Just weeks after it announced a partnership with China’s Alibaba and inaugurated Panasonic’s R&D center on its premises, Skolkovo is announcing another move towards the Asian market with ten of its startups taking part in Singapore’s Echelon Asia Summit. This Asian tech show, which will be held on June and 23 and 24, is a …
Top Skolkovo startups to showcase their projects in Singapore tech show Read More
This year Startup Sabantuy, a Kazan, Russia-based startup contest, went as far as Belgrade and Novi Sad (Serbia), Istanbul, and Dubai, in addition to a range of Russian cities, to find and support promising startup together with investors. As witnessed by East-West Digital News, Serbian startups showed huge interest in this event. The fact that more than …
Russian startup contest expands to Serbia, Turkey and UAE Read More
This week the Center for New Media & Society will host their colleagues Rob Faris and Bruce Etling from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University for a number of joint events in Moscow. These meetings will take place under the project “Crossing Boundaries with New Media” jointly implemented by the Center and the Berkman Center under the US-Russia …
Amid the economic turmoil of this and last year, the Russian online retail market is still appealing in many respects. This consensus emerged from the eDays e-commerce conference, an internationally-oriented event which was held for the second time in Moscow on June 4 and 5. In 2014, the domestic market grew by 35% in nominal …
Amid crisis, key Russian e-commerce players claim continued growth Read More
In its second edition on June 4 and 5, the eDays e-commerce attracted nearly 250 top executives and high-level professionals, some of them joining the event from as far as France, Estonia, Spain, Sweden, the UK and Ukraine. In addition to a thorough coverage of the current trends in Russian e-commerce, the event offered an …
An international mobile and social game development and marketing conference, The White Nights Conference will open its doors for the seventh time on 26-27 June in St. Petersburg. The event will gather industry leaders from all over the world. Wooga, Twitter, Unity, Game Insight, Epic Games, Unreal Engine and more companies will be attending the event. 1,200 attendees …
Startup Village, a major industry event held last week at the Skolkovo international tech hub, greeted more than 10,000 participants: Russian and foreign entrepreneurs, investors, venture fund representatives and government officials, including Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. Over the course of two days, the Startup Village came as the ultimate stage of a road show through …
Home security firm Graviton has destroyed the field to win the 2015 Startup Village pitch competition, impressing the judges with its sensor-based system to win the 3 million ruble prize and an invitation to become a Skolkovo resident. “Thank you for this wonderful event, our victory doesn’t matter so much, it’s my goal to attract …
Graviton wins Startup Village 2015 pitch competition Read More
Last week Russian high school students’ projects in the sphere of mathematics, chemistry, programming, materials science and engineering were awarded with six Grand Awards and three Special Awards at the 66th International Science and Engineering Fair, Intel ISEF. The final stage of the contest took place in Pittsburgh, USA. A program of Society for Science & …
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Lobachevsky University, the largest university in the Nizhny Novgorod region, is announcing KomTech-2015, a sizable innovation-focused event to be held between May 20 and 22, 2015. The event aims to assist young innovators in the development of their entrepreneurial mindset, help them put together winning project promotion strategies, encourage transferable skills and activities, and foster …
May 20-22: Meet top researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs in Nizhny Novgorod Read More
East-West Digital News is proud to announce the upcoming e-Days E-Commerce Conference, Russia’s first internationally-oriented industry event. The second edition edition of this annual event will be held in Moscow on June 4 and 5, in association the chambers of commerce of France and Great Britain and online marketing agency BuzzFactory joining EWDN as co-organizers and …
East-West Digital News is proud to announce the upcoming e-Days E-Commerce Conference, Russia’s first internationally-oriented industry event. The second edition edition of this annual event will be held in Moscow on June 4 and 5, in association the chambers of commerce of France and Great Britain and online marketing agency BuzzFactory joining EWDN as co-organizers and …
Industry leaders to discuss Russian and global e-commerce trends at Moscow conference Read More
