The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The House Judiciary Committee has released its conclusions on whether Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Google are violating antitrust law. The majority’s report lays out a number of concrete policy recommendations, which, taken together, would drastically change how the tech industry operates. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

JUNE 21, 2021

Jim Jordan (R-OH) is calling on Microsoft to face the same antitrust scrutiny as other large tech platforms in a letter to the company Monday. There are five bills in total, spanning from offering up more money for antitrust enforcers to banning large tech platforms from buying up small competitors. Their next big mission?

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Democratic backsliding and restrictive laws will pose challenges to nonprofits operations and the safety of their beneficiaries. Equity In A Tech-Driven World The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies increases the digital divide within the nonprofit sector. In Uganda and Myanmar.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

Tenn recommends imitating major players like Google and Samsung, which have dedicated teams that release a steady stream of material about “ongoing projects” tied to prevailing tech trends. Even if those projects don’t see the light of day, the PR team has strategically positioned the brand as ‘innovative,’” says Tenn.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Last year, climate tech seemed to be invincible while the venture capital and startup worlds were fretting about a downturn and scrambling to conserve cash. Climate tech investors and founders in 2022 may not have hit the heights of 2021 but they didn’t drop off a cliff either.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

According to the Nonprofit Tech for Good report , 74% of nonprofits that utilize email marketing send email fundraising appeals. New supporter welcome email example: Four Freedoms Park Conservancy The Four Freedoms Park Conservancy is a nonprofit that maintains the Franklin D. Ensure compliance with email marketing regulations.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

As unease spread amongst a handful of entrepreneurs, alarmed at radical “reforms,” proposed by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government, to the independence of the judiciary, WhatsApp groups were fired up, and were quickly flooded with volunteers from the tech industry. If you need to call, I may not be available by phone.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Tech that serves to conserve the oceans while using it to replace older, more harmful means of generating energy and food seems to be one such opportunity. It is now ‘warming’ up to ocean conservation,” Daniela Fernandez, managing partner of Seabird Ventures, told TechCrunch. It is now “warming” up to ocean conservation.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2009

This week, we are featuring the Alliance for Tompotika Conservation (AlTo), the winner of the Environment category in the print and photo category. They are an international nonprofit dedicated to conserving the natural heritage of the Mt.

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2021

But legislation targeting the market power of large tech companies is picking up an unusual amount of bipartisan momentum. Ken Buck, the top Republican on the antitrust subcommittee, played a large role in building that coalition, which has put him at the leading edge of Republican tech policy. What Big Tech wants is to run the clock”.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

billion rouble fine is around eight percent of Google’s revenue in Russia, Reuters reports , and comes amid a broader push within the country to exert more control over big tech companies and the content people publish on their platforms. Russian regulators have issued fines and mandates in an effort to control foreign tech companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Global Law Experts Awards’ “Law Firm of the Year in California for Entrepreneur Immigration Services.” Dear Sophie, My co-founder and I were both laid off from Big Tech last week, and it’s the kick we needed to go all-in on our startup.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2023

The move could affect as much as 30% of UK tech startups, with potentially 10%, industry sources estimate. ” UK investors’joint statement on SVB-UK shut-down It’s understood the UK Prime Minister’s office, Number 10 Downing Street, is working the weekend to assess the impact on its tech industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

In 2020, Scottish startups collectively raised £345 million, according to Tech Nation, and with nearly 2,500 startups, it has the highest number of budding tech companies outside London. However, the city’s tech scene is apparently lackluster when it comes to legal tech, blockchain and consumer-facing technology.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

On July 24th, a coalition of nine progressive groups, including Demand Justice, Freedom From Facebook and Google, and Accountable Tech, released a statement calling on Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to recuse himself from a case involving Facebook due to his close friendship with the company’s vice president of public policy, Joel Kaplan. “The

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Natasha Mascarenhas obtained emails from Y Combinator, Lightspeed, Reach and January Ventures that contained standard suggestions for conserving runway and rethinking valuations in “an extremely capital constrained environment.” My time in tech has spanned a couple of recessions, so a lot of this feels familiar. ” ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The hearing will reportedly focus on measures to amend Section 230, a pivotal law for content moderation practices online. The Senate Commerce committee has launched numerous investigations into alleged anti-conservative bias on Facebook , and questioned Mark Zuckerberg directly in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

However, not all is bad in the world of stock performance, and Alex and Ron took a look at four tech companies that actually did OK last week, despite the choppy markets. Workin’ 9 to 5 (Middle East and Africa edition) : For the Middle Eastern and North African market, Manara raised $3 million to grow the region’s tech talent pool.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 1, 2010

Tech coalition pushes rewrite of online privacy law | Politics and Law - CNET News: "This post has been updated several times since it was published. See update notes at the bottom of the page.A See update notes at the bottom of the page.A

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

And Walker sits on the board of Believer (formerly Future Meat Technologies), which focuses on lab-grown chicken; Greenlight, a firm applying RNA tech to agriculture; and Hazel, which focuses on boosting the shelf life of produce. He is also a member of the Illinois Board of Trustees of the Nature Conservancy.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

. “The whole point of the [DOE funding] is to step in when it’s too risky for the private sector to do so,” says Jessie Stolark, executive director of the Carbon Capture Coalition , a nonpartisan group of companies, unions, and environmental organizations that advocates for so-called carbon management tech. ”

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

The cuts will be mainly of staff in its Berlin HQ and represent about half of Gorillas’ employees, many of whom would have only joined in the last six months (and therefore still on ‘probation’ and so easier to made redundant under German labor laws).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

For farmers tending to fields large and small, real-time information on insects would not only be important for their financial security, but would also allow them to potentially conserve and protect critical resources, such as soil health. Despite these concerns, it is beyond doubt that FarmSense’s technology is poised for impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Or the Web site Microsoft Hohm that lets people calculate their energy footprint and get tips on conservation. Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Value in social networks is calculated, depending on whom you ask, algorithmically (Metcalfe’s law) or logarithmically (Zipf’s law). As Lina Khan famously noted about Amazon in her 2017 note that began the New Brandeis movement, the traditional economic consumer harm test does not adequately address the harms posed by Big Tech.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Craig is a summer associate exploring new applications for Miradi, Benetech’s user-friendly conservation project planning and monitoring software. She holds a master’s degree in Political Sciences, Public Law and Contemporary History from University of Konstanz, Germany.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

And that’s the problem — if SPACs had been used more conservatively, they could have leveraged their moment in the sun as a way to get more companies public that deserved it.” Amanda Silberling: Big money + Big Tech = skeptical artists. ” Just how wrong were those SPAC projections? 3 views on the Epic-Bandcamp deal.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2010

Finally, upcoming 501 Tech Events : Maine: Finding the Right Fundraising Mix , May 11th, Portland Rhode Island: 10 Tips to Making Your Nonprofit Website Sing! , He asks an important question at the end of his post : will the connecting and sense of community last beyond the conference?

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

Along those same lines, using a VPN to unblock streaming services like Netflix from a country where it's not available isn't technically against the law, but it is a violation of the company's terms of use — i.e., you may get slapped with a warning or error message if caught. Let's not get too brazen, here. Split tunneling.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This adage is commonly referred to as the Law of the Instrument , and this cognitive bias pushes our solutions towards what’s familiar. You’ve set a goal of 5,000 monthly active users (MAU), which seems conservative based on your email list of 100,000, which averages a 20% open rate and 2.6% It’s now time to go to market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

My introduction to the nonprofit technology space occurred during my first year of law school in Oregon (1995). I formed Community Networking Technologies (CNT) with another law student (Rachel Ogdie, now my wife Yeh!) I also met Rob Stuart early on as an organizer of the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene.

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Neon CRM

JULY 27, 2023

With a well-crafted, tech-driven communications plan, you can reach your audience, engage them, and achieve your goals. She will participate in causes related to animals and environmental conservation but tends to steer clear on matters of policy or legislation. You can further personalize by segmenting the group with Anna and David.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

the war in Ukraine), interest rate hikes and the bigger pressure on tech finance all creating a challenging fundraising environment for the startup. “Butler is a prime example of what’s happening in tech right now — except instead of just 20% layoffs, the whole company went under,” the staffer said.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 31, 2024

Were you a tech person in your personal life prior to joining Microsoft? I confess a career in law never really lit me up like the work I do today. What percentage of the aid provided by Microsoft Philanthropies is technology in one form or another versus financial support for projects unrelated to tech infrastructure or products?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Conservation mapping and 3D imaging. They are perfect for wildlife conservation, search and rescue, and understanding what is needed in disaster relief. In Africa, conservation drones are being used to locate rhinoceros poachers. law enforcement agencies have been expanding their use of surveillance drones.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law. Shariah law calls for a different approach to financial services, and conventional banks are also launching products for Muslim customers.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 24, 2025

The penalties awarded include $65 million in compensatory damages and $2 billion in punitive damages, law firms Arnold & Itkin LLP and Kline & Specter PC said in a statement. It allows farmers to produce more while conserving the soil by tilling it less.

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