Mail.Ru Group, a leading, LSE-listed Russian Internet Group, has launched myTarget, an advertising platform that combines the audience of mobile services and social networks in Russia and the CIS, including VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and Moi Mir. “For the first time, we have combined all of our services and the mobile audience. Advertisers receive a single point …
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A startup with routes in Russia’s second city has attracted more than $221k in funding on Indiegogo. The company is called iTraq, and has developed a small device whose location can be tracked using a smartphone app. The iTraq device looks just a lot like a standard credit card, and can be carried in a wallet, …
RBTH has already written about useful applications, such as the ones that will keep you from getting lost in Russia. In this piece we will highlight some of the most unexpected and unique apps created by Russian programmers. Three of them are dedicated to the Russian President: “Putin Speaks,” “Putin Simulator,” and “Like Putin.”
Buran Venture Capital, a Moscow-based, internationally-oriented venture fund, appears to be among the backers of Shazam, which raised $30 million this past January in a funding round that valued it at over $1 billion. While the other investors are still unidentified, the Russian fund revealed yesterday that it contributed $8.5 million in the round.
Life.Sreda, a Russian fund investing in financial and mobile technologies, has acquired iboxPro, a leading Asian mobile point-of-sale service, and intends to merge it with its Russian portfolio company LifePay. The details of the transaction have not been disclosed, but an unnamed source told business daily Kommersant that it amounted to “up to $10 million.”
Russian Internet giant Yandex has requested that Russia’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service investigate Google for violating Russian legislation, news agency RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday. The regulator now has one month to consider the request from Yandex, Russia’s top search engine and provider of a range of digital services, such as Yandex.Maps and Yandex.Music, a music streaming service.
A Russian smartphone with the exact same dimensions as Apple’s popular iPhone is now on sale, the phone’s developer announced on Tuesday. Called the iX-maxi and retailing from 12,500 rubles ($199), the smartphone measures 4.7 inches diagonally, the same length as the iPhone 6. The phone’s design is also remarkably similar, down to its volume buttons, thickness, home button, and other visible features.
The Russian manufacturer of smartphones Yota Devices has found a partner to enter the Chinese market, as reported by Russian business daily Kommersant. The new partner, Potevio, is one of the largest local distributors of mobile electronics. Over the next 18 months, Yota Devices expects to supply some 1 million units of its YotaPhone 2 …
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The U.S. mobile ecosystem duopoly has been the big story of tech for the past six-plus years. And continues to be mobile’s unshakeable reality — with Android and iOS collectively cutting themselves a 96 per cent share of the device market (per Gartner figures for Q3 2014). Not everyone is happy about this lack of geopolitical diversity in the …
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A 24-year-old woman has died in Moscow after reportedly being electrocuted by a smartphone charger after her iPhone 4 fell into the bathtub. Yevgenia Sviridenko, originally from Omsk, was discovered by her flatmate as she lay floating in the bathtub on Monday evening, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported Tuesday. The flatmate, who was not identified in the report, said she had become concerned by how much time Sviridenko …
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Moscow and Amsterdam – Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) has released a new app that helps drivers in Moscow find a parking space and pay for the service without leaving their car. With the Yandex.Parking app, there is no need to drive the streets to find a parking spot or even leave your car to pay for it. The …
Anews, an international global news-reading service with a built-in behavioral advertising network, has received $2.7 million from TMT Investments, Run Capital, 101 Startup and several individual investors. As reported by Rusbase, TMT Investments and Run Capital each invested $1 million, in exchange for minority stakes in the company. “With its strong team, with a wealth …
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