The Verge

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The protests come just as the New York Times reports that the Seattle-based company has been on a hiring spree this year, expanding its global workforce. Today there’s a global day of action with strikes, protests, and stunts across five continents,” James Schneider, the communications director for Progressive International, tells The Verge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

In the morning, I attended a session put on by the Young Global Leaders with six interesting proposals. I next attended a session on global biodiversity, and ended up talking to two of the three speakers afterwards about our Miradi project and about the software idea from my friends at Waste Concern. Today was an example of this.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Twinco Capital , a Madrid and Amsterdam-based startup making it easier to access supply chain finance, has raised €3 million in funding. Leading the round is Spanish VC fund Mundi Ventures, with participation from previous backer Finch Capital and several unnamed angels. We believe there is a strong network effect”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

Conversation One Just as I finished my breakfast, I looked across the way and saw Larry Brilliant, the new head of the Skoll Urgent Threats Fund. Conversation Two I had agreed to act as a mentor to a Global Changemaker, in this case Mousa Mousawy, an Iraqi teenager now living in Jordan. What a great kick-off for a day!

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

With the theme of Technology for a Sustainable Future, the INCLUSION Conference on the Bund was held in Shanghai from September 7 to 9, bringing together global experts, scholars, and entrepreneurs to explore technological developments in economic industries. No matter how easy that is, they feel more comfortable with cash.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their size, and two, getting hardware from providers can be expensive. . million in seed funding at a valuation of $50 million. For Bangladesh, card POS hardware is pretty expensive for small and medium merchants. . The company has raised $3.4

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

And today, the company is announcing that it’s just closed a $6 million seed round led by Global Founders Capital that included participation from firms such as Soma Capital, Graph Ventures, Adapt Ventures and OldSlip group. Ridwan and Zen previously worked at companies such as Square, CashApp, Shopify and Uber. Sign up here !

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Cross-border remittances — when people living and working abroad send money back home to friends and family — continues to be a huge part of how those living in developing countries, off the global financial grid, can be helped. on 2020, as parts of the global economy started to claw back growth after a tough 2020 due to Covid-19.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The round was led by Evolvence India Fund, Sistema Asia Fund and Foundamental, while existing investors Accel, Tiger Global and Nexus also participated. Some of its clients are in Bangladesh, Malaysia, Singapore and Dubai. The four-year-old startup has raised about $50 million to date.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Four-year-old Infra.Market said on Thursday it has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by Tiger Global. Existing investors, including Foundamental, Accel Partners, Nexus Venture Partners, Evolvence India Fund and Sistema Asia Fund also participated in the round, which valued the Indian startup at $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Based in Singapore, the startup just exited stealth mode with $2 million in pre-seed funding. The startup’s new funding was used during stealth mode to hire 30 people in six countries. Klikit wants to save Southeast Asian food businesses from “ tablet hell ” by aggregating order information from all apps into one platform.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

As exporters compete on the global stage, they are craving for tools that will digitize their workflows and help them trade faster and better. In recent years, several firms — including Amazon — have attempted to make inroads to help Indian businesses sell to customers globally. This is where SourceWiz comes in.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The activities funded range from media platforms (55%) to journalism, news, and information (28%), to media applications and tools (6%), and more. The Knight Foundation pushes experimentation [by funding] the tools and techniques.” 4 Think global, write local Don’t forget op-eds and letters to the editor! Sherry questioned.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The pandemic has majorly affected the global supply chain, with 60% of U.S. Bangladesh, one of the largest exporters of ready-made garments, saw export earnings plunge from $34.13 He claims that over 200 brands and 150 factories are currently using the platform, concentrated mostly in India, Bangladesh, China, the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

This enables many more consumers and small businesses to send funds to markets in Africa, Asia and Latin America, where digital wallets are often the default payment method. Based in Singapore and San Francisco, Thunes is backed by investors including Insight Partners, GGV and Checkout.com, and has raised $130 million in funding to date.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

However, the fellowship does give me much more flexibility: I don't have to justify spending Benetech's funds for something that isn't directly connected to our current projects. For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Here’s what I learned: Global Social Media and Mobile Usage Studies and Internet Penetration. I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Our collective attention has been almost singularly focused on the pandemic and its global effects. The Rohingya crisis continued unabated, increasing the number of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people in Bangladesh and surrounding countries. Seventeen percent of funding went toward disaster preparedness. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. 401(k) provider Human Interest , which recently increased total funding to $500 million, including an investment from BlackRock, has 23 open roles, including in engineering, product and revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2007

The victims of Cyclone Sidr in the southwestern region of Bangladesh have immediate needs for relief items, including food and non-food items, emergency shelter, basic health care, clean water and more. I thought I'd highlight a few charitable organizations that are working to end hunger and some opportunities for donations.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bfree , a Nigerian credit management fintech, has embarked on global expansion after raising $1.7 Funds that participated in the latest round included 4Di Capital, Octerra Capital, VestedWorld, Voltron Capital, Logos Ventures and several other angel investors, bringing the total capital raised by the Lagos-based startup to $2.5

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Global Giving

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

For example, when you put money in a bank account, you’re relying on the bank (a central actor) to keep track of your funds correctly. If instead you store some funds in a blockchain that supports financial transactions, there is no one person or organization in charge of ensuring everything happens correctly.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

And the government of Bangladesh announced plans for a nationwide mobile payments system by early 2018.This The company seeks to accelerate aid funding distribution and provide transparency in how funds are spent using blockchain. BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

That’s because textiles usually get their hues from toxic chemicals, and the resulting wastewater — laden with dyes, acids and formaldehyde — destroys rivers, such as those surrounding Dhaka , the capital city of Bangladesh.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

In addition to co-authoring Grub with Bryant Terry, Anna also co-authored Hope's Edge with her mother Frances Moore Lappé and is a co-founder, with her mother, of the Small Planet Fund , and a founding principal of the Small Planet Institute , based in Cambridge Massachusetts. So just trying to get us to really see that.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. She is our vice president of development alliances and global media for TechSoup Global’s domestic and international programs. We connect the local with global resources.” Dara Westling.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. I did only enough of it to continue to fund this new addiction that I had, and also to keep up my frequent flier miles. BB: Can you talk a little bit about the relationship between the Global Fund for Women and this book?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

ND-Burma member groups regularly send observers, at great personal risk, across Burma’s borders with India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China. Participants at the 2012 global Martus Users Group Meeting Benetech is committed to doing this kind of ongoing development to help advance the broader human rights movement. Thank you in advance!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

July 25, 2023 ChatGPT for Android is now available in the US, India, Bangladesh and Brazil A few days after putting up a preorder page on Google Play, OpenAI has flipped the switch and released ChatGPT for Android. A source tells us Founders Fund is also investing. The app is now live in a handful of countries.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 3, 2025

Business leaders, economists, and global heads of state were on edge before the announcements, fearing just how high the tariffs would be. Reactions from global leaders to the swatch of new tariffs have been vocal and swift. Those who dont need to tap into these funds for years or decades may be able to ride out the tariff storm.

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