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Today in FinTech Ukraine: EvoShare Launches Aid Ukraine; Meest-America Turns Warehouse Into Donation Center
Today in FinTech Ukraine: EvoShare Launches Aid Ukraine; Meest-America Turns Warehouse Into Donation Center
March 17, 2022  |  International

Silicon Valley-based FinTech EvoShare, which was founded by Ukrainian natives, launched its Aid Ukraine initiative Thursday (March 17), offering customers a way to donate a...

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Meta Unveils Instagram Parental Supervision Tools
Meta Unveils Instagram Parental Supervision Tools
March 16, 2022  |  Meta

Meta Platforms has instituted parental supervision tools for Instagram in response to criticisms that the photo sharing app was harmful to young users. The new...

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Zuckerberg: Metaverse-Friendly NFTs Coming Soon to Instagram
Zuckerberg: Metaverse-Friendly NFTs Coming Soon to Instagram
March 15, 2022  |  NFTs

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) should be coming to Instagram in “the next couple of months,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at the SXSW conference on Tuesday...

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EMEA Daily: Meta Faces Fines in South Africa; CloudPay, Visa Partner on Payroll Payments; UK Crime Agency Eyes Crypto Mixers
EMEA Daily: Meta Faces Fines in South Africa; CloudPay, Visa Partner on Payroll Payments; UK...
March 15, 2022  |  International

In today’s top Europe, Middle East and Africa news, South Africa’s competition regulator is seeking to prosecute Facebook for abusing its dominance in the social...

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Meta Fined $18.6M Over Facebook Data Breach
Meta Fined $18.6M Over Facebook Data Breach
March 15, 2022  |  Meta

Meta Platforms has been fined 17 million euros ($18.6 million) for violating the European Union’s privacy regulations by failing to prevent data breaches on its...

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Meta Faces Fines for Allegedly Violating Anti-Competition Rules in South Africa
Meta Faces Fines for Allegedly Violating Anti-Competition Rules in South Africa
March 15, 2022  |  Meta

South Africa’s competition regulator is seeking to prosecute Meta Platforms, formerly Facebook, and its subsidiaries, WhatsApp Inc and Facebook South Africa, for abusing its dominance...

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Former Nintendo of America President Says Smaller Companies, Not Facebook Will Advance Metaverse
Former Nintendo of America President Says Smaller Companies, Not Facebook Will Advance Metaverse
March 13, 2022  |  Metaverse

Reggie Fils-Aime, a gaming industry veteran and former president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, has reservations about the metaverse, Bloomberg wrote Saturday...

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EMEA Daily: Revolut CRO Leaves to Start Crypto Platform; FCA Pulls Plug on UK Crypto ATMs
EMEA Daily: Revolut CRO Leaves to Start Crypto Platform; FCA Pulls Plug on UK Crypto...
March 11, 2022  |  International

In today’s top Europe, Middle East and Africa news, Revolut’s chief revenue officer is planning on leaving the U.K.-based financial company to launch a cryptocurrency...

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UK, EU Launch Parallel Antitrust Probes Into Google-Meta Ad Deal   
UK, EU Launch Parallel Antitrust Probes Into Google-Meta Ad Deal   
March 11, 2022  |  ANTITRUST

The advertising agreement between Alphabet’s Google and Meta’s Facebook is under investigation in parallel probes launched by the EU’s European Commission (EC) and the U.K.’s...

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