American Councils for International Education announces the opening of the winter 2014 application season for the US-Russia Innovation Corridor (USRIC). University-based startups and entrepreneurs leading innovative projects and interested in exploring collaborations and accessing incubation services and U.S. networks in their target industries are encouraged to apply.
Yandex’s mapping service Yandex.Maps has seen a major revamp. Russia’s most popular mapping service now runs on a unified platform, which allows the company to support and update unlimited amounts of data without relying on external sources. In addition, Yandex.Maps now features detailed maps supporting the route planning feature for the majority of large cities …
Washington, D.C., October 28, 2013 — Furthering a commitment to bilateral innovation, a delegation of five biomedical and information technology companies from the University of Nizhny Novgorod visited the University of Maryland on October 16-25 under the auspices of the U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor. The companies participated in the first region-to-region visit of Russian startups under …
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Russian participants are welcome to the first annual Online Retail Conference, which will look over the horizon to predict what online retailers should be thinking about and aiming to achieve next. This major industry event is all about new thinking, new techniques, new design, new ideas and new services. The conference will be held on …
Yandex announces today its new mobile app analytics tool – Yandex.Metrica for Apps, tailored specifically to the needs of mobile app developers all over the world. The English-language version of Yandex.Metrica for Apps is available for free on demand at appmetrica.yandex.com. The main reason why we made an app stats tool from scratch, instead of using any of those currently …
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London, UK & Moscow, Russia – IXcellerate, Moscow’s premier carrier neutral datacenter, today announces that Orange Business Services, a leading global integrator of communications solutions, has established a point of presence in IXcellerate Moscow One Datacentre. This move creates an access point that connects the datacenter to Orange’s high-speed multi-service network, offering both IXcellerate and Orange …
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 8, 2013 — A total of 87 applicants from more than 30 cities across Russia sought to land one of just three residency openings in the U.S.-Russia Innovation Corridor (USRIC), a collaborative innovation initiative led by American Councils for International Education. Of the 12 finalists selected for interviews, two startups and one …
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Yandex, which operates the largest Russian e-commerce comparison shopping platform, is now offering online stores a new model for listing their products on Yandex.Market. Online stores can now enable checkout functionality for their products directly on the Yandex.Market site and Yandex will adopt a Cost Per Action (CPA) model for purchases made in this way. …
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Europe’s leading Internet conference on innovation and entrepreneurship, LeWeb, hopes to gather even more Russian attendees to “imagine the next 10 years” together on its 10th anniversary. “LeWeb is where revolutionaries gather to plot the future” according to the weekly paper The Economist. It has indeed become the European platform for success for entrepreneurs over the …
LeWeb invites Russian Internet startups and investors to “plot the future” in Paris Read More
The ninth annual Electronic Commerce conference will be held on October 10 and 11 in Moscow at the Radisson Slavyanskaya hotel. This event is one of the largest professional conferences on e-commerce, online sales and multi-channel commerce in Russia and the CIS. The conference program features more than 80 speakers, numerous round tables, and an …
Paris and Moscow – AT Internet, a major player in the field of Web Analytics and Online Intelligence, and eTargeting, Russia’s leading multichannel media company specializing in online advertising and digital marketing solutions, announce a strategic business partnership together. eTargeting has become the official representative of AT Internet in Russia. AT Internet aims at strengthening …
Valve, the creators of a number of best-selling games, has selected Payelp Global, a subsidiary of St. Petersburg-based payment aggregator and solution provider Dengi Online, to help gamers from Russia and neighboring countries make purchases on game platform Steam. As cash is the primary method of payment in Russia and CIS countries, consumers use cash-in kiosks …
