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Duolingo’s bilingual true crime podcast will entertain you while you learn Spanish

The Verge

Language learning app Duolingo is debuting what it says is the world’s first bilingual true crime podcast designed for people learning Spanish. It’s quite the riveting drama; without giving too much away, the robbers became folk heroes in Argentina, and the heist was the subject of a movie — El Robo del Siglo — in Argentina earlier this year.

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A Sneak Peak at Who Is Taking the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Survey

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The survey is available in five languages – ???????????? Argentina 5.1%. This year we are getting more participants from outside of the United States, but we definitely need more diversity in our survey respondents for the data to truly reflect the global donor community. Black/African American 5.6%. Hispanic/Latino 4.6%. Israel 13.3%.

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Spotify brings real-time lyrics to 26 countries, not including the US

The Verge

The new feature uses lyrics provided by Musixmatch, and will be shown in the song’s language. Where available, users can access them by tapping the “lyrics” card at the bottom of the service’s “Now Playing” screen. Lyrics have a complicated history on Spotify.

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Disney and Starz are in a slap fight over the launch of Star+

The Verge

Disney is set to launch its standalone Star+ streaming service in Latin America in August, but Starz has filed complaints in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina alleging Disney is infringing on its brand identity and that the soon-to-launch service will only confuse consumers. Disney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Mexican unicorn Kavak raises a $485M Series D at a $4B valuation

TechCrunch

Kavak , the Mexican startup that’s disrupted the used car market in Mexico and Argentina, today announced its Series D of $485 million, which now values the company at $4 billion. This round more than triples their previous valuation of $1.15 billion, which established them as a unicorn just a couple of months ago in October of 2020.

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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

TechCrunch

Canada, CIS Region, Malaysia, Indonesia and Argentina — with the startup offering proprietary localized content for each target region (although its users are spread across some 40 countries). Kodland’s remote courses for children aged 6-17 are currently available in the U.K., Ireland, the U.S.,

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Hub, a productivity platform for technical sales professionals, launches with $1M in funding

TechCrunch

Its developers are based in Argentina, for example. . “As As someone who graduated from ESL when I came to this country it is important that opportunities not be closed off to people just because of language barriers,” Mangum said.