TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Kavak , the Mexican startup that’s disrupted the used car market in Mexico and Argentina, today announced its Series D of $485 million, which now values the company at $4 billion. 80% of people in emerging markets don’t have access to a car,” García said of the global market size.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

A hot topic at the SCCR20/WIPO discussions in Geneva on global access to materials by the print disabilities is the term "Trusted Intermediaries"("TIs"). proposal has similar (but not quite as out there) language saying that the organization using the exception has to have the trust of both the publishers and the consumer groups.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It bears mentioning that the executive summary of our findings (in several languages) and full report (in English) are available at no cost to everyone. Also, developing countries like Egypt, South Africa, Mexico/Latin America, and India report plans to move to the cloud faster than everywhere else. What Didn't Surprise Me.

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Candid

JULY 17, 2024

For 20 years, the global communications firm Edelman has studied the influence of trust across government, media, business, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Here are five takeaways about global trends in the public’s trust in NGOs: 1.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception. So, just how does it work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

We want to give people an opportunity to really develop, innovate, and preserve their own culture." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. I've posted an edited transcript of the interview below.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Draftea’s founder, Alán Jaime Misrahi, played soccer in Mexico’s third division before attending Stanford for his MBA and launching Draftea. Mexico is the second-biggest market globally for the NFL, Jaime Misrahi told TechCrunch in an interview.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Historically, Brazil and increasingly as of late Mexico, have received the bulk of venture dollars from venture investors. But more and more, other regions in Latin America such as Chile are also attracting global investor interest. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. Image Credits: Buk.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

Mexico border. The results allowed the executive team to launch a video channel, rather than sending text updates, in order to reach the numerous indigenous language speakers whose languages did not have a written form. Read more about impact management, and learn more about Mobile Pathways’ story. About the Author.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. TechSoup Global's NGO cloud survey found plenty of contradictions and confusion about cloud computing. The global NGO average is 36%.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

But now, Mexico’s Indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities are being sold a solution — or, at least, something that looks like one. To fight back against the plagiarism and dispossession of Indigenous art, Mexico has approved a law meant to protect and safeguard the cultural heritage of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples and communities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Access to global supply chains can be difficult for small businesses in Latin America, but companies like Meru , which raised funding in March to source and import goods between Mexico and China, and now more recently Pandas , are tapping into overseas relationships and technology to make this easier.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Our new hybrid digital and IRL model will extend VidCon’s global reach with more new ways to be informed, entertained, and inspired than ever before.”. In order to reach a more international audience, VidCon’s digital portion will also program different panels and sessions in partnership with VidCon Mexico and VidCon Asia.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Vietnam is an S-shaped country that is slightly larger than New Mexico. English is increasingly favored as a second language.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2014

For more info on this, I like Laura Orsini’s plain language description on ReadWrite. The 2007 winner of the Nobel Peace prize, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) just issued its fifth report on what the science tells us about how fast human created global warming is affecting the biosphere. Climate Change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

CH: You know it is funny; it actually didn't start out as a women-centered initiative, but the more research I did about creating global training sites and free media enterprises in these developing countries, training women just makes the most sense. Our age ranges in all of our global training sites range from 19 to 56.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think that it's too bad that our stories are not in the common language of arts and entertainment because I think our stories can be very powerful - the stories of an immigrant family, of a single family, of a family who's organizing, or fighting evictions, a young woman who's questioning her sexuality. I think that is really important.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2018

That said, this year’s Global Trends in Giving Survey includes questions about crowdfunding. The 2018 Global Trends in Giving Survey is an annual research project that seeks to gain a better understanding of how donors worldwide prefer to give and engage with their favorite causes and charitable organizations. Goteo (Spain).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2022

and Mexico. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. QED Investors said it has expanded its mental health initiative aimed at tackling addiction among entrepreneurs to its Spanish-language portfolio companies.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Next: : If you’re gonna go global, plan it from the start. Think global, start early. WhatsApp founder Jan Koum is an Ukranian immigrant, and I’m betting it had helped him realize the potential of going global from day one. Brazil, with a population of 200M and Mexico with 120M are now in our top 5 download countries.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The general-purpose system attempts to find and extract answers to questions, combining large language models akin to OpenAI’s GPT-3 with live web data. factual knowledge, programming or consumer health) and language models that generate answers by combining knowledge across multiple sources (e.g. .” Image Credits: Andi.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 21, 2010

Hot issue this week are the now four proposals on solving the problem of access to print by people with print disabilities globally: The TVI: the treaty sponsored originally by the World Blind Union and supported at WIPO by Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay and Mexico. [I I was one of the co-drafters of the treaty language] The U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

High profile examples of such systems, such as OpenAI’s large language model ChatGPT, have relied (at least in part) upon data posted online for training their systems — and a class action lawsuit filed against the U.S.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

The first season exploded to the surprise of everyone, becoming a global pop culture sensation. It spent eight consecutive weeks in the Netflix Global Top 10, amassing 185.2 It was very important for me that the Korea team retained the strategy for how global teams were going to execute against it.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

But it’s climbed less than stock indexes in Mexico City, Paris and Hong Kong. stock market has been the clear winner for so long among global markets in large part because the U.S. It’s still popular among global fund managers to bet on Apple, Nvidia, and the other five Big Tech U.S. rise through Monday versus 1.7%

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

ChatGPT was recently super-charged by GPT-4 , the latest language-writing model from OpenAI’s labs. For example, having the model always respond in a given language. For example, a teacher can say they are teaching fourth-grade math or a developer can specify the code language they prefer when asking for suggestions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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The Verge

JUNE 30, 2020

there needs to be much more enforcement in the area of hate speech,” Luis Di Como, Unilever’s executive vice president of global media, said. They have noted that, amid the global pandemic, advertisers have been reducing their advertising spending anyway. This represents a global expansion of the protest effort.

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