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GS Group presents first Russian digital TV set-top box for Ultra HD offerings

February 7, 2016

Last month GS Group, an internationally oriented Russian tech company whose key activities include developing technologies for digital TV, presented the GS A230, “the first Russian digital TV set-top box to support the Ultra HD (4K) standard.” The first Ultra HD television channels in Russian are already available to subscribers of Tricolor TV, a leading digital TV provider …

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2015 in review: 10 search trends shared by Russians and Americans

January 31, 2016

East-West Digital News reviews the most important developments on the Russian high-tech scene in 2015. Today’s article, which was provided by Russian Search Marketing, highlights unexpected similarities in search trends in Russia and the United States.  Last year Russian Search Marketing compared the 2014 search trends of Russians and Americans, noting the data that showed the similarities among users of two …

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Russian oligarchs Magomedov and Usmanov have stakes in Uber

March 2, 2017

USM, an investment holding controlled by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, invested “several dozen million dollars” in Uber in the summer of last year. The investment was revealed yesterday by Russian business dailies RBC and Vedomosti, which cited unnamed sources in the holding. USM and Uber, however, declined to comment on these reports. Thus Usmanov has been …

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Google swipes Yandex’s 15-year-old slogan, accidentally it says

February 7, 2016

The Russian-language Google Books service is using a slogan that rival research engine Yandex copyrighted more than a decade ago. “Find everything!” (literally, “Everything will be found,” or “Найдется все!”) appears below Google’s book search, after the phrase, “The largest library in the world.” The news site Roem.ru first reported the slogan’s appearance on Google’s website on January 18. As …

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Yandex.Direct introduces smart banner ads for personalized targeting

January 20, 2016

Internet, January 20, 2016 — Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX), one of the largest European internet companies and the leading search provider in Russia, has begun testing smart banner ads on its pay-per-click advertising platform, Yandex.Direct. Smart banners are display advertisements with dynamic content that is personalized for individual users based on their interests – coffee machine …

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Should Google store its data in Siberia?

February 7, 2016

Yakutia is the coldest populated region in the world. Located in the northeastern part of Siberia, this semi-autonomous republic of the Russian Federation is home to the village of Oymyakon, a place known as the Pole of Cold that registers temperatures of -70 degrees Celsius. Permafrost covers a large part of Yakutia’s territory, and this is precisely …

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Yandex queries in review 2015

February 7, 2016

Yandex research analysts recently released the list of the top 2015 queries for people, events, and phenomena in a number of categories. Not only does this list remind us what happened during the previous year but also what interested people the most. From the top movies of the year to the top searches for people, …

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Yandex launches “hyper-local weather forecasting” and “automated information agency”

February 9, 2016

Yandex announced yesterday the launch of ‘Meteum,’ a new machine learning-based technology for “hyper-local and super-accurate weather forecasting.” “This new technology collects a massive volume of data about past forecasts made by external providers like WRF or Foreca, and compares them with the historical weather conditions to figure out the difference between what was forecasted and what happened …

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Russian medical technology startups meet US investors, universities and industry players in Philadelphia

February 10, 2016

Even though the relations between the two powers have reached historic lows, US-Russian cooperation in scientific and technological fields is still partly alive. Thus the US-Russia Innovation Corridor (USRIC) — a cooperation framework created in 2013 by American Councils as part of the EURECA program — announced today that five medical technology startups from Russia traveled to …

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Telegram is the “new hot thing among jihadists,” says cyber security expert

February 10, 2016

When ISIS terrorists want to hide what they’re saying, they are increasingly turning to an app called Telegram. It’s “the new hot thing among jihadists,” said Laith Alkhouri, director of Research at Flashpoint Global Partners. Telegram, an international instant messenger founded by Pavel Durov in 2013, boasts two layers of encryption and claims to be “faster and more …

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Google Maps says ISIS is located at the Russian Defense Ministry’s TV station in Moscow

February 10, 2016

When searching for ISIS in Russian (“ИГИЛ”) on Google Maps, the result is the Moscow office address of the television channel Zvezda, a national network run by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The likely culprit is Google’s Map Maker tool, which it temporarily disabled earlier this year, after a series of vandalism acts. (According to Google, the …

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Medviser.ru founder Arie (Lev) Orlovsky: “In medicine, high-tech diagnostic methods tend to replace physical examination”

February 10, 2016

A marketplace for remote medical video consultations, Medviser aims to provide patients with access to quality medical expertise worldwide. The Russian-Israeli startup is backed by Millhouse LLC, the investment company of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. Medviser’s founder and CEO Lev Orlovsky explains the human and market needs his company is addressing, shares his view on …

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