As of early 2013, approximately 50.1 million people in Russia aged 18 and older used the Internet on a daily basis, or 43% of the corresponding population, an 11.6% increase over the previous year, according to the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), a leading Russian polling institute. The number of monthly unique users reached 64.4 million, FOM also …
More than 50 million Russian adults use the Internet daily Read More
In an attempt to shed some light on Russia’s Internet industry, the Russian edition of Forbes magazine released last week the 2013 edition of its “Top 30 Internet companies” ranking. The ranking is based on estimates of each company’s annual revenue. From a methodological standpoint, however, it leaves much to be desired. Not only is …
Comparing apples and oranges: Forbes ranks Russia’s “Top 30 Internet companies” Read More
In January 2013, Vkontakte.ru (VK.com), attracted 50.5 million users of 12 to 64 years of age in Russia, or 47.5% of the country’s population of the same age group. The popular social network occupied third place among the Top 10 Russian websites, according to the market research company TNS. In its January report, TNS put Vkontakte right …
Windows Phone powered smartphones gained the third largest market share in Russia in the fourth quarter of 2012, a study by IDC Russia/CIS found, outshining Nokia’s Symbian after having surpassed Apple’s iOS in the previous quarter. Windows enabled mobile devices accounted for 7% of the Russian market, trailing only Google’s Android, the undeniable leader with 69.6%, …
Smartphone OS: Android and Windows Phone enjoy fast growth; Symbian in free fall Read More
A few weeks ago, Bloomberg issued a “Global Innovation Index” which ranked Russia as the world’s 14th most innovative nation – just between Norway (13th) and Belgium (15th) and well ahead of China (29th) and even Israel (32nd). Here is how Russia ranked in Bloomberg’s determining factors: R&D intensity: 29th Productivity: 41st High-tech density: 2nd Researcher concentration: 24th Manufacturing …
Global innovation rankings: Is Russia 14th, 51st or 85th? Read More
A few weeks after Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev lambasted the quality of mobile communications in Moscow, VTB Capital, the investment arm of the Russian financial group VTB, has published a report on the issue. According to the research, Megafon comes in the lead for the quality of 3G services in the capital, with an average …
Moscow 3G networks not good enough for Medvedev, but better than London’s Read More
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea have repeatedly been noted for their growing influence in the global economy and research landscape, and are often referred to as “emerging.” What would move them from emerging to established? In its latest report “Building Bricks: Exploring the Global Research Impact of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South …
From emerging to established: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Korea are making strides Read More
Russia outpaced the entire European Union in new fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) subscribers in the second half of 2012, laying the foundation for a “head start” on deploying cutting-edge fiber-enabled technologies, an industry organization announced last week. In its latest study, published on February 20, the FTTH Council of Europe found that, between July and December of last …
Russia emerges as “clear fiber leader” in Europe’s FTTH deployment Read More
Russia’s IT market was generally limping along last year, growing just 3.9% between January and September 2012 – a record low rate that’s still above the global average. Timur Farukshin, Director of Consulting at IDC Russia, in an exchange with CNews.ru last week, shared the IDC’s preliminary analytics for the period. Farukshin expressed confidence that …
While overall Russian IT market slows, cloud segment expected to skyrocket Read More
According to a research report by J’son & Partners (J&P), the number of Russian smartphone owners using mobile Internet services on a monthly basis jumped to 22.5 million last year, up 88% from 2011. The number of users connecting to the Internet via tablets grew more than eight-fold, reaching 2.5 million. But even more mobile …
Internet advertising remained the fastest growing advertising segment in Russia in 2012, the Russian Association of Communication Agencies (AKAR) announced earlier this week. This was despite the fact that internet advertising’s annual growth rate fell from 56% in 2011 to 35% in 2012. The total volume of internet advertising reached 56.3 billion rubles in 2012 …
Online advertising maintained fast growth, neared $2 billion in 2012 Read More
While smartphones have gone mainstream in many regions around the globe, adoption among emerging countries is still developing. According to new research from Nielsen, China is the only country among the high-growth BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) markets where smartphones are predominant, owned by two-thirds of Chinese mobile subscribers as of the first half of …
