TechSpot

APRIL 5, 2022

billion) in 2020 alone, despite its customers being located mainly in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, The Frankfurt prosecutors' anti-cybercrime unit said it generated sales of 1.23 billion Euros ($1.35

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TechSpot

APRIL 1, 2024

In March 2022, HP was one of many Western firms to announce it was leaving Russia and Belarus – where its sales generated around $1 billion – as a response to the invasion of Ukraine. The impact of stopping the supply of equipment to the countries wasn't too severe thanks. Read Entire Article

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TechSpot

APRIL 6, 2022

It was back in February when Intel suspended shipments of industrial processors to Russia and its ally Belarus in compliance with international sanctions introduced following the invasion of Ukraine. Now the company has gone a step further and suspended all operations in Russia.

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Digital Trends

MARCH 4, 2022

Intel has announced that it will stop shipments to Russia and Belarus, effective immediately. It joins Apple, AMD, and others that have already done the same.

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Digital Trends

AUGUST 10, 2020

"Internet shutdowns are hugely harmful.".

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

VOCHI , a Belarus-based startup behind a clever computer vision-based video editing app used by online creators, has raised an additional $2.4 Investors in the most recent round include TA Ventures, Angelsdeck, A.Partners, Startup Wise Guys, Kolos VC and angels from companies like Belarus-based Verv and Estonian unicorn Bolt.

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The Verge

MARCH 5, 2022

Microsoft, which announced its plans to purchase Activision Blizzard in January, has moved to ban “new” sales of its products and services in Russia and Belarus — a block that not only includes Xbox games, but also products associated with Windows, Office, Microsoft 365, and more.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2022

Starting today, we will be working with our partners to suspend all Destiny 2 sales and commerce in Russia and Belarus. In a separate post , Bungie — which is in the process of being acquired by Sony — said it’s working to suspend all sales and distribution of Destiny 2 in Russia and Belarus.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

Venture Day Minsk (organised by tech startup hub Imaguru ) is run annually, but because of the pandemic and the political situation in Belarus, it has gone virtual. Even Imaguru itself has had to switch to online-only operations after Lukashenko’s thugs shut down its physical space.

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The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

The Daily Beast reports that the hacking ring — also known as Trickbot and based in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Suriname — is a persistent presence online. The Daily Beast reported the detail in an article about the group, which is an ongoing target for US Cyber Command as well as information security companies like Microsoft.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

EA and CD Projekt Red have halted sales of their games in Russia and Belarus. The Verge has reached out for more information. Many gaming companies have taken action in protest of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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The Verge

MARCH 21, 2022

Though framed in general terms, the announcement was likely made in reference to an incident that took place earlier in March, where the developer of a widely used JavaScript library added an update that overwrote files on machines located in Russia or Belarus.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

According to a news post from the company , it’s stopped showing ads in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, and won’t sell ad spots to Russian entities. Other companies have taken similar actions to make Ukrainians’ movements harder to track — Google turned off live traffic information in Ukraine, as did Apple.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Belarus-based video editing app was founded in 2019, by Ilya Lesun, Anna Buglakova, Vasily Kasnitsky, Sergei Malyutin, and incubated by Andrei Avsievich and Yury Melnichek from Bulba Ventures. With Vochi, Pinterest says it will have the ability to bring even more quality video to its users. Prior to joining Pinterest, Vochi had raised $4.2

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

Take-Two has also decided to temporarily block new game sales and installations in both Russia and Belarus. After significant consideration, last week, we decided to stop new sales, installations, and marketing support across all our labels in Russia and Belarus at this time.”. Take-Two’s ban includes new game sales and installations.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2021

The DOJ alleges that Alla Witte was part of a criminal organization known as the Trickbot Group that operated in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Suriname. She allegedly helped develop the malware which was used to enable ransomware demands and payments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Though the round was acquired before going into the accelerator program, the Belarus-based pair wanted to wait to publicly share the milestone. As Synder ’s two co-founders Michael Astreiko and Ilya Kisel wrap up their time at Y Combinator, they also announced their seed round of $2 million from TMT Investments.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Other countries where Private Relay won’t be available include: Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the Philippines. The feature was announced during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference as part of a new subscription bundle called iCloud Plus.

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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. He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. His passions are business process automation, surfing, and his new baby girl Maya. ?.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Peace talks between the two countries have begun at the Belarus border. It’s a significant military action that could have alarming consequences, and more than 500,000 people have reportedly fled from Ukraine to neighboring countries as of February 28th.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

This follows its move of stopping shipments to customers in Russia and Belarus. Intel has joined other Big Tech companies, like Apple, AMD, Adobe and General Electric, in suspending business operations in Russia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

A new book, “The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom,” by a young Belarus-born American scholar, Evgeny Morozov , has made the case most provocatively, describing instance after instance of strongmen finding ways to use new media to their advantage.

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The Verge

JULY 12, 2021

To begin, it’ll be unavailable in a number of countries: China, Belarus, Colombia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkmenistan, Uganda, and the Philippines. The net result is that neither Apple, the third-party relay company, nor the website can track you. There are some limitations to Private Relay.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2022

On the Apex Legends Mobile website , Respawn says that “Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau will be included in the global pre-registration” (emphasis Respawn’s), but a press email says that pre-registration is available globally except for “China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Russia and Belarus.” We’ve asked Respawn if it can clarify.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Apple Maps is back to noting that Crimea is not part of Russia in most of the world; Microsoft is halting sales in the country ; Airbnb is suspending operations in Russia and the co-belligerent Belarus. In response? Russia blocked Facebook.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The company now employs nearly 60 people across Tel Aviv, Minsk, Belarus and the U.S., The Tel Aviv-based company was founded in 2014 by Jonathan Freidman and Ronen Yuval-Hoch as a simple bookmarklet tool to help consumers save and track products. Since then, Karma has launched browser extensions, along with iOS and Android apps.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

Skich co-founder and CEO Sergey Budkovski , originally from Belarus, was previously head of biz dev at Minsk-based design and development firm 69pixels before founding the startup. Now based in Poland, the four-person team reports Skich has undergone its MVP phase on the App Store and has raised some pre-seed funding.

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The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. Viber is pretty small given the scope of what we do. We are a little over 100 people, developing on about a dozen platforms. Funding is still “friends and family” We never did an institutional round of financing. Maybe someday.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A hacktivist group operating from Belarus has claimed to be disrupting the movement of military units by shutting down railways in the country, after the Belarusian government launched missile strikes against Ukraine and agreed to support Russia by sending troops over the Ukrainian border.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

” Another developer, Mariusz Nowak, the creator of the es5-ext project, modified later versions of the library to direct Russia and Belarus-based users to accurate news sources like the BBC’s Tor service.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Elsewhere, Zenly is a frequently a top-five social app in Russia and Belarus, a top-ten social app in France, Indonesia, and Thailand, and it hovers around the upper echelons in the app charts in many other markets globally. Zenly iPhone downloads for Japan on August 19, 2022.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 26, 2015

It is now a diverse international group with team members in Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and the U.S. Metro4All is actually a collaboration of people in different countries interested in addressing mass transit accessibility. Tech for good often knows no geopolitical boundaries. Basically, its process is as follows.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

Aside from the few countries that have restricted or outright banned them (including Belarus, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Oman, Russia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and the United Arab Emirates), VPNs are perfectly legal in most of the world. Hold up — are VPNs legal?

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2022

It didn’t go into further detail about what that looks like or specify what meaningful financial impact the move will have on its businesses, as CD Projekt Red did yesterday while announcing a ban on services to Russia and Belarus. we are coordinating closely and working in lockstep with the governments of the US, EU, and the UK”.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

’ Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, Greece, Cyprus, Montenegro, Russia, Moldova, The Republic of North Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Belarus are all Orthodox countries and all of them have healthy communities in the US. In the Orthodox Church, Christmas is a time to find peace, unity and ‘heal the soul.’

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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. Developer tools are not worth infinite money : Startups that built for developers had an amazing 2021. They raised huge sums of capital and put forth a number of high-profile, richly valued IPOs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 31, 2006

A young woman from Georgia: I want to write an e-mail/letter/blog to the officials in Belarus, who are responsible for not letting exchange students come to the United States. I remember being very upset when my local representative told me that these kids were denied this great opportunity.

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