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Russian city map developer 2GIS adds Santiago de Chile to its 3D-covered cities

April 14, 2014

2GIS, a Russian developer of 3D maps with electronic directory guides for city inhabitants and travelers, is now available in Spanish for detailed city navigation in Santiago, the capital of Chile – the first South American site for the cartography company. The project is downloadable in both desktop (Windows) and mobile (iOS and Android) versions. …

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Is Crimea part of Russia? – Answers found on Facebook, Vkontakte, Yandex differ; Wikipedia changes its mind

April 11, 2014

Three weeks after Russia asserted that Crimea and the city of Sebastopol have become part of its territory, Facebook and Russian-language social network Vkontakte still categorize the inhabitants of these regions as being located in Ukraine. Meanwhile, two other major social networks, Odnoklassniki (Classmates) and Moi Mir (My World), have already classified them as being part …

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Russian VC fund backs Finnish solution for mobile sharing of TV moments

April 11, 2014

GS Venture, the one-year-old venture arm of GS Group, has announced its first international investment. Set up last summer to “support entrepreneurial innovators and startup teams” in Russia, the fund decided to establish presence in Finland with a €200,000 injection into Tellyo, a Helsinki startup. The young Finnish company has developed Share the Moment, a …

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VKontakte shareholders sue each other: Will Durov take back UCP’s stake or will UCP take control of Durov’s Telegram?

April 10, 2014

What started a year ago as a shareholder dispute within VKontakte (VK.com), Russia’s largest social network, appears to be emerging as a full-blown war of litigation. The faction most actively fanning the legal flames is United Capital Partners (UCP), a major Russian fund active in various sectors that acquired a 48% stake in VK a …

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Pro-Ukrainian hackers break into Russian State Duma website

April 10, 2014

The cyber-war between participants of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict carries on. Yesterday evening hackers posted an anti-Russian message on the webpage of the Russian State Duma’s Committee on Regional Politics and Problems with the North and Far East, on behalf of Russian Communist Party member Nikolay Kharitonov. The message was about how “all of the power of …

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Global record labels take Vkontakte into Russian court as music piracy continues

April 9, 2014

Three international music record labels have taken the offensive in another attempt to challenge online piracy in Russia, international industry association IFPI reported. Once again the target is Vkontakte (also known as VK.com), the former Soviet Union’s third most visited website and leading social network. Sony Music Russia, Universal Music Russia and Warner Music UK filed three separate …

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Retailers’ e-commerce challenges to be highlighted this week at Moscow conference

April 8, 2014

As Russia’s traditional retail networks are toeing the waters of e-commerce, an industry event this week in Moscow will address the different dimensions and challenges of this transition. On April 11 and 14 “Online Retail Russia 2014” will feature a bevy of speakers representing real business cases and years of professional experience – including retail …

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Russia’s A-bomb nest may become major cyber security R&D hub

April 4, 2014

Sarov, one of Russia’s largest centers for nuclear research, is heading for diversification. The federal government is considering drawing upon the solid scientific ecosystem of the city, 460km east of Moscow, to create a major hub for IT and cyber security research. A leading nuclear weapons design area in the USSR that did not appear …

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Wikimart seeks $40 million despite “complicated” market circumstances

April 2, 2014

Russian e-commerce site Wikimart hopes to raise “$40 million or more” later this year or in early 2015, co-founder Maxim Faldin said earlier this week to Russian business daily Vedomosti. “We’re not in a hurry because the market situation is unclear,” Faldin said, citing the “complications” which have followed the Russia-Ukraine crisis and the ruble’s …

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Internet without restrictions: Siberian solution for visually impaired

April 2, 2014

A cloud app is being developed at Tomsk State University in Siberia to help the visually impaired visit web pages and get the information they need, the TSU press service announced last month. The application, called “RIW – Internet without restrictions,” is the brainchild of Evgeny Sidnev, Artyom Pomiluiko and Stanislav Rychagov, second-year students in TSU’s …

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Online video service Play announces more than 100,000 premium users

March 31, 2014

Play’s turnover increased from 23 million Rubles in 2012 to 259 million Rubles in 2013, growing 11-fold in value and 14-fold in purchasing volume. By the beginning of 2014, the company’s monthly customer base comprised 100,000 premium users, half of whom were regular customers. The total number of service users exceeded 500,000 people and more than …

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