NetHope, an association of international humanitarian organizations, USAID, and the Demi & Ashton Foundation (DNA) have called upon software developers from Russia and Eastern Europe to design innovative mobile applications to help stop human trafficking.
Begun, a leading Russian advertising network acquired by Google in 2008, announced earlier this week that its contextual ad service now operates on Android and iPhone mobile applications.
Russia’s second largest mobile phone retailer Svyaznoy, which operates some 2,300 outlets throughout Russia, will soon launch a website to sell music, ebooks and other multimedia content, Russian daily Vedomosti reported, citing Svyaznoy’s General Manager Denis Lyudkovsky. The future portal – still unnamed – will offer over 1 million music tracks, over 30,000 e-books, computer …
Leading Russian mobile operator MTS recently signed cooperation agreements with several major producers of TV sets, including Panasonic, Philips and Samsung, to deliver content from Omlet.ru, an MTS subsidiary, to their TV sets. The news was reported last week by Russian newspaper RBC Daily from unnamed sources.
Cut the Rope, a game developed by Russian firm ZeptoLab, topped the paid applications section of Android Market, the application store for Android-supported devices, just one week after its launch on July 1.
Three major court cases involving violation of electronic copyright came into the spotlight in Russia over the past two weeks, revealing a steady – though controversial – progress in the application of copyright related legislation in the country.
Refine.io, a startup offering to “create and share fully functional prototypes of mobile apps in about the same time as it takes to develop a wireframe,” received seed funding from Russia’s search engine giant Yandex under the Yandex.Factory program.
CTC Media, a leading Russian broadcasting company, has embarked on a joint campaign with Vkontakte, the largest social network in Russian and the CIS, to combat illegal content and promote Videomore, CTC Media’s own licensed player. According to CTC Media, which is backed by MTG, the campaign will have the tools at its disposal to search for …
Rambler, the once prominent but now second tier Russian search engine, has announced on company blog on Thursday the establishment of a new venture fund named Rambler-Fund. The fund has been set up in partnership with media firm Afisha.
Mail.ru Group, a leading player on the Russian Internet market, has just launched two new services on its top two web properties: a real-time news and blog search on its Mail.ru portal and a streaming audio and sharing application on its Odnoklassniki.ru social network.
LiveJournal.com, a global online community and blogging platform, registered its five millionth Russian-speaking user, according to an announcement made this Monday by SUP, the Russian media company that acquired the platform in 2007.
MTS, one of Russia’s leading mobile operators, announced the launch of a cloud-based distribution system for multimedia content — the first such experiment in Russia and CIS countries. The announcement was made last week at Sviaz-Expocomm, a major international event of the telecommunications industry held each year in Moscow.
