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Opposition leader Navalny subject of half a million VKontakte posts in one hour

July 18, 2013

Users of Russia’s leading social network Vkontakte.ru (VK.com) published half a million posts about Alexey Navalny in the hour following his conviction today on embezzlement charges. Navalny was mentioned approximately 480,000 times in the hour, with an average 134 posts per second.  The social network only registers such a high level of posts on New …

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New anti-piracy law for video content shocks the industry

June 26, 2013

Last week the Russian parliament passed a new law against movie piracy on the Internet, which will take effect on August 1, 2013 if signed by the President. The new regulation allows copyright holders to file lawsuits against websites violating their intellectual property. The court will issue a warrant to block the website if the violating …

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Russian authorities to scan social networks and blogosphere for crime threats

November 19, 2014

In a bid to anticipate and curtail misdemeanors potentially originating from Russia’s social networks and blogosphere, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has launched an open tender for IT solutions that would enable investigators to do so. The Committee, responsible for investigations of particularly important cases of crimes against individuals, public safety, the national …

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Music analysis startup FindStream monitors 27,000 Internet radio stations

May 21, 2013

Balakam, a Russian company which launched a search engine for media content two years ago, has just released the beta version of its new project, christened FindStream. The service monitors more than 27,000 Internet radio stations every two minutes, providing users with data on track popularity and emerging trends in the music industry. The service …

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RBC reorganizes its Internet assets

April 26, 2013

RBC, one of Russia’s largest media groups in the online, television, print media, hosting and domain name registration segments, is restructuring its B2C Internet assets, the group’s press service stated in an exchange with East-West Digital News. Managed by Media Mir, a company within the group, these assets will be reorganized into three distinct segments. …

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The Next Web and East-West Digital News team up to cover Russian digital innovation

April 23, 2013

As Russia rapidly emerges as a new hot spot on the world’s innovation map, East-West Digital News, the country’s first international resource on digital industries, has teamed up with influential website The Next Web to offer its unique news and insights to TNW’s global readership. While a regular flow of news stories from EWDN is …

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Russian crowdfunding longs for legislation and trust

October 3, 2016

Around 58 percent of Americans with annual incomes of $25,000 or more are prepared to invest in early-stage startups, according to a U.S. crowdfunding industry study by EarlyIQ, Crowdfund Professional Association, and Crowdfund Capital Advisors. They are prepared to support two or three startups annually, by investing around $2,000 in each. Americans making in excess of $75,000 a …

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Facebook’s Codorniou: Russia’s mobile game advance “is virtually a tsunami”

November 19, 2014

Facebook has augmented its base of mobile game developers by a hearty 17 times over the past six months, and the social network spends “more time with app developers in Russia than in any other country,” said Julien Codorniou, the head of partnerships at Facebook EMEA (Emerging Markets in Europe and Asia). In an exchange …

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E-democracy à la russe: Russians now have their own ‘We the People’ platform

November 19, 2014

In a bid to promote legislative ideas and suggestions from Russian citizens, the Information Democracy Foundation (IDF), a government sponsored non-profit, last week launched the beta version of the Russian Public Initiative (RPI), a web platform inspired by the US “We the People” online petition system. “The implementation of RPI is the next step in …

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RIA Novosti social media team: “We analyze news trends that might gain potential popularity in social media.”

April 9, 2013

With 9.7 million users from across the globe in February, the Internet audience of RIA Novosti exceeded those of Spiegel.de (8.62 million users), Lemonde.fr (8.49 million), Independent.co.uk (6.4 million), Aljazeera.net (2.26 million) and others, according to ComScore. The Russian news agency has developed a strong social media presence, with nearly 860,000 fans or followers on Facebook, 415,000 …

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TMT Investments injects $350,000 into US e-publishing startup

April 8, 2013

TMT Investments, a UK-headquartered venture fund backed by Russian businessmen, has invested $350,000 in Graphicly, a US startup that helps publishers and self-published authors produce and distribute text and visual content on major digital publishing platforms. Graphicly’s self-service online toolset has been designed to reduce publishers’ go-to-market and ongoing costs. Once uploaded, Graphicly distributes the …

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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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