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Google to offer 40,000 developer scholarships in Africa; continues accelerator program

TechCrunch

Google today announced the launch of 40,000 new developer scholarships in Africa. Google will offer the scholarships — created in partnership with tech talent companies Pluralsight and Andela — to developers spread across mobile and cloud development tracks.

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What if all startup accelerators promote circularity?

Impact Hub

Here’s what we have learned so far: As of 2020, only 8.6% We also invited other business development service providers to the journey to learn if our approach works outside the Impact Hub network and took three key steps: First, Impact Hubs explored the current state of circularity in their country.

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Free E-guide: The Bootstrapper’s Guide to Business Development

NZ Entrepreneur

Building a tech startup? Learn about business development with this free e-guide from tech business strategist Flavio Hangarter. The number of local (AUS & NZ) billion dollar companies, as well as the rapid growth of publicly listed tech firms, is growing (Crossroads, 2020).

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Venture capital undermines human rights

TechCrunch

The world’s 10 leading venture capital firms have, together, invested over $150 billion in technology startups. The venture capitalists who run these firms decide which startups today will develop the new platforms and technologies that will shape our lives tomorrow. On the diversity front, 2020 may prove a tipping point.

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Governor Murphy Announces Proposed Fintech Accelerator in Hoboken

American Entrepreneurship

NJ FAST is the fourth Strategic Innovation Center in the state and will support research and development, innovation, and entrepreneurship in the Fintech and Insuretech Sectors HOBOKEN, N.J. From 2020 to 2022, Plug and Play was the most active startup accelerator in the world, according to CB Insights.

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Remote work and events startup twine acquires YC-backed Glimpse to launch on Zoom

TechCrunch

Twine , a company that provides networking tools for virtual events and remote teams, will soon bring its services to Zoom thanks to its just-closed acquisition of the Y Combinator-backed startup, Glimpse, which had developed a “speed matching” platform designed for virtual events. intelligence.

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THE TECHCELERATOR@STATE COLLEGE ANNOUNCES PITCH WINNERS!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

STATE COLLEGE, PA – On Wednesday, June 17, 2020, The Tech Celerator @StateCollege, a partnership with Invent Penn State that has helped create more than 130 new startups, hosted a zoom pitch event. They developed the Flex Heal product; a stretchable, wideband rectenna (bandage) for advanced wound healing.