The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

This broke the EU’s Digital Single Market rules which prohibit those types of barriers. The European Commission says the geo-blocking was to prevent games being activated outside Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Five publishers were fined in total. Focus Home was fined almost €2.9

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Exponea was founded in 2016 in Slovakia and has raised over $57 million, according to Pitchbook data. “Technology serving more bespoke customer experiences is a rapidly expanding market and we are pleased to join Bloomreach in its leadership of the digital commerce experience and marketing sector,” McGinn said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

A coalition of La French Tech mission , France Digitale and The Galion Project has launched a crowdfunding effort on Leetchi to raise money for supplies for Ukrainian refugees. The company is also incentivizing drivers in Poland and Slovakia to accept rides on the Ukrainian border to help transport refugees. Techfugees , a U.K.-based

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Lori’s gift is to help nonprofit organizations communicate powerfully so they raise exponentially more money. When he’s not entrenched in all things FableVision, Paul teaches digital media production at Boston College, where he has served as adjunct faculty for over two decades.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Even for one of the richest men in the world, $44 billion is a lot of money to cough up to buy a middling social platform. I don’t care about the economics at all.” Despite his fervent declarations about expanding “the scope and scale of consciousness” through public discourse, the billionaire got cold feet.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Only in founders from: Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania or Hungary. There is a lot of investment capital there (just as everywhere else I guess), not too much smart money yet, so definitely opportunity for good VCs to take a look (and they are looking). More than 50%? I’ve always had hope.

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