Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. • Most publishers don’t say yes or no.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Valour, a Zug, Switzerland-based issuer of investment products, brought in Biggs, the former Private Banking Global Head of Innovation for HSBC, as CEO after recently launching Bitcoin Zero , a fee-free, digital asset ETP product that trades on the NGM stock exchange. Tesla buys $1.5B

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2007

I'm en route to Switzerland for two conferences (or, a pre-conference and a conference). This is where many of the key global players from the social entrepreneurship field get together, under the auspices of Klaus and Hilde Schwab. I very much enjoy blogging from Switzerland, and sharing my experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2011

Shawn Ahmed, Free Agent and founder of the Uncultured Project, has been invited to next week’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he will meet with business leaders and heads of state. That year, the focus was on global poverty. A big congrats to Shawn! Here’s the post.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 6, 2005

Met with Pamela Hartigan, the head of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship , on Friday afternoon, after the end of the Global Philanthropy Forum at Stanford. This is my one chance a year to get Pamela one on one, since the events are so busy for her.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO Headquarters The event this last week at WIPO in Geneva, Switzerland, was the ninth meeting of the Stakeholder’s Platform, which was set up about the time the original Treaty draft was introduced.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Alongside the funding, the company is also formally announcing its name-change from VRM Switzerland. Loft Dynamics , a Swiss startup creating virtual reality (VR) simulation technology for helicopter pilots, has raised $20 million in funding from U.S. H125 VR simulator. Image Credits: Loft Dynamics.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The global chocolate confectionery industry was valued at over $208 billion in 2020, and is the largest part of the industry in the U.S. Sara Marquart is a food chemist with a specialty in flavor formation, while Max Marquart is a material scientist and now three-time entrepreneur. QOA’s product test kit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and China. To meet demand, Buildots will use the new funding to continue that expansion; double the size of its global team with a focus on sales, marketing and R&D; and grow on the business side. The platform is being utilized on major building projects in countries like the U.S.,

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

What’s the point in using “global” tools (social media) for local organizing? From @amoration: I find we’re always both global & local, so many of us travel frequently that virtual organizing tools are essential even for “local&# endeavors. Social media used to engage local supporters to act globally.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2020

TechCrunch asked the company’s CEO whether there was an international component to that story, and whether digital transformation efforts are accelerating globally and not merely domestically. Switzerland has always been at the forefront of technological innovation in areas such as precision engineering or life sciences.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

Coatue Management and Alkeon Capital Management are leading the round, with OMERS Ventures, DST Global, Redpoint Ventures, Newion and Smartfin also participating. It’s fast heading to processing some 100 million orders globally, he added. We are thrilled to partner with Zhong and the team.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In addtion to Index Ventures, La Famiglia VC, Cocoa and various business angels also participated in the round, such as Revolut CFO Mikko Salovaara, former EVP of global sales at Adyen Thijn Lamers and N26 CFO Jan Kemper. So far, Atlar focuses on the Nordics, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 20, 2010

My latest post on HuffPo is now up: Going to Davos to Redesign the Planet , about my proposal to the WEF's Global Redesign Initiative. What would you propose to global leaders to make humanity better off? I've included the post below, but comments are best done on the HuffPo site above. Regulation is helpful, but not enough.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

And then we're in a small ski village in Switzerland! The benefits of collocating the social entrepreneurs in one place has been proven in past years: a large amount of the value of attending the WEF is meeting with global social entrepreneur colleagues, and trading notes about the best ways to change the world for the better.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Planetary , a Geneva, Switzerland-based food tech company, is tapping into a new $8 million cash infusion to construct an industrial-scale production facility so that its customers leveraging fermentation technology can create and scale their alternative proteins quicker. Nowadays puts its spin on plant-based nuggets.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

To help oversee this new initiative, Bird is promoting to two employees to its executive team: Renaud Fages is named head of global operations; and Brendan O’Driscoll will be head of product, growth and data, overseeing both Bird’s global product strategy and its implementation. Europe is playing a leading role”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

The US one of the few markets where you can achieve decent scale, as well has have the potential to exit either trough a sale to one of the global tech platforms, or to the public markets. It’s part of the reason so many European startups end up heading to the US. The opportunity appears to be there.

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TechNode

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Why it matters: The move implies that ByteDance’s strategy to strengthen its AI capabilities in Europe and expand its global tech footprint is underway. Details: Among European countries, Switzerland, the UK, and France are relatively advanced in AI technology, the AI Tech Review report stated.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Lugano, Switzerland-based venture capital fund Privilège Ventures just launched its fourth fund. It’s not just about being ethical and doing good: global GDP would grow 6% if rates of entrepreneurship were equal between men and women,” said Lucian Wagner, Privilège Ventures founding general partner in a press statement.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Founded out of Switzerland in 2011, Beekeeper targets the estimated 80% of the global “deskless” workforce who don’t work from a fixed office-based location, spanning hospitality, retail, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, among other industries.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We're a global movement with chapters in 24 countries. Every month, our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Lausanne, Switzerland: Tech4Good Lausanne — Meetup avec Pascal Kotté et CloudReady.ch. Lausanne, Switzerland: Meetup avec Pascal Kotté et CloudReady.ch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Einride has attracted a fairly high-profile roster of early customers in addition to GEA, including Oatly, Beyond Meat, Bridgestone and Maersk, the latter representing Einride’s largest order for electric transportation globally, with the Danish shipping company set to roll out some 300 trucks across Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2020

The long-time global financial hub will expect hundreds of new jobs in the next few years as ByteDance and Alibaba reportedly plan regional offices in the city-state. The competition is more on a global basis, because even local startups will always be looking at global talent, from the region, Australia, India, China or beyond,” he added. “I

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

We want to encourage capital into African women-led businesses, and to support a high number of existing local and global investors to invest more capital in this market,” Impact Room CEO and founder Blantern told TechCrunch. Impact Rooms is backed by US-based investment group Global Blockchain Ventures (GBV).

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

According to the US Department of Justice and Europol , Operation Dark HunTor saw law enforcement make numerous arrests in the United States (65), Germany (47), the United Kingdom (24), Italy (4), the Netherlands (4), France, (3), Switzerland (2), and Bulgaria (1). More than $31.6

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2006

Who would pass on Switzerland, not to mention a short jaunt to Austria and Liechtenstein? One of the highlights was going to several cocktail parties, in particular Friday night's Architects of Global Change party (honoring the social entrepreneurs), and the Google/Accel party.

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TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

This downsizing from the Dubai-based startup adds to the long list of global cross-stage layoffs in what has been a rough month for tech employees. SWVL is present in 13 markets globally: the UAE, Egypt, Kenya, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Argentina, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Pakistan.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

The group is pushing for an independent audit to be conducted in a court in Switzerland. The assets in question include MetaMask and developer platform Infura, as well as Truffle, PegaSys, Codefi and other global subsidiaries, Blockworks reported. million as of June 2020, unfairly harming them while enriching Lubin.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 11, 2024

He will be based in ICANN’s Geneva, Switzerland office and will spend significant time in ICANN’s Los Angeles, California headquarters. When he assumes his new position on December 5, he will work closely with the board and ICANN’s executive team to during leadership transition.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Based in Zurich, Switzerland, with offices in Fort Lauderdale and Zagreb and nearly 200 employees, Wingtra says it is the world’s largest producer of commercial vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones.

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The Verge

MARCH 31, 2021

Though not all these features will be available globally.). The new Fiat 500s will be available in 10 European nations, including the UK, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Poland. Alerts can also be sent to the owner if the car exceeds a certain speed or leaves a certain geographic area.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Yverdon, Switzerland: Rentrée de l'Entraide Numérique. Renens, Switzerland: OpenLab: Visite du Fablab de Renens. Europe and UK.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Sales of plant-based alternatives, like dairy and meat, are surging in the global market , and Perfeggt wants to do the same for the egg. The Berlin-based foodtech company is poised to debut its chicken-less egg product in the first quarter of 2022 in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Today, the company announced it raised $2.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, Rogers said the company can have an outsized impact to improve the amount of money going into a farmer’s pocket. “With extra time we can link those small producers into the global food system and help them collect the economic value that’s intrinsic to that natural resource,” said Rogers. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2012

In that role, I had the exciting opportunity to staff the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2011 and 2012, which was a hugely eye-opening experience. In 2012, the themes of inequality and the “forgotten one billion” permeated nearly every discussion about the global community.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

After partnering with CERN in Switzerland — Samodurova leveraged connections there through her work at HighTechXL, an incubator that’s previously commercialized CERN technologies — Samodurova and Verweij designed prototype server hardware. . ” Certainly, Incooling’s mission is an important one.

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