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Founded in 2011, East-West Digital News is an online resource dedicated to the Russian high tech industry — providing fresh news, market research and business consulting services. Its news service and publications were suspended in 2022 as a consequence of Russia’s war on Ukraine and the subsequent international isolation.

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Yandex downgraded rankings of over 1,000 websites for illegitimate SEO techniques

July 15, 2011

Russia’s leading search engine Yandex has lowered its rankings of over 1,000 Russian websites because the sites used illegitimate search engine optimization – or SEO – methods, according to unnamed SEO experts quoted by Russian business daily Vedomosti. SEO service providers RBS, Megaseo, Perfectseo, Userator, and Megaindex are expected to be particularly hard hit by Yandex’s …

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Mobile retailer Svyaznoy to launch music portal

July 15, 2011

Russia’s second largest mobile phone retailer Svyaznoy, which operates some 2,300 outlets throughout Russia, will soon launch a website to sell music, ebooks and other multimedia content, Russian daily Vedomosti reported, citing Svyaznoy’s General Manager Denis Lyudkovsky. The future portal – still unnamed – will offer over 1 million music tracks, over 30,000 e-books, computer …

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Russian innovation starts “conscious life” on Moscow stock exchange

July 14, 2011

Moscow’s MICEX stock exchange has just begun publishing the  ‘MICEX Innov,’ an innovation index which MICEX president Ruben Agangegyan represented as  “The beginning of a conscious life of innovation and investment in Russia.” A company’s shares can be included in the new index if it floats no less than 10% of its shares and has …

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Panasonic, Philips and Samsung to embed MTS content service into their TV sets

July 14, 2011

Leading Russian mobile operator MTS recently signed cooperation agreements with several major producers of TV sets, including Panasonic, Philips and Samsung, to deliver content from Omlet.ru, an MTS subsidiary, to their TV sets. The news was reported last week by Russian newspaper RBC Daily from unnamed sources.

Russian mobile game Cut the Rope tops Android app market

July 13, 2011

Cut the Rope, a game developed by Russian firm ZeptoLab, topped the paid applications section of Android Market, the application store for Android-supported devices, just one week after its launch on July 1.

Russian startup experiments with new model in online short term apartment rentals

July 13, 2011

A new player has emerged on the nascent Russian online alternative accommodation market. Apartator.ru launched its test version in April and its first paid functions in late June. It has just been selected as one of the 10 finalists of the European Demo Night startup contest to be held next week in San Francisco.

$13.6 million injected into Russian Booking.com

July 13, 2011

Ostrovok.ru, an online hotel booking service launched a year ago in Russia, announced yesterday it has raised as much as $13.6 million from leading international investors. Among them are General Catalyst Partners, AccelPartners, Founders Fund and Atomico Ventures as well as prominent business angels including Qunar founder Fritz Demopoulos, Yandex board member Esther Dyson, Zyngo founder Mark …

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Russia tightens screws on copyright violations

July 12, 2011

Three major court cases involving violation of electronic copyright came into the spotlight in Russia over the past two weeks, revealing a steady – though controversial – progress in the application of copyright related legislation in the country.

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