The Russian edition of Elle magazine has launched a full-fledged online store. Instead of using affiliated stores, Elle.ru allows users to stay on the site to complete their orders and make payment. A call center provides online shoppers with assistance.
Softline Venture Partners, a fund owned by Softline, a leader on the Russian software licensing market, has invested an additional $500,000 in Emegamall to take a controlling stake in the company. The transaction was based on a valuation of $2 million, reports Oborot.ru, a specialized online resource.
Groupon Russia has made its offer available in “Cool discounts,” an application of Odnoklassniki.ru, a leading Russian-language social network.
MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator, has launched an online payment system allowing MasterCard and Visa cardholders to pay for hundreds of services both related and unrelated to their MTS mobile accounts.
Russian retailers sold 120,000 iPhone 4 units over the last three months, according to Kommersant, a Russian business daily. This comes in addition to significant unofficial sales via “grey import” channels. Although modest in comparison to the iPhone’s triumphant worldwide sales performance, 16.2 million in Q4 2010, these results mark significant progress for Apple on …
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The ANN investment company and VimpelCom announced their purchase of the Euroset group, one of the largest commercial cell phone networks in Russia.
Microsoft has completed the most recent round of its piracy-monitoring program in Russia, a program that monitors the levels of unlicensed software in retail computer sales. Of 3,229 audited retail outlets in 94 Russian cities, about 20 percent offered pirated software to customers. Eleven percent of the audited retail outlets allowed preinstallation of pirated software.
