Leading Russian mobile operator MTS recently signed cooperation agreements with several major producers of TV sets, including Panasonic, Philips and Samsung, to deliver content from Omlet.ru, an MTS subsidiary, to their TV sets. The news was reported last week by Russian newspaper RBC Daily from unnamed sources.
Cut the Rope, a game developed by Russian firm ZeptoLab, topped the paid applications section of Android Market, the application store for Android-supported devices, just one week after its launch on July 1.
On a visit from the UK to attend Green IT, Russia’s first ever greentech event which took place yesterday in Moscow, Sparxent CEO Ashley Leonard shared with East-West Digital News his vision of the trends for power management solutions around the world and in Russia.
Ostrovok.ru, an online hotel booking service launched a year ago in Russia, announced yesterday it has raised as much as $13.6 million from leading international investors. Among them are General Catalyst Partners, AccelPartners, Founders Fund and Atomico Ventures as well as prominent business angels including Qunar founder Fritz Demopoulos, Yandex board member Esther Dyson, Zyngo founder Mark …
Three major court cases involving violation of electronic copyright came into the spotlight in Russia over the past two weeks, revealing a steady – though controversial – progress in the application of copyright related legislation in the country.
Moscow-based software developer Auriga has been named the #1 engineering service outsourcing (ESO) provider in the Black Book of Outsourcing, an annual online poll of outsourcing services available worldwide. The poll is conducted by business information provider Datamonitor.
Troika Dialog Asset Management announced last Friday the creation of Troika Dialog-Global Internet, a new open ended equity fund that will invest exclusively in Internet related businesses, both in Russia and abroad.
Vizerra, a Moscow based developer of 3D applications for city planning, construction projects, product design, and virtual tourism, announced earlier this week the sale of a blocking stake (26%) in its capital to Solway, a Cyprus-based diversified investment group.
Refine.io, a startup offering to “create and share fully functional prototypes of mobile apps in about the same time as it takes to develop a wireframe,” received seed funding from Russia’s search engine giant Yandex under the Yandex.Factory program.
“Dare to change the world,” Bill Reichert intoned to the crowd of young Russian entrepreneurs who attended the BIT finale. The US venture capitalist came to Moscow a few days before to sign a partnership agreement with Moscow business incubator Digital October. He shared his impressions of the event with East-West Digital News.
LinguaLeo emerged last week as the winner of the annual BIT competition, Russia’s primary innovation and entrepreneurship contest with entrants from all across the country. LinguaLeo is a web service that teaches foreign languages using popular TV serials, books, and contextual dialogues.
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.
