TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There are plenty of reasons why Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, has an increasingly visible startup sector. Lithuania is now fourth in the global fintech ranking after the U,S,, the U,K, and Singapore. Lithuania’s life sciences sector is gaining prominence. But what are the locals excited about on the ground?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

And the French government is taking advantage of this opportunity to make some progress on the tech startup policy front. As the name suggests, this new instrument is in charge of establishing a standard for startup policies around Europe. It’s the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union right now.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

The Bank of Lithuania has granted a specialized license — it isn’t a full-fledged license per se, as it focuses on some activities. Right now, Revolut takes advantage of its banking license in two countries — Poland and Lithuania. Revolut gets European banking license in Lithuania. its home country and its biggest market.

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

The European Commission says the geo-blocking was to prevent games being activated outside Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This broke the EU’s Digital Single Market rules which prohibit those types of barriers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

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. This round values the startup at $1.6

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

The app’s enforcement policy says that tweets with such labels will not show up in search results, recommendations or timelines — those tweets will be hidden in both the “For You” and “Following timelines. It’s not clear if the company is applying the same policy to personal accounts.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Proton , the Swiss company behind encrypted email service ProtonMail , already has hubs across its native Switzerland, Lithuania, North Macedonia, and Taiwan. as part of Atlassian’s remote work policy. So why are some companies thumbing their noses at all of this, and opening shiny new offices instead? Financial independence.

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