Santa Clara, Calif. — As Russian scientists increasingly deploy GPU-enabled supercomputers to tackle scientific challenges, Moscow State University is upgrading its Lomonosov system with NVIDIA Tesla™ GPUs to be one of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
During a visit to Kazan yesterday, Google Russia representative Vladimir Dolgov praised Tatarstan for its Internet penetration rates, which stand among the highest in Russia. Having noticed the large quantity of schools with Internet connections and local WIFI hotspots, Dolgov said that Tatarstan “has all the necessary foundations for further development of Internet and online …
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Geneva – ITU Secretary General Hamadoun Touré met with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a historic visit to UN Headquarters in Geneva where the two discussed global access to the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICT). Russia has long been a supporter of ITU and was one of its founding members nearly 150 years ago.
Among IT job seekers living in Moscow and St. Petersburg, 55% contemplate leaving the country, while 22% have already taken some concrete steps in that direction. Another 6% do not intend to leave because they do not believe they will find a job abroad, according to a recent poll by Ancor, a major recruitment company …
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The European Business Angels Association (EBAN) announced last week that its 2012 congress would be held in Russia, reports Allventure.ru, a website published by the Russian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (RVCA).
Microsoft will run a 30-day ad campaign in Russian newspapers Delovoy Peterburg and The Moscow News in an effort to notify the parties responsible for the Rustock botnet that the botnet has been shut down and that they are being summoned to court, the company reported in its blog on Monday.
Prominent Russian venture fund Almaz Capital Partners has provided a round of financing for Tallinn based online dating service Flirtic, the latter reported in a news release yesterday. The undisclosed amount will be used for the development of Flirtic in Russian and English speaking communities.
AlterGeo, a Russian startup inspired by the Foursquare concept, announced yesterday it has closed a third round of financing with Intel Capital, prominent Russian venture fund Almaz Capital — sometimes called the Almaz-Cisco fund, and U.S. angel investor Esther Dyson, who is involved in several Russian IT projects.
Russia and Iran have agreed to build a high-speed telecommunications cable linking Europe to Persia, signing the deal on Wednesday during a visit to Iran by Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media Igor Shchegolev. The information superhighway will start in Oman, pass through Iran and Russia, and end in Germany. The line may eventually be extended to …
Russia’s leading online shoe retailer Sapato.ru announced today that it has raised $12 million in a third round of financing. Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment fund, led the investment round along with earlier investors in the project – Direct Group, a Western investment company operating in Moscow through its incubator FastLane, eVenture Capital Partners, the …
Trend Micro, a security solutions provider headquartered in Tokyo, announced that it has received a certificate for its Enterprise Security 10.0 software suite from Russia’s Federal Service for Technical and Export Control (FSTEC), as reported earlier this week by IKS Consulting, a firm studying the Russian IT and telecom markets.
Russia’s national long distance carrier and leading telecom group Rostelecom has wrapped up a deal with its Chinese peer China Telecom to expand the capacity of the Transit Europe-Asia (TEA) system, Rostelecom reported in a press statement on Monday.
