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US officials suspect Russia behind computer hacking in two state election databases

August 30, 2016

U.S. officials suspect Russian hackers were responsible for breaking into two state election databases earlier this month. “This is the closest we’ve come to tying a recent hack to the Russian government,” one official told NBC News on Monday. The FBI has not identified the two U.S. states whose data bases were attacked, but Yahoo News, …

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Yandex.Taxi launches in Georgia — before Ukraine, Estonia and Latvia

March 2, 2017

Yesterday Yandex.Taxi, the taxi booking service of Russian search giant Yandex, announced its launch in the Georgian capital Tbilissi. The service, which involves 200 cars from 11 taxi parks, is available in Georgian, Russian and English languages. Launched in 2011, Yandex.Taxi already operates in 30 cities of Russia as well as in Minsk (Belarus), Almaty (Kazakhstan) …

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New York Times’s Moscow bureau was targeted by hackers

August 24, 2016

On Tuesday, citing United States officials briefed on the matter, CNN reported that The New York Times’s Moscow bureau, along with other news organizations it did not identify, had been the victims of computer breaches by hackers thought to be working for Russian intelligence. But so far, there is no evidence that the hackers, believed to be …

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From New York to Kiev: Russian ad tech company expands internationally

August 22, 2016

GetIntent, an international programmatic technology solution provider with Russian roots, is coming to Ukraine, Russian tech blog Firrma reported last week. The company will offer its solutions on the Ukrainian market via a local partner, Programmatic Media. GetIntent’s story illustrates the current go-global trend among Russian startups. Founded in 2013 by Russian mathematicians George Levin and …

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Russian companies fight for secure government messenger contract

October 18, 2016

Earlier this year, the Kremlin tasked the Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF, or FRII in Russian) to develop develop a new secure messaging service for government. Concerned that foreign governments could access secret Russian information shared via Western apps such as WhatsApp and Viber, officials expressed concerns that Russia’s security agencies were unable to crack encryption  if …

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New platform facilitates advertising campaigns in Russian social media

August 19, 2016

Since its launch last year with several millions of US dollars in funding, Ordynets [Russian for ‘member of the Golden Horde’] is emerging as a leading ad network on the Russian social media scene. The network claims to have acquired more than 200 significant communities, which gather some 150 million subscribers. In addition, Ordynets works with more than 5,300 …

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SEC suspends ‘tech miracle’ from Siberia after stock value soared to $35 billion

November 18, 2024

Yesterday the Securities and Exchange Commission suspended trading in the securities of Neuromama (NERO), a tiny Internet company with Russian roots, “because of concerns regarding the accuracy and adequacy of information in the marketplace.” Based on the latest transactions on over-the-counter markets in the USA, the company’s capitalization exceeds $35 billion — more than Tesla or Gazprom. Neuromama’s stock …

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Google fined $6.7 million by Russian anti-monopoly authorities

August 12, 2016

Russia’s Federal Anti-monopoly Service (FAS) has fined Google 438 million rubles (approximately $6.7 million at the current exchange rate) for abusing its dominant position in the Russian market. This fine accounts for some 2.5% of the turnover of Google’s Russian subsidiary, noted the Russian business daily Kommersant. Google was found guilty of violating anti-monopoly laws by forcing phone …

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Hackers break into Telegram, revealing 15 million users’ phone numbers

August 3, 2016

Iranian hackers have compromised more than a dozen accounts on the Telegram instant messaging service and identified the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian users, the largest known breach of the encrypted communications system, cyber researchers told Reuters. The attacks, which took place this year and have not been previously reported, jeopardized the communications of …

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Crimea maps scandals: Google offends Russia, then Ukraine

August 4, 2016

A controversy sparked last week over Google’s decision to change the names of Crimean settlements appearing on Google Maps, in accordance with the Ukrainian authorities’ “decommunization” campaign. In May 2016, the Ukrainian parliament renamed 70 settlements in Crimea, mostly choosing names of Crimean Tatar origin. Thus Krasnogvardeyskoe (‘Red Guard’) became “Yany Kapu” while Sovetskoe switched …

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Is Russia meddling in the US presidential election?

July 26, 2016

The Russian government has been accused of orchestrating a hack that leaked some 20,000 U.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails, after which the DNC Chairwoman resigned. The Hillary Clinton campaign chairman, Robby Mook, told reporters Sunday that “some experts” are saying that “this was done by the Russians for the purpose of helping Donald Trump.” …

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Target Global invests in food delivery startups in Russia and globally

July 26, 2016

Showing an irrepressible appetite for food delivery startups, Target Global, an international venture fund with Russian backers, has just announced its participation in two new investment deals in this field. As reported by Russian business daily Vedomosti, the fund has led a $1 million funding round for Foodfox.ru. Also participating in the round were several individual investors, including …

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