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Russian innovators offer solutions for mobile medicine; Cisco backs hi-tech endeavors

June 12, 2013

The Russian government has named pharmaceutical and biomedical as priority sectors for innovation, and has set a fairly ambitious strategic goal of increasing the share of domestic medical equipment products in the Russian market to at least 40%. In these highly important fields, two new players have emerged recently in Russia, assisted by the global …

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Facebook for grandmothers

June 5, 2013

McKinsey consultant Ivan Osadchiy once took a trip to New York – at the same time as his seventy-year-old father went into hospital in Moscow. “I couldn’t help my dad to keep in touch with the family, or give him any support”, Ivan recalls. Osadchiy’s father had no way of reaching him either by Skype …

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Mobile social banking arrives in Russia

May 17, 2013

Russian iPhone users can now experiment with social banking – an entirely new concept in the country – with an app launched last month by Instabank, a Moscow-based startup. The iPhone app allows clients to transfer money to Facebook friends who also use Instabank, get notifications of new account activity, and add geotags and photos …

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Restaurant social app Gvidi wins Best Idea award in Tactrick Android Developer Cup

May 17, 2013

Gvidi, a mobile app dedicated to restaurants, cafés and bars across Russia and neighboring countries, won the Best Idea award earlier this week in an Android developer contest organized by Tactrick Mobile Solutions. The prize for the winner in this category is “support for the development of the product in question and its further development …

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Google shuts down Quickoffice R&D offices in Russia and Ukraine

May 16, 2013

Google has cancelled its contract with Doctor Mobile, the developer of the mobile applications for the Quickoffice service. Google acquired Quickoffice, which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, in June last year for an undisclosed sum. Now, less than a year later, Google is shutting down two of its offices, namely in Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Kharkiv (Ukraine), where more than …

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Game Insight founder Alisa Chumachenko: “Russians are more emotional in their spending habits but it’s the Japanese who spend the most on in-app purchases.”

December 28, 2021

Russian game publisher Game Insight has been in the news over the last year for having opened an office in San Francisco, reached sales of $90 million and made the Forbes’ list of top 30 most successful Russian web companies. The company develops free apps for iOs, Android, Facebook and VKontakte. In this interview with Russia …

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Japan says konichiwa to Russian Do-Ra mobile dosimeter-radiometer

March 26, 2013

Intersoft Eurasia, a Moscow-based startup developing a smartphone-compatible dosimeter-radiometer, has announced new partnerships with two Japanese companies, Honda Electronics and Nisso Boeki, for manufacturing and marketing its product. The partners are expected to jointly set up shop and start selling the dosimeter-radiometer, christened Do-Ra, in Japan and across the globe.

Russia’s mobile game market set to double in 4 years while local publishers expand globally

March 25, 2013

According to the Moscow-based consultancy J’son & Partners, the mobile game market in Russia will grow from $392 million in 2012 to an estimated $707 million in 2016. The number of mobile game players is also expected to increase from 38.6 million at the end of 2012 to 65.1 million in 2016. This is almost …

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Mobile internet and VAS to expand in Russia in 2013-2014

March 25, 2013

Value added and multimedia services continue to develop in Russia. Telecom carriers seek for opportunities to offer bundles, including pay TV and mobile internet, which allow for both increase ARPU and reduce churn. Among other important segments of the mobile VAS and multimedia market last year were SMS payments and ringback tones, which will be …

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Yandex launches Android app store, pursues ambitious mobile strategy

March 13, 2013

Continuing its expansion into the realm of mobile, Russia’s search giant Yandex officially unveiled its application store for Android-powered devices at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month. Yandex.Store already has more than 50,000 paid and free apps and is available in Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian, and Turkish languages.

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