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“Next years promise to be no less interesting,” says Grishin after Ring’s $1 billion deal

March 2, 2018

Grishin Robotics, an international venture fund with Russian roots, was among the investors in Ring, a global manufacturer of home security products which has just been acquired by Amazon at a $1 billion valuation. The Ring devices, which provide “smart security at every corner,” can integrate with Amazon’s voice-controlled assistant Alexa — and there’s a potential …

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Sasha Galitsky: “The strengths and weaknesses of Eastern Europe in the field of technology are related in part to its communist past”

February 27, 2018

Alexander “Sasha” Galitsky, Ph. D., is co-founder and managing partner at Almaz Capital Partners, one of the most prominent international funds with roots in Eastern Europe. This interview is an excerpt from “Startup Investment & Innovation in Emerging Europe,” a research study just released by East-West Digital News.   Which technologies are CEE startups strongest …

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Qiwi co-founder invested $17 million in Telegram’s presale; skeptics say “ICO numbers out of whack”

February 26, 2018

Sergey Solonin, co-founder of Qiwi, a major NASDAQ-listed Russian e-payment operator, confimed that he personally invested Telegram’s ICO private presale. The Russian businessman revealed this investment informally during the Russian Investment Forum, an international business event which is taking place these days in Sochi on the Black Sea. [Update Feb. 26: Among the other Russian …

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Sexy ‘graft’ video may lead Russia to block Instagram, YouTube

February 13, 2018

Russia may block access to YouTube and Instagram after billionaire Oleg Deripaska won a court injunction against videos and photographs that showed him and Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko relaxing on a yacht with a woman described as an escort. As reported by Bloomberg, the Russian court has ordered the removal of 14 Instagram posts and seven YouTube videos that …

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This 19-year-old Russian tech genius wants to “make the web decentralized again”

October 29, 2018

DeNet, a startup co-founded by a 19-year-old programmer and senior industry professionals, aims nothing short of disrupting the way web hosting works today. “We are bringing it back to the original idea of decentralization,” says Denis Shelestov, the company’s young CTO. DeNet believes the way the Internet operates these days is a vast digression from …

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Estonian G-Global Business Portal gathers top experts from around the world to digitize companies

January 15, 2018

Tallinn, Estonia, Jan. 11, 2018 – A new blockchain project is emerging from Estonia, one of the most technologically advanced countries in Europe: the consulting marketplace G-Global Business Portal. Developing the vision of Denis Tsyro, a prominent entrepreneur in social education and development who founded the platform, G-Global Business Portal gathers international and local experts …

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How a Soviet-born engineer decided to create “the Android of IoT”

December 28, 2017

Rightech, a Moscow-based startup, is working on developing a platform for Internet of Things, which it hopes will become some kind of “Android of IoT”. Currently, Rightech provides IoT services, such as data storage, processing and transfer, as part of its IoT Cloud. This platform allows programmers to develop and modify IoT applications without even …

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Presidential Internet ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev: “In the totally new tech world that is emerging, the state’s capacity to intervene will decline”

September 26, 2021

A successful tech entrepreneur since the late 1990s, Dmitry Marinichev was apppointed Internet Ombudsman by President Putin in 2014. He is also a member of the Expert Committee of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and a member of the General Council of the Delovaya Rossia business association. In this exchange with EWDN Chief Editor Adrien …

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Campbell Bethwaite of Redstone Capital: “Russian financial services, in terms of functionality and speed, are better than in many other markets”

December 5, 2017

Fintech is exploding in Russia, albeit from a very low base. bne IntelliNews editor-in-chief Ben Aris sat down with Campbell Bethwaite, the managing partner of Redstone Capital (recently renamed from Finteca) to talk about the sector and its prospects. Redstone is a holding company that has set up a number of fintech businesses in Russia that are seeing exponential …

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Affiliate marketing: Next year’s trends and challenges

November 27, 2017

As advertising networks are increasingly used in domestic and cross-border campaigns, the industry is experiencing a multifaceted transformation. Alexander Bachmann, CEO and founder of international ad network admitad, identifies the current and upcoming challenges and opportunities for market players in this field.    1. Mobile traffic: Seeking a deeper and more efficient integration Mobile is among …

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Trends and challenges in the self-improvement Industry: Russia and the West

November 16, 2017

Interest in self-improvement has never been out of fashion. But today we are experiencing a new era in the personal development sphere with the adoption of digital services and mobile applications. More and more people want personal consultations on the go, and the industry needs a reliable infrastructure to provide proven data, reliable methods and …

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What the ‘Paradise Papers’ missed to reveal: Airbnb, Alibaba, DropBox, Groupon, Hyperloop One, Shazam, Spotify, Uber also received “Kremlin money”

January 18, 2023

Leaked files have just highlighted the connections of Yuri Milner, a top Russian-born international tech investor, with a Russian state-controlled financial institution.  While seeing in these connections “a long Kremlin arm,” the international journalist consortium which analyzed these files omitted to point out many other cases of Russian money fuelling powerful tech companies in the US and elsewhere. However, …

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