Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Among the people I’m privileged to call a colleague here at Benetech is Viji Dilip, the International Program Coordinator for our Bookshare International service. Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area. In countries outside the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Aadit Palicha and Kaivalya Vohra had returned to India for a break shortly before the pandemic engulfed the nation. As the pandemic raged, the two struggled to get their grocery supplies even as grocery deliveries, categorized as essential by the local government, was still permitted in much of the nation. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Existing investors, including Lightspeed India and Sequoia Capital India, also participated in the round, which brings the five-year-old startup’s raise to-date to about $35 million. “In HR tech and SaaS space, we are now only behind SAP and Oracle in India in terms of revenue,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2022

The most read story this week was about Battlegrounds Mobile India, a popular battle royale title that has found an audience of tens of millions in India. Players woke up to find the game suddenly blocked from both Google Play and Apple’s App Store by order of the Indian government. Sign up here. other stuff. audio stuff.

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TechNode

AUGUST 2, 2023

Indian officials advised Tesla to follow Apples example of seeking local partners if it plans to collaborate with Chinese suppliers on its plan for a new plant in India, Reuters has reported, citing government sources with direct knowledge of the matter. Reuters ]

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TechNode

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Indian financial enforcement agency Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested four executives involved in the smartphone industry, including a Chinese citizen working at Vivo India, on charges related to illegal remittances, Reuters reported on Tuesday. billion) to overseas destinations, primarily mainland China.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Twitter tries to restore service in Russia : While some tech companies are working to cut ties with Russia after the country’s government invaded Ukraine, others are trying to keep their services up in the country. The TechCrunch Top 3. Communications tools, for example, are not something that should shutter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

billion in India, has lost a considerable amount of value in the past one year, too. The deal would have allowed Prosus, which already owns fast-growing PayU, to dominate the market of payments processing in India. BillDesk powers payments for most of Indian government departments. Prosus, which has invested over $5.5

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Canada, Europe and India. Bookshare now has hundreds of titles in Hindi, Tamil, and Spanish, and we recently announced a partnership with the government of Qatar to develop an Arabic language service. Bookshare has successfully piloted an international library for the blind, but we’ve barely begun to remedy the global book famine.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

Gogoro answered that question today by announcing a strategic partnership with Hero MotoCorp , one of the world’s largest two-wheeled vehicle maker and the market leader in India , where it is headquartered. Gogoro and Hero MotoCorp’s agreement includes a joint venture to build a battery swapping network in India.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Joy of Giving Week is a "festival of philanthropy" held October 2 through 8 all over India in conjunction with Mohandas Gandhi's birthday. Nonprofits, government agencies, schools, and corporations organize events bringing awareness to fundraising and volunteering. Image: BiGTech logo ( NASSCOM Foundation ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain. Digitization and globalization are giving rise to growing publishing markets that promise new business opportunities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

government and states like Texas. We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India. We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India. Of course, in India and other developing countries, the gap is even larger.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

It’s a nonprofit or government agency that makes accessible copies of Works, and limits distribution of those copies to people with bona fide disabilities, the “Beneficiary Persons,” defined in the next article. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. It doesn’t cover movies. Article 2(c). Defines Authorized Entity.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

India’s trucking system has a big inefficiency problem that continues to drag the economy. BlackBuck, one of the handful of startups that is digitizing the freight and logistics across India, has just attained unicorn status after securing new funds. “India’s truckers did not go truly digital till 2019.

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

By the late 17th Century, lawyers, doctors and government employees were toiling in offices built all across Europe. In the mid-19th Century, the East India Company needed a physical space to store their piles and piles of ledgers, forms and other important artifacts that managed their transactions all over the world.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

million Series A led by Hambro Perks, with participation from Sequoia India & Southeast Asia’s Surge, Arsenal Growth, Kaplan, Ascend Vietnam Ventures and STIC Investments. It also partners with governments and university pathway programs. The edtech startup announced today it has raised a $14.3

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. Of the 3 million NGOs that operate in India, most are small and dependent on volunteers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. Former investors include Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA), Sandstone Capital and TA Associates.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Tiger Global’s latest investment in India is Vecmocon , a startup building solutions to bring safety and reliability alongside intelligence and health monitoring to light electric vehicles (EVs), addressing concerns that are curtailing the sales of electric scooters in the South Asian market. Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

They will join an international coterie of tech giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Stripe, Salesforce and Grab, that already have headquarters or significant operations, including engineering and R&D centers, in Singapore. ” Government policy pays off. Regulations also play a role. Timing was also crucial.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

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,” Zhang, who is listed on LinkedIn as working for Facebook’s Site Integrity fake engagement team, wrote in her memo.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And today, one of the early pioneers of the medium is announcing some funding as it tips into profitability on the back of a pivot to enterprise services, targeting businesses and governments that are looking to upskill workers to give them tech expertise more relevant to modern demands.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The investment arm of Naspers — which has invested close to $6 billion in India, thanks to large bets on edtech Byju’s and food delivery startup Swiggy — has lost more than half of its market cap since early last year. BillDesk powers payments for most of Indian government departments. Why is the $4.7

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 18, 2021

Even five months after the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered, worldwide vaccination efforts remain a constant news topic, especially in the face of new infection waves that are currently surging in India and other countries. Our hearts and minds go out to India and its people in this terrible acute crisis phase. About the Author.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Firms looking to raise funds from public offers will now be required by law to disclose their key performance indicators and issuing pricing based on past transactions and private funding rounds in their offer documents, the Securities and Exchange Board of India said in a statement. India gets its S-1. and Canadian startups enjoy.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The government argues that social networks supported by digital advertising are part of a defined market, that Facebook acquired Instagram and WhatsApp to eliminate competition in this market, and that it also restricted access to its developer platform to harm competitors. And I’m glad the government took this case.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Paytm, one of India’s most valuable startups, is seeking to raise as much as $2.4 billion in what is shaping up to be the biggest initial public offering in the country at a valuation of $20 billion, according to two people familiar with the matter and internal documents seen by TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Dear Sophie: What are the quickest visa options for bringing in international talent? I recently spoke with Anthony Pawelski, the senior international adviser at Mass General Brigham, which consists of 16 institutions including Harvard- and Tufts-affiliated teaching hospitals. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Backed by international LPs, Southeast Asia-focused venture firms like Alpha JWC , AC Ventures and Jungle Ventures raised their largest funds yet. That is where social commerce startups like Super , Evermos and KitaBeli come in, hoping to replicated the success of Pinduoduo in China and Meesho in India.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

federal government is in a unique position to help realize those rewards. ” in the words of Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton , it’s a plan to make Europe “the most data-empowered continent in the world.”. There are so many ways governments can help businesses maximize their data leverage in ways that improve society.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. Of course, if there is an international treaty on the topic and the U.S. These seems to be an important part of international copyright law.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

However, the 5 percent given to international causes reflected a 15.3 government aid, capital investment, philanthropy and remittances. 3 This study reports that a change is occurring; the long-held perception that the reduction in global poverty is primarily driven by government aid (from the U.S. billion), India ($12.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Our piece, by our ace India reporter Manish Singh, also notes that the new round comes just a month after FPL Technologies, the company behind OneCard, last announced new capital. Catching you up, OneCard is a consumer credit card startup in India that also provides credit scoring services. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

from India with just $100 in his pocket 22 years ago, he struggled to not only get a loan but also to open a bank account. . The fintech also practices ESG investing, which measures the sustainability of an investment and its overall impact in three specific categories: environmental, social and corporate governance.

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