The United Electronic Trading Platform (UETP), a nationwide bidding platform for state purchasing, announced last Tuesday that thousands of companies have joined the Popular Front through its website. Announced last May, the Popular Front is a political initiative aimed at supporting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party in the forthcoming legislative …
ZocDoc, a New York based startup that allows patients to locate and book doctor appointments online, announced yesterday it secured a $50 million investment from prominent Russian fund DST Global in its third round of financing. Founded in 2007, the site claims to offer 5 million appointments across nine major metropolitan areas and dozens of medical …
London – SmartLabs, a leading Russian provider of digital TV solutions, has started to deploy a large-scale unified IPTV platform for Rostelecom service providers in all Russian Federation regions. Within the project, all separate IPTV platforms currently running in the regions will be replaced by the unified one based on a number of SmartLab products.
Russia’s leading WiMax provider Scartel, working under the Yota brand, announced last week the launch of Yota Play, an video on demand (VOD) service accessible from Samsung and LG TV sets, Samsung’s blu-ray players and home entertainment systems, as well as from regular computers with an Internet connection.
Muscovites will be able to vote in the 2016 elections through the Internet. “We will be technologically ready to conduct electronic elections in 2016 and we will offer such opportunity,” the head of the city’s information technologies department Artem Ermolaev told Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
London – MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator, has launched a commercial mobile TV service covering the entire country. Known simply as Mobile TV or MTS TV, it offers viewers eight Russian federal channels and over 100 channels from 17 countries and in 26 languages.
Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom has introduced its cloud solution for the creation of multifunctional e-government service centers for Russian citizens, the company announced in a news release last week. The new service was demonstrated as part of the Innoprom innovations-related exhibition held last week in Ekaterinburg.
Two investment proposals filed with the Russian government by national telecom operator Rostelecom have received support from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Russian daily Vedomosti reported. The proposals aim to modernize Rostelecom’s networks in Russia’s Central Federal District by 2013 in order to provide all the District’s 7 million households with landline and wireless Internet, telecom …
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Russia’s leading search engine Yandex has lowered its rankings of over 1,000 Russian websites because the sites used illegitimate search engine optimization – or SEO – methods, according to unnamed SEO experts quoted by Russian business daily Vedomosti. SEO service providers RBS, Megaseo, Perfectseo, Userator, and Megaindex are expected to be particularly hard hit by Yandex’s …
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Leading Russian mobile operator MTS recently signed cooperation agreements with several major producers of TV sets, including Panasonic, Philips and Samsung, to deliver content from Omlet.ru, an MTS subsidiary, to their TV sets. The news was reported last week by Russian newspaper RBC Daily from unnamed sources.
A new player has emerged on the nascent Russian online alternative accommodation market. Apartator.ru launched its test version in April and its first paid functions in late June. It has just been selected as one of the 10 finalists of the European Demo Night startup contest to be held next week in San Francisco.
Three major court cases involving violation of electronic copyright came into the spotlight in Russia over the past two weeks, revealing a steady – though controversial – progress in the application of copyright related legislation in the country.
