A total of 4.5 million Twitter accounts had been created Russian users as of January 1, 2012 – a three-fold increase over the 1.5 million recorded a year earlier – according to a recent study by Semiocast, a Paris-based social media research company. This number puts Russia currently in 20th place on Twitter’s gobal map, the …
DST Global, Russia’s leading IT fund with stakes in Facebook, Groupon, Twitter, Zynga and other top global web properties, has bought a 4% equity stake in online fashion store Zalando, The Financial Times reported yesterday. DST is joining current shareholders Rocket Internet, Holtzbrinck Ventures, Tengelmann Ventures and Kinnevik.
Mountain View, CA – Ecwid, Inc., producer of the world’s first platform-neutral, drop-in store builder widget, announces a partnership with website builder Yola to provide its e-commerce solution to Yola’s customers.
Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom yesterday announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Teleset Networks, has invested 682 million rubles ($22.5 million) to take a 75% minus one share stake in GNC-ALFA, the largest independent Internet and data provider in Armenia. “This is the first acquisition outside of Russia that we have concluded as part of our …
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Russian e-commerce giant Ozon.ru is considering the aquisition of online footwear retailer Sapato.ru, having received the green light from the antimonopoly authorities on February 1st. Ozon has not yet made a final decision, and is also considering other acquisitions, the company’s PR manager Maria Nazamutdinova told Russian business information site Marker.ru.
Russia is perceived as a threat to global cyber-security, says a report on worldwide technology safety released earlier this week by the Brussels-based Security & Defence Agenda (SDA). According to experts surveyed for “Cyber-security: The vexed question of global rules,” Russia remains “a thug state with great hackers.” The report cites Vitaly Kamluk of the …
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Almost two years after the release of its Russian language version, and one year after it launched a local classifieds service, eBay enjoys a strong and still growing popularity among Russian consumers who use the platform to order goods from all over the globe. eBay’s Head of International Expansion for Europe Rob Cassedy shared some insights …
Rob Cassedy of eBay: “For Russians, eBay is all about international deals.” Read More
Koobface (the name is an anagram of Facebook), the most famous worm in Facebook’s history, has attracted public attention once again after the social network’s security service announced earlier this month that they were going to reveal the names and photos of criminals behind the malware.
Vkontakte.ru, the leading social network in most Russian speaking countries with 33 million unique users daily, has been renamed VK.com. The site has moved to http://vk.com. Old links to vkontakte.ru still work, but will open vk.com pages. The new domain name is easier to type on a mobile device, hard to misspell, easier for international users …
“We are considering an initial public offering to possibly take place in 2012 or 2013,” said Vkontakte.ru founder Pavel Durov in an exchange with Russian online publication Gazeta.ru (English version), following informal statements made on Tuesday at a tech conference in Munich. Although no discussions are being held currently with Mail.ru Group, Yandex or Google, a …
Earlier this week, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, made the findings of its Kelihos botnet investigation public, accusing Andrey Sabelnikov, a Russian engineer from St Petersburg, of having created the bot code and conducted the operation. In the original complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in September, Microsoft alleged …
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Dnevnik.ru, Russia’s first social educational network, was honored last week as one of the of the best e-learning and educational websites at the World Summit Award 2011. A free, nationwide school network, Dnevnik.ru was established in 2007. The site currently serves 16,000 schools and over 3 million pupils, parents, teachers, and school administrators.
