Mail.ru Group, a leading player on the Russian Internet market, has just launched two new services on its top two web properties: a real-time news and blog search on its Mail.ru portal and a streaming audio and sharing application on its Odnoklassniki.ru social network.
Microsoft is ready to invest some $10 million into 100 Russian startup companies over a 10-year period, the president of Microsoft Russia Nikolya Pryanishnikov told RBC, a Russian news agency yesterday. “Our experience is that investment into a single startup should total between $50,000 and $500,000 with an average of $100,000,” Pryanishnikov explained. According to …
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Moscow based web consulting firm Ashmanov & partners, together with leading Russian financial group Finam and lesser known Kazakhstani real estate developer Kusto, are set to enter the Vietnamese web search market by October, Russian business daily Kommersant wrote on Monday, citing sources close to partners in the venture. The project could receive “several hundred …
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Sintez-rus, a traditional and online retailer of Sony electronics products in Russia, has opened its first online retail outpost for Sony-branded products on Russia’s largest social network, Vkontakte.ru. The news was announced yesterday by e-commerce solutions provider Magazinga, which provided the software platform for the new outlet. Magazinga, launched last April, is a joint venture …
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Starting from last week, the users of select online gaming services provided by Mail.ru Group, a leading Russian Internet player, are no longer able to replenish their accounts through the Yandex.Dengi payment system owned by Mail.ru Group’s local archrival Yandex. The group has reduced the number of services for which it will accept payment through …
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Tucked away in Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic some 1,400 km northeast of Moscow, Russian programming researcher Efim Bushmanov is getting a lot of attention. Having reverse engineered Skype protocols and then made his research available to the public via his blog just a few days ago on June 2, search queries bearing …
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30 year-old Efim Bushmanov from Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic some 1,400 km north-east of Moscow, a self described “free lance researcher,” claims he is on the way to completely reverse-engineer Skype’s proprietary protocol and encryption systems. “My aim is to make Skype open source and find friends who can spend many hours …
DST, the top Russian Internet investment fund, will participate in a still-undisclosed round of financing in favor of alternative accommodations marketplace Airbnb, reports TechCrunch from unnamed sources. The round is being led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Russia’s state-own nanotechnology giant Rusnano launched an online catalog of nanotechnology based products last week. The site, solutions.rusnano.com, has been unofficially dubbed “the nanotechnologies internet shop” by the Russian media after an expression used in Rusnano’s own press release.
LiveJournal.com, a global online community and blogging platform, registered its five millionth Russian-speaking user, according to an announcement made this Monday by SUP, the Russian media company that acquired the platform in 2007.
Ambitious Russian social games developer Pixonic has just closed its third round of financing, raising $5 million from Russia’s Kite Ventures, Ukraine’s Take Advantage Venture and France’s Ventech. Founded in late 2009, Pixonic has already launched over 30 games on 13 different social networks.
Mail.ru Group, the top Russian Internet group, has released Target, its new synonymously named targeted advertising tool with enhanced ability to reach users of Odnoklassniki and MoiMir, its two major social networks.
