Launched earlier this month, programmatic advertising service ViHub makes it possible to target views by audience and user interest, monitor the coverage and overall hit rate for all sites and resources, filter out negative content from pages and simultaneously protect traffic from bots. According to Ilya Mikin, general director of ViHub, the rapid growth of …
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Maxfield Capital, a venture fund operating globally from its offices in Moscow, New York City and Tel Aviv, has invested $1.7 million in Patients Know Best, a British company which has designed a cloud platform for managing patient details. Patients have an account with the site, which h holds all of their medical records. They can access …
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The Hamburg-based startup Dreamlines announced yesterday it secured 20 million euros in C Round financing from an international pool of investors led by Target Ventures. Also participating in the round was Altpoint Ventures, a US-based fund launched this past September, as well as previous Dreamlines investors Holtzbrinck Ventures, Hasso Plattner Ventures and Dimaventures. Another earlier …
It’s fair to say the travel industry won’t be the same in Russia after 2014. The year was full of shocking events that might entirely change the landscape of Russian economics in general and the travel industry will feel going forward. Therefore, I decided to wrap up the things that were important for the travel …
A year in Russian online travel – politics, games and investments Read More
The Russian government agency looking to enforce new restrictions on the Internet has asked Twitter and Facebook to send representatives to Russia to discuss the laws. A spokesman for Russian government media regulator Roscomnadzor confirmed the planned meetings. The new laws require bloggers to register with the government and Internet data regarding Russians to be stored …
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A local player is leading the Russian paid video-on-demand (VOD) market, having recorded dynamic growth throughout 2014. Okko (formerly Play) offers a smart TV digital service that has taken a commanding lead in the paid segment, recording revenue twice the size of direct competitor iTunes in H1 2014, according to the latest research by J’son …
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Today LSE-listed Russian Internet group Mail.ru Group announced it has acquired popular mapping app Maps.me. With its Android, iOS and BlackBerry apps, Belarus-based Maps.me allow users to download detailed maps for any location around the world and use them even when offline. The service pulls data provided by OpenStreetMap, the open-source, project dedicated to create a crowdsourced, highly detailed world …
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PayPal is preparing an important step to adapt to Russia’s local conditions by accepting account replenishment by cash. The news was reported last week by Russian business daily Vedomosti, which received confirmation from PayPal. Such operations will be made possible in the physical outlets of Euroset and Svyaznoy, the leading retailers of mobile devices and accessories with …
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German logistics provider Hermes Fulfilment has teamed up with Finnish postal operator Itella to facilitate e-commerce sales of Western European merchants to the Russian market, E-Commercefacts.com reported last week. In order to better accommodate Western European merchants along the road of fulfilment to Russia, Itella will support Hermes with warehousing and distribution expertise as well …
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Last week Netpeak, an e-marketing agency headquartered in Odessa, Ukraine, announced it has acquired a 10% stake in Q-Page, a Russian company that help individual entrepreneurs and SMBs create or optimize online sales pages. Netpeak paid $100,000 for the stake in Q-Page. “There is a large number of customers who want to use the instruments of contextual advertising …
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Russia’s fast growing e-commerce market – including its cross-border segment that is growing by around 75% this year – will be covered with special attention at the Swiss E-Commerce Conference with the participation of Accenture, the Otto Group and East-West Digital News. The event, organized by the Netcomm Suisse industry association, will be held on …
Mail.Ru Group has begun another round of talks with Western rights holders about legalizing the music available via its resources – including Russia’s largest social network VKontakte (VK.com), – reports business daily Vedomosti, citing the company’s employees. The LSE-listed Internet group is being assisted in the negotiations to legalize the music on all its social networks …
