Which countries have the best programmers in the world? HackerRank, a platform that ranks engineers based on their coding skills and helps companies discover talent faster, has tried to answer this question based on coding challenges. Attracting hundreds of thousands of developers from all over the world, these challenges involved a variety of languages and knowledge domains, …
Mail.Ru Group, a major Russian Internet company, has announced an investment in GeekBrains, a Russian-language online learning platform for developers. The LSE-listed group has acquired a controlling interest in GeekBrains, with the founders keeping a stake and still running the platform. GeekBrains claims more than 1 million participants (up from from 200,000 one year ago) with a monthly …
According to the research company Bersin, the international market for interactive instruments used to evaluate job seekers is estimated to be worth $2 billion a year. The market recently welcomed the arrival of a new member, Skillaz, created by a former Kaspersky Lab collaborator, Andrei Krylov, and Grigory Dudash, a former employee of Nival, which is the company behind …
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Last month Runa Capital, a venture firm operating globally from its offices in Moscow and San Francisco, led a new round of funding for SchoolMint, a leading provider of mobile and online enrollment systems for US public, charter and private schools. Also participating in the round, which totalled $5.6 million, were Reach Capital (New Schools), Fresco …
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Kendrick White, director of Marchmont Capital Partners, an investment advisory firm, has worked in Russia for 22 years. In 2013, the US businessman was appointed vice rector for innovation policy at the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod (UNN), a position for which he was suddenly dismissed in June 2015. White now helps Russian inventors find common ground with …
For most of the last decade, Igor Gladkoborodov worked his way up in Moscow’s vibrant high-tech scene, going from web developer to co-founder of an online-video startup that drew $3.5 million in local funding. Last month, he abandoned Moscow for Menlo Park, California, joining a growing flow of professionals leaving Russia amid recession, deepening international isolation …
Putin faces growing exodus as Russia’s banking, tech pros flee Read More
Novikov Group, a leading player in the Moscow restaurant scene, and Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, are teaming up to support start-ups in restaurant business, Russian tech blog Firrma.ru reported. At the end of their 11-week training program, students will present their projects to Novikov Group founder Arkadiy Novikov. The best projects will be developed in partnership …
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Launched under the leadership of then-President Dmitry Medvedev in 2011, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) was intended to be a beacon of hope for Russia’s scientific community. The idea was to create a new university in Russia to attract domestic and foreign talent into the fields of science and technology and serve …
Four years of innovation: An interview with Skoltech President Edward Crawley Read More
Computer-aided design giant Autodesk has signed a cooperation agreement with Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, to potentially provide software support to resident startups and Skoltech students. The deal was struck earlier this month at the Skolkovo Technopark Office Center by Skolkovo vice president Alexandra Barshchevskaya and Herbert Bickelman, senior …
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has simplified the process of hiring foreigners at Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. Medvedev, who signed the original decree on the creation of Skolkovo as president in 2010 and sits on its board of trustees, has included all of the project’s legal entities …
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A new group of Russian tech start-ups and university projects arrived in Maryland last week to participate in a two-week training program and meetings with potential investors and partners. This is yet another dimension to cooperation between Russia and the United States in technology innovation, an area which the Western sanctions against Russia do not …
Fourth cohort of Volga tech projects trained in Maryland Read More
Over the past two years several technology transfer centers have been established and began operations at Russian universities in partnership with private international firms. Their task is to use the scientific potential of universities to create an innovation infrastructure around them and help attract further investments. Thus Russian universities have recently started conducting research and …
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