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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

As a long-time advocate for a global copyright exception and the founder of Benetech—which I started twenty-five years ago in order to make technology tools to address the needs of people with print disabilities—I was thrilled to become an active player in global diplomacy and witness the adoption and signing of this landmark Treaty.

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Nowports streamlines LatAm’s shipping to deliver a $1.1B valuation

TechCrunch

To quote my colleague Anna Heim, digitizing freight forwarding is a global challenge because the sector still lacks transparency and efficiency. Over time, it has expanded its offerings and now also automates insurance policies for, and provides inventory financing, to its clients. . It has more than 500 employees.

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Glovo to double down African investment in the next 12 months — but will it stay put?

TechCrunch

However, in markets like Africa, there are fewer concerns regarding the working conditions of riders, which undoubtedly appeals to what these global players fancy. Last year, the company pulled out of all the Latin American countries — Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic.

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Sony raises PlayStation Plus prices in Canada

Engadget

These include deep breath Australia, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. So far, we haven't seen or heard of any US or UK price increases.

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The book Facebook doesnt want you to read: What you need to know

Mashable Tech

That isn't the case with Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams, former and first head of global policy at Facebook. It opens with the time Wynn-Williams had to smuggle Zuckerberg out of a state dinner in Panama, making a break for it past naked dancers and a troupe of horses.

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Why major global powers are so interested in Greenland right now

Fast Company Tech

Increasing international tensions, global warming and the changing world economy have put Greenland at the heart of the debate over global trade and security, and Trump wants to make sure that the U.S. Why Greenland? controls this mineral-rich country that guards the Arctic and North Atlantic approaches to North America.

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Elon Musk’s extensive ties to China, explained

Recode by Vox

Musk is also hardly unusual among major global tech CEOs in defending China. Trumps foreign policy team is generally united in its hawkish views on China. Trump himself has accused Beijing in the past of a policy to rape our country and blamed it for the Covid pandemic, along with a host of other ills.

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