The Verge
MARCH 4, 2022
Normally, the Snap Map displays a color code to show how many people are posting public images in an area. 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.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 29, 2011
From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. 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
FEBRUARY 28, 2022
Peace talks between the two countries have begun at the Belarus border. Google has disabled Maps traffic data in Ukraine to protect citizens , for example, while Facebook has removed a Russian misinformation network.
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.
Tech Soup
JUNE 26, 2015
It's looking for people in American cities interested in helping to map every metro system and fix that problem. Metro4All was founded by Maxim Dubinin in Moscow a few years ago as a social good project of his interactive mapping company, NextGIS. Mapping Metro Stations. Meet the Russian social enterprise, Metro4All.
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Part of this involves winding down two standalone apps, one of which is Zenly , a social mapping app that it acquired for north of $200 million five years ago. There’s a map for that. In a nutshell, Zenly develops an app that enables users to see where friends are on a map and navigate their way to each other.
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