The Verge

JUNE 21, 2021

The company announced today that some US-based public figures, as well as certain groups, can start hosting rooms through the main Facebook iOS app. Within groups, admins can control who’s allowed to create a room: moderators, group members, or other admins. People can join, however, from both iOS and Android.)

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GeekWire

JUNE 4, 2020

Katherine Cheng , head of global and community impact at Expedia Group , had been working on a project with her company to employ out-of-work tailors from arts organizations to sew personal protective equipment for healthcare workers. FoodPair will be run as a nonprofit. Serving up smarter logistics. FoodPair Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2024

Ryan Downing, CIO of enterprise business solutions at Principal Financial Group, saw how this challenge impacted his organization. The State of the Tech Workforce 2024 report from nonprofit CompTIA , forecasts tech employment growth of 3.1% for this year, resulting in a net gain of more than 300,000 new jobs. Last year saw a 1.2%

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GeekWire

JUNE 30, 2021

But at the same time, the company last year lowered its carbon intensity, a measure of carbon pollution per dollar earned, edging slightly towards its pledged goal to reduce its net carbon footprint to zero by 2040. By this metric, overall carbon intensity decreased 16% since 2019, from about 123 grams per dollar of sales to 103.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The American Booksellers Association is a national nonprofit trade organization that works to help independently owned bookstores grow and succeed. Outside groups analyzing data on Tuesday reported that the event was off to an impressive start. Amazon doubled its net profit this year. ??. ?? Amazon’s U.S.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Danielle Alvarado, executive director of nonprofit labor advocacy group Working Washington, said the data shared by DoorDash is “a predictable corporate move to oppose fair wages.” billion, up 27% year-over-year, with a net loss of $156 million. DoorDash last week reported fourth quarter revenue of $2.3

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 5, 2023

x natural language model on pilots before Microsoft’s well publicized $10 billion investment in the nonprofit at the outset of 2023. As the use of generative AI becomes more widespread, it is causing significant disruption in many industries and sectors,” says Ritu Jyoti, group vice president of AI and automation research at IDC.

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Paola Dela Cruz-Perez, a youth organizer for the nonprofit East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice said during a shareholder briefing held today. Amazon has pledged to reach net-zero CO2 emissions by 2040, meaning that it won’t release more planet-heating carbon dioxide than it can capture or offset.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 12, 2021

George “Skip” Battle , the former CEO of AskJeeves, has resigned from Expedia Group’s board of directors. AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. Its net loss for the first nine months of this year was $2.2 Skip Battle.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Their results from a study of 139 infected people ranging from mild cases to hospitalizations and from an additional control group were published this week in print in the peer-reviewed journal Cell. Another paper on less severe cases is in review. The approach gives insight into the functions of various organs as well as the immune response.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Like many early stage biotech companies, Silverback has yet to generate meaningful revenue, posting a net loss of $17.6 An ovarian cancer survivor, Shawver is also the founder of the nonprofit Clearity Foundation , supporting other women with the disease. managing director, working in the investment bank’s healthcare group.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2023

“But in my experience great founders are rarely tax optimizers but rather focus on creating massive new value, so the net impact on our startup economy won’t amount to much, and the benefits to our civil society will far outweigh the cost.” “Reducing that potential return makes us less competitive than other states.”

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Vox

MARCH 29, 2023

Just on Wednesday evening, a group of AI experts and leaders, including OpenAI co-founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, signed an open letter calling for a six-month moratorium on advanced AI model development as we figure out just what this technology is capable of doing to us. That’s why I need the 2captcha service.” (You

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GeekWire

JUNE 1, 2021

I don’t think this should be put on consumers to figure out,” said Noah Deich , president of Carbon180 , a carbon removal, policy-focused nonprofit. Only one of the group is buying offsets. Businesses are investing in carbon offsets because they are the easiest way to respond to customer and employee demands to move toward net zero.

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Vox

MARCH 24, 2022

A lot of other people think they are an environment-destroying scam, where a small group is getting very rich off what are effectively just lines of code with no actual value or use. Another 5 percent would go to nature nonprofits to offset the environmental cost of minting the NFTs. Sign up here so you don’t miss the next one!

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

The company has made seven investments in six different companies or nonprofits since March 2019. ” But even with the Gates Foundation’s efforts, philanthropic support for women-focused nonprofits still lags behind other areas. So far at least, Pivotal doesn’t appear to have been writing massive VC checks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 21, 2022

JHS is a nonprofit academic medical system in Miami, Fla., There’s lots of capabilities that we have, but some of these groups are smaller. The challenge is especially acute for an organization like Jackson Health System (JHS), one of the largest public health systems in the country.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Cell therapy startup Sonoma Biotherapeutics netted a $265 million Series B round last year and has not made any operational changes “directly related to external economic conditions,” said chief technology officer Heidi Hagen. government and nonprofits, supplementing income from its commercial collaborations and $27.7

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The company’s investments helped make it the first net-zero carbon certified arena in the world. GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena is the first in the world to receive Zero Carbon certification from an international nonprofit promoting sustainable buildings. Amazon paid for its naming rights.

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Cloud Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2012

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

More than 683 companies, 136 countries and 234 cities have made pledges to reach net-zero carbon emissions. The Seattle-based company in 2019 created the Climate Pledge , which is a commitment to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2040. Matthias Heyde Photo / Unsplash). How that takes shape has, so far, run the gamut.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Flywheels: How Cities are Creating Their Own Futures,” is a new book by Tom Alberg , former Amazon board member, and managing director of Madrona Venture Group in Seattle, published by Columbia University Press. The livability flywheel depends on leadership from elected officials, corporate and nonprofit executives, and the community.

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GeekWire

MAY 15, 2020

In early April the duo launched $1k Project to provide direct assistance that felt more personal than donating to a fund or nonprofit. The group has helped 180 families in at least 30 states and aspires to support 10-times that number. Brusse connected with Alex Iskold , a like-minded, New York-based venture capitalist.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Sergio walked back beneath the overpass, took up his megaphone, and whooped the siren, signaling to workers riding up First Avenue to wait and form a group before crossing. Some started protesting and lobbying, partnering with nonprofits and city officials to propose legislation. It read WE ARE ON GUARD TO PROTECT OUR DELIVERY WORKERS.

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Vox

JANUARY 24, 2023

It was a source of growing criticism from the press and nonprofit experts as his net worth climbed, topping $100 billion by the end of 2017. Applying for a grant can often be a long, burdensome process for nonprofits. Bezos’s philanthropic track record Before 2018, Bezos didn’t have much of a philanthropic résumé.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Advocates of Right to Repair, which included dozens of repair stores across the state, local officials , and environmental groups , hailed the move as a victory, the culmination of a years-long battle to force tech companies to allow regular people to easily repair their own devices. All of them?” All of them,” Cook says. They better.”

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Linux Academy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Is diversity and inclusion of underrepresented groups in the technology industry still an issue? Diversity efforts could net the IT industry an extra $400 billion in revenue each year. In her free time, Chloe is a speaker and mentor on diversity and inclusion in InfoSec and runs the nonprofit “Drop Labels” .

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2022

While it’s certainly easy to group workers by age, more emphasis should be placed on when people enter the workforce, the coinciding state of the economy, and the various safety net programs in place, said Sarah Damaske, an associate professor of sociology and labor and employment relations at Penn State University.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

And Facebook has always defended itself by insisting that it is a net good to society because of how it brings people together. Already, the Journal’s reporting has prompted consequences for Facebook: A bipartisan Senate committee is investigating Instagram’s impact on teenagers, and a group of legislators led by Sen.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

But to speak to the new challenges, what’s interesting about the group of people who run YC now is that so many of us were YC alums. Someone from a technical background who can communicate to another group of founders clearly. And I am part of the safety net of my extended family — when people need money, they come to me.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 12, 2022

But what we've seen happening here is that if you really want to cast the widest net you have to start thinking outside the boxes in employment. Vamosi: So given that we’re widening the net for new infosec talent, who are some of the successful students? Third down to age groups. But he doesn't have one, two and three.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

So it wasn't this story that we hear sometimes thrown around about Lightspeed net speed cyberattacks, you know it was human adversaries doing research on the environment, so the attack starts. We can't go amongst weeks really without seeing more activity groups that are being released. Well, nothing’s impossible.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

Right, there's, there's a method, a countercultural method to it that isn't defined by a group dynamic. And fold up all the different groups that they were joining and that actually turned into a case called Operation Candyman where I think there's over 5000 pedophiles arrested in a in a fairly short amount of time. And I love it.

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GeekWire

MARCH 7, 2022

It has support from labor groups including Teamsters Local 117; Drivers Union, a teamster’s affiliate; and the Washington State Labor Council as well as Lyft and Uber. “It’s ” “This bill represents an historic opportunity to extend Washington state’s social safety net to drivers on our platform,” Hensley said.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The CEO of Amazon shared the news on the grantees via an Instagram post, in which he wrote: “I’ve spent the past several months learning from a group of incredibly smart people who’ve made it their life’s work to fight climate change and its impact on communities around the world. This fall it shared its first recipients.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Webby Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Our Stories Alzheimer’s Awareness Campaign by The Ad Council. Webby People’s Voice Award for Charitable Organization / Nonprofit : Equal Justice Initiative by Madeo. Webby People’s Voice Award for Community : Stack Overflow by Moxie Communications Group.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2022

The Biden-affiliated nonprofit group Building Back Together plans to launch its own TikTok account on Wednesday as part of the group’s latest effort to engage young people with the president’s agenda ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Still, its passage would rely on Sen.

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