TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It currently covers some 20 countries for receiving money, some of the very poorest and/or least developed places in the world including Bangladesh, Cameroon, DRC, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Republic of the Congo, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Senegal and Zambia.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

It happened that it was the same time that he was vacationing in Sri Lanka where he was one of very few tourists. The goal is to grow the number of trips to 20,000 and its travel experts to 6,000 by the beginning of next year. Godska, also an angel investor, learned about YouTravel.Me from a mutual friend.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The startup’s largest user base is in Nigeria, and it also has a major presences in India, Ghana and Vietnam, and growing user bases in Brazil, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. It focuses on retail investors, enabling them to start with investments as small as $5.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India. She did a joint Masters in Public Health and Economic Development at Columbia University.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Facebook had been slow to take action against many of the Hindu nationalist groups responsible for the violence, leading to concerns that the company was repeating the mistakes that preceded similar violence in Myanmar and Sri Lanka. The official line is that Ankhi Das is leaving to pursue her 'personal interest in public service.'

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Sri Lanka and Malaysia. The startup also does not want to limit itself to India, as it has started working in a pilot phase with clients in global markets and has its initial customers in the U.S., Prior to the pre-Series A funding, Vecmocon had raised $300,000 in a strategic seed round in 2019 from Tessellate Tech Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Maya recently launched in Sri Lanka and plans to expand into India, Pakistan, Middle Eastern markets and Indonesia. The funding will be used to introduce new products to Maya’s telehealth platform and expand into more countries.

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The Verge

JANUARY 27, 2022

However, Gray says he and others tracked a similar piece of space junk that entered the atmosphere over Sri Lanka in 2015, as well as two Chinese lunar rocket stages that re-entered over the Pacific Ocean. Of course, such events are exceedingly rare and don’t pose any realistic threat to people at the moment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We've also had major efforts in Burma, Sri Lanka and Guatemala, to name a few; efforts we expect to continue this year. We have just completed a new case study detailing our multi-year project with the TRC. We work with human rights groups all over the world. Humanity United (founded by Pam Omidyar) funded this work.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Facebook recently announced a test in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia. So the Newsfeed algorithm tries to predict what each user wants to see in their Newsfeed. But no algorithm is perfect. So they test and tweak. Users in these countries can only see Page posts that their friends comment on or share.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This year Benin, Bolivia, Denmark, Panama, and Sri Lanka launched national GivingTuesday movements, and GivingTuesday launched its Europe Hub, which joins the Africa, India, Latin America & the Caribbean, and U.S. & Participants who volunteered in the U.S. was estimated at 9.2 was estimated at 16.6 million, a 17% jump.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

Facebook groups have become a gray market for the country’s weed dealers One weekend about a year ago in Balangoda, a misty mountain town outside Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, Sanjana was supposed to meet a dealer she found on Thriloka Wijaya Pathra , a Facebook group for cannabis users in Sri Lanka. Sanjana didn’t hear back.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2022

While the brothers’ family is from Sri Lanka, the pair were born in Los Angeles. I’m gay and brown, grew up in LA, and lived a long time in D.C. The only time I have ever experienced racism was when I moved to Austin.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

I also lived in Sri Lanka right about the time that sex tourism became a big deal, and saw it firsthand. When I was growing up, I was very aware of the class differences, and the different ways that people would treat children who were from lower class families.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 19, 2009

You can read about some of the NGOs that have used Martus to back up their data in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, the Phillippines, and Colombia. Martus will protect their sensitive documentation by encrypting it on the local hard drive and automatically backing it up to remote servers if organizations wish to do so.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Like Sri Lanka where pictures weren’t getting out. What technology means for people who are experiencing a crisis who don’t have access – don’t make it onto twitter, don’t make the news cycle? Annabelle Sreberny: There were also huge demonstrations elsewhere pulling in the diaspora.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Other times, the documents find them struggling to explain why the algorithm shows more “civic content” to men than women or why a bug let some violence-inciting group in Sri Lanka automatically add half a million people to a group — without their consent — over a three-day period.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Facebook is planning for possible chaos around the November 3rd US presidential election with internal tools it’s used before in countries like Sri Lanka and Myanmar, The Wall Street Journal reported. Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Similarly, theres Amba Yaalu at Kandalama, Sri Lankas first hotel run entirely by women. As I learn more about the travel and tourism sector in my new role at Travalyst , Ive come across some incredible examples of tourism as a force for good such as SASANE in Nepal. From resort manager to gardener, the hotel has 80 staffall women.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The company had reportedly planned to deal with the spread of viral misinformation about the election with tools designed for “at-risk” countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Musk and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt mainly seem to apply the fraud label to anything they find merely disagreeable, like $57,000 worth of spending relating to climate change in Sri Lanka.

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