Yandex has announced its participation in the preparation of an experiment at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to confirm the existence of dark matter, RBC daily reports. Yandex is to provide scientists at CERN with big data processing technology and human resources. The Yandex School of Data Analysis (SDA) has partnered with CERN …
In 2006, the co-owners of the little-known Russian IT company Parallels Nicholas Dobrovolsky and Sergey Beloussov, took part in a meeting at the offices of Apple in Cupertino, California. [Editor’s note: the company now controls 90 percent of the market for applications to run Windows-based programs on Apple computers]. The Russian businessmen aimed to introduce the Parallels Desktop system, which …
Financing of the Russian state’s Information Society (2011-2020) program is to be reduced by 52 billion rubles ($1.4 billion) to 1.1 trillion rubles ($32.1 trillion), according to the draft of a government decree prepared by the Ministry of Communications, Digit.ru reported last month. This is the third planned reduction in the state program in less …
Doroga.tv, a startup based in Nizhniy Novgorod, has received permission from the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in New York on a test launch of software it has developed for the online tracking of city buses, Venture-News.ru reported last week. If the test is deemed successful, the system could become a permanent feature of the city’s transport resources. …
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