NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

The 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report was released at 12NTC yesterday and it’s already stirring up discussions about how nonprofits are leveraging social networks as part of their fundraising and communications strategy. Budgets and Staffing for Commercial Social Networks Continue to Climb.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story. He created a tool to do this called Hudi , which Uber donated to the Apache Software Foundation as an open source project the following year. And data lakes let you scale to huge amounts of data,” he said.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Plus, the open-source NVIDIA RTX Remix modding platform has now been released, and NVIDIA ACE technology enhancements are bringing to life next-generation digital humans and AI agents for games. This results in dramatic improvements in game performance, image quality and interactivity, delivering new levels of immersion for players.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Isovalent, a cloud-native security and networking startup that should fit well with the company’s core networking and security strategy. The companies did not share the purchase price.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Community-led growth (CLG) has emerged as a popular mechanism for driving business, as companies strive to foster an ecosystem of fervent users that draws in new customers organically, serves as a support network for millions and bangs a company’s drum completely off its own volition. The open source factor. million ($2.2

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo helped Benetech dramatically increase our capacity to benefit larger populations by scaling our services, revamping our innovation process, and establishing a thriving network of industry partners and volunteers. a11y accessibility Bookshare engineering executive Gerardo GoRead innovation open source Read2Go'

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Tetrate , the company commercializing an open-source networking project that allows for easier data sharing across different applications, has raised $40 million. Founded in 2018, Tetrate formally launched in 2019 with a $12.5 Tetrate nets $12.5 million to bring microservices to the corporate masses.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The EU — those guys who ensured we ended up with cookie banners on every damn website you’ve ever visited — are back at it with a new initiative that could have some major-league unintended consequences on open source software, Kyle reports.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Benetech, like many nonprofit organizations building open source software for social good, often relies upon the contributions of experienced software developers to help its solutions grow and scale. In so doing, we launched Benetech’s newest program, SocialCoding4Good.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Isovalent , a startup that aims to bring networking into the cloud-native era, today announced that it has raised a $29 million Series A round led by Andreesen Horowitz and Google. The open-source Cilium project is already seeing growing adoption, with Google choosing it for its new GKE dataplane, for example.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

But ahead of that, there’s a new tool that will let anybody make their own Bluetooth tracking tag to use with the Find My network so they can track its location. Once registered on Apple’s Find My network, the OpenHaystack app will be able to report the tag’s location just like Apple’s Find My app works for iPhones and other Apple devices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We realized that our humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS) partners had important roadmap projects with tremendous potential, but in many cases lacked the resources to design, prototype and develop them. Our partnership, launched shortly after RHoK June 2012, continues forward with a focus on data and digital security.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7 and Europe. .

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TechSpot

APRIL 10, 2024

Pretendo Network aims to provide a free, open-source alternative for Nintendo servers necessary to power online features on the 3DS and Wii U. This fan-made initiative is now the only viable option for using these older Nintendo consoles online, although support for many of the games designed for online play.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

Second, the popularity of social networking is steady and continues to spread globally, but messaging apps such as WhatsApp, LINE, and Snapchat are emerging as powerful digital communities. Source: State of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising 2017. Email and social media are the first apps opened. Source: ReportLinker.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus , the popular open source vector database for similarity searches — raised $43 million to scale its business and prep the company to make a move into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko lauds Threads’ entry into the decentralized social media space, saying the move will make Mastodon — the open source Twitter/X rival — “a far more attractive option.”

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TechSpot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

Google plans to train an AI using the open-source platform TensorFlow to detect cancerous cells in photos taken from a microscope. They’ve already started developing the neural networks by using the Google Cloud Healthcare API to de-identify and segment existing datasets. Once the AI is fully trained, they’ll design their.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Corelight, a San Francisco-based startup that claims to offer the industry’s first open network detection and response (NDR) platform, has raised $75 million in Series D investment led by Energy Impact Partners. . million Series A in July 2017.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

The Open Network for Digital Commerce, an Indian government-backed initiative that is attempting to “democratize” e-commerce , has set its eyes on another industry it would like to disrupt. “Nowhere else in the world do open networks exist. “Nowhere else in the world do open networks exist.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Researchers discovered that Russian spies had months earlier burrowed deep into the networks of several U.S. federal networks. By breaking into SolarWinds’ network and pushing a tainted software update to its customers, the Russian spies delivered digital backdoors directly to the heart of the U.S. federal government.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Consumer interest in open source, decentralized social networking isn’t something that was only reflected in news headlines over the past year, it’s also apparent in the financials behind Mastodon.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. It’s a throwback from social networking circa 2006. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

The application purports to claim the trademark “social enterprise” in five areas: computer software, business services, educational services, on-line software and social networking services. Unfortunately, there are literally hundreds of nonprofit social enterprises operating in all of these areas.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They said transformer models , large language models (LLMs), vision language models (VLMs) and other neural networks still being built are part of an important new category they dubbed foundation models. Earlier neural networks were narrowly tuned for specific tasks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Prominently feature your “Donate” button, e-newsletter opt-in, and social network icons. that your nonprofit uses. The button should be large and colorful so that it is obvious and not easily missed.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Later he created Peach , a pop-up social network that remained beloved by its users far after its brief moment in the spotlight faded. And he would give these “bags” of items away for free, minus the transaction fees required by the Ethereum network. “A He would not provide any art work or any instructions on what to do with them.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Jean-Paul Smets is the CEO of Rapid.Space , a hyper open cloud provider offering virtual private servers (VPS), content delivery networks (CDN) and global IPv6 (SDN). This is where fully open APIs based on open source software are a great help and the technology of the future. Jean-Paul Smets. Contributor.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Oxide Computers hyperscale cloud computers combine compute, storage, and networking elements in a single plug-and-play package, allowing security-sensitive customers to run their own private cloud server within a data center. They included trapped-ion specialist Quantinuum and neutral atom-focused startup Atom Computing.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 3, 2024

One of the most effective tools we’ve developed to achieve this is Gesso, an open-source front-end starter kit and design system, built entirely in-house by the Forum One team. By leveraging modern techniques like lazy loading and responsive image handling, Gesso ensures a smooth experience even on slower networks.

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TechSpot

AUGUST 29, 2024

Cerebras Systems, traditionally focused on selling AI computers for training neural networks, is pivoting to offer inference services. The company is using its wafer-scale engine (WSE), a computer chip the size of a dinner plate, to integrate Meta's open-source LLaMA 3.1 AI model directly onto the chip – a configuration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K.,

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

It could be checking in with people on a location-based social network. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Why be in just one place when we can be in many?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The cloud infrastructure unicorn presents an interesting mix of open source and proprietary code, with recurring revenues and a nascent hosted product. If you are a fan of open source software (OSS) or curious how companies with a core of open code make money, it should be an interesting read.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Beeper’s website promises “a single app to chat on iMessage, WhatsApp, and 13 other networks.” | Screenshot: BeeperHQ.com. Beeper network. Beeper is a new universal chat app that’s an attempt to unify 15 different chat platforms into a single interface. Oh, and there’s a dark mode coming in Beeper’s next update, naturally.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

The company’s solution combines open source with a SaaS offering. “So So we have two things that are open source: we have this engine, which is kind of like a Google search for code. What’s more, in a time where VC dollars are much harder to come by, they weren’t even looking for this funding.

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