Yesterday IXcellerate, a UK-headquartered operator of datacenters in Russia, announced it has secured a $15 million convertible loan from Goldman Sachs. The bank Goldman Sachs, which will hold a 25% stake after conversion, has become the third key investor in IXcellerate after IFC and Sumitomo Corporation. Since its launch in 2011, IXcellerate has attracted $35 million …
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Prostor, a major data storage event in Eastern Europe offered by RAIDIX, will hold its third edition on October 26 in Skolkovo on the outskirts of Moscow. The event will bring together system integrators, storage vendors, IT suppliers, hardware manufacturers, representatives of CCTV integrators, media groups, TV channels, post-production studios, telecom companies, government agencies, major …
The legislation adopted last year in Russia to strengthen state control over digital communications is not fully compatible with the new EU regulation in the field of personal data protection, believe Russian experts interviewed by the business daily Vedomosti and East-West Digital News. Such a contradiction, if confirmed, would expose Russian mobile operators to considerable …
Mahmoud Vaezi, the Iranian communications and information technology minister, was quoted Sunday as saying that Telegram has transferred some of its servers into the country. “As a result of meetings with Telegram managers, some of its servers have been moved to the country,” Vaezi was quoted as saying by Iran’s ISNA news agency. But Telegram …
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Yandex Data Factory, a B2B business unit which Yandex launched in 2014 to develop custom-made Big Data solutions, has developed significantly both in Russia and abroad, its CEO Jane Zavalishina said in an exchange with tech blog 150.com at an industry conference. From its offices in Moscow and Amsterdam, Yandex Data Factory aims to make Yandex’s technologies – …
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Pavel Durov, founder of the Telegram messaging app, agreed on Wednesday for his firm to be registered in Russia after coming under pressure from the authorities to do so, but said it would not share confidential user data with anyone. Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor had threatened to block the messaging app if it did not …
Telegram app agrees to register in Russia, but not to share private data Read More
Telegram, the international instant messenger which claims to guarantee its users a superior level of confidentiality, has reiterated its refusal to disclose “any information” to any “government or special service in the world,” the Russian media have reported, citing company statements. Earlier this week, Roskomnadzor, the Russian telecom regulator, requested Telegram to provide contact and other corporate information …
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Russian cell phone operator MTS will be the first company to start storing users’ data under controversial new anti-terror laws. MTS will be running a pilot program in an unnamed Russian city, Russia’s Vedomosti newspaper reported Wednesday. The trial run will test whether existing technology could be used to enforce the laws. The storage equipment needed for …
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Last week five messengers — WeChat, BlackBerry Messenger, LINE, Imo.im and the audiovisual chat Vchat — were banned by the Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor after refusing to be added to the official Russian “Registry of Information-Dissemination Organizers.” The news has been reported by Roskomsvoboda, a Russian NGO that aims to “combat Internet censorship in Russia.” …
The Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor announced today that Twitter has agreed to the transfer its Russian users’ data to Russian servers by mid-2018. Twitter’s communications head Sinead McSweeney has informed Roskomnadzor that the company is currently “in the process of determining what information about Russian citizens and organizations in commercial relations with Twitter in Russia can be stored in …
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Russia’s largest IT and telecom companies are considering the creation of a new self-regulatory organization to oversee the Big Data sector, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported Monday. Among these players are the national telecom operator Rostelecom, mobile operators MegaFon, MTS and Vimpelcom, and domestic Internet leaders Mail.Ru Group and Yandex. Mail.ru Group believes that that the …
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Last week Alibaba subsidiary AliExpress announced that it is in the process of opening a local representation. Since 2014, the Chinese marketplace has asserted its preeminence on the Russian e-commerce market, which reached some $26 billion last year. Company representatives also confirmed the company’s intention to comply with Russian legislation, including the law which requires to …
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