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500 Global spreads its wings across the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, via Tbilisi

TechCrunch

The latter has made investements such in Greece (Plum), Latvia (Printify), and Bulgaria (Cloudpipes). Pedro Santos Vieira Luckily, this is no ‘left field’ move for Vieira, who is no stranger to the region, having served as a mentor previously for 500 Global in that part of the world. And one of one of them was Georgia.

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How You Can Help The People of Ukraine Right Now

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American University in Bulgaria. American University in Bulgaria created a fund to support students affected by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Global Impact. Global Impact created a Ukraine Response Fund to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. Doctors Without Borders. International Medical Corps.

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European startups: Apply to Startup Battlefield 200

TechCrunch

The global search continues for the top early-stage founders building the next generation of startups with world-changing impact. SB 200 is the startup world’s preeminent competition, and it has a global reach. If you want to launch to the world on a global stage, apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 by May 15 at 11:59 p.m.

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Edge computing startup Macrometa gets $20M Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners

TechCrunch

Macrometa , the edge computing cloud and global data network for app developers, announced today it has raised a $20 million Series A. Some of Macrometa’s SaaS clients use its global data network as a global data cache for handling surges in usage and keep regional copies of data and API results across its regional data centers.

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TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey: What We Found Out and What to Do About It Part Two

Tech Soup

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. TechSoup Global's NGO cloud survey found plenty of contradictions and confusion about cloud computing. The global NGO average is 36%.

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Police arrest 150 suspects after closure of dark web’s largest illegal marketplace

The Verge

According to the US Department of Justice and Europol , Operation Dark HunTor saw law enforcement make numerous arrests in the United States (65), Germany (47), the United Kingdom (24), Italy (4), the Netherlands (4), France, (3), Switzerland (2), and Bulgaria (1). More than $31.6

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Our 7 favorite startups from the Wayra London 2013 demo day

The Next Web

According to Dobson, it’s drawn quite a bit of attention from Samsung: In the next few days we will sign a contract with Samsung to develop an application for their global health cloud, this will see our application used by up to half a billion smartphone users worldwide. It also has a map of known defibrillator locations.

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