Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

While sextortion can happen on any platform, and between people who know each other in person, criminals and scammers have used Meta to target victims. Last year, the company removed at least 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria that attempted to financially extort victims.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

The heated race to develop and deploy new large language models and AI products has seen innovation surgeand revenue soarat companies supporting AI infrastructure. And in October, the company opened its first global quantum data center outside the U.S., in Ehningen, Germany.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Innovative agriculture companies must now dedicate significant energy to ensuring future generations of farmers can continue to grow healthy, bountiful crops and feed the planet. The most innovative companies in agriculture for 2025 include forward-thinking businesses and nonprofits with at least one eye firmly on this future.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

This year, the most innovative companies in the education sector are tackling a dizzying array of challenges facing students and schools alikenot to mention parents. As a teletherapy platform, Parallel Learning enables schools and special education providers to counsel students and track their progress.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

In an increasingly post-literate world , companies continue to turn to video to communicate with key stakeholders, and two of this years business services honorees help enterprises produce streamable content more efficiently. SimpleClosure, which has raised $5.5

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NonProfit PRO

JANUARY 4, 2022

A social good company backed by Apax Funds welcomes fundraising software provider as it transforms the social good sector through technology and data.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

If a job is about more than the title or even the paybut also a chance to find a deeper meaning and sense of purposethe honorees in the inaugural class of most innovative companies in economic development are chasing a similar ideal, just on a larger scale. Ford Motor Co. 5,000 businesses have joined so far.In

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Now a startup that is building voice skins for different companies to use across their services, and for third parties to create and apply as well, is raising some funding to fuel its growth. Its previous investor SkyDeck Fund and a private investor, vice president of finance at DoorDash Michael Kim, also joined the funding.

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NonProfit PRO

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Millie is launching Giving Madness, a first-of-its-kind gamified giving platform that brings teams together and closes a pressing nonprofit funding gap. Inspired by elements of March Madness, Giving Madness allows corporate teams to build their own 'giving brackets' where employees play to give.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Tamara, a buy now pay later platform for consumers in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region, has raised $340 million in a financing round that values the fintech at $1 billion.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

The company made the announcement in a press release today, in which it confirmed that it had filed its Form F-1 registration statement with the U.S. eToro Group Ltd is the name of the company that operates the eToro trading platform. Thats because eToro is what is known as a social trading platform.

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Engadget

MARCH 31, 2025

Discovery has sold the rights to the movie to Ketchup Entertainment, the same company that just released The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie. funded the creation of the movie but then shelved it for a tax write-off. It just pulled all of the original Looney Tunes shorts from the streaming platform Max. Warner Bros.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A group of investors led by Elon Musk made a bid to buy out the leading artificial intelligence company, OpenAI. However, since ChatGPT exploded on the tech scene, Altman has sought to turn OpenAI into a for-profit company. OpenAI has already raised billions of dollars from companies like Microsoft and was last valued at $157 billion.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

Web3 is a new version of the internet that uses blockchain (IE a secure but transparent record keeping system) to decentralize the management of the internet, thus reducing the control of prominent companies such as Google or Meta. Benefits of Web3 for Nonprofits: Security for donor PII and funds. What is the Metaverse?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

million in “expansion” funding from Aruwa Capital, a Nigeria-based early-stage growth equity and gender-lens fund. . The company, which doubles as a manufacturer and retailer, can be likened to Wayfair and now-defunct Made.com. When Dada launched the platform, its target audience was solely businesses.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Internet giant Google announced today that it has made the first investment from its Africa Investment Fund in Ugandan super app SafeBoda. Before launching the fund, Google proved helpful in startups’ journeys via its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program. Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 18, 2023

Endaoment.Org, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation and internet-native donor-advised fund platform, has joined forces with GlobalGiving, an international nonprofit that supports and connects charitable organizations around the world with donors and companies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

French startup Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round. The company has raised €385 million, or $415 million at today’s exchange rate — according to Bloomberg, it values the company at roughly $2 billion. Mistral AI is also opening up its commercial platform today.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 22, 2024

FreeWill has acquired GrantAssistant, an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven platform designed to provide nonprofits and international development organizations with a proposal workflow toolkit that streamlines the grant application process. It is a Series B funding round with the latest infusion of $30 million in March 2022.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The company, which announced a $200,000 pre-seed last September , said it intends to use the investment to hire talent, build up its processes, structure, and scale into new African markets. I think the ideology and the product direction between Bumpa and other companies differ. We want to be that connecting platform on the continent.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

TikTok is a social media platform that allows users to generate 15-second videos and host live streams. At first, the ability for users to quickly gain fame through their videos is what made the app so appealing to teenagers, but for-profit companies caught wind of the speed at which content could go viral and wanted to get in on the action.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year. “Providing a framework where people can operate and scale their solutions to several markets at once is incredibly important,” said Onayemi, who also co-founded Future Africa, an Africa-focused VC fund.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2025

Once the linchpin of donor and constituent engagement, the CRM landscape is experiencing significant upheaval and these platforms are no longer being viewed as the single-source-of-truth they once were. Are these platforms powerful and extensible?

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Data released by the platform Bloomerang, showed 89,011 donations and 8,447 organizations participating. A few significant pledges recorded came across the platform, some more than $500,000. were peak hours on the platform. Lunch break between noon and 1 p.m. million during GivingTuesday 2023 to slightly less than $3.4

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

At Nvidia’s annual GTC conference, CEO Jensen Huang announced during his keynote session that the company would be partnering with GM to supercharge the latter's autonomous vehicle and manufacturing operations with AI and cutting-edge chips. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

[I]t will accelerate our rate of innovation faster than what we could achieve as a stand-alone company.” ” It also marks the close of a fast-paced, five-year chapter for the company. And as hybrid work has continued, so has the companys expansion. The company has been on Googles radar for some time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A developer platform for the…sky? That’s the vision of OurSky, a startup founded last year that’s aiming to make space observational data more accessible via a software platform and global telescope network. The company announced that it closed $9.5

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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. Forbes and Rolfe spoke exclusively to Fast Company about the deal and what it means for the agency.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

The startup uses blockchain technology to help brands build customer loyalty without having to rely on buying up pricey ads on third-party social media platforms, Haney explained. On the Chain Reaction podcast, Haney announced for the first time that her new company was about to close its second institutional funding round.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2022

Startups that solve the supply-chain and operational challenges of players in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry–by helping buyers access products from sellers on a single platform–keep attracting venture capital from investors. million pre-Series A funding last September. Jordan and U.S.-based Talaat added.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

In truth, Salesforce has had a busy day at its annual TrailheadDX developer conference, announcing a generative AI pilot they’re calling Einstein GPT,’ which brings ChatGPT-like features to the broader Salesforce platform.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The platform was rushed into a live beta, since its team wanted to go public in a time when the chaos of Elon Musk’s Twitter leadership was front and center in our collective headspace. The platform describes itself as a place to access “premium news content without subscriptions or ads.”

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

Meta Platforms, Facebook’s parent company, denied wrongdoing but ultimately decided to settle the class action lawsuit instead of fighting it in court. The effective date of the settlement was February 24, 2025, according to the settlement website. How are people being paid?

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

October 10, 2024 will be the first-ever DAF Day , a giving day dedicated to donor-advised funds (DAFs). The initiative was launched in July by a group of 60 nonprofits, fundraising platforms, and DAF sponsors to expand DAF giving by encouraging their networks to give from their DAF accounts on one day, together.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Phishing scams Phishing scams are a common type of online fraud where scammers impersonate trusted companies, like banks or online retailers, in an effort to steal personal information like passwords or credit card details. Instead, visit the company’s official website directly to check your account.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

By Jessica Fox , writer at Eventgroove – a one-stop, integrated platform for events, fundraisers, and e-commerce driven to help its customers amplify their brand and reach their goals. Those thoughts are also a source of existential dread, even for people working at a tech company like Eventgroove! On social media and the news.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

FlexID’s idea has won it funding from Algorand , a blockchain protocol created by Turing Award-winning cryptographer Silvio Micali. Though FlexID provides service in the identity space, the overarching sector its solution and most blockchain platforms fall under is fintech.

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