Moscow – Tele2, a European mobile operator, has announced a launch of SMS-dating service. The new service lets Tele2 Russia clients find company and get in touch with new friends by sending short messages (SMS). In order to subscribe, Tele2 clients will only have to send a message to short code 684. The message has …
Finland’s Rovio, the developer of the popular Angry Birds mobile game series, has unveiled plans to open theme parks across Russia in the next 12 months. Peter Vesterbacka, the head of marketing at Rovio, told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti earlier this week that the Angry Birds amusement parks in Russia will be similar …
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News360, a Russian startup operating from Moscow and Silicon Valley, was honored last week in the mobile content portion of the World Summit Award (WSA). The startup was recognized as having the best M-media and news project among the entrants. News360 offers a set of mobile apps which filter and stream news content based on users’ interests and …
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Game Insight, a leading Russian mobile game publisher operating globally, announced last week that it raised $25 million from In Mobile Investment (IMI.VC), a Moscow-based venture fund established in 2011. The financial terms of the deal, which follows several smaller investments from IMI.VC over the past two years, have not been disclosed. “Game Insight has a …
Hailo, a London-based mobile taxi booking service, announced earlier this week that it secured a $30.6 million investment, making it “the largest and best-capitalized taxi app network in the world with over $50 million raised.” New York-based Union Square Ventures (USV), Russia’s Phenomen, Japan’s KDDI, and Sir Richard Branson are joining existing investors Accel, Atomico …
Just weeks after its launch on Jan. 10, an educational app named Znanija has broken into the top-100 downloaded free iOS apps in Russia and become third most popular in the nation’s educational category, according to the App Annie app ranking and intelligence company. The mobile app allows Russian users to access the Znanija.com social educational network, which boasts over …
Gov2People was launched in February 2011 as the brainchild of Alyona Popova, a Russian public activist and expert on e-government and startup businesses. A wave of protests in the winter of 2011 and the spring of 2012 has pushed many people (not all of which are necessarily opposition-minded) to take action. Citizens have realized that …
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Since the beginning of 2013, the Microsoft Seed Fund has provided a total of $110,000 in grants to two startups from Russia’s regions. A $50,000 grant went to RealSpeaker, a startup from Kazan, Tatarstan, which offers a new approach to speech recognition. The company also recently received financing from Startobaza, a local seed-stage investment company, along with …
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St. Petersburg, Russia – Released by i-Free Innovations, a leading Russian mobile game and app publisher, on 24 January 2013, Mushroom Wars RTS rocketed to No. 4 of the best-selling iPad apps in the US and No. 5 in Germany in less than a week and #1 Strategy in the US and other countries. The mobile edition …
Russia’s search giant Yandex has decided to withdraw Wonder, its new voice-activated search application for social networks, from Apple’s App Store, following Facebook’s decision to block it, rendering the app largely irrelevant. Launched just six days ago, Wonder retrieves and displays relevant data from Facebook or other social network content. As The Next Web noted, …
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Cooliris, a California based publisher of mobile apps for “immersive media experiences,” launched yesterday an international version for Russia. With its photo sharing platform Yandex.Fotki (Yandex Photos), Yandex, the Russian search giant, was chosen as a local photo hosting partner. This integration enables Yandex.Fotki’s 10 million users to browse, experience and share all of their …
Social photo discovery service Cooliris partners with Yandex for Russian market Read More
Russia’s Zeptolab and AlterGeo were honored last week in Berlin at the finale of The Europas, a contest for technology startups that attracted over 1,000 companies this year from all over the world. The two companies have been judged as the “Best Russian Startups,” with Zeptolab getting two additional awards – the Best Gaming or Social …
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