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Tuna raises $3M to address complexity of e-commerce payments in Latin America

TechCrunch

Up next, he wants to be able to show traction in payments optimization and facilitators in Brazil before moving on to other countries. He has identified Mexico, Colombia and Argentina as potential new markets. Current and upcoming trends in Latin America’s mobile growth.

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Argentinian fintech infrastructure startup Geopagos leaves the boot straps behind with $35M funding round

TechCrunch

Today, Geopagos has a presence in 15 Latin American countries and says it facilitates more than 150 million transactions with a processed volume of $5 billion per year. Put simply, as a fintech infrastructure provider, Geopagos helps its customers acquire and facilitate card payments to their own thousands of clients.

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4 ways to ensure Latin America’s growing pot of capital drives long-term growth

TechCrunch

Although governments in Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay are conducting tests for 5G networks to accelerate connectivity services, rural governments require more resources and support to obtain the infrastructure and expertise needed to expand internet access.

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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

“We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# The most important factor in spurring someone to action is timely, personally and relevant content delivered carefully and consistently over an extended period of time.&# – Chris Hughes.

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What is Jumo? | Nonprofit Trends with Steve MacLaughlin | a.

sgEngage

“We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# In the very early days of the website they had visitors answer a series of questions about interests, skills, and cause activities.

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup

Miguel Paz, the founder of Hacks/Hackers Chile in partnership with Mariano Blejman of Argentina’s Hacks/Hackers network , and with the support of the World Bank Institute’s Global Media Development program intends to open data from across Latin America through their OpenData Latinoamérica project.

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Seamless Data Analytics Workflow: From Dockerized JupyterLab and MinIO to Insights with Spark SQL

Towards Data Science

Docker Compose facilitates this. Hive, a data warehouse software built on Hadoop, facilitates data querying and analysis. In this guide, we’re going to work with several Docker containers simultaneously. It’s a typical scenario in real-world applications, like a web app communicating with a database. format("parquet").save("s3a://mybucket/country_trnsfm_data.parquet")