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Tinkoff Digital signs agreement with Yandex for Data Mind

February 14, 2013

Moscow – Tinkoff Digital, а Russian developer of innovative internet and mobile advertising technologies, has signed an agreement with Yandex, Russia’s leading internet company, to buy online advertising inventory for its Data Mind real-time bidding (RTB) platform. Anna Znamenskaya, CEO of Tinkoff Digital, said: “This deal is a landmark for Tinkoff Digital, and underscores the …

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Mobile app’s success reflects the growing popularity of social educational networks in Russia

February 8, 2013

Just weeks after its launch on Jan. 10, an educational app named Znanija has broken into the top-100 downloaded free iOS apps in Russia and become third most popular in the nation’s educational category, according to the App Annie app ranking and intelligence company. The mobile app allows Russian users to access the Znanija.com social educational network, which boasts over …

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Yandex tops Microsoft’s Bing; becomes world’s 4th most popular search engine

February 8, 2013

Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine, has moved up in the worldwide search engine rankings to reach fourth place, according to the most recent data from comScore qSearch. Google retains a comfortable lead for the top spot, with more than 62% of the market, followed by China’s Baidu with 8.2%, Yahoo with 4.9%, Yandex with 2.8%, …

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Russian developer launches long-awaited search engine in Vietnam; eyes broader Southeast Asia

November 19, 2014

A new Vietnamese-language search engine, developed by Russians, was launched last week – almost two years after the idea for the project was first floated and a tentative launch date of April 1, 2011 had been announced. The search engine, christened Côc Côc (which stands for “rat-a-tat” in Vietnamese) is now up and running, and tailored …

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Rikor TV rolls out Android-based device to ‘smarten up’ television

November 19, 2014

Rikor TV, a Russian developer of interactive TV solutions and related customer-oriented software, announced last week its plans to bring its Smart TV-Box, an Android 4.1 powered media center, to market this spring. Equipped with the media center, which uses Exynos 4412, a 1.6GHz four-kernel processor by Samsung, any flat-screen TV set turns into a …

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Yandex puts Wonder on hold after Facebook blocked access to social data

January 31, 2013

Russia’s search giant Yandex has decided to withdraw Wonder, its new voice-activated search application for social networks, from Apple’s App Store, following Facebook’s decision to block it, rendering the app largely irrelevant. Launched just six days ago, Wonder retrieves and displays relevant data from Facebook or other social network content. As The Next Web noted, …

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Social photo discovery service Cooliris partners with Yandex for Russian market

January 30, 2013

Cooliris, a California based publisher of mobile apps for “immersive media experiences,” launched yesterday an international version for Russia. With its photo sharing platform Yandex.Fotki (Yandex Photos), Yandex, the Russian search giant, was chosen as a local photo hosting partner. This integration enables Yandex.Fotki’s 10 million users to browse, experience and share all of their …

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CERN physicists to benefit from Yandex’s machine learning solution

November 19, 2014

Yandex, Russia’s search giant, announced earlier this week that it is now an associate member of the Open Lab of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Under the terms of the recently signed agreement, CERN researchers will be able to tap into Yandex’s computing capabilities and data processing technologies. In exchange, the Russian company …

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Mail.ru launches Spanish language interface

January 22, 2013

In a move to enhance its international traction, the Russian webmail service Mail.ru has launched a Spanish language interface. The news was announced last week, although the interface had been made available in mid-December. Last year a report by ComScore revealed that Mail.ru, which then attracted over 42 million unique users monthly, was among the …

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Russian IT and telecom’s 2012 debacles

November 19, 2014

CNews.ru, a major Russian source of IT and telecom industry news, has put together what it dubs “an anti-ranking” of last year’s most disappointing developments in Russia’s information and communications technology sector. From delays in major government supported programs, to debacles in Asia, to 4G oligopoly, East-West Digital News highlights the most significant setbacks.

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