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Geolocation startup Meanwhile raised $100,000 from individual investors

December 26, 2018

Meanwhile, a Russian startup that has created a mobile interface to “offer a simple and convenient access to all local information,” secured $100,000 from unnamed individual investors. The deal took place in late 2014, but was revealed only last week by Russian tech blog Firrma.ru. The startup initially received support from the IIDF (FRII in Russian, the …

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Qiwi Venture invests $150,000 in mobile payment app AnyBalance

May 26, 2015

Qiwi Venture, the investment arm of Russian electronic payment giant QIWI Group, has committed itself to invest an estimated $150,000 in Krawlly, as reported by Russian tech blog Firrma. This Russian startup is developing an Android mobile app, christened “AnyBalance,” that displays in one interface the balances of a user’s bank, mobile or ISP accounts. The startups claims …

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The code war: Russia plans to free itself from iOS and Android

January 28, 2016

The cold war may have ended in the 90s but Russia is still fighting to free itself from American influence over its technology sector, with the country’s minister for communications announcing plans to create a new mobile operating system to challenge iOS and Android across all the Brics nations. Meanwhile, another Russian company is designing …

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Mobile operators’ revenues from content services fell by 20% in 2014 due to more restrictive legislation

May 5, 2015

Operators’ revenues from content services in Russia in 2014 decreased by 20% in comparison with the previous year, reaching $950.4 million, according to a report by AC&M-Consulting cited by ComNews. This decrease is a consequence of last year’s amendments to the legislation on communications, which have made access to content more difficult. According the new rules, subscribers’ explicit …

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Top tech players and 1,300 visitors from Russia attended Mobile World Congress 2014

April 14, 2015

Earlier this month a variety of Russian companies and more than 1,300 Russian visitors attended Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress. Among the exhibitors were A1 Systems, Jet Infosystems, Peter Services, Protei, Start, Svyazcom, Yandex and Skolkovo. On Day 1, the Vedomosti publishing house organised a Russian breakfast, “Telecom 2015 – investments in new technologies,” which hosted Ms …

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Russia’s weirdest applications

February 26, 2016

RBTH has already written about useful applications, such as the ones that will keep you from getting lost in Russia. In this piece we will highlight some of the most unexpected and unique apps created by Russian programmers. Three of them are dedicated to the Russian President: “Putin Speaks,” “Putin Simulator,” and “Like Putin.”

Yandex says Google shutting others out from Russian Android devices

February 26, 2016

Russian Internet giant Yandex has requested that Russia’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service investigate Google for violating Russian legislation, news agency RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday. The regulator now has one month to consider the request from Yandex, Russia’s top search engine and provider of a range of digital services, such as Yandex.Maps and Yandex.Music, a music streaming service.

Russia to pay local devs to migrate apps to Tizen, Sailfish

February 10, 2015

The U.S. mobile ecosystem duopoly has been the big story of tech for the past six-plus years. And continues to be mobile’s unshakeable reality — with Android and iOS collectively cutting themselves a 96 per cent share of the device market (per Gartner figures for Q3 2014). Not everyone is happy about this lack of geopolitical diversity in the …

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Yandex launches parking app in Moscow

February 5, 2015

Moscow and Amsterdam – Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) has released a new app that helps drivers in Moscow find a parking space and pay for the service without leaving their car. With the Yandex.Parking app, there is no need to drive the streets to find a parking spot or even leave your car to pay for it. The …

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News aggregator Anews raises $2.7 million for further international expansion

March 1, 2016

Anews, an international global news-reading service with a built-in behavioral advertising network, has received $2.7 million from TMT Investments, Run Capital, 101 Startup and several individual investors. As reported by Rusbase, TMT Investments and Run Capital each invested $1 million, in exchange for minority stakes in the company. “With its strong team, with a wealth …

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