The growth and adoption of blockchain technology in the enterprise space is getting up to full steam at the moment. It is also being aided by the likes of the Accounting Blockchain Coalition (ABC), an alliance dedicated to educating businesses and organizations on accounting matters relevant to digital assets and blockchain. This coalition, which adds another institutional …

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This week, I attended Zoom’s annual conference in San Jose. A big takeaway: The company remains laser-focused on pushing the boundaries of innovation. During the past year, Zoom has added over 300 features to its platform. The company is also making a bold play for the massive phone market. The vision is to develop a true unified communications system. As a …

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Nearly 1,000 children and teachers attended the “Children have fun with road safety” festival through the Helmets for Families program, organized by AIP Foundation and supported by the global healthcare company Abbott, in coordination with the Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Safety Committee and Department of Education and Training. More than 30 Abbott volunteers joined …

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Two years ago, Amylene Dingle lived with her husband and 7-year-old daughter in Payatas, an impoverished Manila neighborhood with the largest open dump site in the Philippines. Her husband worked on the security staff in a government building, earning 4,000 pesos a week, the equivalent of $80. She had always wanted to start a business, …

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Only 3% of investment dollars and 7% of deals out of 8,000 agriculture and food-tech investments from 2015-2018 went to female-founded startups. “Money Where Our Mouths Are” (MWOMA), a report conducted by AgFunder, The New Food Economy and Karen Karp & Partners, revealed the dire reality for female founders in agri-tech – it’s much harder for them to raise …

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Their massage parlors began as a closely guarded secret. Wiboon Utsahajit and Prasert Jiravanstit tried to maintain appearances, working for their respective family businesses. Unbeknownst to their parents, however, they would slip away on weekends from Bangkok to the northern city of Chiang Mai to run a Thai massage chain they started called Let’s Relax. …

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