TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The latter was impacted by Elon Musk’s Twitter API changes which put an end to third-party Twitter clients , prompting Mehboob to turn his attention to the decentralized and open source Twitter alternative Mastodon. As for now, Mammoth has at least a year’s worth of funding thanks to Mozilla’s backing, Decrem says.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Dan Lorenc, Matt Moore, Scott Nichols, Ville Aikas and Kim Lewandowski founded Chainguard in October after working together on building open source tools at Google. ” The co-founding team plans to work on open source projects to help companies understand and manage the risks they face from the software supply chains.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

– Pew Research Center – "Eight percent of the American adults who use the internet are Twitter users. This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. Get the Tagline Database and Report!"

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

“And of course, we will continue to work with the open source community to drive innovation and evangelism of Apache Flink.” But the skills required to develop and operate stream processing infrastructure are scarce — most are already employed by the cloud and Internet giants.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Censys , a search engine for Internet of Things devices and internet assets, has secured $35 million in Series B funding and a new CEO. million in Series A funding in August 2020 , was led by Intel Capital. The company’s Series B investment, which comes after the startup secured $15.5

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Finally, for your website to be compatible with the growing number of devices that it is likely to be viewed on in the coming decades – personal computers, smartphones, Smart TVs and appliances, and internet-connected mirrors and car dashboards, ensure that your website utilizes responsive design. Primary Navigation Bar: Footer: 4.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

Columbus, Ohio-based Finite State, a startup that provides supply chain security for connected devices and critical infrastructure, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. . The funding lands amid increased focus on the less-secure elements in an organizations’ supply chain, such as Internet of Things devices and embedded systems.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

GitHub has reinstated an open-source tool for downloading YouTube videos, and it’s changed its policies to make similar copyright-related takedowns less likely. It’s also establishing and donating $1 million to a developer defense fund for open-source developers who want to challenge complaints. Photo: GitHub.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Mobile apps are also on the cards and the funding will be used to build out Capsule’s team as well (currently it’s around four people). Polychain Capital outted its Beacon Fund last September. DFINITY raises $102M from a16z and Polychain for a decentralised ‘Internet Computer’ to rival AWS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

OpenAds , an open source ad server (very cool) just got tons of $ in financing. A company that provides services for Ruby on Rails got a bunch of funding. So what does this mean for you, o struggling nonprofit organization? This is going to make these projects better, and make support for them more available. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Recently, I presented a high level overview of crowdsourcing , including examples from the lens of funding and doing. What comes to mind when you think of the word crowdsourcing either for funding or doing? There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. 3) Crowd Voting.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It seems that every internet company and their dog have at least one venture capital (VC) arm under their wing, with the likes of Google Ventures (now GV), Microsoft Ventures (now M12), Salesforce Ventures , Twilio Ventures , and Zoom Ventures all serving their corporate namesakes potential cash cows via hundreds of equity investments.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Today Wikifactory , billing itself as a “GitHub for hardware”, announced it has closed a $3 million funding round, taking it to a total of $4.5M, pre-series A. Wikifactory is available in four languages right now and is set to expand to 20 after it raises a Series A funding round next year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Automattic focused on media at a time when that industry was being demolished by the internet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. DeepSeeks breakthroughs caused some angst, but its fresh thinking and openness will likely spur bigger and faster innovations from the worlds top AI companies by this time next year. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2007

In general, it seems like most models depend on some sort of up-front funding, whether it be an investment or a grant, to fund the initial writing of a large amount of content. The problem of how do you fund the actual writing of content was not really addressed, and I think that is one of the harder nuts to crack. Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

An open source package that grew into a distributed platform, Ngrok aims to collapse various networking technologies into a unified layer, letting developers deliver apps the same way regardless of whether they’re deployed to the public cloud, serverless platforms, their own data center or internet of things devices.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. We’re going on Day 5 with no power, heat or internet. It last raised in August of 2021 — a $450 million Series D funding round at a $2.85 Who would have expected this to happen here?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The company — which mediates between hackers finding security issues and companies keen to fix them — said its recent growth was driven by a rise in zero-day vulnerabilities like the flaw in the ubiquitous open source logging platform Log4j, which put the internet on notice ahead of the December holiday.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. Free and Open Source Software. Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM). Speaker: Gregory Heller, CivicActions.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The dynamics that play into this forecast, aside from the impact of COVID, include a youthful population (the youngest globally), rising smartphone adoption and internet penetration that has led to a burgeoning tech ecosystem backed by local and international VC dollars. Here are a few interesting points from the newly-launched report.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Thus, every single penny of their income comes from donations that nonprofit organizations raise to, theoretically, fund the missions of their work. How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options? OK, so I’m going to sound like a broken record. But, hey, why not? David 2 admin 09.03.07

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. In just a few clicks your supporters can donate a tweet or status update to benefit your cause (see The Global Fund ). Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

More funding for European end-to-end encrypted messaging app, Wire : The enterprise-focused messaging platform told TechCrunch it closed a €24 million Series C round of funding led by growth equity firm Cipio Partners and Iconical, the investment vehicle of Skype co-founder Janus Friis. Messaging app Wire raises $21 million.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

A long time ago (in web years) I was working with a certain CEO of a certain chapter of a certain very-big-nonprofit (whose role in life is to fund other nonprofits – this kinda gives it away, but it’s necessary for the story.) This reminds me of a true story. Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

That’s what drove Adam Fish and Max Alexander to found Ditto , which emerged from stealth today with $45 million in Series A funding led by Acrew Capital with participation from U.S. Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), True Ventures and Amity Ventures. Ditto’s platform emerged as a solution to these challenges.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Basically, the cool thing is that you can choose which school projects to fund – so if I’d like kids to have more hands-on science experiences, I can fund projects to buy things like microscopes … wait, what?? DonorChoose – I am both fascinated and horrified by this site. Microscopes? Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

NebulaGraph is one of China’s fastest-growing startups offering graph databases with open source and enterprise subscription options. Two years after we covered its $8 million funding round , the company announced this week that it has closed a Series A round led by Jeneration Capital.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

This is, for sure, one of the most robust open source CMS to CRM integrations out there, and one that seems to be getting pretty close to providing very powerful integration “out-of-the-box&# – instead of having to piece things together and do customized code, which is more common than not. 2 Jon Stahl 05.01.09 Be Helpful.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Home Assistant Amber is a smart home hub for the free, open source home automation platform. Nabu Casa, the company behind the free, open-source software, has launched Home Assistant Amber, its first ready-to-use hub that can run Home Assistant software out of the box. Image: Nabu Casa. The Amber hub also has an M.2

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

As a matter of fact, the funding for Benetech to start Bookshare and our Martus human rights software project came from a successful spinoff of our first social enterprise, the Arkenstone reading machines, which we sold to a for-profit for roughly $5 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

” According to Mozilla SVP Imo Udom, Active Replica will support Mozilla’s ongoing work with Hubs, the latter’s VR chatroom service and open source project. Prior to the acquisition, Active Replica hadn’t publicly announced outside funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web3 is seen as the future of the internet because it allows people to control their own data and digital assets, but crypto developers have been learning from the past when it comes to onboarding new users. workflows on nearly every traditional internet platform. The company also plans to increase its headcount, Young told TechCrunch.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com. intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Codex is built on the top of GPT-3, OpenAI’s language generation model , which was trained on a sizable chunk of the internet, and as a result can generate and parse the written word in impressive ways. This latter point has led many coders to complain that OpenAI is profiting unfairly from their work.

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