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Russia slams HP for closing local website, claims world is boycotting the company

TechSpot

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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Nintendo gamers in Russia just got locked out of digital game purchases

The Verge

Nintendo has temporarily put its Russian eShop into maintenance mode, the company said in a notice on its Russian website, which appears to mean that players in the country can’t buy digital games from the store. EA and CD Projekt Red have halted sales of their games in Russia and Belarus. Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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

TechCrunch

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. .” The company’s vochi.app website referenced on their App Store listing was not functioning as of this morning.

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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. The formula is simple: inbound marketing drives traffic to your website, and those visitors convert into subscribers or buyers. Ads: Selling one-to-many .

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How to use Apple’s Private Relay feature with iCloud Plus

The Verge

Apple gives you two choices here: you can use your “general IP address” so that websites can still give you approximate location data, or you can choose a broader IP address somewhere in your country and time zone (which offers greater anonymity at the expense of more accurate online content). There are some limitations to Private Relay.

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Apex Legends Mobile pre-registration is now open on Android

The Verge

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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The best VPNs for staying anonymous and secure on the web

Mashable Tech

Along those same lines, using a VPN will allow you to access websites and services that may be blocked in certain places (like Netflix in China or YouTube at your school); you can choose a server in a region where your desired content is available to skirt geo-restrictions and firewalls. (We Hold up — are VPNs legal?

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