TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

“We think it will be the best place to invest,” said Shleifer of India at his rare appearance. “We think it will be the best place to invest,” said Shleifer of India at his rare appearance. The New York-headquartered firm, which counts India among its top three markets globally, has deployed over $6.5

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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. The fundraise caps the most successful year for the startup that started with uncertainty as the coronavirus spread across Asian nations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The Rise of NGOs in Developing Nations. 67% of internet users live in countries where criticism of the government, military, or ruling family are subject to censorship. WhatsApp Payments are launching soon in India. Must-Read: Millennial Impact Report. The white population in the U.S. will become a minority by 2045.

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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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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

India has announced new regulations for social networks and other web services in the country, particularly “significant social media” companies with large user bases, like Facebook and Twitter. India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) announced the rules earlier today. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

With additional education girls earn more, contribute to higher rates of economic growth on the national level, delay the onset of sexual activity, are less likely to contract HIV, have smaller and healthier families, and survive childbirth at higher rates, he noted. This is where philanthropy comes in.

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The Verge

JULY 6, 2020

TikTok says it will stop offering its social video app in Hong Kong after the region adopted a new national security law granting expanded powers to the mainland Chinese government. “In Google, Facebook, and Twitter have already stopped processing requests for user data from the Hong Kong government.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Krafton, the brand behind some of the world’s most popular video games, says it has already deployed the $100 million it had committed to the Indian market two years ago in the South Asian nation and is gearing up to launch several new titles in the country. Krafton’s investments in India so far.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

After getting the exit, Kumar spent some time thinking about the environment and the growing pollution in the country — and how for India to achieve its high targets of cutting emissions, New Delhi would need to do something about all the two- and three-wheeler gasoline guzzling vehicles on the road. “It

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

After a four-and-a-half-year ban, Shein, the Chinese fast-fashion giant, is making a comeback in India a market it was abruptly shut out of in 2020 alongside more than 200 other Chinese apps. Shein’s re-entry into the country could further invigorate India’s textile industry.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Canada, Europe and India. For example, all residents with the qualifying disabilities in Australia, Denmark and Qatar, to pick just three examples, now have free access to Bookshare thanks to our joint efforts with local and national disability groups in these countries. These include 6 of the top 10 publishers in the U.S.

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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. Additional information regarding the investigation remains unclear.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2023

PhonePe, which completed a full separation from the e-commerce giant Flipkart last year, dominates transactions on UPI, a network built by a coalition of retail banks in India. It competes with Google Pay and Paytm, the latter of which is currently valued at nearly $5 billion.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2021

A loose translation of the probe’s official notice indicates that the cybersecurity review is “in order to prevent national data security risks, maintain national security and protect the public interest.” ” Yesterday, regulators ordered Didi to stop registering new users during the investigation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It’s why the great majority of accessibility work is done by volunteers, charities, and with government support. If our Bookshare team is trying to help a blind student in India get a book she needs for university, make it easy for us to do that. The base draft accomplishes that, and mirrors the effective exception in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

Y Combinator’s latest batch — W21 — features 350 startups from 41 nations. India is the second largest demographic represented in the new batch. For companies in India, founders no longer have to spend three months away from their customers or teams. Leap Club is attempting to build a Good Eggs for India.

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The Verge

AUGUST 15, 2021

According to a notice posted on the Lumen database, India’s National Commission for Protection of Child Rights requested Twitter take action. But the tweet in question, which has been shared more than 15,000 times, will remain withheld in India even though it is visible globally.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Subsequently, Exyn has established itself in a dominant position in the mining vertical with this technology and expanded into construction, warehouse, and government use cases including search & rescue and reconnaissance.” ” The startup had a turnover of $4.32 million, $1.83 million and $0.16

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Also, the startup offers full-stack solutions ranging from discovery, pricing and payments to compliance, government contracts, delivery and performance tracking. The startup is also working on tools to let creators easily access studios across India and even get PR opportunities, said Gupta.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

The renewable energy firm revealed the plans today when it announced the signing of a voluntary commitment with the United Nations to grow its energy market in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In terms of policy frameworks and regulation, the states where Husk works in India (Uttar Pradesh and Bihar) have supportive policies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

” Our staff continues to file their end-of-year stories: We ran a post this morning by Manish Singh that studies India’s massive total addressable market for retail. Just how bad is that hack that hit US government agencies? Just how bad is that hack that hit US government agencies? WASHINGTON, D.C.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Elliot Harmon, regular TechSoup blogger and staff writer, was chosen to " Blog [His] Way to Hyderabad " for the Ashoka and Lemelson event, Tech4Society , taking place in Hyderabad, India this week. Thanks to a series of happy coincidences, I got to spend today at NASSCOM's India Leadership Forum (they're TechSoup Global's partner in India).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset. government and states like Texas. Of course, in India and other developing countries, the gap is even larger.

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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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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. It is one of the BRIC nations with its economy growing at 8% annually.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!) Government delegation, as a next step possibility. trade publishers (and some in India and the UK), and over 1,000 international members in 35 countries today. This was recently presented by the U.S. law today. •

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In India, news is out that a new law could ban Bitcoin (whatever that means), and this morning India forced Twitter to take down some accounts that had been critical of government policy. Here’s what we talked about: American stocks are set to rise, bitcoin is flat and meme-stocks are mixed. That’s a pretty bad look.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

International nonprofits and other non-government organizations (NGOs) need American support to function, or even exist, a trio of witnesses told U.S. The Nicaraguan government has closed down 1,500 nonprofits, including religious organizations, human rights groups and even the American Chamber of Commerce, Rutzen added.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Microsoft in talks to back India’s Oyo. Oyo, which is one of India’s most valuable startups, has aggressively expanded to many markets, including Southeast Asia, Europe and the U.S. But some of its missteps — “toxic culture,” lapse in governance and relationship with many hotel owners — have scarred its growth.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

The government of Qatar hosted the conference, and underwrote travel and accommodation. We’ve just added our first books in Tamil and Hindi (two national languages of India), and so it was fun to brainstorm about the possibilities. I’m on the plane heading back to the U.S. after my first visit to the country of Qatar.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The round also included angel investors Freshworks CEO Girish Mathrubootham; former LinkedIn India CEO Nishant Rao; Slideshare co-founder Jonathan Boutelle; and Helpshift CEO Abinash Tripathy. Hubilo’s clients have included the United Nations, Roche, Fortune, GITEX, IPI Singapore, Tech In Asia, Infocomm Asia and Clarion Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

The participating NGOs include Women’s Leadership NGOs from Ethiopia I’ll be co-training with Kalyani Menon-Sen, a feminist activist, researcher and adult educator based in Delhi, India to deliver sessions on the Networked NGO, networks, and networking with social media. Feed a child, feed a nation!

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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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The Verge

OCTOBER 8, 2020

But the federal government has recently laid out the framework for regulating the hyperloop, giving hope to companies like Virgin Hyperloop One that it may eventually break ground on a full-sized operational hyperloop system. Virgin Hyperloop One is seeking to build its first hyperloop system not in the US, but in India.

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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. . Over the past year, the nation has seen a surge of neobanks emerge aimed at specific demographics, including Greenwood , First Boulevard and Cheese. His mission with Fair is largely personal.

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