Notebooks and tablet PCs have become more popular than desktop PCs over the past two or three years, Samsung representative Sergei Ilyushin told Kommersant, a Russian business daily. According to him, tablet computers, which entered the mass market only last year, could displace netbooks as early as 2011.
In a meeting with Russian bloggers yesterday, Viktor Vekselberg, president of the Skolkovo Foundation, pledged to “lynch bribers” on the future innovation hub’s territory should any instance of corruption be discovered, reported Vedomosti, a Russian business daily.
According to the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), a leading Russian poll institute, 40% of Russian citizens (46.2 million) hold one or more bank cards, but only 5% of them use their cards for online payments. Among active cardholders the number rises to 18%.
World leading classifieds platform eBay launched its Russian-language version one year ago, in March 2010, and despite problems surrounding the launch, Russian Internet users appear to like having their own version: the number of registered users increased by 73% in its first year. In addition, Russian users have proven to be the most active buyers …
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“We rule out, and consider to be utopian, a full integration of Vkontakte into Mail.ru Group,” said Pavel Durov in an open letter published yesterday. Durov, Vkontakte.ru’s general manager and main shareholder, denied holding any discussions about an increase of the Mail.ru Group stake in Vkontakte.ru, Russia’s leading social network.
CountryCom, a Russian telecommunications operator offering a variety of services, announced its launch of an MVNO covering the Moscow regions using the network of Skylink, a leading Russian 3G operator.
Tinkoff Credit System, a Russian bank specializing in consumer credit, and Odnoklassniki.ru, a leading Russian social networking site, have launched a social application allowing users to apply for co-branded credit cards.
Wikimart.ru closed a second round of financing with US venture fund Tiger Global partners, reported Wikimart founders Maxim Faldin and Kamil Kurmakaev yesterday to Russian business daily Vedomosti.
Mobile phone retailer Svyaznoy announced the imminent opening of a department dedicated to Android-supported devices in one of its Moscow outlets. Such departments may appear in other Svyaznoy stores in Moscow and Russian regions as well.
In 2010, advertisers in Russia spent 531 million rubles ($18.3 million) placing video ads on the Russian-language Internet — up 77% from 2009, according to RuTube.ru, a leading Russian video hosting platform.
MICEX, one of the two main Moscow stock exchanges, has opened the IPO Board, a web service dedicated to innovative companies, including those at startup stage. This resource will allow “buyers” and “sellers” to publish their offers and make deals directly.
In a report issued today, Uralsib Capital estimated that Mail.ru Group, an LSE-listed Russian Internet group, is overvalued.
