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

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

It’s why the great majority of accessibility work is done by volunteers, charities, and with government support. Bureaucratic barriers to utilizing a copyright exception, as proposed by some publishers, makes the cost even greater. The base draft accomplishes that, and mirrors the effective exception in the U.S.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 1, 2010

The government of Qatar hosted the conference, and underwrote travel and accommodation. This meeting was a follow-up for me from my attendance earlier this year at the main WEF meeting in Davos , where I presented my proposal as part of the GRI. The coolest demo was of a high quality Arabic text-to-speech synthesizer.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

Four of the social entrepreneurs then made brief presentations about their GRI proposals that had been chosen by the WEF to present to the conference. His proposal was that time-limited “smart subsidies” be used to encourage the adoption of these innovations until the adoption curve gets to the point where the commercial market takes over.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

billion acquisition of BillDesk it announced last year, once stated to be the European technology giant’s largest, saying “certain conditions” were unfulfilled in a surprising move a month after the proposed acquisition received from the local antitrust watchdog the approval to proceed. Prosus has scrapped the $4.7

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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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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. These relationships generate countless ideas for using technology for social good.

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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. The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team).

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TechNode

JULY 31, 2023

Chinese automaker BYD told Megah, its joint-venture partner in India, that it planned to halt its $1 billion investment in electric car manufacturing in India, according to Reuters, citing sources familiar with the matter. This prompted BYD executives to convey a decision to drop the Chinese EV companys investment in India.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

A bucket o’ talent : Sequoia India backs Prismforce , a company that helps IT companies build a better supply chain for talent, Jagmeet writes. Kind of interesting when you consider that Airbnb and its hosts have gotten into trouble in the past for listing properties without permission from landlords, and in some cases the city government.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Founders who target emerging markets like Latin America and India may have an easier time, but only if their products and services are clearly differentiated. Affirm, Afterpay and Klarna own 75% of the sector in the U.S., which leaves little room for startups hoping to join the fray. Meanwhile, the U.K. We are now its hostage.”.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In January, a simple effort to update its terms of service to enable some commerce features triggered a massive backlash in India , helping its rival Signal to double its user base in a month. And the reality is that over time there are growing threats to people’s privacy — hackers, hostile governments, criminals. Yes, absolutely.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

A similar directive is currently being proposed for the broader European Union (EU) too. These include legal obligations, for example Germany recently passed a new supply chain due diligence law that makes it the responsibility of large companies to track human rights violations and environmental risks through their supply chain.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

He also dug into Twitter’s lawsuit against the Indian government that was prompted by content takedown orders. pushing to make “ foreign interference ,” particularly Russian information, an offense under its proposed Online Safety Bill. in the next couple of months. Then Paul writes about the U.K. Finally, Ingrid reports on the U.K.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It’s critical to connect our data and policy proposals with narrative and communications,” Kirschenbaum says. . Our presence in over 80 countries gives us a unique position to help advise our government partners on solutions to hunger and food insecurity,” he says. . Keeping the spotlight on homelessness: Community Solutions.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It’s critical to connect our data and policy proposals with narrative and communications,” Kirschenbaum says. . Our presence in over 80 countries gives us a unique position to help advise our government partners on solutions to hunger and food insecurity,” he says. . Keeping the spotlight on homelessness: Community Solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2007

I was asked to participate on a panel proposal at SXSW 2008 with several nonprofit colleagues. After life-altering experiences in Vietnam and India, and spending the night in a displaced persons camp in Turkey after the '99 earthquake, I knew my life couldn't continue on it's current course. No, I'm not blogging on the plane!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Twitter makes its API free for public announcement accounts Twitter announced on May 2 that it is making its API free for verified government or public-owned services posting about public utility alerts such as weather alerts, transportation information and emergency warnings. But once you refresh the page it disappears.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The logic that we really proposed is that, well, what really matters, the one common input, is the time of the artisan who made it; and if the artisan took two hours to make it and you paid that person a dollar, that could be a very good price. It still serves about 3, 000 people a year and it is an amazing organization.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

She’s from India and has been on an H-1B for more than 6 years. government that North Korean hackers are targeting some of the country’s healthcare organizations with their ransomware. Dear Sophie: How can we transfer a candidate’s H-1B and green card? Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch. She also laid out a claim by the U.S.

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Tableau

MARCH 10, 2022

A longtime Tableau Foundation partner, EM2030’s 2022 SDG Gender Index sheds fresh light on the work of governments and civil society organizations toward understanding issues of gender inequality, driving decision-making for positive change, and achieving gender equality by 2030. . How do we move forward .

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Tableau

MARCH 10, 2022

A longtime Tableau Foundation partner, EM2030’s 2022 SDG Gender Index sheds fresh light on the work of governments and civil society organizations toward understanding issues of gender inequality, driving decision-making for positive change, and achieving gender equality by 2030. . How do we move forward .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Elon Musk, part 265 : Ivan writes that “the third time is the charm” for Elon Musk’s lawyers, who delivered a third termination notice to Twitter regarding the severance payment made to former security head Peiter “Mudge” Zatko in June, arguing that this action was in violation of Musk’s proposed agreement to acquire the social media giant.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2021

Atlassian CEO Scott Farquhar on the challenges of governing online companies A couple weeks ago, Facebook briefly turned off the ability for anyone in the world to post links from Australian news publishers. They were governed by a government that was elected by people locally. They just blocked ‘em with a little message.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

Proponents of socially conscious investing claim fund managers will start a similar stampede when they discover that environmental, social and governance (ESG) insights can yield treasure in the form of alternative data that promise big payoffs — if only they knew how to mine it. ESG data is everywhere. What can we do to support her?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

India is finalizing its national battery swap program for two- and three-wheeled EVs. . River has the potential to be a leader in the Indian market, given the government’s plans to push EV sales penetration of two-wheelers up to 80% by 2030. In other news…. Electric moped growth is predicted to double in Asia. . Rebecca Bellan.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Data centers, the government hopes, will modernize its economy and indirectly create thousands of high-paying jobs. President Joe Biden’s administration proposed new rules that would limit exports of advanced AI chips made by U.S. It has since languished in the middle-income trap. Shortly before he left office, U.S.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

By now, almost everyone accepts that social platforms have a role to play in protecting our democracy — as do average citizens, journalists, and the government itself. One way to view Facebook’s announcements on Thursday is as an acknowledgement that when it comes to protecting our democracy, in 2020 the US government cannot be counted upon.

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TechNode

JANUARY 16, 2025

Why it matters: The proposed delay to the ban reflects the US’s conflicted stance on TikTok. Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey proposed a delay to the TikTok ban deadline less than a week before it was set to take effect. The Indian government outlawed the app in June 2020, citing worries about data privacy and national security.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Because it was required to by the authoritarian Chinese government, TikTok took content moderation deadly seriously. The Trump administration is “looking at” a lot of things, and many previous insane-sounding proposals have come and gone without ever being enacted. prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India.” (It

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2020

I particularly liked this proposed question, about Amazon: In a five-week period during the pandemic, your firm added the value of the world’s largest firm by revenue — Walmart. companies will cede territory to Chinese companies abroad, particularly in high-growth markets like India. Governing. ? Mark Gurman / Bloomberg).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Governing. ? A group of Republican senators led by Marco Rubio is calling on Trump to reject Oracle’s proposed deal with TikTok if the app doesn’t sever ties with ByteDance. “We Facebook’s top executive in India said nobody — including embattled executive Ankhi Das — can unilaterally influence content enforcement on the platform.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

In his blog post, he came bearing economic gifts for the country that is currently blocking his app from federal and military devices, and threatening to ban it completely — as India recently did. Governing. ? Mayer promised to expand a fund for creators from $200 million to $1 billion. Institute for Local Self-Reliance).

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