On 18 May 2011 the Presidium of the Supreme Arbitration Court (SAC) issued a decree requiring the domain administrator of the www.mumm.ru site to cease using the domain name. The SAC has ruled that use of the name infringes the exclusive rights of champagne maker G.H. Mumm & Cie to the “Mumm” trademark.
Soyuz-Telecom, a WiMAX operator little known until now, announced last month the extension of its coverage to Vsevolozhsk, a city in the St. Petersburg region. The company, founded in 2007, now covers 17 small cities across the country. It has not, however, disclosed its number of subscribers. Russian entrepreneur Theophan Bondarenko owns a majority stake …
Although Yandex is best known internationally for its search engine, its other services — some of which are very far from search — are used everyday by millions of Russian-speaking Internet users. This is why the company deserves to be named an integrated Internet group rather than a search service. East-West Digital News is happy …
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Had not Sergey Brin emigrated with his family to the United States at the age of 6, his destiny might have perhaps resembled those of Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich, the Russian mathematicians who founded Yandex. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Volozh and Segalovich were rather typical representatives of …
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1990 Two information search systems — the International Classifier of Inventions and the Goods and Services Classifier — were developed in DOS by Arcadia, the company founded by Arkady Volozh and Arkady Borkovsky. These systems provided the foundation for Yandex’s technology.
MTS, one of Russia’s leading mobile operators, announced the launch of a cloud-based distribution system for multimedia content — the first such experiment in Russia and CIS countries. The announcement was made last week at Sviaz-Expocomm, a major international event of the telecommunications industry held each year in Moscow.
Moscow-based startup incubator Fast Lane Ventures has just launched Jizo.ru, a metasearch engine for airline tickets. Jizo.ru aggregates ticket information “from a myriad of sources,” says the company, including the booking systems of leading travel agencies, airlines and booking sites. Its simplified, uncluttered interface allows users to select airline tickets by two main criteria: date …
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Russian Venture Company (RVC), a state-owned fund of funds, participated indirectly in a $20 million round of financing, announced last week, for Clearspring Technologies, a US-based online data giant. This fourth round brings Clearspring’s total funding to $58 million since its creation in 2004. Clearspring is the maker of the AddThis button that facilitates content …
Russia could soon have a representative on the board of directors of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the international U.S.-based domain-name authority. The announcement was made yesterday at the second Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF) in Moscow. Marina Nikerova, chairwoman of Russia’s national domain coordination center, has applied to join ICANN’s board. …
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Five Russian companies are among the 200 finalists of Red Herring’s European startup contest held in Amsterdam. This group of 200 companies is the short list for the Top 100 Europe award. The Red Herring editorial team found them to be “the most innovative” and “exciting” after evaluating them on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, …
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You once said that you were in love with Russia. Please explain! To be in love means to believe and to be committed. We believe in Russia, in its entrepreneurs who are hungry for success. Some of them are very bold, like Oskar Hartmann (founder of leading online private shopping club KupiVIP.ru), Nikita Sherman (founder …
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Russia’s national telecommunications operator, Rostelecom, and IBM-East Europe/Asia signed an agreement last week according to which IBM will provide Rostelecom some of its advanced cloud technology solutions. Rostelecom plans to use the IBM technology to advance the development of e-Government infrastructure.
