Natalya Kasperskaya, founder and minority shareholder of Kaspersky Lab, has launched the international expansion of her new project “Nanosemantika.” The startup is focused on the development of artificial intelligence (AI) for virtual interface technologies.
TTK, one of the largest principal Internet providers in Russia, announced its connection to traffic exchange point DE-CIX (Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange) in Frankfurt, Germany. This is the sixth point of traffic exchange between TTK and international segments of the Internet. TTK’s other points of exchange are in London (LINX, since 2005), Amsterdam (AMS-IX, since …
The Runa Capital seed fund, established by Parallels founder Sergey Belousov, has been increased by $20 million — from $30 to over $50 million — and plans to finance 8 or 9 start-ups this year. The anchor investors of Runa Capital are Sergey Belousov, BoD chairman of Parallels and Acronis, and Alexander Galitsky, head of …
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Dreaming to see the Hermitage’s impressionist collection but wary of catching a cold in a St. Petersburg winter blizzard? Longing to commune with Rublev’s icons in the Tretyakov Gallery but daunted by the expense of travel to the Russian capital? Now art lovers anywhere can realize their dreams of getting a closer look at major …
Rambler, a major Russian Internet portal, is holding talks with Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine, and Google regarding replacing its search engine with a partner tool. Yandex management says the company is interested in big sites with high-density traffic. Rambler is most likely to opt for Google’s search system. According to information already available, Rambler …
Ashmanov describes the project as a service dedicated to monitoring and analysis of positive and negative references to a company, brand or person, with follow up recommendations for corrective action. The service will affect search engine results and blog ratings to boost positive articles and restrain negative ones.
General Atlantic, a US-based private equity fund, has bought a large stake in Kaspersky Lab. Though no details of the deal have been disclosed by the parties, it is known that General Atlantic has become the second-largest shareholder in the Russian computer security company. Evgeny Kaspersky, who owns a controlling stake in the firm, will …
The Russian Interior ministry announced that a criminal case has been opened against a 26 year-old Muscovite for having “replicated and disseminated” 18 copyrighted music recordings from his personal page on Vkontakte.ru. This followed a complaint from Nikitin, the Russian music company that owns the rights.
In 2010, Russian search engine Yandex remained by far the leading search engine on the Russian-language Internet. According to LiveInternet.ru, a leading website traffic ranking site, Yandex generated 64.1% of all visits to other sites generated by search engines from December 2009 to December 2010, an increase of 5.2 points over the previous year. Google’s …
Skype announced yesterday it had signed a final agreement with Almaz Capital Partners investment fund to acquire Qik, a mobile video file sharing application. Analysts assess the deal to be worth $150 million, although neither party is commenting. The transaction will be finalized this month.
Digital Sky Technologies (DST Global), Russia’s major Internet investment fund, pledged $50 million to Facebook’s latest $500 million financing round. In addition, DST stakeholder Goldman Sachs bought a $450 million stake with the right to sell up to $75 million to DST, according to sources quoted in The New York Times involved in the talks. With …
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