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Russian online banks are all vulnerable to attacks, says report

April 9, 2019

Russian web-based banking apps are all vulnerable to attacks from the outside, making it possible to access clients’ personal details and secret banking information. More than half (54%) of these applications expose  client’s money to be stolen.  The report characterizes the protection of 61% of such web applications as “low” or “very low.”  This are some of the …

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US report exposes GPS spoofing in Russia and Syria

April 8, 2019

C4ADS, a Washington-based think tank dedicated to data-driven analysis of conflict and security issues worldwide, has released a report to “expose GPS spoofing in Russia and Syria.” Used for a variety of civil and military purposes, GPS and other global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are vulnerable, remind the authors of the report: “By attacking positioning, …

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Up to 15% of online purchases in Russia are made on credit

July 13, 2019

Yandex.Checkout, the B2B branch of Yandex.Money, recently released a study about online sales on credit in Russia. The research is based on the data collected by the company itself, following the launch of  its ‘Payments in installments‘ offer in March 2018. The key findings of the study are as follows: Most concerned product or service categories Electronic …

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Report: Monthly car sharing spending exceeds $15 million in Russia

November 12, 2020

Russia’s car sharing market grew fivefold in 2018, reaching some 7 billon rubles (approximately $110 million), according to Sberbank, a major state-controlled financial institution. Total spending amounted to 1 billion rubles (roughly $15 million) in January 2019, up 5% from December 2018. In 2018, users spent a monthly average of 3,467 rub. ($55) , each …

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10 key stats on social media usage in Russia

March 21, 2019

Every year the Hootsuite social media management platform and the We Are Social agency compile a Global Digital Yearbook that covers developments in Internet, social media, mobile and e-commerce usage throughout the world.  The report includes key statistics on social media usage in Russia, where social media attracted some 70 million active users in January 2019 (up …

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Forbes ranking features four Russian Internet unicorns

February 27, 2019

Last week the Russian edition of Forbes released its annual ranking of the 20 “most valuable companies of the Russian Internet.” Unsurprisingly, NASDAQ-listed Yandex and LSE-listed Mail.Ru Group lead the ranking, with capitalizations of $10.7 billion and $5.6 billion, respectively. Forbes has identified two other unicorns: Avito, the classifieds giant over which Naspers just took …

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IAOP report: Just five Russia-connected companies ranked among world’s top IT service providers

February 21, 2019

US industry association IAOP has just released a new edition of its annual Global Outsourcing 100 ranking to identify what it judges to be the best IT outsourcing service providers in the world. This year’s ranking, unlike for the previous editions, features “companies that have led the development of the industry, as reflected in their place on …

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10 key numbers on Internet usage in Russia

February 21, 2019

Every year, the social media management platform Hootsuite and the We Are Social agency compiles a Global Digital Yearbook that covers developments in internet, social media, mobile and e-commerce usage throughout the world. We combed through this ever-growing report to distill the 10 key takeaways regarding the current state of Internet usage in Russia: Internet penetration stands at …

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Russian e-commerce research: Market analysis, operational challenges, players’ strategies

July 13, 2019

International brands and retailers selling to Russia, or considering doing so, are invited to participate in an online survey. They will receive the research report free of charge upon release. While Russian e-commerce is entering a promising development cycle, information about this market is hardly available to international audiences. Not only is the topic rarely …

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Report: Russians spent $1.66 billion on games in 2018

February 8, 2019

Russians spent some $1.66 billion on games in 2018, according to Newzoo. Ranking 11th in the research firm’s global ranking,  Russia is ahead of Brazil and Mexico ($1.45 billion and $1.58 billion, respectively), but behind Italy and Spain ($2.17 billion and $2.20 billion). In the former Soviet Union, Kazakhstan generated $207 million (44th place), ahead of Ukraine …

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Russia hits 27th place in Bloomberg innovation ranking, between Malaysia and Luxembourg

January 25, 2019

Bloomberg’s latest ranking of “the world’s most innovative countries,” published this Tuesday, puts Russia at the 27th place, between Malaysia and Luxembourg. In Russia’s Eastern European neighborhood, Poland does better than Russia (22th place) but Romania (29th), Ukraine (53rd) and, most surprisingly, Estonia (36th) are behind. South Korea retains the first place in this global ranking, …

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