Medvedev wins award at Russian blogger contest
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s Twitter and LiveJournal accounts have been named the best blogs of the Russian-language Internet at the 2011 Runet Blog award ceremony.
Online advertising spending up 40% in 2010
Spending for advertisements on the Russian-language Internet grew to 21.86 billion rubles ($729 million) in 2010, an increase of 40% from 2009, estimates MindShare Interaction. The global media network said further that Russian retailers were the biggest spenders last year: their total outlay alone increased by 67%.
Sibirtelecom promotes GPON in Novosibirsk
Using GPON technology, Sibirtelecom connected 10 thousand subscribers to the internet in the Novosibirsk region. This passive optical networks project provides network access speeds of up to 1 Gb/s. Sibirtelecom announced that the number of connected subscribers will be increased three-fold by the end of 2011.
Fast-growing Tele2 Russia increases revenues and investments
Tele2 Russia, a subsidiary of a European telecommunications holding based in Sweden, announced yesterday its 2010 financial results. The Russian subsidiary generated 10.3 billion Swedish crowns ($1.6 billion) in revenue, and its EBITDA reached 3.6 bn crowns ($555 million). This is a significant increase from 2009, with revenue up by 35.5 percent and EBITDA up …
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Natalya Kasperskaya invests in Chinese Internet market
Natalya Kasperskaya, founder and minority shareholder of Kaspersky Lab, has launched the international expansion of her new project “Nanosemantika.” The startup is focused on the development of artificial intelligence (AI) for virtual interface technologies.
Telenor seeks injunction to derail VimpelCom acquisition
Telenor, seeking an order that would require VimpelCom to issue extra shares in its favor at the same time that it issues shares for Wind, announced yesterday it had petitioned the Commercial Court in London for an injunction that would see those shares placed in escrow until the conclusion of the arbitration proceeding that it …
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CSTB 2011: Russia’s great digital TV and telecoms show
The 13th annual International Exhibition and Conference CSTB-2011 was held in Moscow from February 1 to 3. The exhibition is dedicated to modern TV and telecommunication technologies formats and trends, including broadband technologies, pay-TV, cable TV, satellite TV, mobile TV, IPTV, HDTV, content, satellite communications, operators’ services in broadband networks and wireless technologies.
DE CIX, Russia’s newest foreign IP connection
TTK, one of the largest principal Internet providers in Russia, announced its connection to traffic exchange point DE-CIX (Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange) in Frankfurt, Germany. This is the sixth point of traffic exchange between TTK and international segments of the Internet. TTK’s other points of exchange are in London (LINX, since 2005), Amsterdam (AMS-IX, since …
Russian Bank for Development launches innovation-oriented fund with Western partners
State-owned Russian Development Bank (RBD) will allocate at most 300 million rubles for the capital formation of the Modernization, Innovation and Development direct investment fund (MID). RBD has formed partnerships with Russian as well as foreign investors, including German bank KfW.
ANN and VimpelCom finally purchase Euroset
The ANN investment company and VimpelCom announced their purchase of the Euroset group, one of the largest commercial cell phone networks in Russia.
Russian mobile operators battle for South Korean-owned regional operator
MTS, Vimpelcom, Megafon and Tele2, the four leading mobile operators in Russia, have all made bids for KT Corp’s 80 percent stake in New Telephone Company (NTC), a major mobile, fixed and IP telephony and Internet operator based in Vladivostok, reports Vedomosti, a Russian business daily.
MTS enters broadband battlefield with HDSPA+ in Moscow
MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator, announced the successful test of a section of its DC-HSDPA 3G network in Moscow. Three times faster than conventional HSDPA networks, the DC-HSPDA features the simultaneous use of two carrier frequencies, providing transfer speeds of up to 42 Mbit/s to subscribers.
