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Founded in 2008, The Next Web is one of the world’s largest online publications that delivers an international perspective on the latest news about Internet technology, business and culture. With an active, influential audience consisting of more than 7.2 million monthly visits and 9.5 million monthly page views, The Next Web continues to expand its global presence on its website with the addition of new channels and content partnerships, as well as through events in North America and Europe. The Next Web partners with East-West Digital News to cover the vibrant Russian startup and innovation scene.

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Yandex relaunches its mobile analytics platform with detailed ad tracking

February 14, 2016

Russian internet giant Yandex has revamped its mobile analytics platform with a new name, as well as ad and traffic tracking capabilities. First launched in 2013 as Yandex.Metrica, the rebranded AppMetrica also offers user interaction and crash analytics for Android, iOS and Windows Phone apps in real-time. With the new version, Yandex aims to offer …

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Kaspersky Antivirus accused of creating fake malware for over 10 years

February 15, 2016

Here’s a crazy report: Kaspersky Lab, makers of a popular antivirus service, might have created fake malware for over ten years to harm its competitors. The software was benign, but Kaspersky fooled other antivirus software into marking it as infected. Two ex-employees told Reuters that the clandestine attack was originally meant to punish smaller rivals that Kaspersky felt were …

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Russia is considering blocking access to Reddit

February 15, 2016

Russia is considering blocking access to Reddit for its citizens over complaints that the site is hosting information showing how to cultivate narcotics. According to a post from Roskomnadzor (the ‘Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications’) on Russia’s VKontakte (VK.com) social network, the organization has been in touch with Reddit …

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Can Spotify and new local services drive Russian music fans to the right side of the law?

October 13, 2014

With a decades-long history of being one of the countries where online music has been mostly pirated, Russia is now seeing the emergence of music services that offer users a legal way to stream tracks. Spotify is on its way to the country, and local services are gearing up towards acquiring a bigger audience with new features and tailor-made offers …

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Ozon CEO Maëlle Gavet: “Our goal is to control 80% of Russia’s online retail market in ten years’ time”

June 13, 2013

Even as the market was still responding to the shock of Lamoda.ru’s enormous round of financing, Ozon Holdings’ CEO Maëlle Gavet said during an interview yesterday with The Next Web, in partnership with East-West Digital News, that her company aims to control directly or indirectly 80% of the Russian online retail market within ten years. …

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The Next Web and East-West Digital News team up to cover Russian digital innovation

April 23, 2013

As Russia rapidly emerges as a new hot spot on the world’s innovation map, East-West Digital News, the country’s first international resource on digital industries, has teamed up with influential website The Next Web to offer its unique news and insights to TNW’s global readership. While a regular flow of news stories from EWDN is …

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