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AtomChat secures new funding to capitalize on Latin American trend of sales through messaging

TechCrunch

However, sometimes in the course of connecting it may take awhile, and as your attention shifts to something else, your time expires and you have to start all over again. It seems like every website has a chatbot of some kind to help answer simple questions without having to wait for a customer service representative.

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Nowports streamlines LatAm’s shipping to deliver a $1.1B valuation

TechCrunch

With so much attention on supply chain issues since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of an efficient supply chain is more apparent than ever. In the first quarter of 2022, Nowports started operations in Panama and expanded into Concepcion, Chile, and Medellin, Colombia. It has more than 500 employees.

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Glovo to double down African investment in the next 12 months — but will it stay put?

TechCrunch

” The attention on Africa follows a series of regional moves Glovo has pulled this year. Last year, the company pulled out of all the Latin American countries — Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. It sold operations in these markets to Delivery Hero for $272 million.

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NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for March 29, 2025

Mashable Tech

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." There will be new Connections for you to stretch your brain with tomorrow, and we'll be back again to guide you with more helpful hints.

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Tesla showrooms are being hit by a wave of anti-DOGE protests

Fast Company Tech

Often, with these types of initiatives, it takes weeks to plan, says Alex Winter, a documentarian known for making The Panama Papers and other films, who happened to know Donovan and helped amplify the idea. And so if the government’s not going to call attention to these conflicts of interest, then hopefully the people will.

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The book Facebook doesnt want you to read: What you need to know

Mashable Tech

It opens with the time Wynn-Williams had to smuggle Zuckerberg out of a state dinner in Panama, making a break for it past naked dancers and a troupe of horses. You were so focused on winning the longest road just then, you weren't paying attention to the rest of what was happening on the board," she tells him.

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Why major global powers are so interested in Greenland right now

Fast Company Tech

Greenland sits strategically along two potential routes through the Arctic, which would reduce shipping times between the North Atlantic and Pacific and bypass the bottlenecks of the Suez and Panama canals. While the routes aren’t likely to be commercially viable for many years, they are attracting attention. Why Greenland?

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