Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 7, 2010

According to ABC news : According to the trend-tracking website Know Your Meme , the cartoon fad started with Facebook users in Greece and Cyprus in mid-November. I also started noticing that of my friends on facebook, it was a pretty even spread between people that worked in the nonprofit sector and those that didn’t.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

venture capital firm Lightspeed, with participation from other notable backers including Virgin Group , which counts Richard Branson as its sole shareholder. . Trading stocks. And less than a year after first launching to early U.K. users, it has now ramped up its potential user base by an order of magnitude.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Thousand Faces , a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program. To date, it has six partners, including UNICEF, and works with 22 farmers and 20 schools. It is currently registered in Nigeria, France and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Around the same time, French President Emmanuel Macron launched a different group called Scale-Up Europe. Spain is also working on a legislative package that includes startup visas. It’s a new entity that is in charge of the Startup Nations Standard. Image Credits: Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de la Relance.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

They have programs in Northern Ireland, South Africa, the Middle East and Cyprus. CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq. A volunteer from their Middle East Program, David Lasday, emailed me about their program and pointed me towards the Middle East Program's blog.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

As many as 300 employees once worked in Twitter’s Boulder offices, but between layoffs, other firings, and resignations, it is probably less than half of that now. Additionally, the encryption feature isn’t compatible with group messages and Twitter doesn’t offer protection against man-in-the-middle attacks.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

Conspiracy theorists say 5G causes novel coronavirus, so now they’re harassing and attacking UK telecoms engineers Naveed Qureshi always knew his job was important, but as a telecoms engineer working in East London, it didn’t always feel that way. Sometimes they’re curious enough to stop and watch over Qureshi’s shoulder as he works.

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