GeekWire

JUNE 21, 2021

The advisory council currently has 14 members including Microsoft Tech for Social Impact CTO Erik Arnold ; Vulcan CEO Bill Hilf; and King County CIO Tanya Hannah. X4Impact is an AI-driven market intelligence platform for nonprofits, universities and other organizations focused on social impact. Department of State in Malaysia.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

In late April, Cruise announced that it would be redeploying some of its autonomous vehicles to help make deliveries for a pair of food banks in San Francisco. Another Cruise employee said in mid-May that only one facility, located 1201 Bryant Street, was deploying vehicles for the food bank deliveries.

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GeekWire

MARCH 19, 2022

Up until a week ago when he started on the Pledge Ukraine site, Lytvynov was keeping in touch with friends and family in Ukraine via phone or social media, and he was sending money. Lytvynov said tweaks and features may be added to help visitors better understand how bank transfers work.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Based in the Dallas area, Berry was most recently SVP of human resources and diversity and inclusion at Bank of America. He also led Seattle-based microfinance nonprofit Vittana. He is also an advisor for nonprofits and educational organizations. Chakrabarti was previously a data scientist and engineering lead at Amazon.

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GeekWire

JULY 9, 2020

based social media management platform Hootsuite named Tom Keiser as its new CEO. Shahar Ronen has joined Remitly as principal product manager for the Seattle startup’s new banking service called Passbook. The banking initiative, specifically designed for immigrants, launched in February this year. GeekWire is a dot.LA

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2024

No one was hurt, but several groups, including a few of Hatcher’s, had to row through smoke and past flames raging just off the river banks. hours a day staring into their cellphone , according to Sapien Labs, a nonprofit organization that runs an ongoing survey into global mental health. The average 12-year-old spends 5.3

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GeekWire

MAY 17, 2021

Experts see tremendous social and economic benefits if French Gates ramps up these efforts. The company has made seven investments in six different companies or nonprofits since March 2019. Recipients include: Till Financial , a platform for helping kids learn about savings and banking. Pivotal projects.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While many people might think of Russian state-sponsored hacking groups when it comes to infiltrating social media platforms, there’s actually a global network of hackers participating in an underground economy where things like Facebook and Instagram accounts are commodities. Exactly how hackers go after legitimate accounts varies.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

“We’re not surprised scammers are taking advantage of this opportunity because each of the states are rolling out the vaccine a little bit differently,” Sandra Guile of the Better Business Bureau, a nonprofit that focuses on consumer and marketplace trust, told Recode. And these fakes aren’t just popping up on social media.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2023

Dice defines a growing tech hub as a city with universities and colleges to recruit from, venture funding opportunities, a strong social scene for networking, and existing companies looking to hire talent. There’s strong traction with tech jobs in the financial services industry, as banking turns more to digital transformation.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Both companies briefly grounded their vehicles in the early months of the pandemic, but Cruise was back on the road by late April, using deliveries to local food banks as a pretext. Waymo followed suit , resuming limited operations in June delivering packages for two Bay Area nonprofits.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Almost 50% of the women in the non-agricultural labour force are entrepreneurs, but female-led businesses earn 34% lower profits, on average, than companies steered by men, according to a World Bank report on women’s businesses in Africa. And when they do, they typically receive less than men, the World Bank notes.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The Verge spoke with seven backup drivers for Waymo and Cruise (six current, one former), who raised concerns about being stuck in a vehicle for hours a day with another person without the ability to socially distance. You may choose to use any paid or unpaid time in your bank, including sick, vacation, or RTO.”.

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GeekWire

JUNE 29, 2021

Most of my clients were endowed nonprofits, foundations and universities, and the returns we achieved for them went back into helping further their missions, so there was a lot of meaning to the work we did there.”. “I I also got involved in a few special projects related to socially responsible / ESG investments.”.

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GeekWire

APRIL 14, 2023

Elemental Excelerator is a nonprofit that has invested in more than 150 climate startups. We have a real interest in helping companies deploy [carbon removal] technology in a way that communities embrace it and advances social equity. So how is this playing out for those writing the checks? GPT-4 is going crazy.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Bank of America Seattle Market President Kerri Schroeder is the new board chair of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. Recent investments include AI platform Yoodli , social platform Game Jolt and London-based startup Troop. Seattle digital health nonprofit Audere announced Dino Rech as its new CEO. Audere Photo).

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Then why haven't we seen more talks on the social science aspect of security, Grooten: My personal motivation for spinning to Black Hat in particular, was that, I think that if you are a technology expert, a security expert, and you're going to do some work on stock because someone contacts you about something they think they have on their phone.

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Vox

MARCH 6, 2023

One recent example: A reporter used an audio generative AI tool to create a fake recording of his own voice, then called his bank and successfully hacked into his account using the recording. But most of their startups are still extremely early-stage, with either just an idea, or a rough demo, to show. AI can also be intentionally misused.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Lil Nas X’s “Panini,” NASA’s social media presence, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line, and John Krasinski’s Some Good News YouTube show are among the winners of this year’s Webby Awards. National Geographic took away this year’s most awards, 15 total, with wins for its science podcasts, travel videos, and photos on social media, among other things.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

My nonprofit group, Venture for America, is known for trying to rebuild local economies through entrepreneurship. Home health care workers might transition to social work or health care. We spent trillions of dollars to bail out banks in 2008. He is also the founder of the nonprofit Humanity Forward.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2021

There are areas where tech companies have made significant contributions — like collecting mobility data that helped officials understand the effects of social distancing policies. We’d have folks come in and say, ‘We can solve your opioid problem because we’ve solved bank fraud before’”. There are success stories from the past year.

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Vox

APRIL 25, 2022

(And don’t bother arguing that there is a horde of conservative/free thinker users who will flood back to Twitter if Elon makes it more inviting for them: If there were, Donald Trump’s Truth Social would be booming, not a ghost town.). And simply running Twitter as a nonprofit for what he describes as the greater good isn’t an option.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2021

The Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act would decriminalize marijuana federally, expunge federal non-violent cannabis convictions (and encourage states to do the same), and create “new grant programs to fund nonprofits that provide services to those adversely impacted by the War on Drugs.”. the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

The big social platforms, who were once loath to intervene in matters of political speech, are getting much more comfortable with the idea. Yesterday I wrote about the Facebook ad boycott, and heard back from some people who thought I had been a little too rough on the advertisers — or a little too easy on the social network.

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GeekWire

JULY 1, 2020

Pre-coronavirus social distancing, Common Power sent volunteers to communities across the country to do get-out-the-vote campaigning. He did, and was won over by David Domke , the nonprofit’s organizer, a University of Washington communications professor, and a powerhouse of persuasion. Common Power Photo).

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