On April 26, St. Petersburg, the northern capital of Russia, will host the fifth edition of CPA Life, a leading annual conference on Internet advertising, affiliate marketing, and traffic monetization. The event will bring together top managers of leading CPA networks in Russia, neighboring countries, Europe, the USA and Hong Kong. Among the expected attendees are …
ExoAtlet, a Russian maker of rehabilitation exoskeletons to help disabled people walk again, has raised $5 million from Korean Cosmo & Company. The funding is coming in addition to a previous round last year from the same investor. In 2016 ExoAtlet obtained official certification to sell its exoskeletons in South Korea. A local subsidiary, ExoAtlet Asia, was …
Telegram, the popular encrypted messenger launched by Pavel Durov in 2013, has completed second private token sale for its new blockchain project. As much as $850 million have been raised from 94 investors, reported Bloomberg, citing a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission published this past Thursday. “Raising the planned amount is a success for Telegram, …
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In its second edition on April 23-24, 2018, the Crypto Affiliate & Marketing Conference (CRAC) will provide the communities of marketers and digital currency enthusiasts a new chance to network while showing their first projects at the junction of the two industries. “Less than one year ago everyone was just clueless. And look how fast …
PepsiCo’s efforts to engage with startups is coming to fruition in Russia, one year after the creation of an international acceleration program in Moscow dubbed PepsiCo LAB. Earlier this month the corporation announced the first results of this program, which targets both food and beverages projects and business-oriented IT solutions. A total of 24 teams, 12 teams per …
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With 20.6 billion visits to piracy sites in 2017, Russia ranks the second biggest consumer of digital piracy content in the world, suggests a report by Muso, a London-based global authority on digital piracy. The US tops the list with 27.9 billion visits to piracy sites last year. The listing also includes such countries as India …
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Just two months after the Russian cybersports market witnessed two major acquisitions and a $30 million ICO, Gosu.ai, a Russian-founded startup from this industry announced via Twitter that it attracted $1.9 million in funding. The round was led by Runa Capital, a VC fund with Russian roots, with participation from its existing investor Sistema VC, the venture arm …
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How will blockchain and cryptocurrency impact the advertising industry? Rather than waiting several years to learn the answer, some entrepreneurs have already begun writing the next chapter in the history of advertising – an industry they hope will continue to be as receptive to technological innovation as it has been in the past. Among these …
As ICO activity shows no sign of slow down in the region, Play2live has announced the completion of a token sale which it claims generated the equivalent of $30 million in less than two months. Launched last year, this startup with roots in Belarus and Russia offers an original approach to eSports in terms of …
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East-West Digital News and ICObench have studied the ICO market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), a region that includes Russia and more than 20 other countries. This region boasts an impressive record on the global ICO scene, according to this research. Analyzing some 237 ICOs and pre-ICOs with roots in CEE the region conducted last …
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A startup named Arcona is developing a “universal augmented-reality infrastructure,” aiming nothing short of building “a blockchain ecosystem” and “an AR layer to merge together real and virtual worlds.” Arcona says its project makes use of the latest scientific achievements in the fields of computer vision, prototyping and neurobiology. It is building upon the technologies developed …
Telegram, the popular encrypted messenger launched by Pavel Durov in 2013, is not allowing persons falling into international sanction lists to participate in its giant ICO. This restriction is specified in the standard Telegram ICO investor form, the Russian business publication RBC wrote yesterday after getting acquainted with the document. The ban applies to the …
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