Sunnyvale, CA. – Infinera (NASDAQ: INFN), a US-based leading provider of digital optical communications systems, has established its Russian headquarters in Moscow. Infinera Russia will focus on marketing, sales operations and work closely with local partners to expand the company’s manufacturing presence and capabilities in the region. The new entity has been created to support …
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NASDAQ-listed Russian search engine giant Yandex announced last Friday it fully acquired The Tweeted Times, a website offering social news services, for an undisclosed amount. Yandex aims to use the technologies developed by The Tweeted Times to enhance its search and content services with information from social networks.
Last week, Anatoly Chubais, Chairman of the Board of Rusnano, presented Russian PM Vladimir Putin with an e-reader prototype from Plastic Logic, a world leader in plastics electronics, reported news agency RIA Novosti. If current tests being held in some Russian schools are successful, the tablet could be used on a massive scale in the …
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Dassault Systèmes and the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) announced a “strategic partnership” last week that will include the provision of Dassault Systèmes IT solutions and internships in France for the Russian students.
Leading Russian payment operator Qiwi is in talks with Western European mobile operators, including Orange, Vodafone and Telefonica, about launching a new, offline payment system for mobile phone bills in Europe. The Russian operator is also considering entering the US market, Russian daily RBC Daily reported yesterday.
Drchrono, a Silicon Valley based startup offering an electronic health record (EHR) platform for the iPad, announced last week it has received an additional $650,000 in seed funding from prominent startup investor Yuri Milner, founder of DST Global, along with venture capital firm General Catalyst.
The Moscow State Automobile and Road Technical University (MADI) and the Scientific Center for Complex Transportation Problems of the Ministry of Transport have reached an agreement with IBM for the creation of an academic competence center dedicated to IBM solutions in the area of intelligent transportation systems.
Red Hat opened a representation office in Moscow in early August, reported CNews.ru, a Russian site that covers software and IT issues. Although Red Hat still relies on its master distributor Vdel to market its products and services, the representation office may play a direct role in certain projects and help develop sales, a Vdel …
According to Svyaznoy, a major mobile retailer, the Russian smartphone market expanded by a whopping 78% in the first six months of 2011, reaching an estimated value of 30.7 billion rubles, or $1.1 billion. Sales for the period reached 2.8 million devices – a figure confirmed by MTS, a leading mobile operator and retailer – up …
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Walt Disney CIS, the subsidiary of the US entertainment giant operating in Russia and the former Soviet states, anounced yesterday it has started introducing international social games to local markets. The first game is ‘Gardens of Time,’ a widely popular game produced by social gaming startup Playdom.
The number of Russian language Twitter accounts exceeded 1 million in July, reveals a report by Yandex, the top Russian Internet search company whose offerings include a function that searches blogs and forums. Russian speaking users send 370,000 tweets daily. 8% are retweets and about one third are replies to other tweets. The average tweet …
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JP Morgan recommends investors to buy shares in Yandex and Mail.ru Group, the two Russian Internet giants listed on the NASDAQ and the LSE respectively, Bloomberg reported yesterday. The Russian online advertising market could grow even faster than generally expected, JP Morgan analyst Alexei Gogolev argues in his report. Yandex and Mail.ru Group are “likely …
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