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UK online retailer ASOS comes to Russia as cross border sales doubled in a year

January 11, 2013

ASOS.com, a major British online fashion retailer, is now planning to launch local operations in Russia. The site’s press service confirmed the news to East-West Digital News, but denied a rumor that it was also considering an acquisition. ASOS is among the most popular sites selling to Russian shoppers from abroad. As EWDN’s recent report …

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Russian satellite TV operators dramatically decrease pricing to win new audiences

November 19, 2014

A growing number of Russian satellite TV operators are trading the once cherished status of premium providers for that of discounters, driving market prices down and increasing competition in a country where an estimated 55-57% of households are linked to paid television services. NTV-Plus, Russia’s oldest satellite TV company, and one which has been in …

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Mobile social networks attract 12.5 million Russian users

December 31, 2012

J’son  & Partners, a management consultancy covering telecom and IT markets in Russia and other countries, has released a report on Russia’s small but rapidly-expanding mobile social networks market. The popularity of mobile social networks is growing in Russia in the same way as elsewhere in the world, the report notes, driven by the increasing …

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EBRD report: Russia scores poorly in international innovation rankings; government’s top-down approach shows mixed results

December 17, 2012

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has just issued a 96-page report on the Russian economy. The report takes a detailed look at policies that can help achieve the country’s economic diversification. “Ending [the Russian economy’s] heavy reliance on exports of oil, gas and minerals, [is] a very specific and difficult challenge,” the report …

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Unlicensed software still widespread in Russian companies, but repression intensifies

October 24, 2012

An estimated forty-three percent of Russian employees use unlicensed copies of software at work, copies that in a majority of cases were installed by their employers, revealed a survey conducted by Russian online job site HH.ru earlier this month. Employers’ greed is the main culprit, according to the respondents, who suffer from a range of …

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Mobile internet to trigger the Russian telecoms market

October 22, 2012

The Russian telecommunications market is growing fuelled by investments of mobile operators and broadband internet access services expansion. It is now expected to cross the value of €31 bn in 2012. Further 3G-LTE development is outstripping WiMAX and CDMA. According to the latest report by PMR, a market research company, the value of the telecommunication …

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NFC on the move in Russia; compatible phones and payment systems to fuel traction

September 27, 2012

NFC technology enabled 4.5 billion rubles, or about $138 million, worth of payments in Russia in the first six months of this year, reported i-Free, a developer and publisher of mobile applications and games, in an exchange with Russian news agency RIA Novosti. Svetlana Kostochka, the head of i-Free’s innovation marketing department, explained she expects …

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M2M market up 63% in one year with 3 million SIM card enabled connections

September 26, 2012

Russia’s M2M service market grew a hefty 63% year-to-year by June 2012, from an estimated 1.84 to 3 million SIM card enabled connections, MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator and retailer, has found in a special study. Sharing its results with Russian news agency RIA Novosti, Valeria Kuzmenko, a spokesperson for MTS, said the company, …

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Report: Russian cloud market to top $460 million by 2016

September 25, 2012

Russia’s public and private ‘cloud’ computing service market mushroomed a healthy 417.3% last year to reach $59.38 million and is poised to continue to burgeon in increments of over 50% a year, IDC Russia/CIS reports in its most recent Cloud Services Market 2012–2016 Forecast and 2011 Competitive Analysis research. In 2011, the IaaS (Infrastructure as …

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Russian webmail services Mail.Ru and Yandex Pochta ranked 4th and 5th in Europe

August 22, 2012

A Comscore report on Internet usage in Europe released yesterday has ranked Mail.ru and Yandex Pochta respectively 4th and 5th web-based mail services in Europe. In June, the reports says, 276.5 million people in Europe accessed webmail services via their computer, equalling to a 69.5% reach among the Internet audience above 15 years of age. The …

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International research study sheds full light on Russian e-commerce

July 24, 2012

Today, East-West Digital News is releasing a 316-page research study on the Russian online retail market – one of the fastest growing but least known (and most misunderstood) on the planet. The research – in which PwC in Russia and the Moscow Higher School of Economics, among others, took part – is based on interviews …

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