TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Agriculture is Pakistan’s biggest sector, contributing about 24% of its gross domestic product and employing half of its labor force, according to government statistics. The startup, which launched two months ago in Lahore, announced today it has raised a $2 million pre-seed round led by Global Founders Capital and Zayn Capital.

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TechNode

MARCH 26, 2024

Southeast Asia’s largest car producer and exporter, Thailand has also become a strategic location for Chinese automakers wishing to diversify their operations and reduce geopolitical risks, according to researchers from the Global Policy Institute. million by 2030, making the country a regional manufacturing hub for EVs.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

How net thriving teams can improve businesses, neighborhoods, and governments. In addition, the book covers: The five elements of wellbeing: career, social, financial, physical, community. Why career wellbeing is the foundation of the best possible life. Why the fastest road to net thriving is playing to each individual’s strengths.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2022

Other backers include Index Ventures, Susa Ventures and Global Founders Capital. Mosaic wants to flip that ratio on its head. . Latin American nocnoc raises $7M seed round to help global sellers connect with local marketplaces across LatAm. Only 20% of their time is more strategic, making an impact on the business.”.

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

Their approach is different from Charity Navigator in that their rating system is an “A+” through “F” grading system and they don’t strictly focus on financial metrics and ratios. Making available information about individuals leading and governing your organization is key to building trust and conveying transparency.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Sustainability is still a real challenge, but the cost to value ratio of a school computer lab is shrinking to the point where you are starting to see governments and local communities invest more on their own to promote ICT access. . I’ve been working or interested in the space of ICT for Development (ICT4D) for about a decade now.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

The next session I went to was Building the Local Green Economy presented by Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange. One of the most exciting things he talked about is the creation of a Global Citizen Center in downtown San Francisco. City governments are increasingly passing laws to strengthen the local, green economy.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The other thing that I think is happening globally is that there’s greater economic inequality. What do you think the ratio is of you talking versus the donor talking? Or we need 1,000 donors to chip in, or we need 150,000 people to sign this petition to the government to make sure they protect this wilderness area.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2017

In a more global setting however, ROI has non-monetary objectives such as public awareness of a product or new sales leads. In the financial world it means the ratio of money gained or lost on an investment relative to the amount of money invested. Legal And Technical Terms Commonly Used in Estate Planning.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. . Most people agree that Bitcoin was in some ways a reaction to the financial crash of 2008 and sort of this pervasive distrust of the banking system and global finance. So it was pushed out in 2009.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. Most people agree that Bitcoin was in some ways a reaction to the financial crash of 2008 and sort of this pervasive distrust of the banking system and global finance. So it was pushed out in 2009.

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Tableau

JULY 15, 2021

Senior Director Global Partner Marketing, Tableau. That’s why we created the Tableau Partner Network (TPN)—to pair customers like you with a global network of partners focused on helping you solve your toughest data analytics challenges. . Sample Tableau dashboard illustrating actual versus planned cost in a cost ratio report.

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OpenAI

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

If AGI is successfully created, this technology could help us elevate humanity by increasing abundance, turbocharging the global economy, and aiding in the discovery of new scientific knowledge that changes the limits of possibility. We want the benefits of, access to, and governance of AGI to be widely and fairly shared.

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Tableau

JULY 15, 2021

Senior Director Global Partner Marketing, Tableau. That’s why we created the Tableau Partner Network (TPN)—to pair customers like you with a global network of partners focused on helping you solve your toughest data analytics challenges. Sample Tableau dashboard illustrating actual versus planned cost in a cost ratio report.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

For local governments, data centers can be a major revenue source. Because theyre taxed locally but serve customers globally, they bring in tax revenue from outside. When using public services, data centers have a high fiscal benefittocost ratio. Of course, each must make the decision thats right for them.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2024

How net thriving teams can improve businesses, neighborhoods, and governments. In addition, the book covers: The five elements of wellbeing: career, social, financial, physical, community. Why career wellbeing is the foundation of the best possible life. Why the fastest road to net thriving is playing to each individuals strengths.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Trending down : Zoom missed its own deadline on releasing a transparency report that will tell the public how many government demands for user data it has received. Governing. ? outlook as a whole is stable before we move forward,” Chris Rackow, vice president of global security, wrote in the memo. “As Alfred Ng / CNET).

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

government workers as a senior Trump advisor; and investor worries that politics are distracting the worlds richest man from tending to his cash cow. Musk spent more than $250 million supporting Trump and now serves as his top advisor on slashing government staff and regulations. A high ratio suggests shares might be overpriced.

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

The pandemic has made clear that many of our most essential workers are also among the lowest paid — and even for the most comfortable, it’s clear that during a time of crisis neither their company nor the US government will fully protect them from disaster. Governing. ? Coming Tuesday : The Verge brings you further inside Clubhouse.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Because it was required to by the authoritarian Chinese government, TikTok took content moderation deadly seriously. The trade war with China is very much real, though, and has already led to the Trump administration banning government use of Huawei and ZTE telecommunications equipment , for fear of espionage. Governing. ?

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

US rule changes could mean more startups would need government approval to hire immigrants. Silicon Valley Bank’s 2020 Global Startup Outlook puts it this way: “[T]he fact is most entrepreneurs never expect to reach a public market exit.” government bears the burden currently. More posts by this contributor.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

Twitter’s product is incredibly important — it is a flashpoint of interest and controversy for politicians and regulators around the world, and it often seems like politicians in our own government don’t know the difference between Twitter and real life. So that dimension is the one where I think there’s a lot of innovation to be had.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

Among the challenges: it’s hard to get people to download these apps; there has been no endorsement of the approach — or coherent response strategy — from the federal government; and it’s unclear that Bluetooth-based approaches have been all that effective even in countries where COVID-19 is better under control. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

The Ratio. ?? Governing. ? The move comes as ByteDance comes under increasing scrutiny in the United States over how the Chinese government may be accessing Americans’ user data. On the other hand: will government requests for Google Docs data put protesters at risk ? Caroline O’Donovan / BuzzFeed ). Chen Du / PingWest ).

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

The incident took place that same week that global protests against the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, among others, galvanized the country — and brought a heightened sensitivity to ongoing racist oppression in the United States. Governing. ? The quote included the n-word.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

And in Las Vegas, three men were indicted “for allegedly conspiring to destroy government and private property during protests in that city on May 30, and for allegedly possessing Molotov cocktails,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

It was just a few days ago that I wrote this column about how the Boogaloo movement — a loose-knit collection of anti-government types, some of whom are agitating for a second civil war — had hijacked social networks to spread. Governing. ? Facebook bans a violent Boogaloo network. Zoe Schiffer. is the No. Manish Singh / TechCrunch ).

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

That was Maxine Williams, Facebook’s global diversity officer. He noted that the original video of George Floyd’s murder by a police officer had been posted to Facebook, sparking global protests. Governing. ? The move escalates a global battle that will affect where tech giants like Facebook and Amazon pay taxes.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Zhang wrote: “In the three years I’ve spent at Facebook, I’ve found multiple blatant attempts by foreign national governments to abuse our platform on vast scales to mislead their own citizenry, and caused international news on multiple occasions,” wrote Zhang, who declined to talk to BuzzFeed News. “I Governing. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Governing. ? The Chinese government could also nix it. government ban also remains. Chinese authorities want ByteDance to retain control over TikTok’s global operations. The biometric check will give Singaporeans access to government and business services. Some of the data was used to target Facebook ads.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Today felt like an unusual lull in the intersection of our many unfolding national and global crises, and so I thought I’d take the opportunity to write about something different — a subject that, despite all my best efforts, I keep getting crushingly wrong. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Upon creation of TikTok Global, Oracle/Walmart will make their investment and the TikTok Global shares will be distributed to their owners, Americans will be the majority and ByteDance will have no ownership in TikTok Global,” Oracle executive vice president Ken Glueck said. Governing. ? Rachel Kraus / Mashable ).

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

And local governments are planning for much longer periods of lockdown. Governing. ? The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are blaming hackers linked with the Chinese government for attempting to steal US research into a coronavirus vaccine. And if it succeeds, the new normal will look a lot like the old one.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

So far, no global-scale technology company has managed to get this balance right. Governing. ? Anyway, I write about these stories in tandem today to highlight just how hard the tradeoffs are here. Rely too much on machines and they’ll remove lots of good speech. Jessica Guynn / USA Today ).

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The group has been linked to more than a dozen violent incidents over the last year, including a train hijacking ; last month, a QAnon supporter rammed a car into a government residence in Canada. Governing. ? was arrested on May 1 with dozens of knives in her car. So this feels like useful context to share.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Governing. ? Turkish lawmakers passed legislation requiring social media platforms with over one million daily users, including Facebook , Twitter , and YouTube , to open offices in Turkey and comply with government demands to block or remove content hosted on their platforms. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his governing A.K.P.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2020

to lobby Congress on Monday, she has said that the government is run in part not by humans but by “reptilians” and other aliens. Because the platforms are so large, and because viral distribution mechanisms are built into every post, dangerous misinformation can spread globally within hours. Governing. ? Those good tweets.

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