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bracNet

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

So often, I get to see tech companies here in Silicon Valley in their early stages, and you wonder what they will grow up to be. bracNet has so many possibilities in Bangladesh: will they be the Craigslist there? a nicer version of AT&T?

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Google Grants

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I've been trying to find the similar program at Yahoo and MSN, but no luck so far. So, we turned to the Google Grants team and in less than a week they had redone our ads in terms of organization and text, in such a way that they all pass muster. And so, now people looking for "biodiversity software" will see an ad for Miradi!

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Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Summit 2007

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He also announced that Microsoft (and I think Yahoo!) Larry described his ten months at Google as drinking from a firehose, and explained: This is the morally most challenging moment in my life, but I've never felt more alive! and Google are planning to work together in the area of disaster preparedness.

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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

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Organized by the nonprofit group Access and sponsored by Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Skype, Mozilla and other major tech companies, the conference brought together business leaders, policy makers and online activists, especially from the Arabic-speaking world.