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RetailCRM raises $600,000 from Edison.VC, eyes international expansion

July 13, 2015

Last month RetailCRM secured $600,000 from Edison.VC, as reported by Russian tech blog Rusbase. This Series A round is intended to accelerate product development and commercial expansion, including in foreign market, the company announced. The RetailCRM platform allows online retailers to personalize, automate and monitor in real time the sales processes and client service. It also …

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Israeli social analytics startup Klear secures $1.5 million from Altair and TMT

February 17, 2016

Israeli startup Klear, formerly known as Twtrland, has raised $1.5 million in new funding from Altair and TMT Investments, two international venture funds with Russian backers. The company defines its product as “a social intelligence platform that helps you do smarter marketing.” It has rebranded to Klear, since the platform now looks at data from Facebook and Instagram in …

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Facebook targets Roskomnadzor official over hate speech

February 17, 2016

Facebook has deleted a post written by Maxim Ksenzov, the deputy head of telecom regulator Roskomnadzor. Notably, Ksenzov is the very same official who warned Facebook back in May that the company will face penalties if it does not hand over traffic statistics for popular Russian Facebook users to the Russian government. While Ksenzov’s page may have …

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NSA and GHCQ targeted Kaspersky Lab and other antivirus developers, say Snowden documents

February 17, 2016

New documents provided by former American secret service employee-turned whistleblower Edward Snowden claim that the U.S. and UK security services have been carrying out attacks against antivirus developers around the world, including Russian company Kaspersky Lab. On June 23 the American news site The Intercept cited documents belonging to former American secret service employee Edward Snowden as saying that America’s …

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Intel launches IoT Lab in Russia

February 17, 2016

Intel is announcing the opening of an “IoT Ignition Labs” in Moscow. With a focus on Smart building, Smart City, and Retail, the Moscow lab “offers tools, technology and engineering know-how to those in the industry keen to take IoT projects into commercial deployment.” The US corporation is simultaneously announcing IoT labs in Ireland and …

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Can your iron attack you? Kaspersky says ‘yes’

June 29, 2015

Last week, public attention was once again drawn to one of the most secretive and controversial figures of the Russian IT industry – Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of the prominent anti-virus company. Immediately after Edward Snowden revealed that the U.S. and British security services had worked to subvert the company’s anti-virus software to track users …

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Booking.com confirms commitment to “important Russian market,” gets prepared to comply with personal data storage law

February 15, 2017

Earlier this month, Booking.com announced that it will comply with Russia’s new law on personal data storage. The global online travel operator will soon transfer all data from the country’s users to a local data center, Russian business daily Kommersant reported. The announcement came after a meeting between Steffen Mueller, Booking.com’s senior manager of infrastructure and …

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Russian funds Altair and GVA LaunchGurus invest in US startup 1World Online

February 18, 2016

Earlier this month 1World Online, a US startup founded in 2011 by Russian entrepreneur Alexey Fedoseev, announced the completion of an equity financing A2 round of $2.5 million. 1World provides publishers, political candidates, and brands with web and mobile-based engagement applications, content, and analytics. The company claims to have become number 1 in its sector in 2014, winning the …

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US-Russia Peer-to-Peer Dialogue Program: Harvard researchers to discuss online media and politics this week in Moscow

June 22, 2015

This week the Center for New Media & Society will host their colleagues Rob Faris and Bruce Etling from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University for a number of joint events in Moscow. These meetings will take place under the project “Crossing Boundaries with New Media” jointly implemented by the Center and the Berkman Center under the US-Russia …

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Yandex transfers professional network Moi Krug to Thematic Media

June 19, 2015

Russia’s search giant Yandex has “handed over” Moi Krug, a major professional social network which it acquired back in 2007, to Thematic Media (TM), a publisher of several online tech publications. The transaction was confirmed earlier this month by a Yandex representative to business daily Vedomosti, but no details of the deal have been disclosed. Yandex …

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