Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

The pump and pipeline project to Georgetown, developed by California-based Upwell Water, is the largest of at least a half dozen similar projects recently completed, under construction or proposed to bring rural Carrizo Wilcox aquifer water into the booming urban corridor that follows Interstate 35 through Central Texas.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The announcement follows Google’s proposal to reduce its commission by 4 percent for developers using alternative payment systems in South Korea, Reuters reports. The proposal came in response to a law passed in the country last year. Apple intends to appeal the Dutch regulator’s decision.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. The Proposals A. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR). law (this is a wildcard issue right now).

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The Verge

JANUARY 12, 2021

But ultimately labor was outspent and outmaneuvered by companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash, which poured over $200 million into the “Yes on 22” campaign to exempt them from a California state law that would require them to treat their workers like employees. It’s unclear how successful drivers will be in overturning Prop 22.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Department of Homeland Security (DHS) withdrew the proposed rule to remove the International Entrepreneur Parole Program. Sophie Alcorn.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

by donors, grantors, governing boards, or by law.???. Requirements allow vendors to prepare better informed and more accurate proposals in response to your request. One of the main benefits of accounting software is to ease the burden of financial audits. An organization may have many funds supporting?its?mission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

As the operators of Bookshare in the USA, which was made possible through a great exception in our copyright law here, we would love to make all of our books available to people with qualifying disabilities around the world. Bureaucratic barriers to utilizing a copyright exception, as proposed by some publishers, makes the cost even greater.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Epic Games will give Fortnite players 1,000 V-Bucks if they ever purchased an in-game loot box, presented within the game as “loot llamas” containing randomized items, as part of a proposed class action lawsuit settlement to be approved later this week. Epic says with regard to the scope of the US settlement, the V-Bucks benefit will go to 6.5

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

With contributions from artists including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Cat Stevens, and Damon Albarn, the album was released Tuesday to protest proposed British changes to artificial intelligence laws that artists fear will erode their creative control. ” features a stellar list of more than 1,000 musiciansand the sound of silence.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. After all, they’re proud of their creations and would love to see them benefit disadvantaged people and communities, where regular market forces would fail to go.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

Given the implications on society, it’s just a matter of time before the European Union, the United States or some other legislative body passes consumer protection laws governing the use of AI/ML. Once a law is passed, those protections are likely to spread to other regions and markets around the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. Why is that? 39% of donors in Kenya give tribute gifts.

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Bloomerang

MAY 8, 2021

Dear Looking for a Way Forward, Whenever a donor approaches you regarding a gift with conditions, you must ask yourself whether the benefit outweighs the cost. You’ve clearly already considered this by proposing turning the property into a commercial venture that would support its upkeep. It does not seem he has other viable options.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Spain’s homegrown on-demand delivery app, Glovo — which since the end of last year has been majority owned by Germany’s Delivery Hero — has been fined €79 million (~$79 million) for breaches of labor laws related to the employment classification of couriers, local press reported yesterday.

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Bloomerang

MAY 8, 2021

Dear Looking for a Way Forward, Whenever a donor approaches you regarding a gift with conditions, you must ask yourself whether the benefit outweighs the cost. You’ve clearly already considered this by proposing turning the property into a commercial venture that would support its upkeep. It does not seem he has other viable options.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

On Thursday, Democrats introduced a new bill that would ban federal law enforcement from using facial recognition technology and make it more difficult for state and local police departments to use the tech. The bill would effectively prohibit the tech’s use until Congress passes a law explicitly allowing it.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in North Carolina rejected a proposal to unionize, becoming the latest group of the companys employees to side against union representation. Two, the average worker thats in North Carolina knows nothing about a union and the benefits of a union and what a union could do for them. One, were in the South.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

As unease spread amongst a handful of entrepreneurs, alarmed at radical “reforms,” proposed by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government, to the independence of the judiciary, WhatsApp groups were fired up, and were quickly flooded with volunteers from the tech industry. We were tracking wherever MPs were.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The proposed class-action lawsuit against YouTube is being brought by the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, which previously sued Facebook for failing to safeguard the mental health of its own content moderators. This work is frequently low-paid with short-term contracts and minimal health benefits.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

Much of the land is currently unused, though a sand and gravel mining business is still in operation in the heart of the proposed factory location. But some Travis County residents still took issue with the proposal at Tuesday’s meeting. The company has applied to buy the land, totaling around 2,100 acres, for $5 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Spain’s government is gearing up to pass the country’s first ever startup law. A draft law agreed by ministers was presented to the parliament last month. So — if all goes to plan — Spain will finally get a startup law before the end of this year. This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

There are several benefits to third-party repairs. Several states have proposed laws that would make manufacturers remove barriers to third-party repairs, and Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders also supported right-to-repair rules during their campaigns.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Writer and researcher Erica Neely says that laws and social norms aren’t prepared for how AR could affect physical space. “I The nonprofit XR Safety Initiative offers policy frameworks for safety and privacy in the industry, drawing on existing laws like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulations. Friedman asks. “If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The California Association of Nonprofits is seeking feedback from the broader nonprofit community about these proposed guidelines. CalNonprofits anticipates more state and federal policy efforts to emerge as this industry and these practices mature and has released this Open Letter to Crowdfunding Platforms.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Wales’ WT.social platform is an experiment in paid social networking, but not in the style of systems like Friends With Benefits that restrict access with high-priced cryptocurrency tokens. And if you implied an NFT was an official Wikimedia Foundation project, you could run afoul of trademark law.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 11, 2021

Myth #2 Roberts Rules is the Law. Unless prohibited by an organization’s bylaws (and in few cases, state law) a board member can enter into contracts or provide paid services or goods to organizations where they serve. A board member who is part owner in a venue proposed the organization use his/her space. This is false.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Net neutrality has been the default law of the land since the Internet’s founding more than 40 years ago. Nonprofits have greatly benefited from the new information ecology, in which every organization is able to publish directly to an infinite audience of prospective supporters and contributors. But that condition is threatened.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

a common employment benefit is a “health savings account,” where you take some pre-tax money off the table if you invest in your health. Looking perky : A propos employment benefits, Compt just raised $13 million to make employee perks a bit more personalized. More for your health, less for the tax man : In the U.S.,

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Yet, because of their designation as independent contractors—that is, because they are not defined as full-time employees of a company—platform workers have very few protections or benefits. These platform cooperatives seek to deliver a higher portion of company revenues back to workers in the form of higher wages and more benefits.

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The Verge

JANUARY 18, 2022

The outcry comes in response to two pieces of proposed legislation: The American Innovation and Choice Online Act , which prevents Big Tech from favoring their services over others, and the Open App Markets Act , which aims to promote competition on app stores.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But she seriously examines all these arguments and lays out a blueprint for further legal arguments about mobile platforms, app monopolies, and modern antitrust law. By contrast, she says Epic’s proposed solutions “principally appear to eliminate app review.”. Let’s talk about it. iOS developers have a right to talk about alternatives.

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

Benefits of Hybrid Events. There are many key benefits to running a hybrid event. . This setup allowed the event to be hosted with a large audience while upholding physical distancing restrictions and government laws. . While somewhat complicated in how they are hosted, hybrid events are becoming more common.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The proposal also includes a loosening of strict EU state aid rules that will allow Member States to provide financial support to novel “first of a kind” chip fabs. It will also benefit our international partners. “Chips are at the centre of the global technological race. .

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

The first step was to create and present a proposal for the management team and get an approval. When the analysis was done, I created a proposal with my recommendations, which was approved by October 2009. My choice was to take on a migration to Google Apps. I made a SWOT analysis between an in-house server solution and Google Apps.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Nonprofit organizations exist to serve the public, not to benefit the private interests of a single person, whether staff or board members. You should think of your application as an audit of proposed (and/or previous) activity and a thorough examination of your nonprofit’s governing structure, purpose, and planned programs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

A key part of the proposition Jobandtalent offers to workers is increased benefits versus what a temp might otherwise expect to get. “All of the workers have access to the same benefits,” said Urdiales via email when we ask about how Jobandtalent’s perks are structured.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

Stromer is here to challenge those assumptions and force a rethink of how its Swiss-made electric bikes, with top speeds of 45 km/h (28 mph), can disrupt urban transportation for the benefit of residents. Because mopeds are banned, and the law doesn’t differentiate. F**k that. why would any company bother?

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