Digital content & Related technologies

FSB seeks to drive Western intelligence out of blogosphere

April 3, 2012 April 3, 2012

In a new bid to put a lid on uncensored Internet exchanges, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the post-Soviet successor of the KGB, has called for a crackdown on the “detrimental activity” of Western intelligence services in cyberspace. Speaking last week in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, at an interregional anti-terrorist panel of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), …

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Mobile operator MTS could sell part of its online video business

March 15, 2012 March 15, 2012

The Russian mobile operator MTS is considering selling a stake of its online paid video site Omlet.ru, the operator’s VP of Marketing Vasily Latsanich announced earlier this week at a press conference. “A content business should be separated from a mobile operator’s business, and we are not the only ones on the market to believe so,” …

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Tvigle.ru buys 200 hours of popular BBC TV shows

March 7, 2012 March 7, 2012

Tvigle.ru, a major Russian video entertainment portal on the Russian Internet, has purchased a number of popular TV shows from BBC Worldwide, including the award-winning programs Misfits, The Luther, Cranford, The Fade, The Deep, and others. No less than 200 hours of BBC Worlwide content will be offered free of charge by Tvigle, whose business …

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From St. Petersburg to Vladivostok, 180,000 webcams monitored Russia’s presidential election

March 5, 2012 March 5, 2012

In an unprecedented experiment to ensure voting transparency, most of Russia’s 94,300 polling stations were equipped with webcams offering a live broadcast of yesterday’s voting. The broadcast, which started at midnight, Moscow time, on election day, ended after all vote counting operations were completed. It was followed by up to 400,000 simultaneous Internet users on a …

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Cease-fire in political hacking on Election Day

March 5, 2012 March 5, 2012

In contrast to the massive hacker attacks that took place during the parliamentary election on December 4th and over the following weeks, no notable incidents were reported yesterday when Russian voters reelected Vladimir Putin as their president – a sign perhaps of the increased legal risks and political cost for the parties involved. Using computer …

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Online event solution startup TimePad secures investment from Rambler-Afisha

March 2, 2012 March 2, 2012

TimePad, a startup offering a range of online tools for event organizers, announced on Wednesday that it had received an investment of undisclosed size from the Rambler-Afisha group. TimePad’s functions can be compared to those of Eventbrite or Armiando. They include event publication and promotion, through existing contacts and social networks, as well as online registration, …

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Reiman’s Prostor Capital invests in video-focused Dulton

February 22, 2012 February 22, 2012

Prostor Capital, a fund co-created in 2011 by former Russian telecom minister Leonid Reiman, announced last week the investment of an undisclosed sum in Dulton Media. Focusing on online video solutions, Dulton is developing such projects as YaTV, a video broadcasting and video on demand service, and Eagle.Platform, a platform for creation and monetization of …

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Vkontakte.ru too “passive” with copyright infringement, says arbitration court

February 22, 2012 February 22, 2012

Last week, the St. Petersburg Arbitration Court offered long-awaited explanations about the decision it issued in January of last year regarding an alleged copyright infringement involving Vkontakte.ru, the leading social network in Russia. The Gala Records record label had accused Vkontakte of having illegally offered online copyrighted recordings by the Russian band ‘Infinity’. Vkontakte claimed …

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Finam launches German mobile IM app in Russia

February 15, 2012 February 15, 2012

Finam Capital, the venture arm of the largest Russian brokerage and investment holding, will invest $10 million to deploy a special version IM+ in Russia. IM+ is a popular instant messenger made by German mobile app publisher Shape. Shape and Finam will create a joint venture in which the latter will own a minority, non …

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Hulu.com considers entering the Russian market

February 14, 2012 February 14, 2012

Representatives of Hulu.com, including its Senior Vice President of International Affairs, Johannes Larcher, visited Moscow last week to meet representatives from the Russian online video and movie industries, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources. The Hulu representatives were inquiring about the current state of the Russian online video market, its key …

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Russian Twitter users tripled in one year

February 6, 2012 February 6, 2012

A total of 4.5 million Twitter accounts had been created Russian users as of January 1, 2012 – a three-fold increase over the 1.5 million recorded a year earlier – according to a recent study by Semiocast, a Paris-based social media research company. This number puts Russia currently in 20th place on Twitter’s gobal map, the …

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Futubra, Russia’s response to Twitter, aims to set new standard in microblogging

January 18, 2012 January 18, 2012

While Twitter is gaining traction among the connected Russian elite, Mail.ru Group, the Russian LSE-listed Internet group, announced on Monday the launch of Futubra, a remarkably designed microblogging service. Although some observers have nicknamed it “the Russian Twitter,” Futubra seems closer to Tumblr in terms of functions, with its focus on multimedia content sharing and …

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