Mobile & Telecom

Restaurant social app Gvidi wins Best Idea award in Tactrick Android Developer Cup

May 17, 2013

Gvidi, a mobile app dedicated to restaurants, cafés and bars across Russia and neighboring countries, won the Best Idea award earlier this week in an Android developer contest organized by Tactrick Mobile Solutions. The prize for the winner in this category is “support for the development of the product in question and its further development …

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Google shuts down Quickoffice R&D offices in Russia and Ukraine

May 16, 2013

Google has cancelled its contract with Doctor Mobile, the developer of the mobile applications for the Quickoffice service. Google acquired Quickoffice, which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, in June last year for an undisclosed sum. Now, less than a year later, Google is shutting down two of its offices, namely in Saint Petersburg (Russia) and Kharkiv (Ukraine), where more than …

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Russian authorities in search of new suppliers for e-government

May 13, 2013

Russia’s government prefers to take its time before signing a new contract with an outside service provider to support its electronic infrastructure, including systems of interdepartmental collaboration, the government services portal Gosuslugi.ru, and a unified system of identification and authentication. So far, the government’s provider for these projects has been Rostelecom, Russia’s leading telecom operator, …

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Game Insight founder Alisa Chumachenko: “Russians are more emotional in their spending habits but it’s the Japanese who spend the most on in-app purchases.”

December 28, 2021

Russian game publisher Game Insight has been in the news over the last year for having opened an office in San Francisco, reached sales of $90 million and made the Forbes’ list of top 30 most successful Russian web companies. The company develops free apps for iOs, Android, Facebook and VKontakte. In this interview with Russia …

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Russian angels invest in innovative Finnish online-offline retail analytics

November 19, 2014

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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Report: Internet access becomes more affordable, but usage grows more slowly in Russia’s regions

April 23, 2013

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, …

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Social media management service HootSuite now supports Russian language and Vkontakte

April 23, 2013

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.

Rumors dispelled: Richard Branson’s mobile business still alive in Russia – and “expanding aggressively”

April 15, 2013

In an exchange with East-West Digital News, a top official of Virgin Connect has denied the rumors circulating in the Russian press that Virgin is shutting down its mobile projects in Russia. Virgin’s founder and chairman Richard Branson was reported to be “definitely upset with Russia” and his local company had supposedly dropped plans to …

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