Twenty of the most innovative and influential leaders in the Bitcoin, payments and financial services worlds will be among the featured speakers at the inaugural Bitcoin Finance Conference and Expo (Bitfin 2014). The event will be held in Dublin on July 3 and 4 at the Royal Dublin Society in partnership with East West Digital News. …
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Yandex (NASDAQ: YNDX) is launching a service for search and selection of companies and organisations in Russia’s cities. Called Yandex.City, it helps users choose restaurants, beauty salons and a wide range of other businesses whose services they might need. The service, currently available only in Russian, is accessible on city.yandex.ru, as well as on applications for …
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CEE-SECR is the premier software engineering conference in Russia. The 2014 edition of the conference will take place on October 23-25 at the Digital October Center in Moscow. Nearly 1,000 industry specialists, representing all IT areas, are expected to attend the event. The CEE-SECR 2014 Program Committee is launching a call for speakers, who should apply …
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Reverse image search – or searching not by words but by visual content – has just become available to users of Yandex.com. This feature works on computer vision technology created by developers at Yandex. We’ve named it “Sibir” (Russian for “Siberia”), from the acronym CBIR, which stands for “content-based image retrieval”. The technology transforms pictures, submitted by users …
iHerb, the largest US online store for health and beauty, begins delivering to Russia through alternative shipment company Boxberry. iHerb is the U.S. market leader in the field of vitamins, supplements and beauty products. The site offers 35,000 products from more than 1,000 well-known brands. The Internet shop, which has a Russian version, is certified by NSF …
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Tel Aviv and Moscow – Wix.com Ltd (Nasdaq: WIX), a leading cloud-based web development platform, and REG.RU, Russia’s largest domain registrar and hosting provider announced a new partnership that will simplify and streamline the process for creating and managing a professional online presence. Customers purchasing a domain from REG.RU, who then create their website through the Wix …
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Last week, following Pavel Durov’s dismissal as CEO and exit from Russia – a country which he now judges “incompatible with Internet business,” – Vkontakte shareholder United Capital Partners (UCP) released a statement about these latest developments. The fund, which acquired a 48% stake in the social network one year ago, describes Durov’s move as “an attempt to present …
Pavel Durov flees lawsuits, not politics, claims UCP Read More
The Skolkovo Foundation will bring 8 startups to participate in a road show in Hong Kong and Mainland China. All the companies will show their innovative developments during the International ICT Expo, which will take place on 13-16 April 2014 at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The management team of Skolkovo and the startups …
As Russia’s traditional retail networks are toeing the waters of e-commerce, an industry event this week in Moscow will address the different dimensions and challenges of this transition. On April 11 and 14 “Online Retail Russia 2014” will feature a bevy of speakers representing real business cases and years of professional experience – including retail …
Retailers’ e-commerce challenges to be highlighted this week at Moscow conference Read More
Play’s turnover increased from 23 million Rubles in 2012 to 259 million Rubles in 2013, growing 11-fold in value and 14-fold in purchasing volume. By the beginning of 2014, the company’s monthly customer base comprised 100,000 premium users, half of whom were regular customers. The total number of service users exceeded 500,000 people and more than …
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Nokia’s Android smartphone, Nokia X, announced at the recent Mobile World Congress, comes to the Russian and Belarusian markets equipped with the essential search functionality provided by Yandex. The Finnish company’s first in the X-series of phones premieres today on these markets with the Yandex.Search app already preinstalled and the Yandex search engine as a built-in …
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GSF Accelerator, India’s largest and the most renowned Technology Accelerator, recently announced the launch of GSF Global Accelerator, a pioneering cross-border accelerator program. Twelve high-tech startups will be selected for the program, including four from Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, and Africa. These startups will join us on a 12-week journey that will begin in India …
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