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Yummy’s super-sized round helps grow its delivery, ride-sharing super app in LatAm

TechCrunch

Less than a year after taking its first funding , Latin American local on-demand delivery and transportation super app Yummy is back with an upsized round of $47 million. The company has also moved on from its initial markets of Venezuela and Bolivia and into Peru and Panama, Zavarce told TechCrunch.

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Minka raises $24M from Tiger, Kaszek to help move money more quickly across LatAm

TechCrunch

In that process, it came in contact with the central bank and the local ACH, and then won an RFP to automate Colombia’s payments infrastructure. The startup was introduced to a client in the Dominican Republic by Mastercard, with whom Minka is partnered, along with Google.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Jennifer Anderson is the executive director of Trellis for Tomorrow, a nonprofit that works to build resilience and compassion in local communities through food justice and environmental sustainability efforts. Before her time in Sacramento she worked for environmental NGOs throughout Arizona, California, and Bolivia.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally. Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. If your angle is using this training as an outlet for local empowerment and development, then you very much want to bring in mentorship.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work.

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OpenAI’s latest breakthrough is astonishingly powerful, but still fighting its flaws

The Verge

That means GPT-3’s training data includes not only things like news articles, recipes, and poetry, but also coding manuals, fanfiction, religious prophecy, guides to the songbirds of Bolivia, and whatever else you can imagine. And, yes, that includes the bad stuff as well. Compose guitar tabs.

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Tencent’s hit mobile game Honor of Kings expands to over 160 countries

TechNode

The first region-themed exclusive hero was born after in-depth discussions with local gaming experts, they added. At time of writing, Honor of Kings topped the free-download game chart in 10 countries or regions, securing a spot in the top 10 of 25 countries free-download gaming charts, local gaming media outlet GameLook reported today.