TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Brick currently operates primarily in Indonesia, but is planning to expand into Singapore and the Philippines before eventually covering all markets in Southeast Asia. Inside Plaid’s plans to build a new, global finance network. The funding fill be used to double down on Brick’s presence in Indonesia and regional expansion.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

government. Pylon currently operates in Egypt and the Philippines. Pylon builds solutions for these water and electricity distribution companies to make them efficient and stanch the bleeding — the company calculates hundreds of billions of losses (in dollars) across emerging markets per year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

I was able to support the drafting of Presidential Policy Directive-41 that outlines how the federal government organizes itself during a significant cyber incident. I was then able to take that understanding and build out a federated security program at a large tech company, where I helped lead Log4j shell response efforts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Its Series D will be used to support growth in those markets, and enter new Southeast Asian countries, including Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines. You’ll hear first-hand how some of the most successful founders and VCs build their businesses, raise money and manage their portfolios.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Finantier was founded earlier this year by Diego Rojas, Keng Low and Edwin Kusuma, all of whom have experience building products for fintech companies, with the mission of enabling open finance in emerging markets. It’s already eyeing Vietnam and the Philippines and has established partnerships in Brussels.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

When end users log onto an app that uses Verihubs for the first time, they are prompted to take a selfie and then upload a photo of a government-issued photo ID. The startup’s product pipeline also includes building its own credit scores, based on data like transactions and account balances.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The startup built a back-end operating system platform that handles everything from incorporation, government, accounting, taxes and visas to regulatory compliance. Sleek will add its stack to the existing Ltd Companies offering to build an operating system for U.K.-based and the Philippines. based SMEs.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Oasys, a Japan- and Singapore-based startup that’s building a blockchain for gaming developers, has just raised $20 million. Eventually, Oasys hopes to allocate more governance power to its community and transition to what’s called a decentralized autonomous organization.

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TechNode

MAY 24, 2024

Their role is paramount in building a startup bigger from day one, as unique perspectives and entrepreneurial spirit are key factors driving the vibrant growth of new enterprises. For me, it took 10 years of working together with my partner to build a strong partnership. Now we are both best friends and partners.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Nestcoin , a company founded last November that builds, operates, and invests in web3 applications, wants to be pivotal in this transition and has raised $6.45 With these issues not leaving Africa anytime soon, we should expect stronger crypto growth despite several governments’ efforts to stifle it. million pre-seed to that end.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Join us for a free, one-hour webinar on Thursday, December 8 and learn about “Building a Compensation Plan for Better Retention,” where we’re talking with two of the top folks at BambooHR, who’ll be offering their expert guidance. Couple of fun things we have in the pipeline at the moment…. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechNode

MARCH 26, 2024

EVs accounted for around 10% of car sales in Thailand last year, and the government has aimed to increase that percentage to around 30% of its annual production of 2.5 It has also signed contracts with car dealers in Laos, Myanmar, and the Philippines, Reuters reported on March 12. 31 (in Chinese) it will invest 2.3 billion baht ($63.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2023

government. Interestingly, prior to joining Index, Fiorentino helped build and lead business strategy and finance at Stripe from 2015 to 2019. More details here. We also wrote about Tellus, a startup that raised $16 million in an Andreessen Horowitz–led seed round of funding last year that is now being scrutinized by the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program has long supported projects to help Foundation grantees improve management, governance, and leadership. For example, networks just getting started, need to build social lubrican of trust and this happens through relationship building. 3) Be what you want to see. "If

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

I also reported on a startup called Piñata, co-founded by Lily Liu, which wants to help renters get rewards for paying their rent on time and build their credit at the same time that just raised $13 million in Series A funding led by Wilshire Lane Capital toward that effort. They plan to use their new capital in part to expand to Mexico.

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DataRobot

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Sara Venturina, VP Head of Data from GCash, the Philippines’ leading e-wallet, and Trevor Laight, Chief Risk Officer from CIMB, a leading ASEAN universal bank, hosted a discussion panel with Jay Schuren, DataRobot Chief Customer Officer. AI Creators look through a technical lens and focus on defining and building the right model.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

Axie Infinity’s economy is built around three major resources: the in-game cryptocurrency SLP; the axies that live as in-game items as well as NFTs on Sky Mavis’ blockchain; and the “governance token” AXS. It’s impossible to build it perfectly beforehand, game designers need to be able to rebalance it on the fly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. Simplywired is the development blog of Dessie, an ict in development advocate from the Philippines who asks, " Is wi-fi good for developing nations? And here's a Web2.0

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. The newest application of all mobile devices is expected to be their use as scanners to get you in to airplanes and locked buildings, to buy things, and generally to be your identity. There are now 2.4 New Industry Leaders.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2016

Every day I witness women around the world who are building the Web they want and bridging the gap so more women and girls can access the Internet’s immense benefits. And then there is Myrna in the Philippines, who escaped trafficking as a young girl and worked as a domestic helper. There’s Olutosin in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

Other hard-hit countries will include Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan, Sudan, and Niger. In many locations, there are inadequate coastal protections to deal with it, and the length of time it would take to build coastal defenses in order to accommodate for this problem is, frankly, not achievable. Indeed, we already have.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Hurricane Katrina had just happened, and many experts viewed it primarily as a failure of the government to take care of its weakest citizens in the face of a natural disaster, not as climate change’s early shot. If buildings are on fire or underwater, they don’t have much value. When I started getting involved in clean tech 1.0

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

2023 will be the year electric vehicles really start to take shape : “Driven by policy initiatives from governments and billions of dollars in investment from automakers, we can safely say the EV industry has begun to take shape,” Rebecca writes. Neither Christine nor Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

At least one study finds that congressional gridlock contributes to income inequality, while another implies that political stalemates have a greater negative impact than even hostile government policies on a company’s ability to innovate. in years when there was a unified GOP government. Consider how a recession might play out.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

Let's build some giant puppets. So for me as an artist, I got together with some other activists to figure out how could we build beautiful images that would attract the media, attract other human beings of our same species to care about these things as well, and that was the road to doing Art and Revolution. We make beautiful things.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

. “As alleged, Albert Saniger misled investors by exploiting the promise and allure of AI technology to build a false narrative about innovation that never existed," Acting U.S. Government attorneys say Nate claimed to use AI technology to complete the e-commerce checkout process for customers.

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