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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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Russia’s media watchdog slaps site with warning over religious cartoon

March 1, 2016

Russia’s media watchdog has issued a warning to an online news site for publishing a religiously themed caricature that lampooned “one of the faiths,” despite an appeal to avoid such cartoons in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack. In line with Russia’s law on extremism, the caricature published by the Respublika news site was seen “to incite various sorts of enmity,” a spokesman for the Roskomnadzor media watchdog, Vadim Ampelonsky, …

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Russia blacklists, blocks GitHub over pages that refer to suicide

March 1, 2016

Developers in Russia are putting up their feet today — that is, after they have finished stomping around in frustration for a little while. It’s emerged that Russia’s regulator RosComNadzor has blocked GitHub after the popular software and coding collaboration platform was found to be hosting content related to suicide — specifically, see this file that details 32 ways to kill yourself. The “block” …

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Rambler & Co seeks startups in its shift to becoming an Internet tech firm

March 1, 2016

Rambler & Co, a major Russian tech media group, is seeking to move away from its present status as a media company towards Internet technologies. As reported by Russian daily Vedomosti, the company is creating two startup accelerators to achieve this goal. Speaking at an event hosted by the $200 million government-backed startup fund FRII …

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St. Petersburg libraries creating an ‘alternative Wikipedia’ about Russia

November 24, 2014

The Presidential Library and National Library of Russia, both located in St. Petersburg, are working on a project that aims to become the Russian answer to Wikipedia. According to the Presidential Library’s chief spokesman Valentin Sidorin, the creators will not be writing an e-encyclopedia from scratch; they will merely systematize, digitize, and grant open access …

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Gazprom-Media to acquire new Russian Internet assets

October 13, 2014

Gazprom-Media, a leading media holding affiliated with gas giant Gazprom, is about to acquire an 82.7% stake in WebMediaGroup, the owner of several Internet and e-commerce sites in Russia. The planned acquisition was appoved last week by the Federal Antimonopoly Service, reported the e-commerce online portal Oborot.ru. The details of the transaction are unknown, but …

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Yandex.Afisha transforms Russians’ movie theater experience

September 8, 2014

Just five years ago, a movie goer may arrive at a Russian movie theatre to watch whatever movie was playing at the time. While anything playing in theaters was advertised in advance, the movie playing at a given time was subject to change.  Since then, movie showtimes acquired a much stricter and more consistent schedule. Moreover, Internet …

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Action Media Group invests $200,000 in SaaS service Arnica.pro

August 30, 2014

Action Media Group, a large Russian B2B-publishing house, has invested $200,000 in SaaS service Arnica.pro. This is already the third round of investment for the company. Arnica.pro is aimed at smaller beauty salons, who can use the software for client registration, staff work schedules, CRM, transactions, accounts and integration with external services. The company was founded …

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Wired highlights 10 Russian startups but gets it wrong with rosy business predictions

August 29, 2014

In a series on Europe’s “hottest startups,” the UK edition of tech magazine Wired published earlier this month a selection of 10 Russian startups. These included peer-to-peer publishing platform Gitoon, e-commerce intelligence platform Ometria, “rephotography” app publisher Timera, slideshow assistant app Penxy, music-streaming service 10tracks, taxi app publisher Wheely, driving navigational system WayRay, video game …

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TMT Investments invests in Anews, avoids share dilution in Adinch and exits from The One Page Company

August 29, 2014

Asserting itself as one of the most active Russian-backed funds operating internationally, TMT Investments announced during this month the completion of two investment deals, in addition to a small exit. The fund, which usually invests just a few hundred thousand USD in each project, has injected a hefty $1 million in Anews, an international global news-reading …

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Short video maker Coub secures $2.5 million from VKontakte co-founders Mirilashvili and Leviev

July 30, 2014

Coub.com, a Moscow-based startup launched in 2012, has just raised $2.5 million in a Series B round from Vaizra Capital, a fund which belongs to VKontakte co-founders Vyacheslav Mirilashvili and Lev Leviev. The startup did not disclose its valuation, but its representative told the Russian business daily Vedomosti that Vaizra got a minority stake. Coub is …

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