TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Additionally, we have seen several national firms move their HQs or a regional team here. Comparisons to Silicon Valley. Speaking of Silicon Valley, nearly everyone working in tech in Austin is growing weary of hearing about comparisons to it. As a city, community and ecosystem, we do not make that comparison.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 24, 2024

And perhaps underscoring the divides in the nation, new data shows that when asked if they trust people in their communities to “do what is right,” just 36% had high trust in their neighbors, down 13 points from 2023. Just two of the 16 silos tested were in positive numbers. The two other categories were business and media.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

GrantStation polls organizations on the status of their grantseeking twice yearly in order to provide the nonprofit sector with a vivid, up-to-date snapshot of grantseeking today, and then produces free national reports and free drill-down fact sheets by budget, mission focus, location, and more. What you know is very important.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2023

Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Italy gives ChatGPT the boot : Italy’s government has been on a blocking kick lately. Well, you can’t rely on any national institutions as your business partners, Haje reports. expansion and how she “welcomes” comparisons to Stripe. On that note, enjoy your weekend! Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Singapore’s population is under 5 million, but according to KPMG, fintech investment in the nation-state will reach $3B this year, a significant chunk of the $42B global total. By comparison, investors flowed $4.8B to Canadian fintech startups in the first half of the year.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

It has been very common for governments to request AI models that can identify fraud in a public benefits systemfor instance, in the applications they receive for childcare benefits or unemployment benefits. Thats nothing in comparison to what could be coming. 12 These technologies are not the thing that creates the Terminator.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

Axie Infinity — whose creators refer to it as both a “nation” and “a bleeding-edge game that’s incorporating unfinished, risky, and highly experimental technology” — is sort of like hyper-financialized Pokémon. I don’t think we hide that fact,” Ryder says of the gambling comparison. “It

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Weaver , a London-based marketplace and SaaS contract negotiation platform for matching homeowners/architects planning major home renovation projects with vetted contractors, has closed a $4 million seed round to expand nationally. Block Renovation gears up for national expansion following $50M round. times over 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W21 — features 350 startups from 41 nations. For comparison, the W20 batch had 25 Indian startups, up from 14 in S20, 12 each in S19 and W19 and one each in W16, S15, and W15.). “YC India is the second largest demographic represented in the new batch.

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TechNode

AUGUST 30, 2023

Why it matters: In 2019, the US government imposed a trade ban on Huawei , citing national security concerns. For comparison, the AnTuTu benchmark score for the iPhone 14 Pro is 935,157 for overall performance. It consists of two A34 cores, six customized A78AE cores, and four A510 cores.

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TechNode

JUNE 7, 2024

Nearly 30 Chinese major city and provincial governments have brought similar initiatives into their work plans for this year as of writing, according to public records. For that reason, governments are implementing highly stringent rules and safety standards for electric and autonomous aircraft.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

You can run defense on that for several years before the government can catch up.”. A good comparison point might be the mobile internet, which saw a slew of app-based services supplement or even replace traditional websites — but hasn’t made desktop-based options obsolete, either.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg appeared on national TV today to make a “special announcement.” As an alternative pleading, though, the government can present a compelling case that Facebook harms consumers by suppressing wages in the creator economy. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Facebook is a monopoly.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Stepping out of the shadow of COVID, our society has grappled with a myriad of challenges — political and social turbulence, fluctuating financial landscapes, the surge in AI advancements, and Taylor Swift emerging as the biggest star in the … *checks notes* … National Football League!?! Over the last three years, my life has changed as well.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. One national nonprofit I know had been working on putting together a measurement system for three years. Measuring Too Much. Underutilizing What You Have.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

During the hearing titled “Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower,” Haugen walked senators through most of The Wall Street Journal ’s Facebook Files , touching on ethnic violence, national security, polarization, and more during her testimony. There were repeated comparisons to Big Tobacco , and a “Big Tobacco moment.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2011

The main point of comparison is information on volunteering from the Current Population Survey (CPS), conducted by the U.S. It provides the basis for regular reporting on volunteerism by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The number seems high to some people and low to others. But is it right?

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As a result, 20% of the vehicles produced in China are exported and it is the largest car export nation in the world. By 1990, Japan surpassed the United States to become the worlds largest car producing nation.

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Mashable Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In fact, the number of reported plane crashes are at an all time low according to data from the National Transportation Safety Board. The first clear answer is that there was a massive, deadly crash in the beginning of the year that timed up pretty perfectly with the destabilization of government organizations meant to keep air travel safe.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

But I think this comparison is misleading. How trustworthy are humans given the law enforcement that holds them accountable, and the voters that hold governments who hold law enforcement accountable? In everyday life, people cant delegate tasks to collaborators who share their skills and context. This analysis gets complicated fast.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

If we look at the comparison from 2022 to 2021, January was 2.5 Government legislations are friendly to the private sector. It’s an environment that allows people to be able to thrive because they do not feel marginalized or disadvantaged because they have a certain ethnicity or sex or nationality. times, April was 1.5

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 1, 2022

However, the second Monday in October is still celebrated by 14 states and about 130 local governments as Columbus Day. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday. 1946: The United Nations Charter is signed, without any mention of indigenous peoples. Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The unofficial Iraq Body Count (IBC) , which tracks civilian casualties in Iraq based on press reports and administrative records, has initiated a comparison of their own data to the deaths documented in the SIGACTS data. Jacob Shapiro of Princeton University, presents a parallel argument.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

However, in June 2020, the Italian government sponsored a €1 billion investment program aimed at the native startup ecosystem, creating a new venture arm: CDP Venture Capital. And skeptical observers are concerned that some of the government-backed initiatives look like the government is trying to pick winners, which rarely ends well.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

But in the space we play in, the application area, the price point, the way we’re going about it using deep learning and mobile phones, there’s no comparison,” the CEO said. “Asides from the hospitals, pharmacies and patients, we also sell to governments and country FDAs on the scanner side of things.

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Candid

JULY 17, 2024

For 20 years, the global communications firm Edelman has studied the influence of trust across government, media, business, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Respondents in six wealthier nations—the Netherlands, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, and Japan—fewer than half of respondents trusted NGOs.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

I often think of engagement as crossing over all of these areas, from fundraising to your programs to, you know, community-based advocacy, government relations. Or maybe even policy makers who have influence over government, you know, budgets, you know, for the CDC or things like that. Who could you engage with?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Was there anything helpful about that comparison between service engagement and impact? ” So maybe it’s our diverse, our national, our local partners coordinate. you know, at the national level, statistics are showing the impact reports and things sent through direct mail are seeing greater return on investment.

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Steve Bridger

JUNE 25, 2008

Friday, September 26, 2008 at 7:50 pm | Permalink Gerhard Buttner wrote: Interesting comparison (and thanks for that oxfam link): obviously too simplistic as you point out, Steve, but it surely shows something is a bit rotten. a day is also still poverty even in the poorest nations. from Steve Bridger: Charities & the Social Web.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2022

government official and contracting officer, defense executive and VP/GM for a Silicon Valley tech startup. Government or any employer, company, client or investor. government has heard Silicon Valley’s pleas to cut bureaucracy and foster new ways of doing business and is taking action. She formerly held positions as a career U.S

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The verdict in the Epic trial will arrive and there are renewed questions about Apple’s relationship with the Chinese government. Just for comparison, Samsung, which is a huge competitor to Apple, rotates their executives every couple of years. I think that it would be national news overnight, and employees would flip out.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 11, 2025

with a capacity of 90,000, and is home to Englands national soccer team. Twickenham, which is home to the national rugby team, holds 82,500. Timings would likely rely on government involvement in what United wants to be part of a wider project to regenerate the surrounding Old Trafford area. It said it would be worth 7.3

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Then there was the infamous NSA scandal in 2013, where it was revealed that Meta, along with the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, were actively involved in the government collection of private user data. Meta's AI practices are likewise mired in controversy.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

For comparison's sake, industry giants ExpressVPN and NordVPN were founded in 2009 and 2012, respectively.) It's called out Apple for allegedly blocking Proton VPN security updates after the United Nations recommended that people in Myanmar use Proton Mail to report crimes during the country's 2021 coup. Is Proton VPN trustworthy?

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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2009

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes $12 billion for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Federal law that governs special education, as well as other funds to "build robust data systems that allow districts to better track the growth of individual students. Update research and re-disseminate, etc.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 17, 2024

It involves influencing government bodies or agencies to make certain decisions about specific pieces of legislation. 57% of nonprofits in local, state, or national coalitions advocate or lobby, compared to only 12% of nonprofits who do not belong to a coalition. Lobbying is an activity that falls under the broader advocacy umbrella.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

government will stop sharing air quality data gathered from its embassies and consulates, worrying local scientists and experts who say the effort was vital to monitor global air quality and improve public health. They provided another source of information for comparison.” In China, for example, data from the U.S.

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