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Russia pushes anti-piracy legislation; VKontakte’s laxity once again in the limelight

February 28, 2017

As Russian media sources air reports about VKontakte (VK.com), Russia’s largest social network, getting rid of its illegal music content, VK.com itself denies any widespread purges, mollifying user protests with a ‘business as usual’ sort of message. “VKontakte, facing the imminent adoption of Russia’s anti-piracy law, is busy removing its illegal music content – perhaps,” …

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Russian innovators offer solutions for mobile medicine; Cisco backs hi-tech endeavors

June 12, 2013

The Russian government has named pharmaceutical and biomedical as priority sectors for innovation, and has set a fairly ambitious strategic goal of increasing the share of domestic medical equipment products in the Russian market to at least 40%. In these highly important fields, two new players have emerged recently in Russia, assisted by the global …

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Video portal Zoomby.ru secures $10 million in funding

June 5, 2013

Russian Internet group WebMediaGroup has attracted $10 million for its video portal Zoomby.ru, an aggregator of broadcast quality video content developed in partnership with a state-owned Russian TV channel. The round was carried out by the Leader-Innovations – a 3 billion ruble venture fund launched in 2008 with the participation of the state-owned fund of funds RVC, – Gazprombank, one …

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Facebook for grandmothers

June 5, 2013

McKinsey consultant Ivan Osadchiy once took a trip to New York – at the same time as his seventy-year-old father went into hospital in Moscow. “I couldn’t help my dad to keep in touch with the family, or give him any support”, Ivan recalls. Osadchiy’s father had no way of reaching him either by Skype …

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Court upholds Gala Records damage claims against VKontakte over Russian pop singer tracks

November 19, 2014

The Court of Arbitration for Russia’s Northwest Federal District last week let stand all prior court decisions obligating VKontakte.ru (VK.com), Russia’s number one social network, to pay Gala Records, the first private record label in Russia, a total of 550,000 rubles (about $17,700) in damages for illicit displays of 11 tracks by MakSim, a Russian …

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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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Mobile social banking arrives in Russia

May 17, 2013

Russian iPhone users can now experiment with social banking – an entirely new concept in the country – with an app launched last month by Instabank, a Moscow-based startup. The iPhone app allows clients to transfer money to Facebook friends who also use Instabank, get notifications of new account activity, and add geotags and photos …

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Restaurant social app Gvidi wins Best Idea award in Tactrick Android Developer Cup

May 17, 2013

Gvidi, a mobile app dedicated to restaurants, cafés and bars across Russia and neighboring countries, won the Best Idea award earlier this week in an Android developer contest organized by Tactrick Mobile Solutions. The prize for the winner in this category is “support for the development of the product in question and its further development …

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Google shuts down Quickoffice R&D offices in Russia and Ukraine

May 16, 2013

Google has cancelled its contract with Doctor Mobile, the developer of the mobile applications for the Quickoffice service. Google acquired Quickoffice, which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, in June last year for an undisclosed sum. Now, less than a year later, Google is shutting down two of its offices, namely in Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Kharkiv (Ukraine), where more than …

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