Sports.ru is in the process of acquiring 90live.org, a Belorussian developer of mobile apps for football fans, reported Vedomosti earlier this month based on exchanges with the portal’s general manager Dmitry Navosha. The details of the transaction, which is not completed yet, have not been disclosed. Founded in Minsk in 2013, 90live.org has developed more than …
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Place your two thumbs on the sensors of this iPhone cover and you will get an electrocardiogram (ECG) and transcription in five minutes thanks to a special algorithm. The results can then be sent to a doctor using an app for iPhone or iPad. Created by Russian startup CardioQVARK, this system was fully developed and will be …
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Megafon, a leading Russian mobile operator, has shut down its mobile payment platform ‘Megafon Money.’ This service will be replaced by Visa Qiwi Wallet — the electronic wallet offered by payment operator Qiwi in partnership with Visa — “with additional specific Megaton features,” Russian business daily Vedomosti reported yesterday. The service has been judged redundant …
Several fields of potential cooperation in the Artic were discussed last week by Russia’s Deputy Telecom and Mass Communications Minister Rashid Ismailov and Finnish Transport and Communications Minister Anne Berner on the margins of Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress. According to a statement from the Russian ministry, the two countries may cooperate on metadata, frequency coordination and supervision …
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Earlier this week Neumob, a California-based company developing app acceleration solutions, announced that it has launched in Russia to continue building out its global network. The company is already present in 50+ metropolitan areas across Europe, North America and Southeast Asia. “We came to Russia to support the exploding local mobile ecosystem. We can speed up load times and …
Telegram, a messaging app launched by Pavel Durov less than three years ago, has passed 100 million monthly active users (MAUs), the company announced yesterday. Revealing the figure during a keynote at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Durov also said that the service is now signing up 350,000 new users each day. Telegram users in 200 countries send 15 billion …
YouAppi, a San Francisco-based startup that has developed a Big Data-driven solution for mobile marketing, has raised $13.1 million from an international consortium of investors, including AltaIR, Emery Capital and Flint Capital, three funds with Russian roots. Also participating in this Series B round are Click Ventures, Digital Venture (Ukraine), Global Brain (Japan) and Hawk Ventures (USA) as well as …
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Valery Radayev, the governor of Saratov, has some big ideas for SEPO, the Saratov Electrounit Production Corporation. You might know SEPO for its indestructible refrigerators, which it’s been pumping out since 1939, when it was founded in the Soviet Union to show the world’s capitalist pigdogs that communism could produce consumer comforts, too. SEPO also made …
Appnow, a Russian startup based in Tatarstan, has raised $2 million from Dutch investment company Maxforсing ВV, as reported by Rusbase.com. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Appnow enables restaurants, cafes and beauty salons to create their own mobile apps. An application for iOS, Windows Phone or Android may be created and automatically authorized by …
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Last week ComfortWay, a Russian startup developing a “Virtual SIM Card” project, announced that it has agreed a €6 million investment in several tranches with a pool of European telecom companies and individual investors. Neither the identity of the investors nor the terms of the transaction can be disclosed, the startup’s CEO Oleg Pravdin told East-West …
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International investment group LetterOne (L1) has just announced that it has made a “strategic investment”of $200 million in Uber. Mikhail Fridman, the chairman of the group, is the third Russian billionaire in a row to invest in the US company, following the moves of Ziyavudin Magomedov and Alisher Usmanov last year. “I’m excited by our strategic partnership with …
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Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow, is preparing to expand beyond planet Earth this autumn with its subsidiary, the Skolkovo Orbital Launch Centre (SOLC), set to send satellites into space. “Our first launches are planned for October this year,” said Alexei Belyakov, head of Skolkovo Foundation’s space and telecommunications technologies …
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