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How to help your startup turn a profit in 4 simple steps

The Next Web

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. Normally really good products that solve a real problem are viral by nature. He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc.

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Daily Crunch: Ransomware group threatens to release Nvidia’s ‘most closely guarded secrets’

TechCrunch

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. TechCrunch Experts. Image Credits: SEAN GLADWELL / Getty Images.

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Protestware on the rise: Why developers are sabotaging their own code

TechCrunch

It was entirely within his power to do, but it instantly created problems. ” 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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Locals share why Vilnius, Lithuania is becoming an international startup hub

TechCrunch

In addition, the oppressive regime in nearby Belarus has provided an influx of significant tech companies, such as Wargaming, as well as the associated talent. Especially expats from our Eastern neighbors who are negatively affected by an ongoing political crisis (Belarus). Who are the key startup people in your city (e.g.,

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Metro4All — Making All Metro Systems Accessible

Tech Soup

Subways and metro stations remain a problem. It's looking for people in American cities interested in helping to map every metro system and fix that problem. It is now a diverse international group with team members in Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany, and the U.S. Meet the Russian social enterprise, Metro4All.

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Daily Crunch: Citing ‘uncertain mortgage market,’ Better.com rolls out employee buyout plan

TechCrunch

government finally figured out that if it wants to go fully electric, it has 99,000 problems in the form of a vast shortage of charging stations to energize all the vehicles it wants to run. This follows its move of stopping shipments to customers in Russia and Belarus. And the U.S.