Russian entrepreneurs have launched something similar to Handy, the U.S. home-cleaning service. In the past year, Qlean has attracted more than $327,000 in investment, and in the near future the young ambitious service plans to expand to Asia. The founders of Qlean take their inspiration from the success of the world-renowned car service, Uber. “We …
In the middle of July the Telegram messenger created by Pavel Durov, founder of Russia’s largest social network, Vkontakte, was subjected to a series of large-scale DDOS attacks. They caused the application to breakdown all over the world. Shortly before, the application had been deleted from the Google Play store for several hours due to complaints …
InVenture Partners, a venture fund with Russian origins which invested in taxi booking app Gettaxi and in a range of Russian startups, has invested $5 million telemedicine startup American Well. This Boston, USA-based company uses mobile and web technology to “improve access to quality care, removing barriers such as distance, mobility, and time.” The fund received a minority stake in the US …
InVenture Partners invests $5 million in US telemedicine startup American Well Read More
Yandex, the Russian search company behind leading marketplace Yandex.Market, announced yesterday the launch of Yandex.Delivery, a service which aggregates offers from several e-commerce shipment service providers. Yandex.Delivery allows Internet stores to work more easily with several carriers with a unified account and paperwork. E-merchants may install a widget on their site, allowing shoppers to choose the delivery price and …
Yandex relaunches e-commerce delivery service aggregator Read More
Russian social network VKontakte is on the verge of releasing a mobile application along the lines of popular photo-sharing service Instagram, news agency RBC reported earlier this month, citing two unidentified people familiar with the company’s plans. VKontakte applied to Apple a few days ago to have the application distributed through the U.S. tech giant’s …
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a controversial bill that allows citizens to demand that internet search engines remove links to personal information deemed “false” and “irrelevant,” as well as to that distributed in violation of the law. The law on the so-called “right to be forgotten,” signed by Putin on July 14, …
Earlier this month LinguaLeo, a service used by millions of web and mobile users in Russia, Brazil and Turkey to learn English, finally received a $500,000 capital injection from Social Discovery Ventures (SD Ventures) and existing investor Runa Capital. In May, after failing to raise funds, he startup had cut 30% of its staff and …
LinguaLeo raises $500,000 after cutting 30% of staff Read More
In June 2015 Russia launched the comprehensive project BrosayemKurit.rf (translation: Let’s Quit Smoking). The country celebrated World No Tobacco Day on May 31 with the release of another mobile application, “Smoke Free Area.” With the app a user can take a photo of an establishment where the ban on smoking in public places is violated and send …
No smoking, please: Russian mobile health technologies Read More
Russia’s search giant Yandex has “handed over” Moi Krug, a major professional social network which it acquired back in 2007, to Thematic Media (TM), a publisher of several online tech publications. The transaction was confirmed earlier this month by a Yandex representative to business daily Vedomosti, but no details of the deal have been disclosed. Yandex …
Yandex transfers professional network Moi Krug to Thematic Media Read More
Last week Yandex presented its new media player service christened “Yandex.Radio.” With more than 100 stations, Yandex.Radio allows users to tune in to a variety of music styles – energetic, sentimental or fun; music for travel, jogging or a romantic date; songs from the 1950s, or timeless hits from different decades. Yandex.Radio comes as Yandex’s second …
Yandex launches new media player service “Yandex.Radio” Read More
Earlier this week Russian-Israeli startup Medviser announced that it has received half a million US dollars in investment from Roman Abramovich. The transaction was made via an undisclosed entity belonging to the Russian billionaire. It valued the company at $1,7 million post money, with the investor receiving a 30% stake. Medviser was founded in mid-2014 by Anna Danishevskaya, …
Roman Abramovich invests $500,000 in Russian-Israeli medical consultation startup Read More
Yandex unveiled yesterday new features of its Yandex.Browser, now in beta testing, including a “high privacy level” for its users. Unlike other browsers, says the Russian company, the private version of Yandex.Browser does not send users’ information to the developer by default: “We do not get any stats or browsing data.” “Sharing users’ information helps developers …
New Yandex browser offers rich search suggestions while “protecting user privacy” Read More
