Russian electronics firm Yota Devices has created a new tablet device, Sergei Chemezov, the head of state technology holding Rostec, told newspaper Vedomosti in an interview published Monday. “We are working on a tablet. I’ve already seen it,” Chemezov said, adding that one of the Yota Tablet’s novel features is the ability to charge a YotaPhone smartphone. Rostec, a massive state conglomerate heavily invested in the …
Earlier this week Russian-Israeli startup Medviser announced that it has received half a million US dollars in investment from Roman Abramovich. The transaction was made via an undisclosed entity belonging to the Russian billionaire. It valued the company at $1,7 million post money, with the investor receiving a 30% stake. Medviser was founded in mid-2014 by Anna Danishevskaya, …
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A new protest monitoring system was launched in Russia on May 18, 2015. It is called Laplace’s Demon, in honor of Pierre-Simon Laplace’s 19th century mathematical experiment. The system’s author is scientist Evgeny Venedictov, the director of the Center for Research on Legitimacy and Political Protest. Venedictov does not hide the fact that his creation was inspired …
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“A Russian scientist made a breakthrough”: this is how many global media outlets have described the new quantum key protection technology for bank cards developed by Viktor Petrik. The scientist seemingly proposed a brilliant solution for the problem of data leakage. According to Petrik, the magnetic strip and the electronic chips are the weakest link in the …
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Qiwi Venture, the investment arm of Russian electronic payment giant QIWI Group, has committed itself to invest an estimated $150,000 in Krawlly, as reported by Russian tech blog Firrma. This Russian startup is developing an Android mobile app, christened “AnyBalance,” that displays in one interface the balances of a user’s bank, mobile or ISP accounts. The startups claims …
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On Friday last week eToro, which presents itself as the world’s largest social investment network for traders, announced its official launch in Russia with fully localized features and support. Pavel Salas, a former executive at Alfa Forex (Alfa-Bank), GKFX and Alpari, has been appointed as head of the Russian office. The company’s stated mission is …
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The United States on Friday announced that U.S. companies can still give users in Crimea access to a range of free online communications services, despite an earlier U.S. ban on providing any services to the region after it was annexed by Russia last year. The decision will allow U.S. Internet companies such as Apple and Google — who previously announced that they were cutting off service to Crimea — …
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Yandex unveiled yesterday new features of its Yandex.Browser, now in beta testing, including a “high privacy level” for its users. Unlike other browsers, says the Russian company, the private version of Yandex.Browser does not send users’ information to the developer by default: “We do not get any stats or browsing data.” “Sharing users’ information helps developers …
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Selectel, a major commercial data center operator in Russia, has just launched the “Virtual Private Cloud” (VPC) — an offer that it says is new in Russia but inspired by the models of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace. “The VPC isn’t private in the traditional sense that it belongs to one client, but it’s …
Russian prosecutors have demanded that the country’s media watchdog block access to sections of Apple’s App Store and Google Play that allow Russian users to download the works of Adolf Hitler and Islamic writer Sa’id bin Ali bin Wahf Al-Qahtani, the Izvestia newspaper reported Thursday. The move follows months of bluster by the watchdog, Roskomnadzor, over the hawking of “extremist” material to Russians by foreign Internet companies. But this time the threat …
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After Western sanctions began shutting down sales of high-tech internet equipment to Russia’s military and security forces, employees at technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. altered sales records and booked deals under a false customer name, according to internal company documents. The intent, according to a confidential source with deep knowledge of Cisco’s Moscow operations, was …
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As a result of the international tensions, Western venture capitalists that traditionally looked at Russia have found themselves in an uncomfortable position over the past year. The Russia label has become a stigma in the eyes of a large part of them, making international funding and development more difficult for local startups. In an exchange with …
