TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

The Bahamas, where he grew up and now lives, wasn’t just in the midst of a pandemic. Like many of us, Fox was sitting at home early in the pandemic mulling the challenges that were facing the world. It was still reeling from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Dorian in 2019. “It

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The company just demonstrated a two-way data link this week and announced its first network partners in Africa and the Bahamas — if everything goes well it may not be long before you can get a signal anywhere in the world. To date, we’ve done this with hundreds of phones, and counting, in the UK, the Bahamas, and the US.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

judge released Bankman-Fried on a $250 million bail bond after he was extradited to America from the Bahamas. Then in December, he talked from an undisclosed location in the Bahamas with reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin for a DealBook event; a discussion that his legal team “very much” did not approve of, he told Sorkin with a boyish grin.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

News that former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested yesterday in the Bahamas set the technology world alight.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

The organizers of Fyre Fest billed it as an exclusive, luxury music festival in the Bahamas, which would include top-notch catering, big-name performers, and transportation via Jet Ski and yacht. Kendall Jenner was among the celebrities paid $250,000 to promote the event , which guests paid up to $12,000 to attend.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

” Crypto Bahamas signals stronger ties between old and new worlds of finance. Although the round comes just after that Series A, it’s not a traditionally structured Series B round, Syndicate co-founder Ian Lee told Coindesk , referring to it as an “informal customers and strategic partners raise closed in a matter of weeks.”

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

During his testimony at a Marine Board of Investigation panel last year, diving expedition company owner Karl Stanley recalled "unnerving" cracking noises during an April 2019 Titan expedition off the coast of the Bahamas. "I

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

At the time, the operation was both smaller and under siege by Hurricane Dorian, which wiped out the team’s coral farm in the Bahamas — and then, of course, the pandemic arrived just in time to spoil the team’s 2020 plans along with everyone else’s. In the Accelerator over the Sea.

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Greater Giving

JULY 23, 2024

There are numerous captivating live auction ideas that don’t require a celebrity endorsement or a trip to the Bahamas. But for smaller nonprofits, securing high-priced items can feel daunting. This blog post will equip you with ten creative live auction ideas perfect for small nonprofits.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

During the interview, SBF, while sipping (and at least once, spilling) a La Croix in the Bahamas, claimed multiple times that he did not know how certain aspects of the business, from its ties to its eventual bankruptcy, went so wrong. ” meeting with regulators. He instead said that he “could, to [his] knowledge” return to the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Rare is working in Abaco Island in the Bahamas to protect critically threatened species like the Spiny Lobster, Eastern Steppe Mongolia to help save the Mongolian gazelle among other species; and Uthaithanee, Thailand to save the Indochinese tiger.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Crypto Bahamas signals stronger ties between old and new worlds of finance. Decrypt wrote that “OpenSea set a new one-day record for Ethereum NFT trading on Sunday with $476 million,” with the publication adding that “much” of the sum came from Otherdeed activity.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

It will work with the primary real estate developer in the area, Bahamas-based Tavistock Development Company, on the development and construction of the vertiport. Lilium says it will construct a $25 million “vertiport” in Lake Nona, a planned community of about 65,000 people within the Orlando city limits.

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The Verge

APRIL 15, 2021

Tickets for the 2017 “luxury” music festival on a remote island in the Bahamas that actually turned out to be a beach full of FEMA tents and some pathetic cheese sandwiches, cost anywhere from $1,000 to as much as $12,000 — more if you bought a package deal.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In fact, while we wrote this, Sam Bankman-Fried, the company’s co-founder, was being extradited from The Bahamas to the U.S. Mistakes made in the boom period of the past couple of years led to many write-downs, but the most egregious example of abysmal investing practices this year was FTX, the bankrupt and disgraced crypto exchange.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

SBF arrested : Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange/Gordian knot that exploded oh-so-dramatically over the last few months, was arrested in the Bahamas this week. Shortly thereafter, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Crypto Bahamas signals stronger ties between old and new worlds of finance. The company only supports NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain today but is exploring integration with Solana and other chains as it grows, according to Frey.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

By December 12, Bankman-Fried had been arrested in the Bahamas. That news came days after a week-long collapse of the FTX empire as the company attempted to keep itself afloat, seeking acquisitions and fresh capital from market players. The next day, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Most FTX customers have been unable to withdraw their funds from the platform as the Bahamas-headquartered company goes through bankruptcy proceedings. He acknowledged that Nestcoin held assets, which the Financial Times pegs at $4 million, in the bankrupt crypto exchange platform FTX to manage operational expenses.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Hurricane Dorian caused catastrophic damage in the Bahamas and parts of the eastern United States. In 2019, millions of people around the world were affected by disasters and humanitarian crises. Wildfires plagued the Amazon, California and Australia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2022

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas. General shout out to my colleague, Mary Ann Azevedo , for bringing her full heart and energy to work everyday. Seen on TechCrunch. Is ChatGPT a ‘virus that has been released into the wild’? Komodo Health, once tipped for a looming IPO, has cut staff as CFO departs.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

projects that the Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Netherlands, Saint Martin, Seychelles, Turks and Caicos, and Tuvalu will see at least 5% of their territories permanently inundated by the end of the century. Today’s extreme event becomes tomorrow’s normal event.

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The Verge

JUNE 21, 2020

The story opens detailing how GSD provided disaster relief in the form of medical care and road-clearing crews after Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas last year. The Daily Beast ’s Mark Harris has a wild story about Global Support and Development (GSD), a disaster charity founded by Sergey Brin that’s being run by his former bodyguards.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

It’s a little less than two weeks since Crypto Bahamas began, but we’re still bringing out content from the conference, because, seriously, there was so much good alpha we couldn’t not share it.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 1, 2022

He “found” the Bahamas. Columbus vs Indigenous Peoples’ Day Holiday Timeline History. 1492: A directionally challenged, but well-funded Columbus thought he found a new route to Asia. Made 4 more trips and kicked off a European invasion of an already occupied land, while setting the stage for the transatlantic slave trade and genocide.

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Ars Technica

MARCH 6, 2025

SpaceX's Starship launcher spun out of control minutes after liftoff Thursday, showering fiery debris over the Bahamas and dealing another setback to Elon Musk's rocket program after a failure under similar circumstances less than two months ago.

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Ars Technica

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Welcome to Edition 7.32 of the Rocket Report! It's true that the US space program has always been political. Domestic and global politics have driven nearly all of the US government's decisions on major space issues, most notably President John F.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Divers hanging out with a school of tiger sharks in the Bahamas had a wild run-in with one particularly curious specimen. Diving with tiger sharks is a popular tourist attraction in the Bahamas, allowing those brave enough to get up close and personal.

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Engadget

MARCH 7, 2025

Just saw Starship 8 blow up in the Bahamas @SpaceX @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/rTMJu23oVx Jonathon Norcross (@NorcrossUSA) March 6, 2025 As TechCrunch notes, SpaceX revealed in February that the seventh Starship test flight exploded because it suffered from propellant leaks that resulted in fires.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Shortly after, people began taking and posting pictures and videos online of debris raining over the Bahamas, and flights were temporarily grounded in Florida to avoid the wreckage. Flight controllers lost communication with Starship about 9.5 minutes after launch. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

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