The U.S. mobile ecosystem duopoly has been the big story of tech for the past six-plus years. And continues to be mobile’s unshakeable reality — with Android and iOS collectively cutting themselves a 96 per cent share of the device market (per Gartner figures for Q3 2014). Not everyone is happy about this lack of geopolitical diversity in the …
Russia to pay local devs to migrate apps to Tizen, Sailfish Read More
– “Hey there, I’m just calling to wake you up,” I said a little awkwardly. – “Thanks. Where are you from?” replied a female voice with a thick Irish accent. – “The UK. You’re from Ireland, right?” – “How could you tell?” she said wryly. – “The flag at the top of the screen.” It took 9 months to be …
Wakie, the social alarm clock that lets you wake up strangers, finally arrives on iOS Read More
Developers in Russia are putting up their feet today — that is, after they have finished stomping around in frustration for a little while. It’s emerged that Russia’s regulator RosComNadzor has blocked GitHub after the popular software and coding collaboration platform was found to be hosting content related to suicide — specifically, see this file that details 32 ways to kill yourself. The “block” …
Russia blacklists, blocks GitHub over pages that refer to suicide Read More
Smartphones are mostly similar, barring differences in performance, attention to detail and features that these days can seem pretty minor, especially on paper. YotaPhone is a different kettle of fish, a device from a Russian company that boasts a fairly standard smartphone display on one side, but also comes complete with a power-saving e-ink screen on the …
YotaPhone 2 dual-screen smartphone gets its debut December 3 in London Read More
As the largest e-commerce store in its region, Ozon has been called the “Amazon.com of Russia.” But this morning on stage at Disrupt Europe in London, Ozon CEO Maelle Gavet shot down the notion that her company should be called an Amazon clone. For one thing, she said, Ozon was founded 16 years ago, which was …
“It’s not fair to call Ozon an Amazon clone,” CEO Maëlle Gavet says Read More
BlockTrail is a new platform for bitcoin analytics launched today by Amsterdam-based researchers BlockCorp. It has secured €500,000 ($669,310) in funding from BlockCorp, which was set up by entrepreneur Boaz Bechar and VKontakte co-founder Lev Leviev. Competing with Blockchain.info and Blockr, the platform hopes to surface information about cryptocurrency transactions by creating dedicated tools for the analysis …
Vkontakte co-founder Lev Leviev invests in Bitcoin analytics platform BlockTrail Read More
