Oleg Kouzbit

Oleg Kouzbit is Managing Editor at Marchmont News, a bilingual resource dedicated to innovation across Russian regions. He regularly contributes articles to East-West Digital News.

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Video solution developer Sotal-Cloud receives $1 million from public/private investor pool

November 19, 2014

Sotal-Cloud, a Moscow-based developer of video content solutions, has raised 31 million rubles (approximately $1 million) of seed capital in its first round of funding from the government-owned RVC Seed Fund and Sotal-Interactive, a provider of innovative solutions for interactive TV. Another member of the investor consortium is St. Petersburg’s Pelana, an accounting and legal …

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Enterprise software publisher 1C fosters “true franchisees,” seeks global expansion

November 19, 2014

1C, Russia’s largest publisher of enterprise software, has given a major face-lift to its franchisee partner network across the former Soviet Union and is putting together a strategy to expand beyond the well-tapped CIS markets. In an exchange last week with CNews.ru, 1C CEO Boris Nuraliev explained that the franchisee overhaul addresses the widespread and …

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Odnoklassniki announces its Tajik version, the last among CIS localizations

November 19, 2014

Late last week, Odnoklassniki, Russia’s second-largest social network, announced the prospective launch of its Tajik version. The language of this small Central Asian country is expected to become the last to join the family of the former Soviet Union languages Odnoklassniki speaks. In its brief message to users, the network said its mobile version was …

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VimpelCom makes new move on Russia’s NFC ‘chessboard’

November 19, 2014

VimpelCom, a leading Russian mobile operator, has announced the next step in its endeavor to combine the mobile phone and the e-wallet. In an attempt to catch up with MTS and MegaFon, the other mobile players who comprise Russia’s “Big Three,” VimpelCom has pooled efforts with Alfa-Bank and MasterCard to  test a Near Field Communication (NFC) …

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Russia pushes anti-piracy legislation; VKontakte’s laxity once again in the limelight

February 28, 2017

As Russian media sources air reports about VKontakte (VK.com), Russia’s largest social network, getting rid of its illegal music content, VK.com itself denies any widespread purges, mollifying user protests with a ‘business as usual’ sort of message. “VKontakte, facing the imminent adoption of Russia’s anti-piracy law, is busy removing its illegal music content – perhaps,” …

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Medvedev’s Cabinet compels state-owned corporations to buy Russian technology

November 19, 2014

The Russian Government has decided to compel large domestic corporations controlled by the state to buy Russian technologies. Under a government decree signed earlier this month, a special “roadmap” is expected to ease business suppliers’ access to the procurement programs of Russia’s largest state-owned corporations – including such large ones as Gazprom, Rosneft, Russian Railways, Rosatom, …

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Tomsk’s new VC fund to back seed-stage efforts in business and academia

November 19, 2014

The Russian venture fever hit the Tomsk region in Siberia last week with the announced launch of a regional seed-stage fund. The new fund is expected to focus on the support of technology developments across the region’s innovation production clusters and in local academia. The fund will operate as an Open Investment Society (in Russian: …

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Russia has over a million LTE subscribers

November 19, 2014

There were slightly over one million LTE subscribers in Russia as of April 2013, Artyom Kuznetsov, a spokesman for Sweden’s Ericsson, told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti last week. Earlier this year, the consultancy firm J’son & Partners estimated the number of LTE subscribers in Russia to have been “around 500,000 to 750,000” at …

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St. Petersburg startups pitch customer-oriented solutions for bankers

November 19, 2014

As Russia’s banking sector seeks new, customer-focused strategies to win over clients in an increasingly competitive market, Russian startups are close at hand and ready to support such strategies with an array of advanced IT solutions. In St. Petersburg on May 31st, eighteen startups, all residents of the Ingria business incubator, made a series of …

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Microsoft Seed Fund backs app development and genetic diagnostics

November 19, 2014

Last week, the Microsoft Russia Seed Fund announced it has disbursed another $160,000 to support Russian startups developing IT projects. A $60,000 grant went to Appercode from Siberia’s Novosibirsk. The Appercode team pushes a solution that would enable application developers and systems integrators to create .NET/C#-based cross-platform mobile apps. The product is believed to reduce …

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Four Russian tech startups join MassChallenge’s best and brightest

November 19, 2014

Late last month, MassChallenge, a nonprofit organization that runs a $1 million annual global startup competition, hand-picked 128 first-round winners to join its 2013 Accelerator Program. RVC-USA, the Boston-based representative office of Russian government-owned RVC and a two-time platinum sponsor of the MassChallenge competition, announced last week that four Russian startups had made it to …

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Russian IT market veteran takes over young web security solutions provider

November 19, 2014

Treolan, a dynamic, Moscow-based distributor of hardware and software products, announced last week the takeover of Safeline, a leading, six-year-old, multivendor distributor of IT security solutions in Russia and the former USSR. Informzaschita, the seller in the deal and a leader in Russia’s IT security market for over 17 years, confirmed the transaction in its own …

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