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Adding to the ever-growing list of companies that are pausing or ending business in Russia

after the nation's government launched an invasion of neighboring Ukraine,

Amazon is suspending Prime Video in the country.

Amazon has also suspended the shipment of retail products to customers based in Russia and

Belarus, and Amazon will no longer be accepting new to customers in Russia and Belarus.

And Amazon will no longer be accepting new Russia and Belarus-based AWS customers

and Amazon third-party sellers.

In addition, the e-commerce giant won't be taking orders for New World, which is the only video game

it sells directly in Russia.

In other news, startups that built for developers had an amazing 2021.

They raised huge sums of capital and put forth a number of high-profile

richly valued IPOs. And then their valuations were cut. For startups still building

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