LinkedIn announced earlier this week that it has launched versions of its website in Russian, Romanian and Turkish. According to the company, the English version of the website already had 400,000 users from Russia and over 1,000 groups related to Russia, reported ComNews.ru, a website covering IT and telecom issues.
National telecommunications operator Rostelecom, state-owned fund of funds Russian Venture Company (RVC) and Moscow incubator Digital October are to launch Knowledge Stream, a distance learning project for students, news agency ITAR TASS reports.
Moscow – The Russian office of Microsoft Corporation has signed a supply agreement with the organizing committee of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Microsoft reported in a recently published news release. Under the terms of the agreement, Microsoft will provide the organizers of the Olympics with software and services particularly for the technical infrastructure of …
St. Petersburg – The Russian Post has announced plans to open 36 new automatic mail sorting centers throughout the country in the coming years, said Russian Post General Manager Alexander Kiselev on Tuesday at a news conference in St. Petersburg. The first sorting center, to be built in St. Petersburg for €50 million, will serve the Northwestern region of …
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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 …
St. Petersburg – In addressing participants at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum last Friday, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev’s speech did not reveal any substantially new position regarding his government’s now established stance on modernization, but innovation was nevertheless put forward as the first and foremost theme in the President’s address. “Modernization is the only way to address …
Leading Russian mobile operators VimpelCom and MTS are eying to acquire Utel, the mobile unit of Ukrtelecom, a major fixed-line Ukrainian operator. Astelit, a subsidiary of the Turkish Turkcell, was also named as potential buyer.
VTB Capital Asset Management announced last week it has invested in COMDI, a leading player on the Russian video conferencing market. Founded in 2009, COMDI specializes in web conferences as well as online training and broadcasts. Before this round of financing, COMDI was funded by its founders and an undisclosed business angel.
The Russian post discovered and shut down a “scheme of illegal importation via the postal service” in late May. Several major online retailers were discovered to be using postal designated ‘M-bags’ to ship clothes and shoes, the postal operator reported. According to the Universal Postal Convention, M-bags, an economical international shipping format, can only be used …
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EPAM Systems, an offshore software developer with major R&D centers in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, has informed the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to launch an IPO, reported Russian daily Vedomosti on Thursday.
YEES 2011, a collaborative Russian-US forum dedicated to modern entrepreneurship and innovation techniques took place in Moscow last week. The forum gathered over 50 speakers from venture funds, scientific circles, government agencies as well as tech firms and Internet startups. Among them were high level representatives from Cambridge University, Google and Intel Capital as well …
International browser game leader Bigpoint and LSE listed Mail.Ru Group have announced that they will soon begin offering some of each other’s games on their respective portals. Mail.ru users will be able to find renowned Bigpoint games as Farmerama, DarkOrbit, Seafight or Battlestar Galactica Online and Bigpoint users will be able to access Russian award …
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