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A small Vancouver web hosting firm with a history of helping controversial websites has recently struck a deal to help another notorious internet community.

Nick Lim, founder of VanwaTech, confirmed to OPB on Tuesday that his company is providing hosting services to Kiwi Farms, an internet message board under intense scrutiny for hateful content posted by some of its users.

According to NBC News, Kiwi Farms is currently at the “epicenter of vicious, anti-trans harassment campaigns,” with some users doxxing and filing false police reports against people.

The message board had temporarily fallen off the internet over the weekend. Its last web services provider, Cloudflare, blocked Kiwi Farms amid a heightened public pressure campaign. Cloudflare wrote that, in recent weeks, the message…

OAKLAND, Calif., March 2 (Reuters) – Ukrainians working at Western tech companies are banding together to help their besieged homeland, aiming to knock down disinformation websites, encourage Russians to turn against their government and speed delivery of medical supplies.

They are seeking, through email campaigns and online petitions, to persuade firms such as internet security company Cloudflare Inc (NET.N), Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O) and Amazon.com Inc to do more to counter Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“Companies should try to isolate Russia as much as possible, as soon as possible,” said Olexiy Oryeshko, a staff software engineer at Google and a Ukrainian American. “Sanctions are not enough.”

He was one of nine tech…

Social media has revolutionised the way in which we interact with businesses and each other and has shown that it can be a generous friend to business owners and entrepreneurs, helping them to harness a following, build their brand and grow a worldwide customer base. The success of widely known brands, such as the Body Coach, Huda Beauty and Glossier, are testament to this; their founders capitalised on the reach of social media to plant the seeds of, and then scale, these now highly successful businesses.

The UK has long been a place of innovation, and the pandemic seems to have catalysed this further. During the recent lockdowns many discovered (or rediscovered) talents, skills and ideas, or simply dedicated more time to their existing passions. Through sharing posts on social…

EAST HANOVER, NJ / ACCESSWIRE / January 5, 2022 / SilverSun Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:SSNT), a national provider of transformational business software applications and managed IT services, announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, SWK Technologies, Inc., has acquired the Acumatica division of Dynamic Tech Services, Inc., a leading Atlanta-based reseller of Acumatica ERP software solutions.

Mark Meller, CEO of both SilverSun and SWK Technologies, stated, “This is a strategic transaction which bolsters our resources and our geographic reach, and further enhances our position as the leading Acumatica reseller in North America. SWK is laser-focused on enabling the digital transformation of our over 5000 customers, and the cloud-based Acumatica ERP solution is an important component…