TechCrunch

MAY 30, 2022

SWVL said that though these acquisitions have contributed to its overall growth, it will need to make reductions on roles automated by investments in its engineering and product and support functions teams. According to a source, the majority of the layoffs will come from the company’s Dubai and Pakistan offices.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Today, the company has a few hundred employees distributed across Pakistan, Australia, Texas and Malaysia, but it continues to service startups of all sizes, says Bashir. Vulnerability also plays a role in building that trust — when we make mistakes, we are open about sharing them and learning from them, so that they are not repeated.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

How it works is by engaging remote talent from emerging markets which can now (because of the acceptance of remote working, post-pandemic) participate in much higher value roles in finance, strategy, and public policy. Intellia is an up and running startup which has raised $1.5m

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In terms of active operational markets, though, the fintech is present in six African markets — Ghana, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia, Ivory Coast and South Asian country Pakistan. So far, JUMO has served loans worth over $3.5 billion to more than 18 million customers across these markets, granting up to 120 million individual loans.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Pakistan-based Colabs raised $3 million to help offices figure out their back-office needs , including hiring, payroll, legal and tax compliance. Meanwhile, the work-from-home trend seems to stretch into the space beyond “avoiding offices like the plague during a literal plague.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

After the article published on February 16, I had several more companies reach out about news of open roles at their companies. Kikoff is hiring for 10 roles (a mix of hybrid and remote), including senior product manager, associate product manager, senior product designers, engineers and a growth marketing manager. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2022

While the company plans to grow its headcount in the months ahead, for now it’s cutting “less than 1%” of its 180,000-person workforce as it focuses on “realigning business groups and roles.” Airlift shuts down : Airlift, one of the top startups in Pakistan, shut down suddenly this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

Through my work with Packard Foundation and with IIE and the State Department, I have have the opportunity to work with NGOs from places like Pakistan, Rwanda, India, and the Middle East. In her dual roles, Wanjiru divides her time between the U.S. What challenges do women who tech in Africa and Middle East face?

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

Rali_cap is particular about startups in large markets across these regions — Nigeria, Egypt and South Africa in Africa; Brazil and Mexico in Latin America; and Pakistan and Bangladesh in South Asia. “But we’re always open for exceptions,” said Simmons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2009

What examples have you seen that further exemplify social media’s role in helping to affect social change? In Part 2 of this talk Jacqueline talks about Pakistan and the opportunities to create a global community around the people who are trying to create positive and lasting change in the country.

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention. As extreme weather makes front-page headlines year-round, each news cycle brings fresh evidence that we are living in unprecedented times.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Even Google, hedging its bets, wanted to make sure it played a strong role in the feature phone segment even as Android grew its market share, and so it became a strategic partner to KaiOS, investing tens of millions of dollars in the startup. . But things haven’t played out as expected.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

For a national civil rights organization, we tested a "political" appeal — focused on the supporter's potential role in overturning a controversial law — against a version that told the story of a family affected by that law. Right now in Pakistan, that's one of the only ways to get food — so thousands of children are going hungry." "On

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

“We did this to be able to leverage North American tech talent, many of whom my co-founders have been working with at their former roles,” Aziz said. The company’s business team operates primarily from the UAE, while tech and engineering is based out of Canada with a few engineers that work remotely from the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

In an emailed statement, a Lemonade spokesperson told TechCrunch that it was “able to offer a role at Lemonade to about 80% of the Metromile team,” but that as the deal was “synergistic” it is able to “operate with fewer people than were needed to staff the two standalone.” Sequoia backs fintech Dbank in maiden Pakistan investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It has been used in disaster relief, for example, in Pakistan , and other scenarios from London Tube strike to election monitoring to mapping crime incidents Atlanta. (2) .&# Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. 2) Crowd Creation.

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2021

The company describes the role of its products on its website as helping “government intelligence and law-enforcement agencies use technology to meet the challenges of encryption” during terrorism and criminal investigations. In short, NSO Group makes products that let governments spy on citizens.

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TechNode

MARCH 20, 2024

Zhao says that London Tech Week, held annually in June, has played an important role in building the UK capital’s technology ecosystem. The event brings together leading companies, founders, investors, government agencies, and future talents from around the world to discuss the most urgent issues facing business and society.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Activist, journalist, and singer, Marisa Handler , chronicles her activist journey, and the role spirituality played in it, in her 2007 memoir, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist. Can you talk a little bit about what role meditation plays in your activism, and in your creative process? MH: It's been really crucial for me.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

But given Facebook’s key role in civic discourse — it effectively replaces the internet in some countries — the disparities are cause for concern. Among the disparities: Facebook lacked misinformation classifiers in Myanmar, Pakistan, and Ethiopia, countries designated at highest risk last year. Fact-checking partners don’t exist.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

His roles involved representing Australia in international negotiations on global health and humanitarian affairs and as an advisor to the UN secretary general on global health and pandemic preparedness. . Prior to Zenysis, he worked as a diplomat with the United Nations.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

A Facebook page operated out of Pakistan shared one of the more popular videos, which got 1.6 Pichette takes over the role after joining Twitter’s board of directors in 2017. The company also suspended accounts associated with white nationalist groups after some advocated bringing weapons to the current wave of anti-racist protests.

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