An estimated 76% of Russian mobile phone owners are exposed to mobile spam, says a report from ESET, an international IT security company. Last month the company conducted a poll of members of its official communities on VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, Russia’s two leading social networks, and of ESET Club participants. An estimated 65% of respondents …
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The Ruby, a mobile LTE hotspot developed by Moscow’s Yota Devices, is debuting outside Russia. Talk Point, a German electronics retailer, is expected to launch sales of the device to both individual customers and other retailers in Germany via its own outlets and partner stores, Yota Devices CEO Vlad Martynov told the Russian business daily …
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MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator named one of the ten most valuable global telecom brands this past spring, announced last week that it will invest as much as much as $200 million for an expansion of its networks in neighboring Ukraine and in Turkmenistan, a former Soviet Union state located in Central Asia. Apparently …
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The Russian venture fund Life.SREDA revealed last week a $2 million investment in Moven, a three-year-old New York-based banking startup. Moven’s CEO and founder Brett King hopes that the deal, which took place in July, will help his company further upgrade what he calls a “world-class mobile solution to the problem of the next-generation bank account.” In an …
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Digital Fortress, a US-based software developer with Russian roots, rolled out in mid-August its inaugural mobile app, an English-language instant messenger named Telegram. The app is now available on iTunes. Digital Fortress owner Pavel Durov, who is also the founder of Russia’s largest social network Vkontakte (VK.com), claimed that his company’s first product was launched …
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MTS, a leading Russian mobile operator, and RMS, an innovation company from the city of Nizhny Novgorod, are teaming up to fight forest fires in the Republic of Komi, which is located in Northwest Russia. As a part of this endeavor, MTS will use its mobile infrastructure, and RMS will use its Forest Patrol technology. …
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Earlier this week Rostelecom, Russia’s national telecom operator, announced the creation of its own “Venture Project Department.” The new department will focus on “search, screening, packaging, and test introduction of new products that are complementary to the firm’s core services.” Its primary goal is a substantial extension of Rostelecom’s product line by adding advanced services …
VimpelCom, a NYSE-listed telecom group with operations in Russia, Italy, and some other markets, is selling two of its sub-Saharan assets and considering purchasing a Pakistani mobile operator, Reuters reported earlier this week, citing knowledgeable banking sources. VimpelCom is believed to have sold its units in Burundi and the Central African Republic for $100 million …
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Russia was the world’s sixth most dynamic market for mobile ad requests and impressions on the Opera Mediaworks platform in the second quarter of this year, according to the Q2 2013 State of Mobile Advertising report, which was released last week by the Norwegian company. In Q2 2013, the Russian market joined the group of the …
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Every day, 300 million new photos are loaded onto Facebook; Instagram users publish 58 pictures each second. Not uploading what you had for lunch or the thousandth image of your favorite cat in the social network has become almost indecent. However, most users do not really care about what, and with what kind of optical …
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MegaFon, a leading Russian mobile operator, has announced a $130 million commitment to building and upgrading the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics’ telecommunications infrastructure. In an exchange last week with the Russian news agency 1Prime, Tigran Pogosyan, MegaFon’s deputy CEO for strategic ventures and director of the firm’s Sochi-2014 project, said that in addition to the …
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Andrey Korkunov, the founder of a leading candy company, has invested $1 million in Apps4all in exchange for a 15% stake, the Russian business daily Vedmosti reported yesterday. Launched in 2011, Apps4all brings together a community of mobile app developers with a variety of media, event, training, research, and advertising activities. The startup – which …
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