A new worldwide games market study released on Tuesday by Amsterdam based research firm Newzoo forecasts that Russian consumer spending on games will grow to $1.5 billion in 2011. The absolute number of Russian gamers, 38 million, or 83% of the country’s total 45 million Internet How To Get Ex Boy Back monthly users aged …
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According to Svyaznoy, a major mobile retailer, the Russian smartphone market expanded by a whopping 78% in the first six months of 2011, reaching an estimated value of 30.7 billion rubles, or $1.1 billion. Sales for the period reached 2.8 million devices – a figure confirmed by MTS, a leading mobile operator and retailer – up …
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Key findings: 52% of respondents use mobile Internet several times per day or “almost all the time”, 27% once or twice per day 29% started using mobile Internet less than 1 year ago Mobile Internet is used mostly for information (50%) and communication (45%) purposes. 66% of respondents visit mobile or non mobile sites, 37% check emails, …
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A poll released by SuperJob.ru, a leading Russian language employment search provider in Russia and the CIS, indicated that just 28% of Russian Internet users are registered with a professional social network.
VimpelCom, a major Russian mobile operator working under the Beeline brand, announced this week the creation of a new payment system named Ruru. The Ruru payment system, now accessible via the euphoniously named website Ruru.ru and on mobile devices using an Android application, allows users to pay for mobile phone or Internet accounts, train tickets …
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The Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) has announced on its website last week that it will conduct three tenders for licenses to provide fixed WiMAX services in the 3.4-3.45GHz and 3.5-3.55GHz frequency bands in 30 Russian regions.
VTB Capital Asset Management announced last week it has invested in COMDI, a leading player on the Russian video conferencing market. Founded in 2009, COMDI specializes in web conferences as well as online training and broadcasts. Before this round of financing, COMDI was funded by its founders and an undisclosed business angel.
The client base of Tricolor TV, Russia’s leading satellite TV provider, rose by 10% between January and April 2011, reaching 8 million subscribers with 85% purchasing TV packages., The company expects to increase its subscriber base to 10 million households by the end of 2011, announced Tricolor TV General manager Vyacheslav Mordachev last week.
Among IT job seekers living in Moscow and St. Petersburg, 55% contemplate leaving the country, while 22% have already taken some concrete steps in that direction. Another 6% do not intend to leave because they do not believe they will find a job abroad, according to a recent poll by Ancor, a major recruitment company …
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Pirated software accounted for 65% of the volume of all software units installed on PCs in Russia for the year — down 2% from 2009 but nevertheless representing a commercial value of approximately $3 billion, reports Business Software Alliance (BSA) in its 2010 report on global piracy.
Summary: The communications & media sector was one of the fastest growing areas of the Russian economy in 2010 and Q1 2011, with IT and hardware spending quickly rebounding after a sharp decline in 2009. Communications & media is also one of the most innovative sectors in the economy, quickly developing and adopting the latest …
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