Moscow-based startup Workle, whose platform enables residents of Russia’s regions to work on a remote basis for leading companies, announced last week it has raised $3.5 million in its second round of funding. The investment came from Klever Internet Investment, the technology branch of a major Russian private investor, Klever Asset Management. Klever has also received the …
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Russia’s manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers can now experiment with online sales without investing in their own IT, payment, fulfillment or even online marketing capacities. A new specially-designed platform called TetraMall was launched last month to offer such clients a complete set of services for starting e-commerce activities “quickly and successfully.” The St. Petersburg-based company claims …
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As a consequence of the dramatic increase of package shipments from abroad – consisting mainly of parcels sent from foreign online retailers to customers in Russia – up to 500 tons of parcels massed up earlier this month at Moscow’s airports and customs check points. In a rare move, Deutsche Post urged a probe into …
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RBC, one of Russia’s largest media groups in the online, television, print media, hosting and domain name registration segments, is restructuring its B2C Internet assets, the group’s press service stated in an exchange with East-West Digital News. Managed by Media Mir, a company within the group, these assets will be reorganized into three distinct segments. …
Walkbase, a Finnish startup that has developed an innovative retail analytics solution, has received a seed capital injection from Russian and Scandinavian investors after four years of R&D. Neither the amount of the round nor the company’s valuation have been disclosed. The investors include Leonid Gluzman and Leonid Volkov, two Russian business angels, and Jan …
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Ozon Holdings announced a new customer loyalty program yesterday, christened OZON Status, which was designed with the participation of customers. Ozon indicates that just 10% of its customers generate 50% of its sales. These intensive customers, who tend to purchase a variety of items from different categories, will be granted a special status from the …
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As Russia rapidly emerges as a new hot spot on the world’s innovation map, East-West Digital News, the country’s first international resource on digital industries, has teamed up with influential website The Next Web to offer its unique news and insights to TNW’s global readership. While a regular flow of news stories from EWDN is …
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Earlier this month, Yandex released a report which compiled data from various sources on Internet trends across the country. The report’s insights on Internet access in the regions are particularly interesting. The Internet audience continues to grow across the country, notes Yandex, but the rate of growth is slowing: from autumn 2011 through autumn 2012, …
Last week social HootSuite launched a Russian version of its social media management service. Defining its product as a “dashboard to manage and measure your social networks,” the Vancouver, Canada-based company helps marketers manage multiple networks, schedule messages, track brand mentions, and analyze social media traffic.
The California branch of the Russian Internet operator Yandex has developed a prototype software application that enables users to read news from social networks on their televisions. According to a company statement, users can manage the process by physically gesturing. Tatyana Komarova, a Yandex spokesperson, said that the experiment was a joint effort by Yandex Labs …
Yandex develops gesture-based newswire app for connected TV Read More
In a controversial TV program aired yesterday, Ilya Shcherbovich, the president of the UCP fund which has just acquired a 48% stake in Vkontakte, brought some clarity to his strategy as a major shareholder of Russia’s first social network. Shcherbovich presented himself as a purely financial investor interested in an asset for which he sees bright prospects. …
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The Vkontakte drama saw new developments this weekend with TV Rain’s Leonid Parfenov – one of Russia’s most renowned journalists – asserting on his Sunday program that Pavel Durov, the co-founder and CEO of Russia’s leading social network, is currently in Buffalo, NY, “obviously with no intention of returning to Russia.” The journalist linked Durov’s …
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