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In the heart of the Panamanian jungle, a startup village grows

The Next Web

At the end of 2013, more than 100 entrepreneurs, artists, environmentalists, and yogis flew into Panama City’s chaotic metropolis, seeking an adventure, and a fun way to celebrate the New Year. After four days in the jungle, the group traveled back to Panama City to ring in the New Year.

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Yummy’s super-sized round helps grow its delivery, ride-sharing super app in LatAm

TechCrunch

Less than a year after taking its first funding , Latin American local on-demand delivery and transportation super app Yummy is back with an upsized round of $47 million. The company has also moved on from its initial markets of Venezuela and Bolivia and into Peru and Panama, Zavarce told TechCrunch.

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Founders Fund backs Vest, a startup out to give Latin Americans a bridge to investing in the US stock market

TechCrunch

Vest’s platform is live and its app is available for download on iOS and Android in all of Latin America except for Panama, and in the U.S. The startup currently offer users integration to local banking in the U.S. states of Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, New Mexico, New York, Texas, Washington and Puerto Rico.

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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

The process of routing your traffic through a VPN masks your internet protocol (IP) address — the specific number that's assigned to your device when it's connected to a local network — which can otherwise reveal a surprising amount of personal information. That includes your approximate whereabouts and the name of your ISP.)

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

TechCrunch

Co-founder Sacha Michaud believes these markets are currently underserved, and Glovo has found the right opportunity to work with local restaurants, bringing them online to reach new customers in a bid to “make everything, within all towns and cities, available to everyone.” million people.

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Tesla showrooms are being hit by a wave of anti-DOGE protests

Fast Company Tech

A website, TeslaTakedown , lets anyone set up a local DOGE protest, many of which will happen on February 15. (It Often, with these types of initiatives, it takes weeks to plan, says Alex Winter, a documentarian known for making The Panama Papers and other films, who happened to know Donovan and helped amplify the idea.

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

Mashable Tech

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. One time there's a risk that Facebook employees might be arrested if they step foot in South Korea because the company ignored a local law that applied to Facebook games.

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