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Google says it hasn’t made changes to how it censors satellite imagery of Russia, contrary to widely circulated claims on Twitter that it “opened access to Russia’s military and strategic facilities.” Early Monday morning, Twitter account @ArmedForcesUkr (which is unverified but has been cited several times by the official Ukrainian Ministry of Defence account) tweeted a set of images that appear to show military equipment. The tweeted message translates roughly to “now… Source link

Ukraine’s IT sector boasted some of the highest salaries in the country, long before Russia invaded, with roughly 200-thousand workers providing critical services to tech giants and other major industries around the world. As the country enters its seventh week of the war, some of its top tech executives are making direct appeals to those same international firms to stick with them, even as fears of a brain drain consume the domestic market. “We are showing [the world] that we can continue… Source link

The war between Russia and Ukraine being fought on the battleground — and in cyberspace. Just ask Dyma Budorin, a Ukrainian web security entrepreneur turned cyber warrior currently based in Spain after leaving Kyiv just days before the Russian invasion began. “It’s an official cyberwar between Russia and Ukraine,” Budorin, co-founder and CEO of Hacken, a Ukrainian cybersecurity consulting firm, told Yahoo Finance. Budorin says almost his entire 70-member team relocated. They’re still handling… Source link

Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer is using the platform of March Madness to promote Ukrainian humanitarian efforts. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar) Tara VanDerveer has seen the images of once-beautiful cities reduced to rubble. Of destruction in the Ukrainian capital she once visited, and throughout the country that women she once called her “cousins” call home. It was “really, really, very hard” to watch Russian forces bombard Ukraine, VanDerveer, the Stanford women’s basketball coach, said. It… Source link

Alina Vandenberghe and husband Nicolas Vandenberghe founded software firm Chilli Piper in 2016 and soon after created their nonprofit, Citizens of Our Planet Andres Hernandez Studio, Inc. An open access Google Document offers pivotal information to the approximately 2.8 million people displaced by Russia’s ongoing attack on Ukraine. Currently 89 pages in length and updated in real time, the Doc, “Resources for People Fleeing Ukraine,” includes updates on border… Source link

A highly educated workforce and low cost of labor made Ukraine an attractive outsourcing tech hub for Fortune 500 firms, churning out more than 200,000 IT workers. But these days, Andrew Pavliv, the founder and CEO of N-iX, one of Ukraine’s largest tech companies, is more consumed with managing the flow of employees within his own country. Since the Russian invasion began last month, Pavliv’s firm has evacuated nearly 200 employees from hard hit cities in eastern Ukraine, including… Source link

Tech entrepreneur Oleksandr Kosovan takes shelter inside his car parked underground. He’s helping combat the Russian invasion — using the skills he knows best. “I’m not a military man, I don’t know how to shoot, but still I can use my brain and technology in order to stop the war in any possible,” Kosovan told Yahoo Finance Live. The CEO of MacPaw, a software company based in Ukraine, says he stayed behind to defend his country. “Part of our team are already outside of Ukraine. I’m here… Source link

Ukraine Invasion: Google is using their office locations in Poland to help support Ukrainian refugees | Fortune … Source link

People fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine wait to board a bus during snowfall after crossing the border from Ukraine to Poland at the border checkpoint in Medyka, Poland, March 7, 2022. Fabrizio Bensch | Reuters Google will use office space and offer other resources in Poland to Ukrainian refugees, the company announced Monday. The company will use its Startups Campus in Warsaw as a space for local non-governmental organizations to provide legal and psychological services to refugees,… Source link

Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina, decked out in the yellow and blue of her country’s flag, put on a clinic against her Russian opponent at the Monterrey Open on Tuesday. She defeated Anastasia Potapova 6-2, 6-1 in the opening round of the tournament, a match that just a day ago she had refused to play Svitolina, the 15th ranked women’s tennis player in the world and the No. 1 seed at the Monterrey Open, had originally refused to play against Potapova due to Russia’s invasion of her… Source link