The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Samsung’s teaser is pretty cryptic, even by the standards of tech invitations, although the copper color splash does match the leaked images of the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra — the rumored flagship of the lineup — that were accidentally posted on Samsung’s Russian website at the beginning of July. Image: Samsung Russia.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

As US gas prices hit record highs in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine , it seems like electric vehicles may not be a safe haven for those looking to save money. When it comes to mining nickel, Russia isn’t a massive player. It also doesn’t help with the more desirable long-range models.

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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

JULY 1, 2022

I remember the dread I felt as a startup worker during downturns when I read about mass layoffs at tech firms that had previously been considered ascendant. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed that, however. 5 ways to seize the opportunities created by recent chaos in ad tech. My best advice: Strengthen your network.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2022

Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov has been actively reaching out to many tech companies, asking them to help Ukraine and cut off services to Russia. Earlier this month, PayPal paused most of its services in Russia shortly after it stopped accepting new users from the country.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2021

The US Department of Commerce has sanctioned 14 Chinese tech companies over links to human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, including one backed by a top Silicon Valley investment firm. DeepGlint, also known as Beijing Geling Shentong Information Technology Co., SenseTime then divested its 51 percent stake in it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Yesterday, Mercury , which describes itself as a bank for startups, restricted several accounts linked to African tech startups, TechCrunch has learned. . Some founders and tech stakeholders have taken to Twitter to express their disappointment at Mercury’s decision to block these accounts without any concrete reason. At the same time.

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The Verge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Image: Samsung Russia. The video, which popped up on Twitter courtesy of South American tech blogger Karlos Peru , appears to have been prepped as a piece of marketing material to promote the new phone and its larger Ultra variant.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

In the latest episode, sources revealed to her some internal meeting details that the digital mortgage lender is losing “around $50 million a month.” Big Tech Inc. Intel has joined other Big Tech companies, like Apple, AMD, Adobe and General Electric, in suspending business operations in Russia. And the U.S.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Ukraine has been defending itself from Russia for 11 months now. And if that’s not convincing enough, I’m going to share a few more reasons why the prospects of the Ukrainian tech sector aren’t as bleak as they may seem from the outside. Over the last six years, export volume grew by 26.8% annually.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Series A round is led by family-owned investment company Heartland, with Boston-based international VC fund Flint Capital also participating, along with gaming firm Playrix and existing investors Baring Vostok Capital Partners and LVL1 among others.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Over the past month, we’ve seen companies like Thatch raise $3 million for its platform aimed at travel creators, travel tech company Hopper bring in $175 million , Wheel the World grab $2 million for its disability-friendly vacation planner, Elude raise $2.1 YouTravel.Me million for its free travel itinerary platform.

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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. Tael said the startup is also in discussion with potential partners in other markets, including Russia, Turkey and China.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Russia is angry with American social media companies limiting its reach, but, frankly, too bad. I’m not surprised at the ratio, and the rising tally of international companies that it implies. My question is how quickly the portion of high-value Y Combinator-backed startups moves towards being majority international.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

When Russia invaded her home country of Ukraine, U.K.-based based tech entrepreneur Irra Ariella Khi , co-founder of Zamna , set up a fundraising page to directly support people inside Ukraine. Khi’s father (aged 70) and godmother (aged 82) are both in Ukraine, as are her stepsister and her children. It’s now matched £2.25

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

The worldwide battle with COVID, the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the economic fallout of the COVID lockdowns and supply chain disruptions have together created a painful combination of a global recession, global inflation and unpredictable instability in the worldwide economy.

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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 Verge

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Russia has previously been linked to DDoS attacks against Ukrainian government sites — but a full blackout would mean going further, using physical or cyber weaponry to disable telecommunications infrastructure at the network level, and silencing Ukrainians in the process.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Big Tech Inc. is pushing forward with its data reform bill targeting Big Tech. and some of its allies have decided to formally blame Russia for the Viasat cyberattack that took place in February. (TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. You can sign up here.). Meanwhile, the U.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Internal Revenue Service would like to have a chat. Big Tech Inc. Instagram now really blocked in Russia : After promising to cut off Instagram from its territory, Russia has made good on the threat. But some digging may be required to identify those taxable proceeds. You can sign up here.). But a bit late, I reckon.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

With much multicultural and international love, Haje. Jagmeet and Manish report that the tech company today relaunched Street View in India. Big Tech Inc. Our top Big Tech story for the day — and the subject of our Daily Crunch newsletter today — is brought to us by Ivan. ET, on @TechCrunch. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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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

APRIL 5, 2022

To better understand how your products and services fit into the marketplace, he recommends forging relationships with computer science department heads, bootcamp directors, Twitter’s tech community, and finally, your nearest competitors. International startups shrug off US insurtech meltdown.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Couriers deliver goods using a combination of Fenix’s shared e-scooters and internal e-mopeds. Since Fenix’s founding as a shared e-scooter operator in 2020, the company has regularly added business lines, from 10-minute grocery delivery to micromobility subscriptions to, now, ride-hail.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The US Department of Commerce has ordered American companies to not sell their tech to NSO, citing reports that the group’s Pegasus spyware is used against journalists, government officials, activists, and more. Candiru, another Israeli IT firm that sells spyware (that’s reportedly used for similar purposes ), is also being blacklisted.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

and Respeecher, and also integrated into companies with larger platforms, like Veritone (where the tech is part of its advertising repertoire) and Descript (which uses it in the software it makes for editing podcasts). Bruce Willis, for example, has already licensed his image to be used as a visual deepfake in mobile phone ads in Russia.

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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

JULY 10, 2022

The Uber Files, which were originally shared with The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists , show a company that has knowingly broken laws, gone to extreme lengths to avoid justice, secretly lobbied governments, received aid from top politicians and exploited violence against drivers to drum up business.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

The boreal forests of Canada, Alaska, and Russia will be especially vulnerable. This will accelerate warming even more, and also threaten the homes, livelihoods, and cultures of millions of people in Arctic regions, to say nothing of the wildlife and ecosystems. will become more common. In other regions, like the U.S.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 29, 2022

But even the WFH crew can get some good use out of a VPN: Aside from the obvious privacy factor when it comes to confidential company information, a VPN can establish a remote connection with your office's server so you've got access to internal networks and resources from home. Hold up — are VPNs legal?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The growth in its business helped the company partner with big tech companies like Google and Microsoft to launch smartphones based on their respective mobile operating systems. ” The four founders are said to have different qualities that helped the company compete against global brands in India and international markets.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Prior to Russia’s invasion, “our company had never seen a real crisis,” he writes in a post that presents the six methods his company used to maintain continuity while protecting workers. So far this year, about 45,000 tech workers have been laid off. Here’s how to manage your staff from afar.

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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. First thing’s first. Stay informed and follow the latest.

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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. Zenly iPhone downloads for Japan on August 19, 2022. The risks here were ultimately too great for Snap.

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