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Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Program with Real Impact

Harvard Business Review

Exploring the critical role of experimentation in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), research on four multinational companies reveals a stark difference in CSR effectiveness. This strategy fosters genuine community engagement and responsive initiatives, as seen in a mining company’s impactful HIV/AIDS program.

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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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Goama lets developers integrate a social gaming platform into their apps

TechCrunch

Goama (also known as Go Games) lets developers quickly integrate social games into their apps. The startup, which recently took part in SOSV’s accelerator program, presented last week during CES at the Taiwan Tech Arena pavilion.

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How to Effectively Learn a New Programming Language

Xebia

Learning a new programming language can seem like a daunting task, but with the right approach, it can be a rewarding experience. The process of learning a new programming language shows many similarities with that of learning a spoken language as a second language. We acquire language through messages.

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Improve Onboarding with User-Centered Design

Speaker: Dr. Kate Wolin, Founder, Circea

In the age of social distancing, digital onboarding is becoming essential to any program. In this webinar, you will learn: A model of health behavior change that can be applied to solution development. This is especially true for medical practices, where the threat of the pandemic is the most real.

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5 Different Types of Programming Languages

The Crazy Programmer

Computer programming languages are designed to execute the given instructions to digital computers these days. Currently, the world has over 9000 programming languages of various types. All those come in use for multiple purposes and program various types of applications. What Are Programming Languages? Image Source.

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Focused on smaller cities, Vietnamese social commerce startup Mio raises $8M Series A

TechCrunch

Mio , the Vietnamese social commerce platform, has raised an $8 million Series A, less than a year after announcing its seed round. Mio, a social commerce startup focused on smaller cities and rural areas in Vietnam, raises $1M seed. Super, an Indonesian hyperlocal social commerce startup, raises $28M led by SoftBank Ventures Asia.

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