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Mail.Ru Group launches new gaming platform for game developers from all around the world

December 4, 2013

Mail.Ru Group today launched a new platform for the publication and promotion of online games on [email protected], Mail.Ru’s expansive game portal. The new platform gives US and European game developers an opportunity to access the large game buying audience of http://games.mail.ru/– more than 14 million people per month – and to be able to launch …

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Web Ready 2013 awards music broadcasting, contextual ad and customer service solutions

December 3, 2013

Last week, the finale of the 5th annual Web Ready contest was held in Skolkovo, based on an initial  selection of 715 applications from 100 cities in 21 countries. BUBUKA, a service to control music broadcasting from Tomsk, received the first prize. Second place went to Alytics, a startup from Zelenograd developing contextual ad solutions …

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Russian startup aims to increase e-merchants’ conversion rates “by 10% and more”

December 2, 2013

In the rapidly developing Russian e-commerce market, Crossss.ru, a young company headed by Daniil Khanin, is offering stores a technology designed to significantly increase conversion rates in this field – “by 10 percent and more” – via personalized merchandising. “We have a mathematical algorithm that studies the visitor, and then makes an assumption whether the user …

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Russian secret service advises government officials to balk at non-Russian webmail services

November 19, 2014

Keeping with their prior attempts to keep Westerners as far away as possible from Russians’ Internet activity, Russian secret service agents have recently advised regional government officials across Russia to use domestic webmail services and stay away from overseas ones, such as Google’s Gmail. The recommendation, still off the record, came earlier this month from …

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Tripadvisor will use Yandex.Maps to guide tourists in Russia and Turkey

November 19, 2014

Tripadvisor, one of the world’s largest online travel planning sites, has tapped into Yandex.Maps search capabilities to show customers travel destinations and tourist sights in Russia and Turkey. It is the first international Internet major to acknowledge the advantages of the mapping service of the Russian search giant. The global company believes that with its wide …

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Huawei launches online sales in Russia

November 26, 2013

One of China’s largest manufacturers of smartphones and tablets, Huawei, has opened an online store in Russia. Online sales began last week, and purchases can be paid for via cash on delivery and cash on delivery, bank card, Yandex.Money, WebMoney or other electronic payment systems. Huawei’s online store delivers all over Russia, provides technical support and guarantees …

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Tinkoff bank offers credits for Russians’ cross-border online purchases

November 26, 2013

Cross-border sales operator ViPoint.ru has announced a partnership with Kupivkredit, a subsidiary of the Tinkoff Credit Systems bank, that will allow its Russian customers to purchase goods from US online retailers on credit. Credit amounts will range from 3,000 rubles (a little less than $100) to 200,000 rubles ($6,000). This initiative is presented as the first …

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Mail.ru Group “invades America”

November 22, 2013

Earlier this week the Mail.Ru Group, a top Russian Internet group listed on the London Stock Exchange, announced the US launch of My.com, which is developing English language communication and entertainment applications. By installing its subsidiary in the heart of Silicon Valley, the group is following in the footsteps of Russian tech giants such as …

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Otto Group Russia CEO Martin Schierer: “We feel the increasing competition and the higher marketing costs in e-commerce”

November 22, 2013

With net sales reaching €550 million in 2012 – including more than half generated online – the Otto Group has asserted itself as a leading player on the Russian e-commerce scene. In this exchange with East-West Digital News, CEO Martin Schierer shares his vision of this fast-growing market, speaking about the challenges of building a …

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Moscow-based free website builder uCoz launches in India

November 20, 2013

Earlier this month uCoz, the leading free website builder in Eastern Europe, became available to Indian users under the local domain uCoz.in. “We strive to give our best response to the rapid growth of the Internet usage in the emerging markets, and a significant part of these demands are coming from India,” said Evgeny Kurt, uCoz’s …

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