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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace
The Next Web
OCTOBER 26, 2013
In addition to speaking at IDCEE’13 in Kyiv, Cooper had another goal in visiting Ukraine (and Russia, a couple of days before that). The competition was intended for software developers from Russia and Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine have been sort of anchors for oDesk on the technical side,” Cooper explained.
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Spotify surges past 300M users after successful Russia launch
The Verge
OCTOBER 29, 2020
User growth was driven by marketing campaigns in India, as well as the service’s launch in Russia and 12 surrounding markets. The company called Russia its “most successful new market launch to date.”. The Rogan show has recently been criticized for interviewing Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
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Live now: The founder of Ciplex answers your entrepreneurship questions via video. Get involved!
The Next Web
MAY 9, 2013
An early immigrant from Russia, Ilya founded his first company Ciplex, when he was 17. Entrepreneur Insider United States Profiles and Interviews' Magazine recognized Ilya as a 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur. Ciplex is a digital marketing agency that provides web design, application development and marketing services.
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Sequoia debuts Arc, a London/SV program to find and mentor outlier startups, backing each with $1M
TechCrunch
MARCH 20, 2022
“We are going to accept applications from everywhere in Europe, including Russia,” she said. “We are going to accept applications from everywhere in Europe, including Russia,” she said. “Company design is more than just company building,” Lee said in the interview I had with her and Lixandru.
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Failure is complex, especially in the world of startups
TechCrunch
MARCH 19, 2022
This past week, PayPal expanded services to allow users to send money to Ukrainians, Ukraine’s president signed a law to legalize crypto amid a slew of digital donations and data showed that nearly 7,000 apps have left Russia’s app store since it invaded Ukraine. Some big tech apps remain.
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Zambian card issuing startup Union54 raises $12M led by Tiger Global
TechCrunch
APRIL 18, 2022
“What this is telling us is that there’s very much real interest in the number of people who want to have debit cards and this is not going to stop anytime soon,” Mlambo said in an interview. ” Mlambo says Union54 has customers from multiple African countries (he didn’t place an exact number).
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OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new AI startup is fundraising with a $30 billion valuation
Fast Company Tech
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Ilya Sutskever, born in Russia but raised in Jerusalem, studied with AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton, who has warned about the dangers of AI. Despite that, he has eschewed the spotlight for much of his career, not doing many interviews, but speaking about AIs potential for both good and bad when he does. AI is a great thing.
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Daily Crunch: Drone service Wing completes 200K commercial deliveries, partners with supermarket chain
TechCrunch
MARCH 1, 2022
YouTube is blocking Russia Today , Facebook and Instagram are limiting the reach of Russian state-linked media , and the Meta property famous for filtered images is releasing encrypted DMs in both Ukraine and Russia. Startups/VC. Hell, Microsoft taught us with Windows Phone that even if you are a platform company, it’s hard.
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How the tech industry is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
On February 24, Russia launched an invasion of neighboring Ukraine after months of a military build-up on its borders. It has faced a number of issues over the years with censorship around YouTube in Russia, although that, so far, has not had an analogue in Ukraine. He did, however, speak with TechCrunch by text message.
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Daily Crunch: Byju’s founder chips in toward $800M funding round to reach $22B valuation
TechCrunch
MARCH 11, 2022
The latest tech response to Russia’s Ukrainian invasion: Non-Russian tech companies continued their work to isolate the Russian state after its government invaded neighboring Ukraine. In response, Russia has decided to block Instagram , which we presume is more a defensive move than an offensive one. Startups and VC.
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TechCrunch+ roundup: VC ‘bottom feeders,’ valuation calculator, think like an investor
TechCrunch
APRIL 19, 2022
In their interview, Sonalker discusses the importance of automotive cybersecurity, how automating the “endpoint” makes freight more efficient, and why focusing on less glamorous tech can help companies build better products. An inside look at a Ukrainian fintech startup adapting to life during wartime.
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Sardine’s algorithm helps crypto and fintech companies detect fraud
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 10, 2022
“The use case for all our customers is essentially that they’re all using us to prevent fraud when money is being loaded into a wallet,” CEO and co-founder Soups Ranjan told TechCrunch in an interview. Sardine CEO and co-founder Soups Ranjan Image Credits: Sardine. Fraud is global. or Japan doesn’t really matter,” Ranjan said.
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Singapore’s PixCap draws $2.8M to power web-based 3D design
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. “The trend is moving toward interaction,” the founder continued.
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Daily Crunch: $8.5B Amazon-MGM merger will bring thousands of titles to Prime Video
TechCrunch
MARCH 17, 2022
Reface removes itself from the Russian market : When Russia invaded Ukraine, many companies immediately yanked their services from its borders. Optimism is one such company, and it just raised a $150 million Series B at a valuation north of $1 billion. Startups and VC. ” Pivoting is positive, says Shevelenko.
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Heartex raises $25M for its AI-focused, open source data labeling platform
TechCrunch
MAY 18, 2022
The ties to Yandex, a company sometimes referred to as the “Google of Russia”, might unnerve some — particularly in light of accusations by the European Union that Yandex’s news division played a sizeable role in spreading Kremlin propaganda. . Heartex’s dashboard.
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Daily Crunch: Peloton CEO to shareholders: ‘Turnarounds are hard work’
TechCrunch
MAY 10, 2022
To learn more about the state of the industry, Karan Bhasin interviewed four fintech investors: Frances Schwiep, partner, Two Sigma Ventures. and some of its allies have decided to formally blame Russia for the Viasat cyberattack that took place in February. Melissa Guzy, co-founder and managing partner, Arbor Ventures.
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Daily Crunch: Corporate management startup Ramp doubles its valuation to $8.1B with new financing
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. To see what startups can learn from SaaS’ new approach to content marketing, he interviewed several analysts and experts. “If
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Daily Crunch: Microsoft waives its waitlist and opens up its AI-powered Bing chatbot to all
TechCrunch
MARCH 16, 2023
Delisted : Five Russia-affiliated internet companies, including Yandex, are being formally delisted from Nasdaq and NYSE , Paul writes. And we have five more for you: Go for main engine pause : Sometimes you just have to press “pause,” and that’s exactly what Virgin Orbit is doing to conduct a search for cash , Devin reports.
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This startup just landed $8.5M led by Bessemer to help companies automate their financial operations
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 14, 2022
Kalish spent more than five years at PayPal, most recently serving as head of market development and GTM for Central Eastern Europe, Russia and Israel. The payments industry actually has a huge data problem today,” Kalish told TechCrunch in an interview. “On
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Solar Foods wants to replace industrial animal farming with a high-tech protein harvest
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
“Technically it’s like a brewery,” explains CEO and co-founder Dr Pasi Vainikka in an interview with TechCrunch. 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.
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TechCrunch+ roundup: 3 views on Epic-Bandcamp deal, SPAC letdown, CIO sales strategy
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. Photo: Rosley Majid / EyeEm /Getty Images.
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AI chip startup Mythic rises from the ashes with $13M, new CEO
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2023
. “While economic conditions are challenging right now, this new funding will help Mythic focus on its technology offering, go-to-market strategy and customer acquisition,” Dave Fick, Mythic’s newly appointed CEO, told TechCrunch in an email interview. In 2022, there was $7 billion invested in VC-backed U.S. billion.
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Grover grabs $330M to double down on the circular economy with consumer electronics subscriptions
TechCrunch
APRIL 6, 2022
“We see ourselves as simplifying access to a part of your budget,” Cassau told TechCrunch in an interview. That collective shift was also pushed along by a second trend, which was a tightening in the global economy, which has compelled consumers to consider spending less on some discretionary items.
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AI-powered supply chain visibility platform Altana bags $100M
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 6, 2022
. “Many of the world’s most pressing challenges involve correcting the failures and side effects of the globalization of the last 75 years,” Smith told TechCrunch in an email interview. EU, as well as sanctions on Russia [and others],” Smith said.
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How to build a Silicon Valley caliber product engineering team in Asia
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
Ultimately, we were able to land three top developers — one from Thailand, one from Russia, and the overall hackathon winner from Korea. To raise the bar, you have to put your absolute best engineers in the interview process and force them to ask questions even they don’t know the answers to.
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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer
Have Fun - Do Good
DECEMBER 28, 2006
Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast. I spent a number of years traveling and working in communities throughout China and Russia and Alaska, working with communities where the problems were right in their face.
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The Station: Tier buys Spin, Waymo gets to charge for robotaxi, and Tesla needs a Tim Cook
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. Third – Check out the latest transportation founder interview on TechCrunch+. First thing’s first.
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Co-founders of Ukrainian startup Delfast discuss navigating through a crisis
TechCrunch
MARCH 31, 2022
The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity. . Note: Serhiy Denysenko’s answers were translated from Ukrainian by a member of Delfast’s team for TechCrunch. .
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Send a Successful Annual Appeal: Tips and Strategies
Bloomerang
JUNE 7, 2022
Take a look at how the International Rescue Committee changed its homepage to call attention to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and the impact it’s had on people in conflict zones. By addressing this current event right on the homepage, the IRC shows its commitment to helping the most vulnerable people now. .
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‘Deepfake’ that supposedly fooled European politicians was just a look-alike, say pranksters
The Verge
APRIL 30, 2021
The pair say they tricked their way into various meetings with European politicians and even a live interview on Latvian TV. We don’t want unrest here; we don’t want to do anything that would help the enemies of Russia.”. As proof, the pair shared some of this correspondence with The Verge. We don’t want to harm our country.
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Micromax, smartphone sales stalled, eyes a steer into electric vehicles
TechCrunch
AUGUST 8, 2023
The company entered Russia, South Africa and the Middle East: it hired former India sales director of Research in Motion (BlackBerry) Amit Mathur as the head of its international business and created a separate supply line to cater to the demand in the global markets. The company did not brief most of its top-level management about the move.
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Russian pipeline company Transneft hit by data leak dedicated to Hillary Clinton
The Verge
MARCH 17, 2022
As a state-owned Russian enterprise, it is now blocked from receiving investments from the US market under the terms of sanctions against Russia. In an interview with MSNBC in February, Clinton took the unconventional step of encouraging Anonymous to launch cyberattacks against Russia.
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Daily Crunch: Atlantic Money wants to make international money transfers even cheaper than competitors
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2022
Amazon suspends Prime Video in Russia : Adding to our ever-growing list of companies that are pausing or ending business in Russia after the nation’s government launched an invasion of neighboring Ukraine, Amazon is suspending Prime Video in the country. Guide, which just raised $8 million, is building for job candidates instead.
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Daily Crunch: Elon Musk unveils three-pronged strategy to fund his $43B Twitter purchase
TechCrunch
APRIL 21, 2022
A founder’s pitch is the first step on that journey, so we’re running a series of interviews with active investors to learn more about what they’re looking for and how they prefer to be approached: Christine Tsai, CEO and founding partner, 500 Global. figures are now barred from entering Russia, indefinitely it seems.
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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget
The Next Web
MARCH 3, 2014
Russia, with its 145M population has been providing 21 percent of our downloads ever since, and it is our second largest market after the US to date. They tried the app, interviewed us, and on launch day, I knew that we had several major blog articles coming. It cost us exactly $0. The Result?
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Fintechs clamor to give student loan borrowers relief options
TechCrunch
MARCH 10, 2022
In an exclusive interview with TechCrunch, Josh Dockery, Credit Karma’s product lead for student loans, shared some insight on the company’s launch of a new product aimed at helping federal student loan borrowers find payment relief “suitable for their financial needs.”. Credit Karma. This is all putting a ton of stress on people.”.
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This killer drone is designed to be thrown like a football
Fast Company Tech
MARCH 5, 2025
Balan, an engineer with a background in high-speed vertical takeoff and landing (HSVTOL) systems, has been a keen observer of the increasing use of low-cost drones in Ukraines defense against Russia, a force superior in numbers and equipment. Drones are the future of modern warfare, he says.
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400 More Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 1, 2015
Special interview: How we’re using viruses to stop cancer. Beaten for Being Gay in Russia – Andrey’s Story. Interview: Locked Up With No Way Out. Field Report: All gifts matched, success stories & more! Our Mission is to Help Other Nonprofits… Dogs are being slaughtered for leather–you can help them.
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Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos have started a cyber consulting firm
TechCrunch
JANUARY 8, 2021
government has already pinned the blame on Russia, the scale of the intrusions are not likely to be known for some time. In an interview with the Financial Times , which broke the story, Krebs said it could take years before the hackers are ejected from infiltrated systems. government in years. And while the U.S.
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Ellen MacArthur Foundation CEO: “Eliminating waste on our streets and in our oceans is a nonpartisan issue.”
Fast Company Tech
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
In an exclusive interview with Modern CEO , Hackenberg underscored the foundations commitment to addressing global challenges such as climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. The circular economy is a system where materials are recycled, refurbished, reused, or composted and where farming is designed to increase biodiversity.
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President Trump says the US conducted a 2018 cyberattack on Russian trolls
The Verge
JULY 12, 2020
In an interview with Post columnist Marc Thiessen, Trump confirmed that the attack— which the Post reported on last year — started on the day of the 2018 midterm and was successful in disrupting a disinformation campaign by Russia that was meant to raise doubt about the midterm results.
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Trump Enacts Mass Firings at Group That Maintains Nuclear Bombs
Futurism
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
In an interview with NPR , an employee with that agency the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) said that roughly 300 of the group's 1,800-person staff are expected to be fired amid directives from Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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How AI Takeover Might Happen in 2 Years
The AI Alignment Forum
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Top personnel from the NSA and US cyber command collaborate with OpenEye to retrofit a semblance of security for U3s weights before senior leaders in China, Russia, Israel, North Korea, or Iran realize just how valuable OpenEyes software has become. ignore the offer, but others accept, including Russia. Russia has a new ruler.
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