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MVP Match, a tech-talent marketplace, raises $5M from Stage 2 Capital

TechCrunch

The hubs, which include the existing ones in Lisbon (Portugal) and Tbilisi (Georgia), are intended to help its more than 100 clients hire local talent without having to establish operations in those jurisdictions. “We We see entering Egypt as the first step in our exciting journey to bring the entire continent into the global talent pool.

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Call for Papers: Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Stewarding Technologies for Collaboration, Community Building & Knowledge Sharing in Development??? Knowledge Management for Development Journal??? KM4D Journal) is an open access, peer-reviewed, community-based journal on knowledge management in development ??? technologies for knowledge sharing??? This issue.

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FRMT: A Benchmark for Few-Shot Region-Aware Machine Translation

Google Research AI blog

Challenge: Few-Shot Generalization Most modern MT systems are trained on millions or billions of example translations, such as an English input sentence and its corresponding Portuguese translation. System Performance Our evaluation covered a handful of recent models capable of few-shot control.

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Remote raises $150M on a $1B+ valuation to manage payroll and more for organizations’ global workforces

TechCrunch

Remote , which provides tools to manage onboarding, payroll, benefits and other services for tech and other knowledge workers located in remote countries — be they contractors or full-time employees — has raised $150 million. That paradigm has drastically shifted in recent years, however.

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Ukio, a premium apartment rental platform for Europe’s ‘flexible workforce,’ raises $28M

TechCrunch

“This data-driven supply-acquisition strategy, combined with local real estate knowledge on the ground, ensures that the moment Ukio launches in a new city, we are able to quickly and efficiently acquire a pipeline of high-quality apartments.” “Ukio was created to overcome this challenge.” Image Credits: Ukio.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

We have already a big number of international of world-class companies that are in different markets so what is better than being able to scale up with a company that is already there, that has the knowledge and that can help you mature as a scale-up in a shorter period of time. Uber loses gig workers rights challenge in UK Supreme Court.

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“We are going to create the best environment for startups in Europe”

TechCrunch

Polo: One of the drivers of our work as the high commissioner is working with data and the data that we are using is that is the knowledge that the average startup lasts between three to five years — before it goes under or before it is acquired by another company. In Spain, we know that we have four main challenges for the startup ecosystem.

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