Moscow-based startup Workle, whose platform enables residents of Russia’s regions to work on a remote basis for leading companies, announced last week it has raised $3.5 million in its second round of funding. The investment came from Klever Internet Investment, the technology branch of a major Russian private investor, Klever Asset Management. Klever has also received the …
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RBC, one of Russia’s largest media groups in the online, television, print media, hosting and domain name registration segments, is restructuring its B2C Internet assets, the group’s press service stated in an exchange with East-West Digital News. Managed by Media Mir, a company within the group, these assets will be reorganized into three distinct segments. …
The California branch of the Russian Internet operator Yandex has developed a prototype software application that enables users to read news from social networks on their televisions. According to a company statement, users can manage the process by physically gesturing. Tatyana Komarova, a Yandex spokesperson, said that the experiment was a joint effort by Yandex Labs …
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Illustrating the trend of moving online in the Russian advertising market, search engine giant Yandex saw its advertising revenues equal those of First Channel (“Pervyi Telekanal”), the country’s leading TV channel, for the first time last year. According to First Channel’s annual financial results released earlier this week, the TV channel generated 28.2 billion rubles …
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Among several other recent enhancements, Mail.ru announced last week that its webmail service now supports the Internet Message Access Protocol. Commonly known as IMAP, this protocol now allows Mail.ru users who have email accounts with other services – including Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and the webmail services of Yandex and Rambler – to send and receive …
In a bid to promote legislative ideas and suggestions from Russian citizens, the Information Democracy Foundation (IDF), a government sponsored non-profit, last week launched the beta version of the Russian Public Initiative (RPI), a web platform inspired by the US “We the People” online petition system. “The implementation of RPI is the next step in …
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VTB Capital, the investment arm of Russia’s VTB Group, has acquired a minority holding in National Satellite Company, Russia’s largest satellite TV operator working under the Tricolor TV brand name. While announcing the partnership this past Tuesday, the partners in the deal provided no financials, but said that with its growing Russian subscriber base of …
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People seeking to increase their business skills and knowledge now have a new way of accessing quality instruction without attending MBA classes at Stanford or INSEAD. Eduson.tv, a new e-learning service launched earlier this week by a team from Russia, provides courses from leading professors and expert guest lecturers – from London Business School Adjunct Professor …
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Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom is said to be working on a new search engine, CNews.ru reports. According to the publication’s sources in one of the Russian Internet companies, the national search portal has been christened Sputnik, with the corresponding domain already registered to Rostelecom’s subsidiary RTCOMM. The Internet search market in Russia is dominated …
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Demonstrating the growing importance of its sales in Russia – which reached $400 million last year, – eBay announced yesterday a series of enhancements to its Russian-language version as well as specific marketing initiatives. The new Russian-language functionalities encompass several key areas such as the product categories, search capabilities, and seller descriptions. Russian online shoppers …
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Yandex (NASDQ:YNDX) today unveiled its newly redesigned homepage. The most relevant information is now highly visible and easily accessible in a more streamlined format. The homepage now has less text and feels airier making it easier to navigate. Graphics have replaced some text blocks, and related items have been grouped together – for example, news …
Russian search giant Yandex is getting ready to build a data center in neighboring Finland, its third such facility outside Russia. The project is slated to break ground in August on an 8-hectare parcel 60km north of Helsinki that Yandex purchased from the Mäntsälä municipality for 1.5 million euros, Tatyana Komarova of Yandex’s press service …
New Yandex Finnish data center to enjoy cool climate and trim costs Read More
