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Roman Abramovich invests $15 million in Israeli startup Music Messenger

April 27, 2015 February 25, 2016

As reported by Reuters, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has invested $15 million in Israeli startup Music Messenger, leading a $30 million round which also involved Benny Andersson from pop band ABBA, artists David Guetta, Will.i.am and Avicci, and Gee Roberson, manager of Nicki Minaj. Co-founded by Israeli entrepreneur O.D. Kobo and launched seven months ago, this Israeli …

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US interior design platform Houzz launches in Russia

April 8, 2015 July 9, 2015

Houzz, a global website and online community about architecture, interior design and decorating, has launched a Russian version of its website and mobile apps, and opened a representative office in Moscow. The US-based company is starting in Russia with “over 100,000 Russian homeowners and over 3,000 active Russian home professionals,” according to Houzz’s Russian team.

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

March 20, 2015 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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Indiegogo goes wild for St Petersburg’s iTraq

March 10, 2015 April 14, 2015

A startup with routes in Russia’s second city has attracted more than $221k in funding on Indiegogo. The company is called iTraq, and has developed a small device whose location can be tracked using a smartphone app. The iTraq device looks just a lot like a standard credit card, and can be carried in a wallet, …

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Russia’s weirdest applications

March 6, 2015 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.”

Pearson inks deal with Russian online education platform ‘Azbuka’

March 2, 2015 February 26, 2016

Russian online education platform ‘Azbuka’ will soon offer customers access to electronic textbooks from global publishing firm Pearson. Based in London, Pearson is the world’s largest educational publisher, with its textbooks used by more than 100 million people worldwide. Azbuka (meaning alphabet, or ABC) is a Russian online educational service which offers access to electronic …

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Midemlab contest 2015: A call to Russian startups

February 27, 2015 February 26, 2016

In partnership with East-West Digital News, Midem, the leading international b2b event dedicated to the new music and entertainment ecosystems, cordially invites Russian startups to the Midemlab competition. This event will take place in Cannes, France, from June 5 to June 8. The deadline for submissions is March 10, 2015. If you have a built the next solution that will …

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Moscow-based fund Buran Venture Capital contributed $8.5 million to Shazam’s latest funding round

February 26, 2015 February 26, 2016

Buran Venture Capital, a Moscow-based, internationally-oriented venture fund, appears to be among the backers of Shazam, which raised $30 million this past January in a funding round that valued it at over $1 billion. While the other investors are still unidentified, the Russian fund revealed yesterday that it contributed $8.5 million in the round.

Yandex says Google shutting others out from Russian Android devices

February 18, 2015 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 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 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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Spotify cancels Russia launch for “foreseeable future”

February 3, 2015 March 1, 2016

Popular music streaming service Spotify has canceled plans to open offices and launch their service in Russia, just one year after registering a subsidiary in Russia. Spotify reportedly last year hired Alexander Kubaneishvili, a former Google executive, to head their Russian business and were already in negotiations with local mobile operators.

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