Talenthouse.com, an international platform that provides emerging talents and little known performers, artists, and creative types with opportunities to work with leading artists and brands, officially launched a Russian version of its web site last month, following a 6-month pre-release period.
Russian electronic device maker AK-Systems has started production of compact ‘plug computers’ on three different sites in Russia. Plug computers are a class of miniature computer hardware that plugs directly into alternate current (AC) outlets and offers basic computing functions. The news was announced by AK-Systems’ General Manager Arkady Karzhitsky to CNews.ru, a Russian website …
Mail.ru Group, which owns a controlling stake in several key Russian Internet properties, exercised its option to raise its stake in Vkontakte.ru from 32.49% to 39.99%, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported yesterday.
Two investment proposals filed with the Russian government by national telecom operator Rostelecom have received support from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Russian daily Vedomosti reported. The proposals aim to modernize Rostelecom’s networks in Russia’s Central Federal District by 2013 in order to provide all the District’s 7 million households with landline and wireless Internet, telecom …
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Russia’s leading search engine Yandex has lowered its rankings of over 1,000 Russian websites because the sites used illegitimate search engine optimization – or SEO – methods, according to unnamed SEO experts quoted by Russian business daily Vedomosti. SEO service providers RBS, Megaseo, Perfectseo, Userator, and Megaindex are expected to be particularly hard hit by Yandex’s …
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Russia’s second largest mobile phone retailer Svyaznoy, which operates some 2,300 outlets throughout Russia, will soon launch a website to sell music, ebooks and other multimedia content, Russian daily Vedomosti reported, citing Svyaznoy’s General Manager Denis Lyudkovsky. The future portal – still unnamed – will offer over 1 million music tracks, over 30,000 e-books, computer …
Moscow’s MICEX stock exchange has just begun publishing the ‘MICEX Innov,’ an innovation index which MICEX president Ruben Agangegyan represented as “The beginning of a conscious life of innovation and investment in Russia.” A company’s shares can be included in the new index if it floats no less than 10% of its shares and has …
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Evernote, a California-headquatered company founded by a Russian-American team in 2007, announced yesterday it has raised a new, $50 million round of funding led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures.
Web Sheriff Ltd., a London-based company protecting online rights against infringements, announced last week it “fired the first shots in an international legal battle against an alleged Russian imposter” – namely Iks Media Digital, a Moscow-based company offering similar services to the Russian market under the same trademark.
Leading Russian mobile operator MTS recently signed cooperation agreements with several major producers of TV sets, including Panasonic, Philips and Samsung, to deliver content from Omlet.ru, an MTS subsidiary, to their TV sets. The news was reported last week by Russian newspaper RBC Daily from unnamed sources.
Cut the Rope, a game developed by Russian firm ZeptoLab, topped the paid applications section of Android Market, the application store for Android-supported devices, just one week after its launch on July 1.
A new player has emerged on the nascent Russian online alternative accommodation market. Apartator.ru launched its test version in April and its first paid functions in late June. It has just been selected as one of the 10 finalists of the European Demo Night startup contest to be held next week in San Francisco.
