Mobile & Telecom

China’s Beidou and Russia’s GLONASS to harmonize standards

September 22, 2014 September 22, 2014

China and Russia could form a single navigational space in the coming years. Negotiations on the harmonization of equipment standards for the Russian GLONASS satellite navigation system and the Chinese Beidou system started this summer. The most important direction for the planned extensive cooperation is the harmonization of standards, especially at the level of navigation …

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Russian games in App Store

September 12, 2014 September 12, 2014

In early August, the App Store updated its Made in Russia section. Russian developers’ applications are often highly regarded. There is a special App Store catalogue listing them. But not all applications in the App Store collection originated in Russia. Formally, some of them were created by Russian companies’ offices abroad. The bulk of the …

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Uber launches budget taxi service in Moscow

September 9, 2014 March 2, 2017

UberX, the budget version of US-based taxi-hailing service Uber, has arrived in Moscow. Residents of the Russian capital can now travel in an UberX vehicle for just $0.15 per minute / per km, in addition to an initial $1.20 charge. This is significantly less than the $0.40 per minute charge + $5 initial charge to use …

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Yandex.Translate on iPhone and iPad translates offline

September 5, 2014 November 19, 2014

Translation apps on mobile devices are extremely helpful when people are travelling to countries where they don’t speak local language. However, most of translation apps have been working only over the internet, and their use might be quite paintful when in roaming with no good wi-fi connection abroad. Yandex.Translate, an app launched two years ago, now …

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Ru-Net teams up with Sequoia and Sofina to invest in Indian mobile recharge platform FreeCharge

September 3, 2014 December 13, 2015

Russian venture fund Ru-Net has participated in the $33 million funding round of FreeCharge, a leading Indian mobile recharge platform, reported local tech publication Trak.in. Belgium-based Sofina and existing investor Sequoia Capital also took part in the deal. The new round of funding will be used for marketing and building an advertising platform that will …

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Yandex buys mobile development studio Any Void

September 2, 2014 September 2, 2014

Yandex, the Russian search giant, has purchased mobile development company Any Void. The Any Void team, along with its head Yury Podorozhny will start work at Yandex from today. They will be responsible for the company’s Geo services. When asked why it had chosen to buy Any Void above the many other teams of developers …

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iPhone 5S leads the way in Yandex.Market smartphone rankings

August 7, 2014 August 7, 2014

According to the Yandex.Market rankings, the three smartphone brands leading the way in Russia include Apple, Samsung, and Sony. The iPhone 5S currently holds first place in the Yandex.Market smartphone ratings. The iPhone 5S has only fallen second to Samsung Galaxy once since the iPhone 5S was released in Russia last fall. The iPhone 5S …

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Moscow smartphone maker Yota Devices moving to Canada

August 6, 2014 August 6, 2014

Canada may soon be home to another smartphone maker when Moscow-based Yota Devices relocates its headquarters to Toronto or Waterloo by the end of this year, its chief executive says. Yota Devices, whose flagship unit is an Android-based smartphone with screens on both sides, is aiming to take advantage of the talent pool in Canada …

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Ukrainian startup Advice Wallet secures $1.5 million from Russia’s Life.SREDA

August 1, 2014 August 1, 2014

Life.SREDA, a Moscow-based venture capital firm focusing on mobile and online fintech startups, is to invest $1.5 million in Settle, a mobile payment service developed by Kiev-based startup Advice Wallet. Combining mobile payments and a loyalty scheme in one app, Settle makes it possible to both order and then pay your bill at a restaurant or café through a smartphone. …

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Pavel Durov has cloned Telegram

July 29, 2014 July 29, 2014

Pavel Durov seems to be creating a competitor of his own instant messenger, Telegram, if judging by a new version – christened Telegram HD – which appeared in the Apple AppStore on July 21. The app is registered to the company Telegram Messenger LLP and all links to the Telegram app for iPhone on the messenger’s official website lead …

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Heads up! Russian developers invent 3D display for safe driving

July 28, 2014 July 28, 2014

A pair of Russian developers has created an application that projects navigation information onto the inside of a car windshield, improving road safety in conditions of poor visibility. The application, called HUDWAY, was launched in Russia in August 2013, with its international version following two months later. It is already available in English, German, Polish, …

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The mobile games market in Russia grew by nine times from 2010 through 2013

July 24, 2014 July 24, 2014

Experts at Mail.ru Group and Newzoo have assessed the mobile games market in Russia and compared gamers from a variety of countries. The volume of the mobile games market in Russia has grown more than nine times from 2010 through 2013, when it amounted to $165 million. In 2010, the share of mobile games in the …

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