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Pinterest invests in creator tools with acquisition of video creation and editing app Vochi

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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.

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Spotlight on Social Media, Crowdsourced Translation, Egyptian Protests and Diplomacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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AI shopping assistant Karma raises $25 million in Series A funding led by Target Global

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The company now employs nearly 60 people across Tel Aviv, Minsk, Belarus and the U.S., Karma started with a very simple need: just knowing when something goes on sale in your size and color in real-time,” Jonathan Freidman, Karma CEO and co-founder, told TechCrunch in an interview. “The idea is originally from my wife.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. Entrepreneur Europe Insider Mobile Profiles and Interviews talmon marco Viber Viber Media' Viber is pretty small given the scope of what we do. We are a little over 100 people, developing on about a dozen platforms. Maybe someday. Eventually.

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Daily Crunch: Atlantic Money wants to make international money transfers even cheaper than competitors

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Amazon has also “suspended the shipment of retail products to customers based in Russia and Belarus,” TechCrunch writes. Its service provides job-seekers a hub for their interview process, hopefully boosting candidate conversion rates. They raised huge sums of capital and put forth a number of high-profile, richly valued IPOs.

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