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Four Russian tech startups join MassChallenge’s best and brightest

November 19, 2014

Late last month, MassChallenge, a nonprofit organization that runs a $1 million annual global startup competition, hand-picked 128 first-round winners to join its 2013 Accelerator Program. RVC-USA, the Boston-based representative office of Russian government-owned RVC and a two-time platinum sponsor of the MassChallenge competition, announced last week that four Russian startups had made it to …

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Yandex redesigns search result page with launch of interactive snippets

November 19, 2014

Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX), Russia’s largest search engine, has announced significant changes to its Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) with the launch of interactive snippets called ‘Islands’. Islands has been designed to provide a new level of user experience, responding to web searches with solutions rather than just information. As such, it will speed up the link …

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Yandex updates its personalized search feature to track users’ momentary interests

June 3, 2013

The Russian search giant Yandex has announced an updated version of its Personal Search feature in the newly-launched search platform “Dublin.” The main difference from the previous version, introduced in December 2012, is that now a user’s search profile is updated every few seconds instead of once a day. Yandex claims that more than a …

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Context ads managing service ReachLocal enters Russian market

May 29, 2013

The US-based Internet company ReachLocal, which specializes in context advertising tools, has launched a Russian subsidiary, Digit.ru reported this Monday. In its first year on the Russian market the company expects to post €10 million in revenue, said Nataliya Matusova, general manager of ReachLocal’s Russian branch, at a press-conference in Moscow. Although its Moscow subsidiary was …

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Mail.Ru Group invests $1.5m in visual search provider Cortiсa

May 29, 2013

Leading Russian Internet group Mail.Ru Group announced yesterday that it has poured $1.5 million into the Israeli visual search developer Cortica. The funding is part of a larger round led by other undisclosed investors; it brings the total amount attracted by Cortica to more than $12.5 million. The investment in Cortica allows Mail.Ru Group to …

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E-learning startup YaKlass attracts funding, plans international expansion

May 27, 2013

Moscow-based e-learning startup YaKlass has announced that it has secured a seed funding round from Latvia’s Data Pro Group, Russia’s Vesna Investment and entrepreneur Nikita Khalyavin, CNews.ru revealed last week. The amount of the investment has not been disclosed, but CEO Valeriy Nikitin told East-West Digital News that it valued YaKlass at $2 million.

Dating service Mamba looks abroad and becomes Wamba

December 21, 2020

Leading Russian dating site “Mamba” has changed its international name to Wamba to expand into new markets. “In Russia we can only grow as fast as the market”, explained Executive Director Yaroslav Sergeev, “so we are targeting two new growth areas – mobile Internet and international expansion.”

Google shuts down Quickoffice R&D offices in Russia and Ukraine

May 16, 2013

Google has cancelled its contract with Doctor Mobile, the developer of the mobile applications for the Quickoffice service. Google acquired Quickoffice, which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, in June last year for an undisclosed sum. Now, less than a year later, Google is shutting down two of its offices, namely in Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Kharkiv (Ukraine), where more than …

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Google slow to penetrate Russia: battles with Yandex, lawsuit vs. government over content filtering

May 16, 2013

After many years spent unsuccessfully challenging local search giant Yandex for the Russian market, Google appears to have re-thought its strategy – though still not always finding common ground with Russian authorities. In an interview with news agency RIA Novosti earlier this week, Google Russia CEO Yuliya Solovyova stated that the corporation considers Russia a …

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Yandex announces its summer school for startups – Tolstoy Summer Camp

November 19, 2014

Yandex’s new startup accelerator, Tolstoy Summer Camp, opens for young entrepreneurs and internet specialists who would like to learn how to start their own startup. The program will bring together young web developers, UI designers and project managers with an idea, but without resources to implement it and present it to investors. We also welcome …

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Russian authorities in search of new suppliers for e-government

May 13, 2013

Russia’s government prefers to take its time before signing a new contract with an outside service provider to support its electronic infrastructure, including systems of interdepartmental collaboration, the government services portal Gosuslugi.ru, and a unified system of identification and authentication. So far, the government’s provider for these projects has been Rostelecom, Russia’s leading telecom operator, …

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