The scent of Silicon Valley wafted in the air on Tuesday at the Russian Youth Innovation Convention in Moscow. In addition to gathering over 800 aspiring entrepreneurs from all over the country, the event attracted such international celebrities as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Gmail creator Paul Bucheit, Angry Birds founder Peter Vesterbacka and Virgin Galactic …
Held for the first time last week in Moscow, the Internet Life Conference made a splash in the nascent startup community by offering insight on current Internet trends, online strategies and solutions. The conference was organized by CareerLab, a specialized educational center in the field of software engineering and ALM solutions, in partnership with Microsoft, IBM and a number …
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Displair, a startup from Astrakhan, Southern Russia, developing non-screen visual display technology, walked away with the Best Technovation and Best Marketing awards at the Technovations Cup. This national innovation competition was held on November 11 at the prestigious Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. The DisplAir application is an interactive non-screen display which ‘floats’ in mid-air. The ‘air …
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The fifth annual Investor Day-IDCEE affirmed itself as an important event on the international high tech scene, attracting some 2000 participants, including representatives from 150 startups and 200 investors from 34 countries. The two day long event was held in Kiev, Ukraine, on October 25 – 26 (see videos) Cafe and restaurant directory. The best …
Opera Software, the Norwegian browser software publisher, announced the results of its Opera Startup Awards contest this Tuesday. The competition, intended to reveal the best Russian student startups, was conducted by Opera Software in partnership with the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics and its affiliated business incubator ‘Quattuor Dimensionis’ (QD).
Plug and Play Tech Center, a prominent Silicon Valley incubator, got operations underway in Russia last week with the selection of its first five Russian startups. The launch projects, selected by a panel of Plug and Play judges, included Toytemic, a Moscow startup offering a “natural, intuitive method for linking virtual reality to the tactile …
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Code4Country, a two-day jointly sponsored US-Russian programming contest, or “codeathon,” took place on 24 -25 September, pitting national programmer teams against each other in a battle to produce innovative tools that enable greater transparency and more open government.
NetHope, an association of international humanitarian organizations, USAID, and the Demi & Ashton Foundation (DNA) have called upon software developers from Russia and Eastern Europe to design innovative mobile applications to help stop human trafficking.
National innovation and entrepreneurship contest BIT held its finale last Friday on the premises of Moscow business incubator Digital October. LinguaLeo, a web service that teaches foreign languages through popular TV serials, books and contextual dialogues, walked away with the first prize.
BIT, the most important national innovation contest in Russia, will hold its finale this Friday on the premises of Moscow business incubator Digital October. BIT — short for Business of Innovative Technologies — is an entrepreneurship competition organized each year to help innovative projects emerge from across the country. BIT selects “not only innovative ideas, but …
Through its PepsiCo10 program, multinational beverage and snack maker PepsiCo will offer £10,000, approximately $16,000, along with consulting services from leading specialists in the company and its partners to ten digital technology startups in 2011. Launched in the US in 2010, the PepsiCo10 angel investment program has been extended this year to cover Europe and …
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St. Petersburg – Shoring up the slow and difficult transition in the Russian economy from gas and oil to a more knowledge driven paradigm, the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum held in the end of last week in Russia’s Northern capital was replete with innovation related declarations on a massive scale. Innovation was a central theme at the …
