TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

We’ve seen widespread losses in global equity markets this year. It’s been more than six months since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the economic impact of commodity price increases are beginning to percolate throughout Europe.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Tech crackdown on Russia continues : The technology world is tightening the screws on Russia in the wake of the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia blocked Facebook. In an in-depth how-to, Shaun O’Meara, global field CTO at Mirantis, walks readers through the four basic elements for using OSS in production: Auditing.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Google has temporarily disabled live traffic features offered by Google Maps in Ukraine to protect users’ safety as the country is invaded by neighboring Russia. Google said the decision to disable these features was made to protect local users’ safety after consultation with Ukrainian authorities, report Reuters and Vice.

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The Verge

JULY 16, 2020

While others pursue their selfish interests with reckless behavior, the UK and its allies are getting on with the hard work of finding a vaccine and protecting global health.”. “It is completely unacceptable that the Russian Intelligence Services are targeting those working to combat the coronavirus pandemic,” reads Raab’s statement.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

A new consensus is growing within the scientific community about climate change: The goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Weve already experienced the first full calendar year beyond this threshold, with last years global average temperature being 1.6 Fires and Disease By 2100, the number of extreme fires could increase 50% globally.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Ukraine has been defending itself from Russia for 11 months now. Hybrid and remote work is a local staple and has been refined over the years. In 2022, Ukrainian companies started going global. The loss of local markets and centralized office space managed to make only a slight dent in the sector’s health.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Rivian celebrated the production milestones that put it on track to hit its 2022 goals, which is great news for me, because it may mean that I’ll at some point clear the waitlist and take delivery of one of the off-road pickup trucks because obviously that’s what I need to drive to my local Whole Foods. And the U.S. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Jean-Paul Smets is the CEO of Rapid.Space , a hyper open cloud provider offering virtual private servers (VPS), content delivery networks (CDN) and global IPv6 (SDN). While traveling in Russia or a European Union country on a mission to expand your business, you discover that you’re required to have data locally stored.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

On February 24, Russia launched an invasion of neighboring Ukraine after months of a military build-up on its borders. In addition to startups, there are larger tech companies that have both R&D operations out of the country as well as teams providing more localized services, ranging from content to ad sales.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Local specifics of regulatory regimes are not core to Sardine’s business, because its platform is focused on fraud detection, not law enforcement. The startup has clients all over the globe and has helped companies in countries including Japan and Russia expand into the United States, Ranjan said. Fraud is global.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

More than $15 million has been donated so far More than $15 million in cryptocurrency has been donated to Ukrainian groups since Russia attacked the country on February 24th, according to research firm Elliptic. You don’t trust the local currency and on top of that, you don’t trust banks.” Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Many local entrepreneurs complain about the local talent here in Singapore , but honestly what did they expect? Engineers and product folks there tend to know how to build products suitable for their respective market, but not necessarily something that can take off globally. Cast a wide net.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

Notably, both are based in Colombia but provide services across the Latin America region (and in the case of Ding, globally ). Note: Prosus’s CEO confirmed in March that it is keeping for now its domestic operations going there, which are formed of Avito and PayU in Russia.). The company quotes figures from the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Micromax Informatics once had a firm grip on the local mobile phone market in India, for a time passing stalwarts like Samsung, icons like Apple and many more to be the biggest handset maker of them all. Within one year of kicking off its global operations, Micromax started creating separate supply lines dedicated to its overseas markets.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

It covers Uber’s operations across 40 countries when Uber was still run by co-founder Travis Kalanick, who took an aggressive approach to bringing the ride-hailing service into cities around the world, even when doing so would break local laws and taxi regulations.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

But one key component of its production — energy; electricity — is facing supply issues of its own in Europe at present, in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia being a major but unreliable supplier of gas to Europe.). Europe’s energy crisis bites.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Snapchat’s parent Snap became the latest tech company to announce a huge round of layoffs, confirming ongoing rumors yesterday that it was cutting 20% of its global workforce , affecting at least 1,200 people. which may be partly why Snap is less enamored by Zenly’s enduring popularity in locales elsewhere.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

In the weeks since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, more than 2.8 Swobbee was able to enlist the help of startups like Onomotion , an e-mobility company focusing on urban logistics, and Emmy , an e-moped sharing company that was recently purchased by GoTo Global , to provide vans packed with goods to be sent to the border.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Russia invaded Ukraine last week, which, in addition to being a human rights tragedy, is going to affect industries far and wide as supply chains become even further disrupted than they were before war broke out. Automotive mobility group Astara is investing $5 million in GoTo Global’s pre-IPO round. First thing’s first.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. It is one of the rapidly emerging " BRIC " economies, along with Russia, India and China. It's the largest country in South America and it has the fastest growing economy in the region.

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The Verge

MARCH 16, 2022

Aside from one lighthearted reference to the escalating situation with Russia, Korban’s page stayed on message: “YOU CAN BE AN INVESTOR.”. Korban says she is personally organizing the distribution of funds with the assistance of local governments and businesses. Then, on February 23rd, the facade of normalcy fell apart.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good. It’s still not as good a deal as your trusty local library. Images: TechSoup Global and Nominet Trust.

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The Verge

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Biden administration has long called on Russia to do more to crack down on ransomware gangs operating within the country, though with limited success until now. Analysts have tied Russian groups to extensive ransomware operations in Europe and the US, often without interference from local law enforcement.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Next: : If you’re gonna go global, plan it from the start. Think global, start early. WhatsApp founder Jan Koum is an Ukranian immigrant, and I’m betting it had helped him realize the potential of going global from day one. Our app caught fire on the Russian AppStore and we hurried to localize the app’s user interface as well.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

The new funding will be put toward product development and supporting the platform’s global expansion, per Khudir. We’re also looking to launch in France, Nordics, Spain, Russia and many more countries. Within the next 12 months, we will be expanding to more than 12 countries and support millions of learners globally.”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 10, 2025

Increasing international tensions, global warming and the changing world economy have put Greenland at the heart of the debate over global trade and security, and Trump wants to make sure that the U.S. ” A Chinese-backed rare earth mining project in Greenland stalled after the local government banned uranium mining in 2021.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 19, 2022

We have seen the geopolitical instability and the war between Russia and Ukraine, the inflation in the United States is reaching a forty-year high, borrowing costs are rising precipitously, and there is ongoing supply chain disruption. Specifically, cures for diseases, hunger, and local community needs. from 2019 to 2021.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

These moves and many others come as President Donald Trump and his appointees seek to eliminate federal government programs that tackle global warming. In an exclusive interview with Modern CEO , Hackenberg underscored the foundations commitment to addressing global challenges such as climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Russia, and China as global warming opens up access to the Arctic. ” News of the visit drew an immediate backlash from local politicians, who described it as a display of U.S. Trump even made a veiled reference to the possibility of military pressure, noting the U.S. power at a time they are trying to form a government.

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The Verge

AUGUST 7, 2020

For years, Russia has sought to emphasize and even exacerbate existing tensions in the United States, presumably because it believes this is in Russia’s own interest. In very recent memory, the global internet was dominated by services like Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and so on.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

Today, when the Global Positioning System isn’t workingor gets jammed by electronic warfaredrones are learning to do something similar, orienting themselves by looking down at the Earth instead. Army, which pays Maxar to power its One World Terrain (OWT) program, a global simulation environment for use in military training.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Equifax lost data from more than 100 million people (possibly working for Russia, depending on who you believe), which is certainly more information than TikTok has ever had access to. TikTok says NBA content may not have appeared in those searches due to issues with language and localization, but were not actively removed from the platform.)

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

He said the company would hire 10,000 Americans — no small thing during a global recession. Trending down : The fees that Amazon imposes on sellers make it nearly impossible for them to sustain a profitable business, according to a report from the Institute of Local Self-Reliance. Institute for Local Self-Reliance). Governing.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

to a comprehensive strategic partnership, the highest level of cooperation and the same as Russia and China. Agency for International Development, or USAID, staffers off the job and terminated at least 83% of its contracts and cut programs globally, including in Vietnam. In 2023, Vietnam elevated relations with the U.S.

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