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Russian Post and Rostelecom judged “anti-brands of the year”

By East-West Digital News / Apr 27, 2012

The Russian Post was among the ten companies awarded the title of “Anti-Brand of the year” by Potrebiteli.ru, a non governmental consumer rights initiative, for the second time in two years.

“Judging from the endless flow of complaints, the Post’s work does not leave some things to be desired; it just leaves anything positive to be desired. Parcels can take months to be delivered, if they are delivered at all, and many will have something missing inside,” the NGO complains.

Online luxury discussed in Moscow – with a French touch

By East-West Digital News / Apr 12, 2012

Last week, La Conférence Luxe & Digital gathered 40 speakers, 50 journalists, and over 300 industry representatives who shared their experience and views on today’s digital trends in the luxury and fashion industry. This international event, which held its first and second editions in Paris in 2010 and 2011, took place this time in Moscow. It was co-organized by Digital October, the Russian capital’s leading tech event organizer and venue.

Russia’s Roman Andreev wins first place and $5,000 in Facebook’s Hackers Cup

By East-West Digital News / Mar 20, 2012

Facebook’s 2nd annual Hacker Cup competition, held at the company’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, witnessed 25 of the world’s best hackers gather for an intense competition. Roman Andreev of Russia took top prize by correctly completing a problem in 1 hour and 4 minutes, one minute ahead of the second place winner. Andreev received an unusually-designed and heavy trophy made of cement, along with a check for $5,000.

The contest is an annual algorithmic programming contest that Facebook makes open to engineers from anywhere in the world.

California’s ‘Big TED’ offered live in Moscow

By East-West Digital News / Feb 21, 2012

From Feb. 28 to Mar. 2, each of the 12 sessions of the legendary TED conference held annually in Long Beach, California, will be broadcast live in Moscow at MOD Design, a platform for contemporary design and innovation located in the center of town.

Among other features, the TED 2012 Full Spectrum event will include a four-day stage program featuring 18-minute talks, plus music, comedy, dance, short talks, video and other surprises.

Nordic and Russian finalists at CeBIT’s CODE_n innovation contest

By Mika Aho, ArcticStartup / Feb 10, 2012

Next month’s 2012 CeBIT fair will feature a brand new global innovation contest called CODE_n. Short for ’Code of the New’, the contest aims to seek out and promote the world’s most innovative startups involved in the development of new business models for the internet or mobile devices.

Six Nordic and four Russian startups have been selected into the Top 50 of this year’s contest out of over 400 candidates. Each finalist gets a 15 square-meter presentation space at CeBIT and a chance to promote themselves at the world’s largest digital expo. A whopping 62% of the finalists are from Germany.

Russian educational network Dnevnik.ru honored at UN contest

By East-West Digital News / Jan 26, 2012 / 1 Comment

Dnevnik.ru, Russia’s first social educational network, was honored last week as one of the of the best e-learning and educational websites at the World Summit Award 2011.

A free, nationwide school network, Dnevnik.ru was established in 2007. The site currently serves 16,000 schools and over 3 million pupils, parents, teachers, and school administrators.

Skolkovo woos German startup in Singapore

By Ekaterina Preobrazhenskaya, East-West Digital News / Dec 21, 2011

Taxipedia, a German startup that has developed a mobile app for calling taxis and getting discounted fares, was awarded a Skolkovo Foundation grant last week, reported Tass-Telecom last week. The ceremony was held at the Singapore campus of INSEAD, a top ranking international business school with its main campus in Fontainebleau, France.

Mobile app builder, cloud based data backup solution and e-commerce delivery startup honored at Startup of the Year contest

By East-West Digital News / Dec 12, 2011 / 1 Comment

One of the Russia’s most anticipated nationwide startup contests, Startup of the Year held court with a swarm of young entrepreneurs, concepts and high tech demonstrations last Thursday on the campus of the Moscow Higher School of Economics (HSE). The annual event takes place every December and is organized by HSE business incubator HSE Inc.

Russian e-commerce now a hot item on global IT map, say experts at TechCrunch Moscow conference

By East-West Digital News / Dec 08, 2011

Russia’s fast growing e-commerce and mobile industries, entrepreneurial ecosystem, access to the global market for Russian companies as well as the role of the Internet in Russian politics were among the topics discussed at the second annual TechCrunch Moscow conference, held on Monday at Digital October, a major venue for tech events and educational programs with a co-working space.

Several hundred entrepreneurs and investors came from around Russia and from abroad, including European eBay Head of International Expansion Rob Cassedy, Ozon.ru General Manager Maëlle Gavet, Mail.ru Group General Manager Dmitry Grishin, Pay Pal Europe VP Laurent le Moal, Zeptolab General Manager Mikhail Lyalin as well as Yandex co-founders Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich.

International high tech guest stars at Moscow convention to encourage aspiring entrepreneurs

By East-West Digital News / Dec 01, 2011

The scent of Silicon Valley wafted in the air on Tuesday at the Russian Youth Innovation Convention in Moscow. In addition to gathering over 800 aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the country, the event attracted such international celebrities as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Gmail creator Paul Bucheit, Angry Birds founder Peter Vesterbacka and Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides.

Key Russian market players were well represented too with Igor Agamirzian of the Russian Venture Company, Gleb Davidyuk of iTech Capital, Sasha Galitsky of Almaz Capital, Kirill Macharinsky of Ostrovok.ru, Alexander Naumov of the Skolkovo Foundation, among many others.

Category: Events & contests

Russian Post and Rostelecom judged “anti-brands of the year”

Online luxury discussed in Moscow – with a French touch

Russia’s Roman Andreev wins first place and $5,000 in Facebook’s Hackers Cup

California’s ‘Big TED’ offered live in Moscow

Nordic and Russian finalists at CeBIT’s CODE_n innovation contest

Russian educational network Dnevnik.ru honored at UN contest

Skolkovo woos German startup in Singapore

Mobile app builder, cloud based data backup solution and e-commerce delivery startup honored at Startup of the Year contest

Russian e-commerce now a hot item on global IT map, say experts at TechCrunch Moscow conference

International high tech guest stars at Moscow convention to encourage aspiring entrepreneurs

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