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Yummy raises $4M, aims to be ‘super app of Venezuela’

TechCrunch

Yummy, a Venezuela-based delivery app on a mission to create the super app for the country, announced Friday it raised $4 million in funding to expand its dark store delivery operations across Latin America. 1 super app in Venezuela and proven that the team can scale the business in a difficult territory,” Mateen said in a statement.

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Facebook temporarily freezes Venezuela president’s page for spreading coronavirus misinformation

The Verge

Doctors in Venezuela have called Maduro’s claims that Carvatavir can treat the coronavirus “dangerous.”. Facebook also removed a video where Maduro touted Carvativir, a homeopathic remedy extracted from thyme. Maduro has praised the solution in the past as “miracle drops” and a “medical breakthrough.”

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An entrepreneur’s guide to Aruba’s startup scene

The Next Web

Located just 18 miles off the coast of Venezuela, the tiny Caribbean island has been making serious waves over the past few years. Many people dream of building a business. Many others dream of living on a sunny island. But those who dream of doing both need look no further than Aruba.

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Yummy bags $18M as its expands delivery app across Latin America

TechCrunch

Yummy’s Lima, Peru dark store, the first outside of Venezuela. We can’t wait to be live in every city in Venezuela with both Yummy Delivery and Yummy Rides, and continue our expansion across LatAM,” Zavarce said via email. “We Yummy raises $4M, aims to be ‘super app of Venezuela’. Image Credits: Yummy. “We

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10 Common Misconceptions Nonprofits Have About Bitcoin Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It cannot be arbitrarily printed/devalued like what happened in Venezuela. Smart criminals wouldn’t use a system that records every single transaction on an immutable and public ledger. Myth 4: Nothing makes Bitcoin valuable, right? Bitcoin is backed by math and code. There will always only ever be 21,000,000 bitcoin created.

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‘Everything was lost’: How climate change is threatening Colombia’s largest indigenous group

Fast Company Tech

She lives in an informal settlement on the outskirts of Riohacha, in northern Colombia’s arid, wind-swept region, where thousands of other Wayuu people, native to the La Guajira region spanning Colombia and Venezuela, also reside. “This entire hut. Our belongings, what little we had.

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

TechCrunch

The company has also moved on from its initial markets of Venezuela and Bolivia and into Peru and Panama, Zavarce told TechCrunch. With the new capital, Yummy plans to invest in product development, increasing density within its current categories and expanding coverage in its more mature markets, including Venezuela and Bolivia.

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