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The London-based start-up said it will no longer accept new groups and will wind down its app next month. Twitter buys group chat app Sphere.   | Photo Credit: Reuters The London-based start-up said it will no longer accept new groups and will wind down its app next month. Twitter has agreed to buy group chat app Sphere, as the social media platform looks to widen and improve its product offerings.(Sign up to our Technology newsletter, Today's Cache, for insights on emerging themes at the intersection of technology, business and policy. Click here to subscribe for free.)Founded by Tomas Halgas and Nick D’Aloisio, Sphere has raised about $30 million in the first two rounds.“We’ve been watching and admiring Twitter’s growing investment in community-building with the release of Communities, Spaces, and features that promote safety,” Sphere said in a statement.“When we met the team, we were even more impressed by how seriously they are pursuing interest-based community and how much they believe in its potential impact.”The London-based start-up said it will no longer accept new groups and will wind down its app next month.  » Read More

Les Jardins de la Méditerranée/Imagine 84 is an association created in 2008 by the French Ministry of Health as part of the operation “5 fruits and vegetables per day”. It recovers unsold fruit and vegetables in order to redistribute them to food aid recipients.  “The merchandise comes from the entire fruit and vegetable sector, from both the French production and imports. This great diversity of products allows us to offer a varied selection of fruit and vegetables to the different charities. Last year, no less than 1,110 tons were distributed to 54 associations spread over 49 departments, which represents an average of 23 tons/week,” explains Nicolas Cabot, director of the association. During the crisis last year, the association suspended its activity during the second week of the lockdown in March 2020 to start again at the end of April. “This time of closure allowed us to reorganize the entire site to impose new protection measures that required major work and the purchase of protective materials. The new sanitary protocol put in place since May 2020 has helped us work continuously to this day in order to meet the growing need of the partner charities.  A societal impact at different levelsThe…