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Authorities have taken down the dark web’s largest illegal marketplace

The Verge

DarkMarket, reportedly the world’s largest dark web marketplace, has been taken offline by a Europol-coordinated international operation, according to authorities (via Gizmodo ). Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Per Europol’s estimate, the site traded the equivalent of €140 million in today’s money, in a mix of bitcoin and monero.

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Governments should invest in their diaspora founders

TechCrunch

Prabhat Gusain is currently the chief of staff at Caffeinated Capital and was previously an intern with Versatile VC. Moldova has a Pare 1+1 program that offers funding and entrepreneurial training to immigrants (and returnees) into Moldova. Prabhat Gusain. Contributor. Share on Twitter. He is a 2021 MBA from UVA Darden.

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Leveraging Technology to Respond to Global Crises

Cloud 4 Good

Shifting Quickly to Support International Crises. One of the most critical and well-known international crises today is happening in Ukraine. Since 2020, the global community has seen geopolitical uncertainty and a pandemic. Nonprofits have had to shift quickly to respond and pivot using the technology that’s available to them.

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IFC and other impact investors return to backing Ukraine startups, with new $250M fund aimed at founders under the gun

TechCrunch

Horizon Capital , an investment firm based out of Kyiv, is in the process of raising a $250 million fund that it plans to use to back tech startups in the country and neighboring Moldova. “We are confident that this historic fund will be a resounding success, delivering both returns and impact.”.

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Update: Philanthropy’s response to Ukraine crisis

Candid

These countries are, in the main, ones that share a border with Ukraine: Poland, Romania, Hungary, Moldova, and Slovakia. While almost a third of grants went to organizations in Ukraine, recipient countries reflect giving to local chapters of the Red Cross and other international relief organizations, or to their Geneva-based headquarters.

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HBO Max is coming to parts of Europe on October 26th

The Verge

Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain, and Andorra are the first six countries it’ll be available in, before it expands to the following 14 territories next year: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

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