The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

0On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a massive antitrust lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the social media giant has harmed competition by buying up smaller companies like Instagram and WhatsApp to squash the threat they posed to its business. Facebook has broken the law. It must be broken up.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In 2018, Leslie Feinzaig , the founder of Female Founders Alliance , launched a free, equity-free accelerator for women called Ready, Set, Raise. FixFake: Founded by Kathryn Harrison and Jason Law, FixFake offers decision support tools to reduce fraud in e-commerce. It is based in New York, NY. ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Note from Beth: Last June at the New York City book party for the Networked Nonprofit , Stephanie Strom, New York Times, moderated a discussion on the themes in the book. Net neutrality has been the default law of the land since the Internet’s founding more than 40 years ago.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The bill passed the Australian House of Representatives today and is believed to have enough votes to pass the Senate, The New York Times reported. However, Google has since decided to start cutting deals with major Australian media organizations, like Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. ,

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Twenty Hats

APRIL 6, 2021

Back in the late aughts I had my first brush with volunteer management, when I volunteered for a second year with a film festival in New York City. Fast forward to 2020 and I’m working with an incredible education non-profit in New York City which provides programming to and through college for underrepresented students.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In the weeks since that announcement, I've spoken to some of the country's leading corporate law experts to gain a better understanding of OpenAI's plan, and, more importantly, what it might mean for its mission to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI). In 2013 , Delaware enacted its own version of the law. As of 2022 , 68.2

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2021

Although many in the US are vaccinated — 48 percent of the country is fully vaccinated, according to The New York Times’ data as of Monday — the change comes as case rates around the country are going up. The significant majority of new cases have been found among unvaccinated people.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Six-year-old Lightrun launched a new debugger that is the first AI-powered tool of its kind, automating the entire debugging process and freeing developers from the endless tedium of troubleshooting. Yona says companies only need to spend 10 or 15 minutes to onboard, uploading bank statements and HR data.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 5, 2024

According to court papers, AAER filed its challenge on behalf of three anonymous female business owners , two in Virginia and one in New York, whose small businesses met the firmographics criteria of eligible contestants. Schwartz, partner at law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher wrote to The NonProfit Times. “As

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2013

Those six principles are the basis of my new book, Contagious: Why Things Catch On , and the first principle is Social Currency. New York City is a tough place to open a bar. Has Please Don’t Tell violated traditional “laws of marketing?” Check out the free Crafting Contagious Workbook.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It’s not for everyone: Self-funded companies will ask more from their employees than larger operations that offer free lunches and other perks. Image Credits: Klaus Vedfelt (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. “So far this year, 77% of capital has been raised in just California and New York.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

But, I’m not a lawyer, so you may want to advantage of Daren’s organization free technical assistance by phone or email from legal experts. This recent article in the New York Times “ Even if it Enrages Your Boss, Social Net Speech Is Protected ” has many nonprofits re-thinking their social media policies.

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The Verge

JULY 20, 2021

Three years ago, a startup called Miles launched a free app with the goal of becoming a sort of rewards program for all travel — with an emphasis on clean transportation. I lived in New York City at the time and did a lot of daily walking and subway-riding, with occasional biking and bus travel. Image: Miles.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. Enslaved people were so disrespected that those who enslaved them didn’t even tell them that they were free for months after the South had surrendered.

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The Verge

JANUARY 7, 2021

RealSense started as a Kinect-style camera for touch-free interaction, but RealSense ID seems like Intel’s attempt to reposition its camera business towards secure, on-device facial recognition first, while also potentially putting the company in the crossfire of controversy.

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The Verge

MARCH 31, 2022

The union lost the first election last April by a margin of more than 2 to 1 , but the National Labor Relations Board ordered a do-over, saying Amazon violated US labor laws. The NLRB said Amazon “interfered with the employees’ exercise of a free and reasoned choice by creating the appearance of irregularity in the election.”.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

Monday, May 9, is upon us, and today is a day of browser-cache-powered drama in the form of a Wordle word The New York Times decided was too controversial, but still existed for people who hadn’t refreshed their browser in a while. PT, subscribe here. Find out what the word was, and why there was dramaaaaaaa , in Amanda ’s piece.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

” California’s New Smartphone Kill Switch Law. California is finalizing a law that will mandate a ‘kill switch’ be included on all new smartphones. The problem this new law addresses is that last year an estimated 3.1 The effect of the law will be pretty fast. Quick Hits.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2021

A report from last year by the GHSA noted that police in Colorado, Indiana, Nebraska, and Utah have clocked drivers going more than 100mph on highways, while in New York City, automated speed cameras issued 24,765 speeding tickets on March 27th, 2020, early in the lockdown, which was nearly double the number issued daily a month earlier.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The event is embedded below, and it’s free to watch. What are the laws on the books? We tried to be nice about it, but electric scooters were banned in Illinois and New York. Politician turned venture capitalist Bradley Tusk recently spoke at a TechCrunch Live event on how startups should approach regulation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

So Unit, a New York-based company, is tackling perhaps the most elusive and controversial topic in mainstream tech today: labor unions. The startup has a step-by-step process of how to virtually unionize a workplace that it offers for free public use on its website. labor laws. When venture is the elephant in the room.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

Otherwise, even if the trust is subject to state tax, some states, like New York, conform and follow the federal tax treatment of the QSBS rules, while others, like California, do not. For example, if you are a New York state resident, you will also avoid the 8.82% state tax, which amounts to another $2.6

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Photo by Soheb Zaidi on Unsplash It’s midnight in the dim and cluttered office of The New York Times currently serving as the “situation room.” The 5 Laws Of Data Chaos Engineering The principles and lessons of chaos engineering are a good place to start defining the contours of a data chaos engineering discipline.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

First, the news. Here’s Sheera Frenkel in The New York Times , featuring a quote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg: In announcing the change , Facebook cited a recent survey that found that nearly a quarter of American adults ages 18 to 39 said they believed the Holocaust either was a myth or was exaggerated, or they weren’t sure whether it happened.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

in his New York Times essay Kindle Swindle? And of course, we have the dystopian vision from Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software movement, in his short story from the 90s, The Right to Read. Thanks to lobbying from the American Foundation for the Blind and others, it's actually legal under the laws of the U.S.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 28, 2006

It's good news for bloggers: On Friday a California Court of Appeals ruled the bloggers are entitled to the same protections as journalists in traditional media when it comes to being required to reveal confidential sources. The shield law is intended to protect the gathering and dissemination of news, and that is what petitioners did here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceeds benefit the American Civil Liberties Union, a nonprofit that works to defend the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Classic modern and cutting edge design products for adults and kids, including items produced exclusively for the Museum of Modern Art (New York).

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The suit filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia refers to last year’s House Judiciary report that examined whether the practices of Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook violated antitrust laws. “As In exchange, Google agreed to give Facebook preferential treatment in its auctions.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Property has to be divided and transferred while meeting relevant estate laws. For New York City-headquartered Lantern , the goal is to initiate those conversations early and give its users significantly better peace-of-mind, particularly in these dolorous times. The worst time to figure out how to die is when you die.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2021

Sears later sold that company to a small New York-based outfit. the law firm Cooley, Camping World CEO and reality TV star Marcus Lemonis, AAA and numerous other individual investors, including from NextGen Venture Partners. WS: You get five free free stories each month; for unlimited streaming, it’s $35.99

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2022

New York-based Butler was founded in 2016 as a “ghost kitchen” operator with a simple business model. According to a Forbes profile, he opened his first restaurant in New York City at the age of 19 — located inside a “big-box” hotel. On-demand delivery. The company dissolved on May 13.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. The New York Times Outs Google+.

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Neon CRM

MAY 23, 2023

Visit Stop AAPI Hate’s Website If You’re an Art Lover, Support the Asian American Arts Alliance The Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) is a New York-based organization dedicated to “strengthening Asian American artists and cultural groups through resource sharing, promotion, and community building.” Photo by Jeong Park.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

In 2005, Amazon Prime was introduced, offering customers free two-day shipping within the continental US for $79 per year. Amazon’s storefront sold MP3 files without digital-rights management copy protection, and it was the first DRM-free music store to offer music from all four major labels. Prime time. Image: Amazon.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

Apply today to join Startup Battlefield 200 for the chance to exhibit your startup for free at TechCrunch Disrupt this October and win the $100K equity-free prize. It gave people on Bumble access to 30 minutes of free riding to encourage people to try an active, outdoor date. . Applications close August 5. Apply today.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

billion tax incentive package the company received for its Gigafactory in Nevada , or the hundreds of millions of dollars SolarCity got for its factory in New York before merging with Tesla. To me, the state of Texas has always represented free enterprise competition and ingenuity, our tagline has been ‘Texas is open for business.’

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Life360 also keeps a blog on its site where it states about 90 percent of its customers are using the “free application experience” and explains how some services are kept free by subsidizing revenues from location and ad data sales. “if An example he gave was the New York Times’ COVID-19 dashboard using “aggregated phone exhaust data.”

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