Freedom House, a US-based NGO monitoring the progress or restriction of human freedoms as it perceives them around the globe, has published its most recent Freedom on the Net 2015 report, the sixth in its series. This edition assesses Internet and digital media in 65 countries in 2014. In its findings, the NGO assigns Russia the “not free” …
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Last month Finnish computer security firm F-Secure released a white paper on “the Dukes,” a cyber-espionage group which is believed to have been working for the Russian government since at least 2008. According to F-Secure, the Dukes (sometimes also referred to as APT29) collect intelligence in support of foreign and security policy decision-making. The group employs a wide arsenal …
Online gaming continues to grow in Russia due to more mobile use and the affordability of the hobby. According to Yandex.Worstsat, “Online games” receives over 4 million impressions per month. Searches patterns for online gaming on Yandex indicate noteworthy seasonality trends for the industry. Online gaming peaks during winter when more users are inside …
Russia suffered the second-largest number of confidential data leaks in the first half of this year but company employees themselves are to blame for most of them, the Kommersant business daily reported Tuesday. The analysis center of InfoWatch, a Moscow-based online security company, said more than 262 million personal data records had been compromised as …
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Russia’s domestic software development market reached approximately $6 billion in 2014 — the same amount in US dollars as in the previous year, but slightly more if counted in rubles, even taking into account inflation, according to industry association RUSSOFT. Export of software and IT services accounted for another $6 billion, up 11% from 2013. The growth …
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Russia’s young commercial data center market reached some $167 million last year with a yearly growth of over 20%, according to a report by Moscow-based consultancy Direct INFO, as reported by Russia Beyond The Headlines (RBTH). Other consultancies (PMR and J’son & Partners) have put the figures at more than $300 million. The market is being …
Russia’s data center market to reach several hundred million USD in 2015 Read More
Venture investment volumes in Russia remained at a rather high level in 2014, but state funds accounted for an important fraction of this activity while many foreign funds decreased or ceased operations in Russia. This is one of the key findings of the 2014 report by RMG, an independent Moscow-based investment company, whose English version has just …
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Similar to other parts of the world, mobile devices are becoming the dominant way to access the Internet in Russia. For many of us, the accessibility to the Internet on our smartphones makes it easy to quickly access information we need in a timely manner or to use messaging apps and read the news during …
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Last month Yandex and its subsidiary Yandex.Money released two studies on the Russian e-payment industry. Even though cash on delivery still dominates where physical goods are concerned, Russians are now fully aware of the main available electronic payment methods, according to Yandex.Money, which teams up every spring with TNS to conduct its research. Approximately three quarters of surveyed …
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Apple has seen the market share of its smartphone in Russia nearly halve year-on-year by number of units sold, as the collapse of the ruble drove up prices, according to a recent report by German market researcher GfK cited by Vedomosti and The Moscow Times. The iPhone’s market share by units sold fell to 5.2% in …
Operators’ revenues from content services in Russia in 2014 decreased by 20% in comparison with the previous year, reaching $950.4 million, according to a report by AC&M-Consulting cited by ComNews. This decrease is a consequence of last year’s amendments to the legislation on communications, which have made access to content more difficult. According the new rules, subscribers’ explicit …
Russia has risen nine places this year in a global ranking of countries’ exploitation of information and communication technologies, but remains hobbled by frail institutions, a report by the World Economic Forum showed. Russia now stands in 43rd place out of the 143 economies surveyed in the forum’s Networked Readiness Index (NRI), making it far and away the leader among the BRICS group of emerging economies, which includes Brazil, …
