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Bitcoin Daily: Ukraine Regulator To Scrutinize Crypto Sales Above $1,200; Big-Name Telegram Investors Shown In SEC Documents
Bitcoin Daily: Ukraine Regulator To Scrutinize Crypto Sales Above $1,200; Big-Name Telegram Investors Shown In...
January 28, 2020  |  Bitcoin

Ukraine’s financial watchdog has announced that it will monitor transactions that exceed $1,200, said Oksana Makarova, the head of the country’s Ministry of Finance, according...

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Snap Acquires AI Factory Computer Vision Startup for $166M
Snap Acquires AI Factory Computer Vision Startup for $166M
January 03, 2020  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has acquired a Ukraine-based company called AI Factory, to help the social media app provide a new type of...

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Apple Complies With Russia’s Request To Change Map In Apps
Apple Complies With Russia’s Request To Change Map In Apps
November 27, 2019  |  Apple

Apple will adhere to Russia’s demands that the technology conglomerate change the way the Crimean peninsula is displayed on Apple’s Weather and Maps apps, according...

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Ukraine Aims To Recover Lost Funds After Taking Ownership Of Privatbank
Ukraine Aims To Recover Lost Funds After Taking Ownership Of Privatbank
November 10, 2019  |  International

Ukraine is coming to terms with international lenders to settle an aid agreement concerning the nationalization of Privatbank, the country’s largest lender, Bloomberg reported on...

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Ukraine Hacker, Others Charged In Hacking SEC’s EDGAR Database
Ukraine Hacker, Others Charged In Hacking SEC’s EDGAR Database
January 15, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

U.S. authorities charged a hacker residing in Ukraine and several others on Tuesday (Jan. 15) with trading on non-public corporate earnings information they got by...

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Ukraine Defends Cost Of eProcurement Project ProZorro
Ukraine Defends Cost Of eProcurement Project ProZorro
October 22, 2018  |  B2B Payments

Ukrainian government officials are defending payments made to their digital procurement platform provider, following claims of wasted funds as detailed in the nation’s 2017 budget....

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Bitcoin Daily: Feds Seek Forfeiture Of $24M In Seized Bitcoin, Coinbase Takes Crypto To Charities
Bitcoin Daily: Feds Seek Forfeiture Of $24M In Seized Bitcoin, Coinbase Takes Crypto To Charities
June 28, 2018  |  Bitcoin

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has updated its anti-money laundering rules by requiring domestic banks to monitor all of the accounts held by cryptocurrency...

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FBI Says Russian Hackers Have Compromised Routers
FBI Says Russian Hackers Have Compromised Routers
May 25, 2018  |  Security & Fraud

U.S. authorities said Friday (May 25) that Russian hackers had “compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and could collect user information or...

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Was A Massive Cyberattack Just Prevented?
Was A Massive Cyberattack Just Prevented?
May 24, 2018  |  Safety and Security

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is dismantling a “large network of hacked routers and storage devices” that could have enabled a “massive cyberattack,” according...

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