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Locals share why Vilnius, Lithuania is becoming an international startup hub

TechCrunch

There are plenty of reasons why Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, has an increasingly visible startup sector. Local and with small funds, mostly subsidized by government and EU. Lithuania is now fourth in the global fintech ranking after the U,S,, the U,K, and Singapore. What are the tech investors like?

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YouTube blocks Russian news channels RT and Sputnik

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Yesterday, Meta blocked RT and Sputnik on both Instagram and Facebook after receiving requests to do so from a number of governments in the EU. Our teams continue to monitor the situation around the clock to take swift action. It’s the latest example of internet platforms blocking Russian media outlets in response to the war.

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Nord Security, the startup behind NordVPN, raises its first-ever funding, $100M at a $1.6B valuation

TechCrunch

What’s notable here is that Vilnius, Lithuania-based Nord has been bootstrapped for the last 10 years (it was founded in 2012), a state that doesn’t seem to have held back its growth. Internal security teams were increased and the company now goes through regular audits, in partnership with U.S. firm Versprite.

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France’s strategy for EU startup policies: Talent and money

TechCrunch

And the French government is taking advantage of this opportunity to make some progress on the tech startup policy front. We also want to enable European venture capital with European funds, European knowledge and European teams Cédric O. It’s the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union right now.

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Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion

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Proton , the Swiss company behind encrypted email service ProtonMail , already has hubs across its native Switzerland, Lithuania, North Macedonia, and Taiwan. government is trying to engineer a dual-listing that includes the U.K. What is its ESG (environmental, social and governance) strategy ,’?”

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

Twitter claims that the bug has now been fixed, and that the team knows what caused it. It even showed up with the old text that designates that she is “notable in government, news, entertainment, or another designated category,” and she did not, in fact, pay for this. But once you refresh the page it disappears.

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

TechCrunch

The entire team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products including ChatGPT.” As you may know, the government has been tightening regulations associated with deep synthesis technologies (DST) and generative AI services, including ChatGPT.

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