TechSpot

MARCH 2, 2022

Most chipmakers believe the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict won’t worsen the global shortage of chips that’s been plaguing the tech and auto industries. The supply chain has been showing some signs of recovery as of late, but industry leaders still are, at best, cautiously optimistic about the entire situation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Russia is invading Ukraine as we write, and global markets are in freefall. Last week, this column took a look at the European technology market’s deep tech expertise. The Exchange started its look at European deep tech with a report from Angular Ventures. Writing about Europe is hard today. ” We agree.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Epic Games buys Bandcamp : Straight from left field, this deal took the tech world by surprise. Big Tech Inc. Netflix buys gaming company behind titles predicated on its IP : What do you do when global growth at your streaming business slows? Now, to work! The TechCrunch Top 3. Photo: Rosley Majid / EyeEm /Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

In other words, the region escaped the global quarter-on-quarter slowdown in startup investment. But Europe’s situation is perhaps more curious; after all, it is the closest to Russia and its war on Ukraine. It is also worth noting that Europe accounts for a much larger portion of global funding than Africa.

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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. As the situation on the ground changes rapidly over the next few hours and days, TechCrunch will continue to bring news and analysis on how the conflict unfolds across the tech and startup community. GET IN TOUCH.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Varjo and partner Dogfight Boss also announced in August that their headset-based F-16 simulator had been deployed to help Ukraine train fighter pilots in its war with Russia. million global views. In the U.S., And in October 2024, the company launched Unity 6, the latest version of its engine.

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The Verge

MARCH 21, 2022

Though framed in general terms, the announcement was likely made in reference to an incident that took place earlier in March, where the developer of a widely used JavaScript library added an update that overwrote files on machines located in Russia or Belarus.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

Twitter tries to restore service in Russia : While some tech companies are working to cut ties with Russia after the country’s government invaded Ukraine, others are trying to keep their services up in the country. So, amid reports that Twitter is increasingly hard to access in Russia, the company said that it’s working on it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

While the announcement follows India’s decision to ban Sea’s popular title “Free Fire” in the country last month, TechCrunch reports that the company is insisting the reason is “global market uncertainties.” Big Tech Inc. The Shopee site was not even a year old. You can sign up here.). Pinterest adds $1.2M That’s the basics.

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The Verge

APRIL 11, 2022

The US Department of the Treasury is exempting telecommunications services from ongoing sanctions against Russia. Access Now and other nonprofits have pushed the US government to avoid disrupting internet access as part of larger sanctions against Russia over its February invasion of Ukraine. Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2022

Sequoia has over the years made a name for itself for its early-stage bets on younger companies, many of which (Apple, Klarna and WhatsApp, to name a few) have gone on to become tech giants. “We are going to accept applications from everywhere in Europe, including Russia,” she said.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2010

As a capacity-building organization for the global nonprofit and social benefit sector, we at TechSoup are very conscious of the need to understand and work within different cultural contexts for philanthropy. The legacy of this situation "poisoned the whole notion of volunteering in Russia for many years.".

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

According to a recent letter sent to its investors, Tiger Global Management , the New York-based investing powerhouse, is raising a new $3.75 As for M&A, Tiger saw at least three of its companies swallowed by bigger tech companies during 2020, including Postmates’s all-stock sale to Uber for $2.65 Tiger owned 10.3%

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

The law comes as a blow to Google and Apple who both require in-app purchases to flow only through their systems, instead of outside payment processors, allowing the tech giants to collect a 30 percent cut. If tech companies fail to comply with the new law, they could face fines of up to 3 percent of their South Korea revenue.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Moar News, fresh from the TechCrunch firehose of tasty morsels of news and commentary: I’m too sexy for Milan, New York, and Hangzhou : Zhiyi Tech raises $100 million to help fashion brands predict bestsellers. Big Tech Inc. This follows its move of stopping shipments to customers in Russia and Belarus. And the U.S.

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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 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. Higher geopolitical tensions over Ukraine.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Funding sources for tech startups in Ukraine have gone off a cliff this year, with investors (and their LPs) wary of taking on the risk of backing potentially promising ideas and people who have stayed in the country amid the sustained, persistent and increasingly ugly onslaught from Russia. billion the year before.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

is the latest startup to grab some venture capital dollars as the travel industry gets back on its feet amid the global pandemic. It was starting to branch out to international sales in 2020 when the global pandemic hit. YouTravel.Me million to bring spontaneous travel back to a hard-hit industry and Wanderlog bag $1.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

Emmy Gengler is the CEO of Softjourn , a global technology services provider with offices in California, Ukraine and Poland. based tech company, Softjourn, which has an R&D office and many employees in Western Ukraine. Our team, along with the greater tech community in Ukraine, has been united in helping the war efforts.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Tech talent flees Russia : As the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds along, technology companies of all sizes are trying to figure out how to handle their business operations and staff. If the tech can make mining more efficient, it could cut its carbon footprint, right? Big Tech Inc. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Started as a side project by its founders, Warren is now helping regional cloud infrastructure service providers compete against Amazon, Microsoft, IBM, Google and other tech giants. “Whereas global providers give a personal touch maybe only to a few big clients in the enterprise sectors.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

It has a major deal with Huawei to let global developers build games that run on the phone maker’s in-house chips and HarmonyOS, billed as an alternative to Android. and Russia. The company also supports Chinese search giant Baidu’s metaverse platform Xirang, though it declined to share how exactly they work together.

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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. In tech-savvy Ukraine, crypto has emerged as a quick and easy way to handle this money. Ukraine) February 26, 2022.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

All told, Five had been very quiet in recent times: it last updated its news feed with a partnership with another autonomous tech startup, Cognata , in January 2021, over a year ago; and its last blog post on Medium, on agile working , was in June 2021. Headquartered in Cambridge, U.K., Scale matters in building automated driving technology.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

How tech is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine : The technology world is a global industry, which means that when geopolitical conflicts arise, it impacts the world that TechCrunch covers directly. As we noted previously, deep tech investment in Europe had a very strong 2021. Big Tech Inc. Now, to work.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

My time in tech has spanned a couple of recessions, so a lot of this feels familiar. Tech workers in highly specialized, non-fungible roles are usually the ones who turn out the lights on the last day. IP and cybersecurity disputes are top legal concerns for tech companies. Everyone else? Image Credits: Bloomberg / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

” Tech firms from Foodpanda, Alibaba, Shopee, TikTok, Meituan to Lazada have all started to incorporate 3D elements into their logos, ads and landing pages over the past two years, the founder pointed out in an interview. France and Russia. Cocoon Capital, Entrepreneur First and angel investor Michael Gryseels also participated.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2022

Bfree , a Nigerian credit management fintech, has embarked on global expansion after raising $1.7 Bfree is now on a massive recruitment drive for the 16 new markets in which it is setting up operations, including Ghana, India, Uganda, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Russia, Poland, Pakistan and Indonesia.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Retail analytics unicorn Trax expects that this openness to tech innovation will continue even after the pandemic. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Singapore, Trax also has offices in Brazil, the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Israel, Mexico, Japan, Hungary, France, Russia and Australia.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Some companies like Stripe have built tech to get around some of the hurdles that arise as a result of this: for example, it can take typically days to reconcile and settle a transaction on traditional payment rails. Just look at the discussions on SWIFT and cutting off Russia, and how slow that has been moving.”

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. While Asia has long been known for its cheap engineering resources and the off-shoring tech phenomenon that took place over a decade ago, the cost gap has narrowed — and even more significantly, so has the quality gap. My simple answer is: absolutely.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2023

Co-founded by Fick and Mike Henry at the University of Michigan under the name Isocline, Mythic developed chip tech that stores analog values on flash transistors. According to The Register, global VC equity for semiconductor startups in 2022 declined 46% to $7.8 But funding is drying up. billion.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a notice after Russia invaded Ukraine warning about the potential for state-sponsored cyber attacks: “Every organization — large and small — must be prepared to respond to disruptive cyber activity,” it advised. . Amanda Silberling: Big money + Big Tech = skeptical artists.

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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. Additional figures provided to TechCrunch from Data.ai Zenly iPhone downloads for Japan on August 19, 2022.

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