LinkedIn announced earlier this week that it has launched versions of its website in Russian, Romanian and Turkish. According to the company, the English version of the website already had 400,000 users from Russia and over 1,000 groups related to Russia, reported ComNews.ru, a website covering IT and telecom issues.
Sitronics and state owned nanotechnology company Rusnano will launch a pilot project to integrate radio frequency identification tags (RFID) in the retail outlets of Russia’s largest food retailer, X5 Retail Group. The three way agreement was signed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum held in Russia’s Northern capital last weekend.
Moscow – The Russian office of Microsoft Corporation has signed a supply agreement with the organizing committee of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Microsoft reported in a recently published news release. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will provide the organizers of the Olympics with software and services particularly for the technical infrastructure of …
St. Petersburg – The Russian Post has announced plans to open 36 new automatic mail sorting centers throughout the country in the coming years, said Russian Post General Manager Alexander Kiselev on Tuesday at a news conference in St. Petersburg. The first sorting center, to be built in St. Petersburg for €50 million, will serve the Northwestern region of …
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St. Petersburg – Shoring up the slow and difficult transition in the Russian economy from gas and oil to a more knowledge driven paradigm, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum held in the end of last week in Russia’s Northern capital was replete with innovation related declarations on a massive scale. Innovation was a central theme at the …
St. Petersburg – In addressing participants at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum last Friday, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev’s speech did not reveal any substantially new position regarding his government’s now established stance on modernization, but innovation was nevertheless put forward as the first and foremost theme in the President’s address. “Modernization is the only way to address …
The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) has announced on its website last week that it will conduct three tenders for licenses to provide fixed WiMAX services in the 3.4-3.45GHz and 3.5-3.55GHz frequency bands in 30 Russian regions.
Odnoklassniki has announced the opening of its 100 millionth account last weekend, reported news agency RIA Novosti. The social network now counts 71 million activated accounts – those accounts for which users have provided a valid mobile phone number.
Newly registered in the Netherlands, Svyaznoy NV has emerged as the owner of a 99.99% stake in the Svyaznoy Group of Companies CJSC, reported Russian business daily Vedomosti. Svyaznoy NV only controls the retail business of Svyaznoy, currently Russia’s second leading mobile phone retailer after Euroset. Other Svyaznoy assets, including a bank and a retail …
Leading Russian mobile operators VimpelCom and MTS are eying to acquire Utel, the mobile unit of Ukrtelecom, a major fixed-line Ukrainian operator. Astelit, a subsidiary of the Turkish Turkcell, was also named as potential buyer.
Rambler, the once prominent but now second tier Russian search engine, has announced on company blog on Thursday the establishment of a new venture fund named Rambler-Fund. The fund has been set up in partnership with media firm Afisha.
The Russian Federal Supervision Agency for Information Technologies and Communications (FSA ITC) together with the Moscow police has conducted a number of pilot special operations to prevent the illegal distribution of databases containing personal data, the agency reported in a news release last week. The campaign held on June 8 targeted sellers of CDs containing …
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