A poll released by SuperJob.ru, a leading Russian language employment search provider in Russia and the CIS, indicated that just 28% of Russian Internet users are registered with a professional social network.
Fast Lane Ventures, a business incubator based in Moscow, announced the launch of Upladder.ru, the first Russian online job search service reserved for professionals with a monthly salary of more than 100,000 rubles, or $3,500.
National telecommunications operator Rostelecom, state-owned fund of funds Russian Venture Company (RVC) and Moscow incubator Digital October are to launch Knowledge Stream, a distance learning project for students, news agency ITAR TASS reports.
Among IT job seekers living in Moscow and St. Petersburg, 55% contemplate leaving the country, while 22% have already taken some concrete steps in that direction. Another 6% do not intend to leave because they do not believe they will find a job abroad, according to a recent poll by Ancor, a major recruitment company …
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Russia’s state-own nanotechnology corporation Rusnano and US technology company Intel have opened a training school “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in High Technologies Sector” in Izhevsk, Republic of Udmurtia, Rusnano reports. The three-day training goal is to teach innovation entrepreneurship, project management and key aspects of creating scientific goods and services in demand to local specialists.
Russian Navigation Technologies (RNT) announced last week that the story of its formation and growth has been included as a business case study at Stanford and a number of other US universities. RNT is Russia’s largest manufacturer and integrator of telematics systems and a leader on the Russian fleet management systems market. Its Auto Tracker …
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Professionali.ru, the second largest Russian professional social network after Yandex’s MoiKrug, announced it has raised $2.5 million from Open Capital, a London-based venture capital fund investing in Russia and other former Soviet states. The news has been reported by Unova, a Russian website specializing in local innovation and venture news.
Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecommunications operator, intends to invest more than ten billion rubles (approximately $357 million) into the development of a national cloud computing platform through 2015. Rostelecom was appointed by the Russian government to develop the platform in March.
Intel and Nizhny Novgorod University launched a training center for Intel software support this week. The center will broaden the scope of the university programs and ensure the certification of personnel, particularly in the areas of parallelism, high performance computing and mobile applications, Telecom Daily reported.
Skolkovo, the state-sponsored innovation hub under construction near Moscow, and Microsoft Russia established last week a “strategic partnership” for educational projects.
Authorities in the Republic of Chuvashia have announced plans to allocate $63 million to finance a profession education system development program. Under the program, the funds are to be used to set up a chain of modern centers to train professional specialists for high-tech innovation businesses.
Summary of survey results: An Internet project director is responsible for dealing with the complex task of building, supporting, promoting and developing a project on the World Wide Web. This includes development strategy, originating the concept and structure of the project”s website, creating content, search optimization, web site promotion, and traffic analysis.
