digital cash with no middle-men, no central authority, and truly peer-to-peer in a way that couldn’t be censored or controlled.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

We're seeing exciting trends in governments making data more available ? for the public. Whether on crime, education, or the environment, governments are putting more data on the web. But local and state governments are also setting their data free. Tags: Government. and valuable ? Tell us in the comments.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This is a step forward for the Good Law—which has already helped Brazil a lot—but private business and government need to start doing more to truly help launch Brazil’s mobile potential. This introduction of a public law coincided with a private phenomenon: the quick emergence of a strong middle class with more purchasing power than ever.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

With 1-Click Clusters, users of any size can get on-demand access to state-of-the-art Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPUs and GH200 Superchips in a public cloud, enabling large-scale model training without having to lock in long-term contracts. Aligneds acquisition of Sao Paulo-based Odata last year expanded its footprint throughout Latin America.

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Forum One

MARCH 9, 2023

I find the rapid developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) thrilling, with endless applications for our Forum One partners, but I know from discussions with my counterparts in government agencies that AI and ML can also be mystifying, and even scary. Jay has advised U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The FCC has made a final denial of Starlink’s application for $885 million in public funds to expand its orbital communications infrastructure to cover parts of rural America, saying the company “failed to demonstrate that it could deliver the promised service.”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

If your charity or library happens to be located in rural America, it's not your imagination that it is harder to get grant funding in rural locations. Insights on Government Funding. Since government is a major funder of rural programs, it's useful to know that a clear trend in government funding is interagency collaborations.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Business is booming in Latin America: Startups raised $9.3 The growth has caught the eyes and pockets of foreign investors, too, with SoftBank announcing its Latin America Fund II, committing $3 billion to tech companies there. AI companies have garnered some of the most attention in Latin America this past year, raising a total $862.6

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2013

metropolitan area, including SendGrid , Ping Identity , Rally Software (which went public on NASDAQ this year; RALY ), Sympoz , Datalogix , Newsgator , TrackVia , Convercent , Printfection , rentbits , and hundreds more. Denver has more tech startups per capita than any U.S. A quality of life that beats Silicon Valley’s. percent.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Photo by: Visions of America/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. The Portland City Council has passed the toughest facial recognition ban in the US, blocking both public and private use of the technology. The ban passed unanimously, according to CNET , CNN , and OneZero.

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The Verge

JANUARY 4, 2021

Google workers have announced plans to unionize with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). Its goal will be to tackle ongoing issues like pay disparity, retaliation, and controversial government contracts. Now that the union effort is public, organizers will likely launch a series of campaigns to rally votes from Google workers.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

Canoo spent $47 million on research and development in 2018, $137 million in 2019, and $52 million through the first three quarters of 2020, according to a recent government filing.). Fortunately for Canoo, Tesla has already started stretching the public’s imagination of what a pickup truck can look like. This is for America.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2014

Lucy Bernholz, who has been thinking about the sharing economy and social change for longer than anyone, share her conference notes, asking “ Where is the Public Good? Will they negotiate with users to release data for public use? But as my colleague, Lucy Bernholz, likes to ask, “ Where is the Public Benefit?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

You could describe Pix as “a government-built version of Venmo,” as João Pedro Thompson, founder of fintech Z1, told TechCrunch. It’s interesting that Pix is an institutional initiative, part of a wider range of public efforts to transform Brazil’s financial landscape.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

The S-1 filing also identifies Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America Securities, Barclays and Wells Fargo Securities as the lead underwriters. SentinelOne is going public during a period of heightened public interest in cybersecurity. Just how bad is that hack that hit US government agencies?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Georges Archibald is head of Americas at the Apex Group. Proponents of socially conscious investing claim fund managers will start a similar stampede when they discover that environmental, social and governance (ESG) insights can yield treasure in the form of alternative data that promise big payoffs — if only they knew how to mine it.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Obama administration is close to unveiling a new Open Government Directive to push agencies to become more transparent, accountable, and collaborative. The directive builds upon the memorandum on transparency and open government released by the administration in January, and was announced by US CTO Aneesh Chopra during the Gov 2.0

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Corporate leaders need to be transparent at every step of their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) journey, and recent analysis provides a clear picture of DEI disclosure across corporate America today and direction for companies looking to not just talk the talk but walk the walk.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The incoming Obama administration is pledging to use some innovative internet strategies to expand citizen access to government information and processes. government CTO, spoke about how DC has created more than 200 data feeds on D.C. A tall order. For example, Vivek Kundra, the Washington, D.C. city issues and indicators.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 26, 2009

The big deal here is the Edward Kennedy Serve America Act. Michelle Obama was a big part of Public Allies and is a huge fan of national service Public Private partnerships. There is interest from other groups in the government and the White House, like OSTP and the Office of Public Engagement. Social innovation.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 24, 2025

Featuring nine educational tracks focused on Resource Development and Management, Leadership and Governance, Technology, and Communications, the conference equips leaders across all levels of your organization. Attend If Youre: A leader or board member at a Feeding America member organization. To Register: [link] **Lets Connect!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2021

In each episode, Emmy-nominated host Baratunde Thurston will dive deeper into these relationships, talking with leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors about how they’re forging dynamic cross-sector relationships to take action on some of the biggest challenges facing us today. The cycle can be very destructive. BT: Intimacy.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

The announcement comes weeks after workers in the US and Canada launched the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), a minority union affiliated with the Communications Workers of America. Now that it is public, Alpha Global will elect a steering committee, which could include workers from Google as well as union organizers.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The letter was signed by organizations including the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Recording Academy, the National Music Publishers Association, the American Association of Independent Music, SAG-AFTRA, and more. That could open it up to be sued for copyright claims.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

UnitedHealth Group, Americas largest insurer, is facing yet another crisis. As the WSJ notes, UnitedHealth Group (aka UHG) and other insurers get lump sum payments from the federal government via the Medicare Advantage system. Department of Justice (DOJ) over its Medicare billing practices, a claim UnitedHealth Group denies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Its database competes with a number of rivals in North America, including PitchBook , CB Insights , and my former employer Crunchbase. The startup collects data on private-market companies through public scraping and partnerships. The company’s new capital comes nearly two years after it raised €2.75 million in early 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And today, one of the early pioneers of the medium is announcing some funding as it tips into profitability on the back of a pivot to enterprise services, targeting businesses and governments that are looking to upskill workers to give them tech expertise more relevant to modern demands.

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Everyaction

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

They hold the government accountable for unjust immigration laws and educate the American public on the longstanding importance of immigrants in the US. Check out their publications detailing “DACA, and Other Policies Designed to Protect Dreamers.”. Here at EveryAction, we firmly believe immigrants help make America great.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

There are different variations of public service. Customer service is a form of public service. Our government's public servants have been released to their jobs better. White House blogs, open government initiatives. Help build tools that allow us to look into government. A: No top three.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Tiffany Chu, SVP of Via and co-founder and former CEO of Remix, had been working in user experience design at ZipCar when, in 2014, she decided to take a year off for a fellowship at Code for America. An urban planning blog featured the project and it went as viral as a mapping and routing tool for public transit could.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

Flickr Photo by Chi King The Federal Communications Commission is seeking public comment on how to draft America's national broadband plan. I learned about the public comment period in an email from Free Press. The FCC should review policies governing competition and pricing. It's essential that they hear from us.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

They also released a weekly publication called COVID, Race, and the Revolution. Combatting increasing hunger: Feeding America and World Food Programme. Image credit: Feeding America. Our partners at Feeding America and the World Food Programme have seen firsthand how the pandemic has affected hunger in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

federal government is in a unique position to help realize those rewards. A push to make public-sector data more widely available by opening up “high-value datasets” to enable their reuse to foster innovation. There are so many ways governments can help businesses maximize their data leverage in ways that improve society.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

In the wake of the scuttling of Ant Group’s IPO , the Chinese government has gone on a regulatory offensive against a host of technology companies. The result of the government fusillade against some of the best-known companies in China was falling share prices. Edtech got hit. On-demand companies took incoming fire. Ride-hailing?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 9, 2008

I think we also agree that: we should certainly increase funding for work that addresses the root causes of social injustice, strengthen foundation learning and accountability, give “beneficiaries” a greater stake in governance and strategy, and have more humility in the way we approach our work. I did split the Americas into U.S.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

International nonprofits and other non-government organizations (NGOs) need American support to function, or even exist, a trio of witnesses told U.S. The Nicaraguan government has closed down 1,500 nonprofits, including religious organizations, human rights groups and even the American Chamber of Commerce, Rutzen added.

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