Moscow cable operator Mostelecom, a subsidiary of National Telecommunications (NTC), is progressively transferring its subscribers from analog to digital TV, as reported recently by TeleSputnik.ru.
Luxembourg based fund Mangrove Capital Partners and Russian fund ABRT sold their stake in Russian search engine Quintura earlier this month, letting its founders Yakov Sadchikov, Alexaner Yershov and Rustam Gafurov take back full control of the company.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has been reported as lamenting the fact that while Google and Yandex are vast archives for storing everyday user-generated “art,” the organization of this information is a “complete mess” and needs to be channeled to a more civilized place.” “We have devoted a lot of time to debate about whether Russia …
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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has entrusted the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media with the task of integrating the databases of all departments and ministries before to July 1, 2011. “We’re talking about a single portal for all public services, information and service sites, integrated communications channels, departmental and regional data banks,” said Mr Putin. …
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Nigma.ru, a little known but innovative Russian search engine, could make a Vietnamese version of its service available as soon as April 1 under the domain name Itim.vn, meaning “I seek” in Vietnamese.
Rostelecom, the national telecommunications operator, was appointed last Monday by the Russian government to implement important parts of the federal program Information Society 2011–2020, including the “creation of a national platform for distributed data treatment in which computing resources are provided to users as Internet services” – or cloud computing in simpler terms.
After compiling a list of the “Top 50 Most Innovative Companies” worldwide last month, which included Yandex and Kaspersky Lab, U.S. business magazine Fast Company has now issued a ranking of the “Ten Most Innovative Companies in Russia.”
World leading classifieds platform eBay launched its Russian-language version one year ago, in March 2010, and despite problems surrounding the launch, Russian Internet users appear to like having their own version: the number of registered users increased by 73% in its first year. In addition, Russian users have proven to be the most active buyers …
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The Russian Ministry of Economic Development unveiled last week an online map of the country’s investment projects, proposals and sites as well as special economic, socio-economic indicators, logistical infrastructure and educational centers.
Russian search engine Yandex may go public on NASDAQ in June or July 2011, trading shares amounting to $1 billion, reported Bloomberg and Russian business daily Vedomosti. According to unnamed sources, the IPO would be managed by Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley.
Two Russian IT giants, Yandex, the leading Russian-language search engine, and Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of IT security and threat management solutions, have been ranked among the Top 50 Most Innovative Companies worldwide by U.S. business magazine Fast Company. Yandex took the 26th place in the ranking and Kaspersky Lab the 32nd.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered that federal agencies be provided with digital signature technology by June 2011 and that they begin using an electronic document management (EDM) system in January 2012.
