Retail

Russian iPhone sales improve, but numbers still far from western records

February 4, 2011 February 4, 2011

Russian retailers sold 120,000 iPhone 4 units over the last three months, according to Kommersant, a Russian business daily. This comes in addition to significant unofficial sales via “grey import” channels. Although modest in comparison to the iPhone’s triumphant worldwide sales performance, 16.2 million in Q4 2010, these results mark significant progress for Apple on …

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ANN and VimpelCom finally purchase Euroset

February 4, 2011 February 4, 2011

The ANN investment company and VimpelCom announced their purchase of the Euroset group, one of the largest commercial cell phone networks in Russia.

Microsoft combats piracy, from St Petersburg to Vladivostok

February 1, 2011 February 1, 2011

Microsoft has completed the most recent round of its piracy-monitoring program in Russia, a program that monitors the levels of unlicensed software in retail computer sales. Of 3,229 audited retail outlets in 94 Russian cities, about 20 percent offered pirated software to customers. Eleven percent of the audited retail outlets allowed preinstallation of pirated software.

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