Workle, a Moscow-based startup, is developing an Internet platform that enables residents of Russia’s regions to work for leading banks, insurance and tourism companies on a remote basis. The award-winning startup has plans to serve up to 500,000 Russian residents this year – a five-fold increase from its 2012 results, said Vladimir Gorbunov, the CEO of Workle.
The first stage of the new High Technology Technopark is slated for completion in the second quarter of 2013 in Penza, in Russia’s Volga area, a spokesperson for the Penza regional administration told Marchmont News last week. The technopark will reportedly cover an area of 46,000 square meters. Its resident companies will focus on information …
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Authorities in the Republic of Bashkortostan, in Russia’s mid-Volga area, have pooled their efforts with those of several companies and organizations in the region to set up a local radio electronics technology cluster, the news portal I-mash.ru reports. The new technology cluster is being established to promote collaboration among regional telecommunications equipment makers, radio electronics equipment manufacturers, and …
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The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) is applying nanotechnology to develop a special ‘smart’ memory system for computers which they theorize will be capable of emulating the way the human brain functions, the TV Center website reports. According to Alexander Spiridonov, an MIPT postgraduate student working on the project, the new system could …
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Since the beginning of 2013, the Microsoft Seed Fund has provided a total of $110,000 in grants to two startups from Russia’s regions. A $50,000 grant went to RealSpeaker, a startup from Kazan, Tatarstan, which offers a new approach to speech recognition. The company also recently received financing from Startobaza, a local seed-stage investment company, along with …
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The three former Soviet republics that now share the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan are setting up an intergovernmental entity called “Venture Company – Innovation Technology Center of the Eurasian Economic Community” – or Innovation Technology Center, for short. Russia will be represented in the new entity by InfraFund, a fund established by …
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Ekaterinburg’s Ural Federal University (UrFU) has announced it is developing a new RFID-based technology to safeguard and take stock of library books. Eighteen months from now, the system is expected to be in operation at the library of Lyceum #130 in Yekaterinburg, a long-standing UrFU partner. The non-contact radiofrequency scanning system will reportedly enable librarians …
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has told key federal ministries to formulate ideas for the development of “world-class IT-related R&D centers” within Russian institutions of higher education and research institutes. The ministries expected to work out a mutually integrated project include Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Telecommunications, and Ministry of Finance.
The Russian Ministry of Telecommunications has been tasked with developing a set of measures aimed at ensuring international legal protection of intellectual property (IP) owned by Russian companies, Venture-News.ru reported earlier this week. The work was kick-started by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in late December 2012. The planned measures are said to include government subsidies …
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Scientists at the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) and some ethnic Russians from Componentality Oy, a Finnish-based company, have developed unique communications technologies to address transport problems in large urban areas, RusNanoNet.ru reported last week. The joint effort has reportedly resulted in the development of a “smart traffic …
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Vladimir Elin, a Russian inventor based in Moscow, has recently patented a futuristic dual-screen smartphone which is controlled by glances and gestures – no touch is required. This unique device is said to be able to monitor and respond to the owner’s eye pupil movements. Users may also make a call by applying a “virtual …
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The Russian Ministry of Education and Science has announced the start of a public debate over this country’s new long-term intellectual property (IP) protection strategy, portal Science and Technologies Russia reported earlier this week. The document is reported to have accumulated opinions and suggestions from Russia’s leading experts who represent VC funds, venture companies and larger …
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