The Verge

MARCH 21, 2022

In a recent announcement, the Russian bank Sber advised its customers to temporarily stop installing software updates to any applications out of concern that they could contain malicious code specifically targeted at Russian users, labeled by some as “protestware.”.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. I’m a geek and software engineer from the former ­Soviet state of Belarus. Simply put, the return on investment on your product or service is LTV minus CAC. He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. LTV ­ CAC = ROI.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

Free mobile messaging and VoIP service provider Viber today made a slew of announcements , including reaching the milestone of 200 million users, the roll-out of Viber 3.0 I started a few companies before Viber, most notably iMesh , a file-sharing service. Viber at its heart is a messaging service. Maybe someday.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

That gravitational pull is particularly fraught in Russia, where the borders between hackers and the Russian intelligence services are sometimes porous, and one group in particular has been made to pay for its allegiance to the Putin regime. I’m worried about collateral damage from the ‘good guys,’ the vigilantes,” Wisniewski said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

As such, in March 2016, developers across the world were left confused — and appalled — when their projects broke because the left-pad component their applications relied on could no longer be found. The recent rise of protestware. It wasn’t a malicious actor hijacking and altering these legitimate libraries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Amazon has also “suspended the shipment of retail products to customers based in Russia and Belarus,” TechCrunch writes. Also out today was news regarding Public’s latest deal, this time bringing Otis aboard its consumer trading service. They raised huge sums of capital and put forth a number of high-profile, richly valued IPOs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Our survey respondents said the city was strong across a broad range of tech industries, particularly those with practical applications: cybersecurity, energy and sustainability, fintech, health care and medtech, edtech and silver tech among others. Cogastro is servicing insect farms with CRM systems — that’s pretty original and niche!

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