TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As venture capital totals grow in Latin America , the region is about to see its leading champion go public. Nubank’s IPO is coming into closer focus after the Brazilian neobank filed privately to list its shares in both the United States and its home market, later releasing a public IPO filing. QED recently closed $1.05

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Tableau

JANUARY 6, 2022

Build your Tableau Public portfolio. Then create a visualization on Tableau Public and submit your entry. Wondering how to find free, public data sets? When looking for viz-piration, browsing Tableau Public —a free platform to explore, create, and publicly share data visualizations—is an excellent place to start.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Three digits, so little time. Numbers can take on profound cultural significance, but few numbers have quite the resonance as 911, the emergency number for the United States. Few want to dial it, but when they must, it works — every single time. The lead writer of this EC-1 is Danny Crichton.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Amid ongoing economic uncertainties and the global pandemic aftermath, nonprofits have had to navigate a lot of change in recent years—shaping the global nonprofit space towards digital-first experiences and processes. We conducted our annual Status of Fundraising research in Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia/New Zealand (ANZ).

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Tableau

JANUARY 6, 2022

Build your Tableau Public portfolio. Then create a visualization on Tableau Public and submit your entry. Wondering how to find free, public data sets? When looking for viz-piration, browsing Tableau Public —a free platform to explore, create, and publicly share data visualizations—is an excellent place to start.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

TechSoup’s digital storytelling challenge is open between now and September 26, 2014. Submit your digital video, five photographs, or a super-short story. Looking for inspiration for your digital story? They are holding digital storytelling events all month! Naples, FL: Digital Storytelling Workshop.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In February, Disha , a Nigeria-based platform that allows digital creators to curate, sell digital content, create portfolios and receive payments from their audience globally, announced that it was closing shop. Furthermore , there is an increasing appetite to create, own, sell or share digital experiences such as NFTs.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Nonprofits Collaborating to Build Capacity, Public Presence, and Business. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Birmingham, United Kingdom: October Meetup: Social Media Session. Monday, October 17, 2016.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Its algorithm primarily leverages information from “open banking” data, which is secure customer information that large United Kingdom banks are required by law to share with third parties and technical service providers. SteadyPay co-founders Oleg Mukhanov and John Downie Image Credits: SteadyPay.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate. Not to mention, they make up less than 5% of the top level of the top 500 companies.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

More of the world’s economy is moving online, and that is underscored by the long list of recent fundings and acquisitions in the digital ID authentication and anti-money laundering (AML) space, including Okta’s $6.5 It is also looking at Singapore and the United States. billion acquisition of Auth0.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Easy Eat AI raises $5M to help Southeast Asian restaurants digitize their operations. Tablevibe is integrated with Google Reviews, so if someone gives the restaurant a high rating, they are asked if they want to make it public. For delivery, customers are also asked what app they used.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Respondents were from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, the Netherlands and Nordic nations (Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland). Mackenzie Scott garnered plenty of publicity in the past year, with very generous distribution of large sums to a diverse array of organizations. First up is finances.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

There is a major earthquake happening in the sphere of digital assets, which is expected to create shockwaves that will impact tech not only in the real world but also in the metaverse. None of this is possible without clear recognition of digital assets as property.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared meetups will bring local nonprofits free digital storytelling workshops in more than 40 cities between August and October. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Designing Effective Public Engagement for Nonprofits. Seattle, Washington: Digital Communications for Nonprofits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

We want to help lead the charge into a future where the advantages of digital information touch the lives of all people, not just of the richest and most able five percent of humanity. Canadians with disabilities will now have access to Bookshare through their public libraries and the Canadian National Institute of the Blind.

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The Verge

APRIL 9, 2021

Nature reported that the number of adults in the United Kingdom showing symptoms of depression had nearly doubled from March to June of last year, to 19 percent. In the United States, 11 percent of adults reported feeling depressed between January and June 2019; by December 2020, that number had nearly quadrupled, to 42 percent.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Have no less than 4,000 valid public watch hours in the past 12 months. Requirements: Channel is located in the United States, United Kingdom, or Canada. These are…. Follow all the YouTube monetization policies. Live in a region where the YouTube Partner Program is available. Have no less than 1,000 subscribers.

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Candid

AUGUST 20, 2021

Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $31 million investment in the Partnership for Healthy Cities and the addition of six cities to the initiative to create safer and healthier urban environments: Bucharest, Romania; Cairo, Egypt; Córdoba, Argentina; Dublin, Ireland; Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; and Warsaw, Poland.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Optibus , which uses AI to help public transportation bodies and their mass transit partners plan and operate their networks, has raised $100 million, funding that it will be using to continue expanding its product set and wider business footprint, CEO and co-founder Amos Haggiag said in an interview in London this week.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Adam Neumann’s latest startup, residential real estate upstart Flow , is partnering with fintech startup Bond to create a digital wallet for Flow’s residents. A variety of financial products will be embedded in the planned digital wallet with specific capabilities being announced at a later date. More by me here.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

But they do come in handy for online privacy when youre connecting to an untrusted network somewhere public because they tunnel and encrypt your traffic to the next hop. That means sweeping claims that seem promising, like military-grade encryption or total digital invisibility, may not be totally accurate. Are VPNs worth it?

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Strong digital engagement is critical to success, according to 87% of respondents at nonprofits, to better reach, enroll, and serve new users, and they are turning to AI to accelerate and improve these efforts, according to data in the report. “As

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Reports emerged last year that it is considering a public offering , but chief executive officer Justin Behar had no comment when asked by TechCrunch if Trax is planning for an IPO. While we do see an acceleration of interest and adoption of digital innovation as a result of the ‘COVID effect,’ this is by far our biggest challenge.”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2022

Often described as “buy now, pay later,” or BNPL, the installment payment method became a startup darling in recent years, with companies like Affirm (which has Stripe and Amazon partnerships) riding the consumer credit option all the way to the public markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

” He added that while Papier will continue to stay private for now, “we see a public listing is absolutely part of the journey.” This funding is an important part of that plan. It pushes us globally and to the U.S.” “Calm sells an analogue product, too.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

African payments company Interswitch has secured a $110 million joint investment from LeapFrog Investments and Tana Africa Capital to scale its digital payment services across the continent , the two private investment firms said in a statement Wednesday. In 2016, Interswitch disclosed its intention to go public for the first time.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Go digital : Manual business processes were the norm, so it’s understandable that stepping away from what you know can be difficult. Enter Bumpa, a Nigerian retail automation platform that wants to do the heavy lifting for companies eyeing more digital operations. Christine and Haje. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

Toronto, Canada: Toronto Net Tuesday: Digital Literacy for Nonprofits. Atlanta, Georgia: Visual Storytelling: Using Digital Media. Birmingham, United Kingdom: RAWM Digital Community Engagement Session: Tableau Public Session. Birmingham, United Kingdom: September Meetup: Top Digital Tools.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Today, London-based Legl — a 2019-founded SaaS startup that sells tools to law firms wanting to digitize processes and automate workflows in areas like client onboarding, payments and compliance to support a more modern customer experience — is announcing the close of an $18 million Series B round, just over a year after it raised a $7M Series A.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Spotify helped pave the way for a new model for consumers to listen to music: pay a monthly fee to stream whatever you want, with no need to own any physical or digital versions of it. A survey from the Public Interest Research Group in the U.S. “So I thought, surely a subscription model would work here.”

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Los Angeles, California: Data Visualization with Tableau Public and Power BI. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. London, United Kingdom: Technology and Vulnerable Consumers. Dublin, Ireland: Digital Street Mapping Workshop. Europe and UK.

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Tableau

JUNE 1, 2021

To enter, during the Contest Period: (a) visit [link] and register as a contestant in the Contest; (b) properly download the Tableau software and connect to any free and publicly available data set; (c) produce and publish a Tableau Public data visualization; and (d) provide the URL of the visualization to Sponsor at [link].

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Digital Media and Learning Conference. Digital Media and Learning Conference. Digital Media and Learning Hub / Irvine, CA / $175. United Kingdom. Web of Change events are where progressive organizers and digital strategists come to up their game. General / #WHATIFConference / @ImpactFoundary. 11/16/2016.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2016

Los Angeles, California: Creating Community with Digital Tech. Los Angeles, California: Digital Marketing Causes and Nonprofits. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Social Media Surgery — Hands-on Help with Social Media.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

I believe that the least of your worries as a freelancer, remote worker, or digital nomad should be sending or receiving payments, so we’ve made it easy,” said CEO Obong. “We Grey Business has been in private beta for the last two months and the seed investment will help to launch it publicly across Nigeria and Kenya.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

Stripe, a public company in all but name, has built out a way for its customers to “buy and store crypto tokens, cash out, trade NFTs and handle compliance workflows like Know Your Customer.”. Stripe, go public! Byju’s, go public! TechCrunch reports that the company is now worth some $22 billion, a simply staggering sum.

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