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HBO Max will launch internationally in June

The Verge

HBO Max will finally make its international debut in June, with the streaming service set to launch in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Latin America rollout is just the first phase of HBO Max’s international debut. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Currently, HBO Max is only available in the United States. Lucia, St.

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

NTEN

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

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Support IPPF’s mobile health clinics and teams in Haiti!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

  Photo from International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region showing the complete devastation of its PROFAMIL Haiti clinic.   This organization is part of a 40 member organization network called International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR).  

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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

The Next Web

This fall, a team of five launched w4tw with a litany of international winemakers and the chance to truly make an impact. Cisse Trading ’s aim is simple: buy Fair Trade noms, from cookies to cocoa, on-site or in grocers from main to Virginia, where you’re immediately giving back to the Dominican Republic farmers who grow ‘em.

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Conversations on Hispanic Heritage Month

Media Cause

My mom was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and my dad was born and raised in Peru. Make sure that your internal policies support the same things that you’re doing externally and that the way you act matches what you’re saying. Luisa Chil, Sr. Media Strategist.

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Bowser arrested and charged for selling Nintendo Switch hacks

The Verge

French national Max Louarn and Bowser, originally from Canada but arrested in the Dominican Republic, allegedly led the group, which makes a line of tools for cracking locked-down gaming hardware. The Justice Department has gone further. companies,” Brian C.