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Korean tech news site teams up with EWDN to bridge global innovation

March 22, 2021

Startup Recipe, a leading tech news outlet from South Korea, and East-West Digital News, the international resource on tech innovation in Eastern Europe, have teamed up to provide their respective audiences with new insights. Startup Recipe now offers a selection of translated EWDN content on its website. In the past few weeks, through this content …

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Russian culture, education and entreprise software available online for free in times of quarantine

March 20, 2020

As Russians prepare to life in times of epidemic, a variety of organizations have made their offerings available online for free. Here are a few examples, as reported by Inc. Russia:  Online education platform Netology, a property of Russian billionaire Alexey Mordashov, is offering free access to its video courses on marketing, business and design. …

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Russia’s Sistema Asia Fund leads $6 million round for Indian fashion discovery app

February 13, 2017

Russia’s Sistema Asia Fund has just led a $6 million round of financing  for Wooplr Technologies Pvt. Ltd, which runs an eponymous fashion discovery app for women. The news was reported on Monday by Vedomosti, a leading Russian business daily, based on exchanges with a fund representative. An unnamed source close to the fund added that Sistema …

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Russian programmers launch neural network-based food discovery app in US cities

October 3, 2016

After Prisma, the much-hyped mobile app that instantly transforms pictures into artwork, and Artisto, a similar app for videos, Russian programmers are affirming their particular talent in developing technologies inspired by neural networks. This time, this approach is being applied to food recommendations with ‘Borsch,’ a new mobile service launched over the past weeks in …

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Russian-language content discovery service Surfingbird closes $2.5 million Series B round

December 29, 2016

Surfingbird.ru, the first collaborative content discovery service on the Russian-language Internet, has raised $2.5 million from Russian fund Klever Internet Investments. The transaction, revealed last week by the Russian business daily Vedomosti, was confirmed to East-West Digital News by the startup’s CEO Sergey Shalaev. Launched in 2011, SurfingBird is inspired by US site StumbleUpon.com, which …

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Russian startup Surfingbird accused of patent violation by US giant Stumbleupon

December 29, 2016

Surfingbird.ru, the first mover on Russia’s nascent web content discovery market, could become a victim of its own success, having attracted the hostile attention of global leader Stumbleupon.com. So far things have gone relatively well for Surfingbird. Launched in June 2011, the startup secured a $2.5 million series A round just a few months later, …

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Russian StumbleUpon copycat Surfingbird secures $2.5 million

December 29, 2016

Surfingbird.ru, the first collaborative content discovery service on the Russian-language Internet, raised $2.5 million last month from Russian and French business angels. The deal brought the startup’s valuation to just under $2.5 million, a source close to the deal told East-West Digital News.

Web content discovery services come to the Russian Internet

December 29, 2016

In a pattern that exemplifies the booming nature of the Russian Internet, the market segment for web content discovery services – non-existent just months ago – is now rapidly filling with ambitious startups. The public beta version of Netflip.ru was launched in mid-August, not long after a comparable site, SurfingBird.ru, went online, as reported by East-West Digital …

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