Russia’s Internet community was shocked by a series of major private information leaks during only one week and amid the adoption of a new law aimed to protect personal data. The vulnerabilities of Russian websites came to light for the first time last Monday, when some 8,000 text messages sent by clients of the Russian …
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The stock of the leading consumer electronics retailer Utinet.ru that was introduced last week on MICEX, one of the two Moscow stock exchanges, didn’t attract much investor interest during its first days of trading. This Monday the volume of trading of Utinet.ru stock totaled just 3.7 million rubles, or slightly over $130,000, while the offer …
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Last week, payment terminal operator Qiwi announced that its users can now transfer money from their Qiwi electronic wallets – named Qiwi Koshelek – to Mastercard and Maestro cards accounts issued by banks from Russia and 24 other countries, primarily in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev called upon Russian game developers to create “something similar to World of Warcraft” based on Russia’s own national history. “We should pay more attention to computer games based on history. The majority of them are based on pseudo-history, i.e. fantasy style stories,” the president said. “World of Warcraft, besides its destructive …
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Pavel Durov, founder and shareholder of Russia’s leading social network, Vkontakte.ru, referred to LSE-listed Mail.ru Group as a “trash holding” on Twitter last Friday. The message was accompanied by an explicit picture of his “official answer to Mail.ru Group’s last attempt to absorb Vkontakte.”
The CapMan Russia fund, in collaboration with Belgian investment company Gimv NV, announced last week it has provided an undisclosed amount of growth capital to Expert Photo, a leading provider of online and offline photo related services in Russia.
Muscovites will be able to vote in the 2016 elections through the Internet. “We will be technologically ready to conduct electronic elections in 2016 and we will offer such opportunity,” the head of the city’s information technologies department Artem Ermolaev told Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
Leading consumer electronics online retailer Utinet.ru was introduced this week on MICEX, one of the two Moscow stock exchanges. The company’s bid book, which was open from July 5 to July 19, was oversubscribed by nearly 230% at the upper band of the price range – 195 rubles, or almost $7 per share – the …
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Begun, a leading Russian advertising network acquired by Google in 2008, announced earlier this week that its contextual ad service now operates on Android and iPhone mobile applications.
Russia’s national telecom operator Rostelecom has introduced its cloud solution for the creation of multifunctional e-government service centers for Russian citizens, the company announced in a news release last week. The new service was demonstrated as part of the Innoprom innovations-related exhibition held last week in Ekaterinburg.
French retailer Auchan has announced plans to develop AuchanAuto stores, a new retail format similar to the Auchan Drive system in France, Russian business daily Kommersant reported. Clients will pre-order groceries via the Internet and pick up their purchases in the store without leaving their car. Auchan’s goal is to give out purchase in less …
Authorities in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia’s fourth largest city, have announced plans to launch wireless Internet Wi-Fi free for users on the central streets of the city, the Business Monitoring Agency reports citing Head of city administration Oleg Kondrashov.
