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What the ‘Paradise Papers’ missed to reveal: Airbnb, Alibaba, DropBox, Groupon, Hyperloop One, Shazam, Spotify, Uber also received “Kremlin money”

January 18, 2023

Leaked files have just highlighted the connections of Yuri Milner, a top Russian-born international tech investor, with a Russian state-controlled financial institution.  While seeing in these connections “a long Kremlin arm,” the international journalist consortium which analyzed these files omitted to point out many other cases of Russian money fuelling powerful tech companies in the US and elsewhere. However, …

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How Chinese online retailers leverage CPA campaigns to secure fast growth on the global market

November 4, 2017

Chinese e-commerce companies will generate nearly half a billion US dollars in cross-border revenues this year through admitad’s CPA platform, the company has revealed. This considerable volume accounts for just a fraction of Chinese online retailers’ international business, since admitad is not the only affiliate network available to these retailers, and CPA is not the …

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What is Russia’s new VPN ban all about?

November 2, 2017

This past summer the Russian authorities banned technologies that make it possible to circumvent Internet censorship. The lawmakers, who supported the bill unanimously, argued that Russia’s existing system to block illegal content on the Web was “not effective enough.” Ksenia Idrisova of BBC Monitoring explains what exactly has been banned, how the new legislation works, and what …

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CPA network anticipates $500 million global sales this year for Chinese online retailers

November 6, 2017

International affiliate network admitad has just released impressive numbers about the global activities of Chinese e-commerce companies. admitad expects these players to generate no less than half a billion US dollars in revenues this year via its CPA platform. Needless to say, this volume accounts for just a fraction of Chinese online retailers’ international business, …

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Report: China, India and Russia among the top 36 countries for marketplace expansion in 2018

October 13, 2017

Earlier this month Hyperwallet, a US-based payment solution provider, released its 2018 Marketplace Expansion Index. Intended for “gig economy” startups, ecommerce marketplaces and social selling companies, this report aims to identify the countries offering the most favorable conditions for marketplace expansion. No fewer than 209 countries were compared across 10 key indicators like infrastructure, e-commerce activity, foreign …

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How bitcoins are mined in Moscow kitchens

October 12, 2017

Dmitry Gutov’s Moscow kitchen is home to an automated mining operation. Not for gold and industrial metals like many of his country’s exporters, but for bitcoin-like cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum’s ether. Since installing a DIY system assembled from multiple computer graphics processors in April, Gutov has earned $3,000 of virtual currency and paid off the …

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Why Yandex still beats Google in Russia

October 11, 2017

Last week Yandex, the NASDAQ-listed Russian search giant and Google’s archrival on the Russian market, celebrated its 20th anniversary. Why is it so popular among Russians? Yandex is more than a company; it’s a matter of national pride. Russians like to wear clothing by major international and American brands, but when it comes to online services, they go local. In …

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Dmitry Schuetzle on the Russian digital revolution: “The impact will be as deep as the country’s electrification in the early 20th century”

August 24, 2017

In this op-ed, Dmitry Schuetzle, Managing Partner at VIY Management (VIYM), shares his vision of the current digital revolution and its implications in the field of private equity. “The potential for digitalization is increasingly one of the most important investment criteria that we look at when assessing potential investments,” he writes, providing examples from his firm’s …

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Legal experts warn: Russia’s ‘Big Brother law’ contradicts new EU regulation, putting at risk international data exchanges

August 7, 2017

The legislation adopted last year in Russia to strengthen state control over digital communications is not fully compatible with the new EU regulation in the field of personal data protection, believe Russian experts interviewed by the business daily Vedomosti and East-West Digital News. Such a contradiction, if confirmed, would expose Russian mobile operators to considerable …

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Vladimir Malugin of PayPal Russia: Russian e-merchants are asserting themselves on the global market

August 3, 2017

The market of goods being sold from Russia to foreign customers is already significant, PayPal Russia’s Head Vladimir Malugin said in a recent interview with The Moscow Times. This market was worth about $2 billion last year, up 32% from 2015, according to a research conducted jointly by PayPal and the Data Insight agency. Digital goods …

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Fintech: A Russian revolution is coming

July 23, 2017

Russia is the world’s third largest financial technology market and bankers at the annual sector conference in St Petersburg this year said they are continuing to roll out new cutting edge services as the need for digitization is becoming urgent. Russian President Vladimir Putin made digitization a centerpiece of this year’s St Petersburg International Economic Forum (Spief), …

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