The Russian mobile operator MTS is considering selling a stake of its online paid video site Omlet.ru, the operator’s VP of Marketing Vasily Latsanich announced earlier this week at a press conference. “A content business should be separated from a mobile operator’s business, and we are not the only ones on the market to believe so,” …
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Mail.ru announced on Monday that its webmail interface is now available in Ukrainian. This marks the first time that Mail.ru has offered its service in a language other than Russian. In addition, the site will be slightly redesigned to include some Ukrainian-style elements, Mail.ru announced. However, the Russian webmail giant has failed so far to acquire …
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In a new move demonstrating its international presence, the Russian search giant Yandex announced on Monday that it has opened a sales office in Lucerne, Switzerland. The new office is headed by Bernard Lukey, a Swiss citizen and the former CEO of Ozon.ru, one of Russia’s largest online stores. The Lucerne sales office was opened …
Vist Group, a major, twenty-year-old Russian developer of turn-key IT solutions for mine fleet and railroad management systems, is considering seeking capital market opportunities, according to Reuters. A resident of Skolkovo, the government-sponsored technology hub outside Moscow, Vist could thus become the first Skolkovo resident to orchestrate an IPO. Vist has declined to make any …
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The potential of Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub nearing completion outside of Moscow, as a research and development base for marketable high tech products has been illustrated, for one of the first times, by the first international sales of a cloud computing solution developed with the support of Skolkovo’s IT cluster.
Two deep-pocket, state-owned innovation flagships, the Russian Venture Company (RVC) and Rusnano, and the MICEX-RTS stock exchange have shaken hands on an uncommonly broad-based, private/public partnership designed to aid Russia’s fledgling technology innovators. In a concerted not-for-profit effort called Innovation and Investment Market (IIM), also known as IPO Board, the players are stepping forward to …
Tvigle.ru, a major Russian video entertainment portal on the Russian Internet, has purchased a number of popular TV shows from BBC Worldwide, including the award-winning programs Misfits, The Luther, Cranford, The Fade, The Deep, and others. No less than 200 hours of BBC Worlwide content will be offered free of charge by Tvigle, whose business …
Last week, Rostelecom, the Russian national telecom operator, announced two acquisitions almost simultaneously, reflecting its ambitions to integrate a variety of networks and services across Russia and assert itself as a universal operator. The company announced it consolidated its ownership of NTK, a leading cable operator, of which it had already bought a 71.8% stake …
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SMS spam should be considered a medium-gravity crime, which implies punishment of up to five years in prison, suggested participants at a meeting last week which brought together Russian regulation and surveillance agencies as well as leading mobile operators. Telecom regulator Roskomnadzor also suggested changing the rules for providing telecommunication services and content.
Last week, Yandex announced it will provide seed funding to TimeBooker, an Israeli startup which intends to serve small and mid-sized service companies with an innovative booking solution. The seed funding, which industry blogger Yakov Sadchikov thinks is “in the range between $50,000 and $100,000,” will be brought under the Yandex.Factory program.
In 2011, SAP generated more revenues in Russia and the neighboring CIS countries than any of the other BRIC countries. The Russia and CIS region accounted for the fourth largest contribution to the firm’s global revenues, just after the USA, Germany, and the UK, news agency RIA Novosti reported.
In an unprecedented experiment to ensure voting transparency, most of Russia’s 94,300 polling stations were equipped with webcams offering a live broadcast of yesterday’s voting. The broadcast, which started at midnight, Moscow time, on election day, ended after all vote counting operations were completed. It was followed by up to 400,000 simultaneous Internet users on a …
