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VimpelCom to drop DVB-H project due to regulatory complications

September 21, 2011

VimpelCom, a leading Russian mobile operator and international telecom company, intends to abandon its project for the creation of a mobile digital television system on the DVB-H standard, Vedomosti reported last week. Among the main obstacles to developing the business have been regulatory complications – including licensing issues as well as equipment use authorizations – …

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Russian fund invests in Israeli VAS Unicell

September 20, 2011

TMT Investments announced last week that it has acquired a 10% stake in Unicell, a leading mobile application service and content provider in Israel, for 10.4 million shekels, or approximately $2.96 million. This transaction seems to mark the first investment of a Russian company in a mobile content provider outside the former USSR.

RBC invests $1 million in social geolocation service

September 14, 2011

Two weeks after Foursquare made available a Russian version of its service – along with versions in Bahasa Indonesian, Korean, Portuguese, and Thai – a powerful Russian media group, RBC, announced it has invested $1 million in Ogorod.ru, one of the two best-known local services inspired by the Foursquare concept.

Prokhorov’s hybrid car to use Android

September 1, 2011

The manufacturer of the soon-to-be-introduced Ë-Mobile (pronounce Yo-Mobil), the much-hyped Russian hybrid car, announced it will use the Android OS to expand the car’s functions. Ë-Mobile owners will thus benefit from a range of practical and entertainment services and will keep in touch with the latest IT technologies, according to the Ë-Mobile official blog .

DST founder Yuri Milner invests in US iPad medical app publisher

August 22, 2011

Drchrono, a Silicon Valley based startup offering an electronic health record (EHR) platform for the iPad, announced last week it has received an additional $650,000 in seed funding from prominent startup investor Yuri Milner, founder of DST Global, along with venture capital firm General Catalyst.

Mobile Internet usage in Moscow

July 25, 2011

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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Mobile taxi-booking company funded by Russian-American investor

March 2, 2017

Prominent Russian-American businessman Leonard Blavatnik has invested $9.5 million in Get Taxi, an Israeli-based mobile taxi-booking company, together with Get Taxi’s founders, which include Shahar Smirin, a former executive at Comverse in Russia.

Russian mobile app developers challenged to help stop human trafficking

July 22, 2011

NetHope, an association of international humanitarian organizations, USAID, and the Demi & Ashton Foundation (DNA) have called upon software developers from Russia and Eastern Europe to design innovative mobile applications to help stop human trafficking.

Russian mobile game Cut the Rope tops Android app market

July 13, 2011

Cut the Rope, a game developed by Russian firm ZeptoLab, topped the paid applications section of Android Market, the application store for Android-supported devices, just one week after its launch on July 1.

Yandex invests in US mobile app startup

July 7, 2011

Refine.io, a startup offering to “create and share fully functional prototypes of mobile apps in about the same time as it takes to develop a wireframe,” received seed funding from Russia’s search engine giant Yandex under the Yandex.Factory program.

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