Fast Company Tech

MARCH 3, 2025

After 23 years as part of advertising and marketing services holding company IPG, creative agency R/GA bought back its independence through a new partnership between R/GAs global management and private equity firm Truelink Capital. To really look at a longer horizon for how we think about our business.

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TechNode

MARCH 31, 2025

Xpeng Motors will spend RMB 3 billion ($413 million) on its electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft business this year and aims to operate an assembly plant with a production capacity of 10,000 units next year, Chief Executive He Xiaopeng said March 29.

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Association Analytics

JULY 13, 2020

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) selected Acumen as their business intelligence platform to gain more insight into members’ needs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Zambian card issuing fintech Union54 has raised $12 million in a seed extension round led by Tiger Global. The most popular card schemes globally are Union Pay, Visa, and Mastercard. There are very few markets where domestic card schemes edge out the pair in Africa.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

People who’ve run businesses, managed complex regulations, and scaled global operations have the experience to make climate solutions a reality. But solving the climate crisis calls for more than just scientific advancesit requires major business transformation. Investors get it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is the sixth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 47% of nonprofits purchased Facebooks Ads in 2019. Then, target a global, open audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

By Kim Peterson , Content Marketing Specialist for Give by Cell , a technology company that provides mobile fundraising tools and text messaging services to nonprofits. In its infancy, texting was how people communicated with close friends and family members, not businesses and organizations. But times are changing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

Jia, a blockchain-based fintech providing loans to micro and small businesses in emerging markets, has raised $4.3 The fintech plans to use the funding to double down on its operations in Kenya, and the Philippines, before exploring new markets in West Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Global investors are running from Chinese tech stocks in the wake of the government’s crackdown on Ant Group and Alibaba, two high-flying businesses founded by Ma Yun (Jack Ma) that were once hailed as paragons of China’s new tech elite. Bloomberg has a good synopsis of the state of the market right now.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Instead, it is a more positive perspective on how as businesses and brands, we can not just survive but supercharge in this era of incredible unpredictability. Whether that is Zurich Insurance creating a global platform What Could Go Right?

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

As venture capital grew around the world , tracking the fintech market was a fine way to understand the general health of the VC world; when venture was getting bigger, so too was fintech fundraising. Let’s talk about the fintech market from a global perspective and a U.S.-focused The global perspective.

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VentureBeat

MARCH 3, 2025

The market is getting its test now as to whether VTubers — where humans give voice to 3D avatars in concert performances — can catch fire on the global stage. Cover Corp. has expanded outside of Japan, bringing virtual creators known as VTubers to U.S.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The Precision Medicine World Conference brings together healthcare leaders, top global researchers and innovators across biotechnology. Learn more about accelerated computing in healthcare at NVIDIA GTC , a global AI conference taking place March 17-21 in San Jose, California.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 18, 2025

Just as industrial factories transform raw materials into goods, modern businesses require AI factories to quickly transform data into insights that are scalable, accurate and reliable. Orchestrating this new infrastructure is far more complex than it was to build steam-powered factories.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

By Kristina Brunnler , Marketing Manager at MobileCause. With so much noise on social channels during this global day of giving, you may be wondering how your nonprofit can stand out and more effectively fundraise for its mission. Let’s face it, most nonprofits and even most businesses don’t have influencers in their marketing budget.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Ralf Haller is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at NNAISENSE. SaaS, PaaS – and now AIaaS: Entrepreneurial, forward-thinking companies will attempt to provide customers of all types with artificial intelligence-powered plug-and-play solutions for myriad business problems.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Bain Capital and Tiger Global joined the round as new investors. He added that the company is also expanding its partnerships with state and federal government actors to help them invest in digital identity technology after hiring a new head of its public sector business last month. The round brings the company’s valuation to $4.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

By Allison Weber , founder of Allison Weber Consulting , a fundraising and communications business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations tell better stories. They can make a huge impact as they provide significant support across areas including grantmaking, employee engagement and cause marketing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

A new startup lifting elements of competing businesses is far from unusual in today’s venture world, but sometimes competing founders don’t find the imitation all that flattering. They stole our marketing copy. ” They said they view Eco as a competitor similar to how Uber and Lyft compete for business.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

11) Global Goods Partners :: globalgoodspartners.org. Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. 15) Little Market :: thelittlemarket.com.

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

Move DEI Forward In 2020, the deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Ahmaud Arbery brought racial inequity into sharp focus, prompting businesses across industry to draft formal diversity statements. There are plenty of statistics that demonstrate that what is good for society is also good for business. trillion globally.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And due to traffic congestion and long working hours, most busy professionals find it hard to cope with mundane tasks ranging from cooking to home cleaning. million seed round to deepen its market share. Africa-focused VCs Samurai Incubate, Future Africa, Village Global, Rising Tide Africa and Enza Capital participated.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

This is the fourth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Also, data from the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report reveals that 45% of online donors worldwide are enrolled in a monthly giving program. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others. 3) Business Profile.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Last June, global architecture and design firm Gensler named Elizabeth Brink and Jordan Goldstein as co-CEOs, succeeding Andy Cohen and Diane Hoskins, who jointly led the company for nearly 20 years. The prior CEOs, who actually were mentors to both of us, have now stepped into global chair roles. and Fast Company. metropolitan area.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The dramatic images of wealthy neighborhoods burning during the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires captured global attention, but the damage was much more widespread. Many working-class families lost their homes , businesses, and jobs. For years, insurers underpriced wildfire risk, driven by market competition.

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TechNode

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Chinas CATL on Tuesday introduced a new skateboard chassis for electric vehicles that integrates the battery directly into the frame of the car, in the hope of not only growing its battery-related business but also tapping the future potential of driverless mobility. times that of a collision at 56km/h.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

9) Global Goods Partners :: globalgoodspartners.org. Global Goods Partners have partnered with over 60 artisan groups in more than 20 countries throughout Asia, Africa, and the Americas to help bring to market the fair trade, handcrafted products they produce. 24) UNICEF Market :: market.unicefusa.org.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

The firm will continue to focus its investments on “high-growth software startups,” investing globally across business software categories including infrastructure, applications, cybersecurity and vertical software. He notes that global software spend is about twice what it was five years ago and is still growing at double-digit rates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

By Talia Walsh , Senior Director of Marketing and Communications at Heal the Bay – an environmental nonprofit that protects the coastal waters and watersheds of Greater Los Angeles, California. This holiday season, o ne-quarter of consumers plan to shop specifically at a local or small business. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

SeamlessHR , a Nigeria-based company that wants to help African businesses “leverage the continent’s greatest asset: abundant human capital” with its cloud-based human resources (HR) and payroll software, has raised $10 million in Series A funding for its next phase of growth and regional expansion. but rarely used in markets like Nigeria. “In

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

During that time, Chen says they realized that the marketing, sales and design process have stayed the same, despite new technology and tools being introduced to the market, and is often riddled with bottlenecks. Chen says most have large sales and marketing teams, but a shortage of designers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

It would appear that OpenAI’s Chat GPT allying with Bing will not be the only threat to Google’s search business model in the future. With its release of WhatsApp Business app (WAB), Meta is effectively building a sort of rival search engine to Google to keep us all inside the app. While this may not trouble U.S. per month).

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.orgSource

JUNE 5, 2023

Zonta International, where Allison served as Executive Director* and Chief Staff Executive, was honored with the 2021 ASAE Summit Award for the UNFPA-UNICEFF Global Program to End Child Marriage. In addition to her 9-year-plus tenure at Zonta, Allison is a former president of the American Marketing Association.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. As discovered in the Global Trends in Giving Report , the.org domain is by far the most trusted domain for nonprofit website and email communications. Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Prince describes BlockFi as a financial services company for crypto market investors that offers a retail and institutional-facing suite of products. The startup is also a lender and provider of trade execution services to institutions participating in digital asset markets. . The Jersey City, New Jersey-based startup raised $1.6

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Vendease , an online marketplace that allows restaurants and other food businesses to buy supplies straight from manufacturers and farms, has raised a seed round of $3.2 San Francisco-based venture capital firm Global Founders Capital led the seed round. million, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Image Credits: Vendease.

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