Telecom company TTK-Nizhny Novgorod (TTK-NN) has received a license on provision of cable TV services in Nizhny Novgorod region, the company reports. Under the license agreement, the company is to start providing services before March 2013. The license expires on March 23, 2016.
VimpelCom, a leading Russian mobile operator, announced yesterday that they will soon offer Internet Protocol TV on Microsoft’s popular Xbox 360 gaming device in the 23 Russian cities where VimpelCom currently offers IPTV, reports Russian business daily Vedomosti. VimpelCom’s standard set-top box for IPTV costs roughly 7,990 rubles ($292), only about 2,000 rubles ($73) less than an …
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Yandex, the Russian search giant that filed a registration statement with the SEC for a proposed IPO on NASDAQ last week, warned potential investors in its prospectus that it was as “vulnerable to politically motivated actions” as any other high-profile businesses in Russia. In the prospectus, Yandex acknowledges the risk of “other parties” perceiving its …
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Russia’s largest operator of satellite television, Tricolor TV, announced its commercial launch of asymmetrical satellite Internet access, Vedomosti reported.
Russia’s leading search engine Yandex announced that it has filed a registration statement with the SEC for a proposed IPO on NASDAQ, TechCrunch reports. According to the filing, the proposed maximum aggregate offering price amounts to $1 billion. A portion of the shares will be issued by Yandex, and a portion will be sold by certain …
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Google AdWords and Begun, a leading Russian ad network acquired by Google in 2008, have announced further technological integration of their advertising capabilities.
Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine, has launched Webvisor, a service that works with Yandex.Metrica to track and visualize the actions of site visitors. Webvizor is only for sites using Yandex Market, a marketplace for merchants affiliated with Yandex, or Yandex Direct, the contextual ad service of Yandex.
VimpelCom, a major Russian mobile operator, is talking with outsourcing companies about developing an IP telephony product functionally similar to Skype. The news, provided by unnamed sources, was reported last week by CNews.ru, a Russian site covering IT and telecom issues.
As announced earlier this month by Communications and Mass Media minister Ilya Massukh, 29 billion rubles (approximately $1 billion) has been slated for IT modernization of the Russian public health service in 2011 and 2012.
MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator, intends to purchase Bashkortostan’s telecom operator Ufanet, Russian business daily Kommersant reports. In the fall of 2010 Megafon wanted to buy Ufanet but in the last moment changed decision because of the price of $170-$180 million.
Armada, a Russian group offering software development and other IT services, announced last Friday that it sold 2.4 million additional shares for $13 each on Russia’s MICEX and RTS stock exchanges.
The Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Media is considering switching digital multiplex broadcasting (TV channel packages) over to the DVB-T2 standard, the Russian press reported. The move would free up frequencies for additional content, possibly for use by regional channels.
