Mobile & Telecom

Scartel to focus on Russia, attempts to sell Belorussian subsidiary

April 20, 2012

RBC Daily reported earlier this week that Scartel, the leading Russian WiMAX operator operating under the Yota brand, is considering selling its Belorussian subsidiary, Yota Bel, just a few months after starting operations in this country of almost 10 million inhabitants. Such a move would confirm Scartel’s intention to focus more on Russia  rather than …

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70 Russian regions connected to federal e-government system

April 19, 2012

National telecom operator Rostelecom – 53.2% owned by the federal government – announced last week that 70 out of 83 Russian regions are now linked to its interdepartmental government communications system. The buildout of the system marks a major milestone in this country’s progress towards e-government, a comprehensive IT-enabled cloud-based platform offered to the regions …

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Milner takes part in Path’s $30 million investment round

April 18, 2012

Yuri Milner, co-founder of the prominent Russian Internet fund DST, is among the investors in Path, the much-hyped ‘mobile-centric social network’ launched in 2010. The investment round, which amounts to at least $30 million, was led by venture firm Redpoint Ventures, CNet reported on Monday, with entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Mark Pincus and Jerry Murdock, as …

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Rusnano and Bright Capital invest in US next gen Wi-Fi chipset provider

April 17, 2012

Quantenna Communications, a leading player in ultra-reliable Wi-Fi video networking for whole-home entertainment, announced today that it has closed a $79 million funding round led by new lead investor Rusnano, the Russian nanotechnology giant, with participation by a second new investor, Bright Capital, a major Russian fund. All existing major investors, Sequoia Capital, DAG Ventures, …

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GLONASS mandated for Russian civil aviation by 2018

March 2, 2017

Rossiiskaya Gazeta, the official print media organ for the Russian government, has published a decision by the Russian Ministry of Transport last week to make GLONASS or GLONASS+GPS satellite navigation equipment standard for most civil airplanes and helicopters in Russia. The measure is intended to boost safety and improve air traffic control, the ministry stated. …

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MegaFon expands data center network

April 9, 2012

Megafon, one of Russia’s leading mobile operators, leaked to the media last week that it plans to launch data processing centers by 2013 in each of Russia’s federal districts – the eight supra-regional territorial formations created in 2000 to ease the governance of a country that spans nine time zones. According to a report by …

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Russian mobile app creates international controversy over sexism and privacy

April 6, 2012

An international scandal has grown this week around Girls Around Me, an iPhone application created by a subsidiary of i-Free, a major St. Petersburg, Russia based mobile app publisher. Starting with a post on ‘Cult Of Mac,’ a blog following products from Apple, the controversy has been fueled by a flurry of comments from mainstream media …

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i-Free halts funding to the start-up that created mobile app Girls Around Me

December 2, 2024

St. Petersburg – i-Free reports that its venture foundation subdivision i-Free Ventures has stopped funding Places Around Me, the start-up that created the mobile application Girls Around Me. i-Free decided to stop funding Places Around Me because of the negative reaction its mobile application Girls Around Me has recently provoked among potential users.

RNT transport telematics to South America

April 4, 2012

Already present in 22 countries worldwide, Russian Navigation Technologies (RNT), a leading manufacturer and integrator of fleet management solutions and other telematics systems operating under the Auto Tracker brand, announced it is now opening up South America’s fleet management market. Announcing last week a new JV in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the firm has not only …

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Contactless payments take their first steps in Russia

June 16, 2016

On Wednesday, Vimpelcom, a major Russian mobile operator, announced it will deploy the NFC-based contactless payment system it implemented in St. Petersburg last year within the Moscow subway. Widespread commercial launch in Moscow is scheduled for the end of the year. While most offline and online purchases made in Russia are still paid in cash, …

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French mobile analytics startup nabs $1.5 million from Moscow based venture fund

February 11, 2017

Runa Capital, a Moscow-based fund that began investing outside Russia last fall, is providing $1.5 million in funding to Capptain, a French startup that has developed a SaaS platform for mobile analytics and marketing. Capptain’s valuation has not been disclosed, but Runa is a minority shareholder, Laurent Lathieyre, the startup’s co-founder, told East-West Digital News. …

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