In a company blog post published Tuesday (March 29), Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said he has asked nonprofits how the tech company can best support the needs of more than 3.7 million refugees have fled Ukraine. Pichai, who wrote the post from Warsaw,...
In today’s top Europe, Middle East and Africa news, the Dutch antitrust watchdog has fined Apple $55 million for failure to allow Netherlands-based dating app providers to use non-Apple payment methods; British fashion retailer Ted Baker has rejected two takeover offers. Plus, Amazon and Microsoft...
New Zealand’s Thorn Group Financial Services is merging with auto dealership software maker Limelight to form Limelight Group. According to an IT Brief report Monday (March 28), the two companies have had a relationship for several years, with Fox, Thorn’s parent company, having held a...
Six months after Huawei Technologies’ Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou returned to China after being under house arrest in Canada for nearly three years, she said the Chinese telecom giant’s resolve is strong, Reuters reported Monday (March 28). Meng, the daughter of Huawei founder Ren...
Mizuho will almost double its wealth management clients by attracting newly-minted millionaires who are low on cash and in need of new finance, Bloomberg writes. Mizuho, the third-largest bank in Japan, wants to get 1,000 families on board with its wealth unit by this time...
In today’s top Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) news, foreign retailers who have continued to do business in Russia following the attack on Ukraine face backlash by shoppers in Poland, while the FBI reveals four Russians employed by their government have been charged with...
Today in the FinTech Ukraine, Ukraine’s decentralized autonomous organization raised $6 million for a Ukrainian flag nonfungible token with proceeds to support the war-torn country; Polish software development and software company Netguru announced a series of initiatives to assist Ukraine. UkraineDAO, the decentralized autonomous organization,...
Foreign retailers who have stayed on in Russia following Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine are facing backlash by shoppers in Poland who have turned to boycotting stores and brands, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday (March 25). “It...
This week in FinTech Ukraine, Amazon announces an employment support program for Ukrainian refugees, and Rakuten unveils a charity fund. Amazon Amazon.com has launched an employment support program for refugees of the war in Ukraine, the eCommerce giant announced. The “Welcome Door” initiative promises resources...
