At an international conference dedicated to ERA-GLONASS held in Moscow yesterday, Russian national navigation services provider Navigation Information Systems (NIS) signed agreements with T-Systems, a German operator of ICT systems, Zatix, a Brazilian tracking company, and Upaya, a Brazilian consultancy.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) made public yesterday a list of 30 Internet and physical markets in various countries which “have been the subject of enforcement action connected with counterfeiting and piracy, or may merit further investigation for possible intellectual property rights (IPR) infringements.” Among them are Vkontakte.ru, Russia’s leading social …
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VimpelCom, a leading Russian mobile operator with headquarters in Amsterdam, welcomed yesterday the decision of the English Commercial Court allowing its March 17, 2011 shareholder meeting to go forward as planned.
Gazprom Media and its subsidiary TNT, a Russian television channel, yesterday launched a paid, video-content website named Now.ru. Sony Pictures, Disney, Warner Brothers, Lions Gate, Nickelodeon, MTV Networks, BBC and Playboy Enterprises will provide the portal with top content.
Mail.ru Group is in discussions with other owners of Vkontakte.ru with a view to take full control of this leading social network, said Dmitry Grishin, the group’s general manager.
The Russian Ministry of Economic Development unveiled last week an online map of the country’s investment projects, proposals and sites as well as special economic, socio-economic indicators, logistical infrastructure and educational centers.
Ten licenses for GSM in 1800 MHz standard are to be offered in Kamchatka, the Koryak District, the Chukotka Autonomous District and the Sakhalin Region. Applications for participation have been filled out by seven companies, including leading mobile operators VimpelCom and MegaFon, as well as New Telephone Company (NTC), Tele2 (from Siberia and Chelyabinsk, Ural) …
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Navitel, the leading Russian publisher of navigation software, has reported that total sales in the navigation software market grew by 300% in 2010, according to RBC Daily, a Russian business daily.
Begun announced that it was the most highly trafficked advertising network on the Russian Internet, based on figures provided by TNS Russia. Begun’s audience – 26.6 million unique users in January 2011 – is close to those of Yandex and Mail.ru, the two most visited Russian-language sites.
In 2010 the performance of Mail.ru Group, an LSE-listed Russian internet group, was remarkable in many respects, according to the financial results it released yesterday. The group’s aggregate revenues grew to $324 million, a 64% increase from 2009 – or 58% excluding the impact of the ICQ acquisition completed in July 2010. Its net income …
MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator and retailer, announced yesterday it will offer Foursquare check-in points at its 3,200 outlets throughout Russia, beginning in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Revenues for the leading Russian mobile service providers are expected to grow an average of 10% over the next 3-4 years, according to a JPMorgan report cited by Russian business daily Vedomosti. Operators spent the previous year recovering from the crisis, but from Q3 2009 the average growth rate for revenues increased from 1.5 to …
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