Russia’s biggest online retailer is now visiting the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ and plans to scout out Hong Kong and London in coming months as potential venues for an up to $1.5 billion IPO in 2016, the company’s spokesman Brian Kean told The Wall Street Journal. “Before buying fish, you usually check it out …
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The Russian government agency looking to enforce new restrictions on the Internet has asked Twitter and Facebook to send representatives to Russia to discuss the laws. A spokesman for Russian government media regulator Roscomnadzor confirmed the planned meetings. The new laws require bloggers to register with the government and Internet data regarding Russians to be stored …
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Earlier this year, investigators for Silicon Valley security company FireEye Inc. visited a U.S. firm to determine who, and what, sneaked into the firm’s network harboring military secrets. There they found what they call a sophisticated cyberweapon, able to evade detection and hop between computers walled off from the Internet. The spy tool was programmed on Russian-language …
Early last year, Russian travel booking site Ostrovok.ru raised $28 million in a Series B round led by General Catalyst Partners, to much fanfare. By the end of the year, however, both General Catalyst and another investor, Accel Partners, had quietly divested their holdings, as Dow Jones VentureWire reported this morning. General Catalyst Managing Director and Co-Founder Joel Cutler confirmed that …
