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Nowports raises $16M to build the OS for LatAm’s shipping industry

TechCrunch

Mouro Capital — a venture capital fund focused on fintechs and adjacent businesses that is backed by Banco Santander — led the round for the Monterrey, Mexico-based startup. The company currently has offices in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay. Our 2021 goal is 400% to 600%,” de los Rios told TechCrunch.

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The Facebook boycott advertisers have the right company but the wrong diagnosis

The Verge

The news comes nearly a month after the company pledged to remove its ethnicity filter in support of Black Lives Matter protests. One of the streams in question was a rebroadcast of Trump’s infamous 2015 kickoff rally, where he said that Mexico was sending rapists to the United States. Kevin Truong / Vice ). Governing. ?

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The antitrust case against Google is becoming just another partisan fight

The Verge

Or even what ever happened to Trump’s 2019 pledge to investigate Google for “treason” (?!). The liberal Facebook page Occupy Democrats has emerged as a counterweight to the dominance of right-wing meme factories on the platform. The page is run by Rafael and Omar Rivero, twin brothers who immigrated from Mexico. Governing. ?

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