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HBO Max will launch internationally in June

The Verge

Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St.

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John McAfee has been arrested in Spain and is facing extradition

The Verge

He also claimed the CIA had “attempted to collect us” in a July 2019 tweet with a photo of him on a boat holding a gun, part of an adventure that ended in his arrest and release in the Dominican Republic. The tax evasion, at least, appears to be real.

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Bowser is going to prison for selling Nintendo Switch hacks

The Verge

Bowser was arrested in the Dominican Republic in September 2020 and was deported to the US; he has been in federal custody since he was arrested. He pleaded guilty to two felony charges in October 2021, and the DOJ’s release noted that as part of his plea agreement, Bowser has agreed to pay $4.5

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Index nabs $2.6M seed to create BI dashboards without coding

TechCrunch

Index founders, Xavier Pladevall and Eduardo Portet, have been friends since they were small children in the Dominican Republic. Growing up in the Dominican Republic, they didn’t have access to computer science classes, but they did have access to the internet and they got the startup bug from reading U.S.

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Minka raises $24M from Tiger, Kaszek to help move money more quickly across LatAm

TechCrunch

It plans to take its work to help Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America also modernize their payments infrastructure, with immediate plans to expand to the Dominican Republic, Bolivia and Mexico. The startup was introduced to a client in the Dominican Republic by Mastercard, with whom Minka is partnered, along with Google.

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SmartRyde, a Japanese online platform for airport transfers, spurs global expansion with Series A

TechCrunch

The company plans to expand further in major cities and tourist destinations, including Mexico, Spain, Thailand, Dominican Republic, the U.S. Honolulu, Las Vegas, Miami) and Japan, Kimura said. Since the pandemic outbreak in March 2020, SmartRyde has experienced a significant decrease. since December 2020, as per its statement.

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The 12th Issue of NTEN: Change is Out - "Outcomes & Impact"

NTEN

Much of 2010 was focused on Project Cultivar, which worked in the Dominican Republic sugarcane plantations and its company towns, bateyes. Prior to joining NTEN in 2013, I worked in the human rights field with Social Accountability International (SAI).

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