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“Invisible innovation:” Tech entrepreneurs from emerging markets struggle for global visibility

October 25, 2016

During three days in mid-October Colombia 4.0, an international event dedicated to digital content industries, took place in Bogota, attracting more than ten thousand participants. The latest trends in animation, video games, web, mobile development, digital advertising, monetization, digital media, music and entrepreneurship were highlighted through lectures, panels and workshops involving more than 190 national and international …

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Report: Russia’s online economy accounts for nearly 2.5% of GDP

October 13, 2016

The Russian online economy reached 1.94 trillion rubles (roughly $31 billion at the average exchange rate) in 2015, according to “The Runet Economy,” a study released last month by the Russian Association for Electronic Communications (RAEC). This amount is equal to 2.4% of Russia’s gross domestic product, slightly more (0.2 percentage points) than in 2014. Due …

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How Russia often benefits when Julian Assange reveals the West’s secrets

September 1, 2016

WikiLeaks’ document releases, along with many of Julian Assange’s statements, have often benefited Russia, at the expense of the West — whether by conviction, convenience or coincidence, writes the New York Times. WikiLeaks neither targets not spares any particular nation, Assange indicated in an exchange with the US newspaper, but rather works to verify whatever material …

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Q&A service TheQuestion raises $500,000, opens offices in Berlin and London

June 28, 2016

Russian Q&A service TheQuestion is opening representative offices in London and Berlin to develop internationally, while keeping its R&D capacities in Moscow, Russian magazine Sekret Firmy reported last week. The move comes just after the company completed a $500,000 round of funding, following an initial round of the same amount. Among the investors are “owners of media …

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Russian parliament passes law to regulate news aggregators

June 17, 2016

Last week, the Russian State Duma approved the third reading of a law regulating the work of news aggregators, the Slon.ru news website reported. The law received unanimous support, with 319 deputies voting for the law and none against. The law holds news aggregators accountable for the dissemination of false information. The law reduces fines for …

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Jailed for a repost: The definition of extremism in Russia gets ever looser

June 11, 2016

Russia has seen a dramatic rise in criminal prosecutions on charges of “Internet extremism” over the last few months. Yet most of these cases concern not the creation of extremist content but retweeting, liking or reposting it. Russia Beyond The Headlines, a publication owned by government newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta and a syndication partner of East-West …

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Kremlin-linked billionaire utilizes new ‘right to be forgotten,’ tries to get critical news articles removed from Yandex

June 2, 2016

The billionaire Evgeny Prigozhin is demanding that Yandex delete from its search results an article about the Internet Research Agency, better known as Russia’s “troll factory.” Several news outlets, including the newspaper Novaya Gazeta, have published articles claiming that Prigozhin is the brains and money behind the troll factory. The billionaire has also demanded that Yandex …

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Pussy Riot founder seeks to assert her site on Russia’s online media scene

May 10, 2016

Pussy Riot punk performer Nadya Tolokonnikova is looking for a new audience — readers and, ideally, financial backers who can turn her two-year-old news website into a full-blown contender on Russia’s media scene. MediaZona, the website she helped found in 2014 with a focus on criminal justice news, has about 2.2 million visitors a month …

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How viral websites replace news media for Russia’s younger generation

April 28, 2016

Some of the Russian Internet’s biggest “entertainment websites” aren’t formally registered as media outlets, but for millions of young people they are trusted and beloved sources of news and information. Visitors populate these communities with their own “demotivators” and GIFs, often creating mashups and memes more popular than any articles or photo galleries published in …

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Russia’s top investigator proposes to strengthen Internet censorship to fight “US information war”

April 19, 2016

In an article published yesterday in the Kommersant Vlast weekly, the head of Russia’s Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin has proposed a range of measures to give a “strong, appropriate and balanced response” to the information war that he claims the US and its allies are waging against Russia. The measures include imposing new restrictions on the Internet: Bastrykin …

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Sports.ru acquires Belorussian sports app developer

March 14, 2016

Sports.ru is in the process of acquiring 90live.org, a Belorussian developer of mobile apps for football fans, reported Vedomosti earlier this month based on exchanges with the portal’s general manager Dmitry Navosha. The details of the transaction, which is not completed yet, have not been disclosed. Founded in Minsk in 2013, 90live.org has developed more than …

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Russian blogger appeals to Strasbourg court over social media case

March 13, 2016

A Russian blogger has filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, challenging the sentence he was handed for the republication of extremist texts online, the Kommersant newspaper reported Wednesday. Konstantin Zharinov, a blogger and activist from the Urals region of Chelyabinsk, was convicted in 2015 for sharing a post on …

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