While smartphones have gone mainstream in many regions around the globe, adoption among emerging countries is still developing. According to new research from Nielsen, China is the only country among the high-growth BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) markets where smartphones are predominant, owned by two-thirds of Chinese mobile subscribers as of the first half of …
Las Vegas – Yota Devices today announced it won a Best of CES Award for its YotaPhone, the first dual-screen phone with a full-color liquid crystal display (LCD) on one side and an electronic paper display (EPD) on the other. Produced and judged by editors from CNET, the winners of the Best of CES Awards were …
Moscow – Tinkoff Digital, а Russian developer of innovative technologies for the internet and mobile advertising markets, has launched its first real-time bidding (RTB) platform, DataMind, and signed its first agreements with leading providers of advertising impressions for RTB, including Google Inc. Russian online film service Yota.Play has become the first advertiser to adopt Data Mind.
On behalf of AmBAR, I am pleased to announce that AmBAR’s litigation with its former directors Anna Dvornikova and Stas Khirman has been resolved amicably. In connection with this resolution, I would like to express our sincere regret to Ms. Anna Dvornikova, Mr. Stas Khirman, Ms. Vera Shokina and the whole AmBAR community that this …
Moscow – Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) and QIWI Limited, a leading provider of payment services in Russia, have formed a strategic alliance to introduce a digital wallet that will enable consumers to access a wide variety of electronic payment options. The wallet builds on the existing, successful relationship between Visa and QIWI, the leading provider of …
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Moscow – IBM Corporation and the Scientific and Production Association (SPA) “Angstrem” and “Angstrem-T” have signed two agreements to spur technology innovation. Through the first agreement, IBM has licensed Angstrem integrated circuit technology of the topological size of 90nm. With the license, Angstrem plans to manufacture microelectronic devices such as chips and sensors for use inthe …
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In partnership with East-West Digital News, Midem, the leading international b2b event dedicated to the new music and entertainment ecosystems, cordially invites Russian startups to midemlab. This major startup and app developer competition will take place in Cannes, France, from Jan. 26 to 29 of next year. If you have built a solution that will help music executives, …
The Russian telecommunications market is growing fuelled by investments of mobile operators and broadband internet access services expansion. It is now expected to cross the value of €31 bn in 2012. Further 3G-LTE development is outstripping WiMAX and CDMA. According to the latest report by PMR, a market research company, the value of the telecommunication …
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The third Global Innovation Partnership forum (GIP 2012) finished its work in Moscow last week. During the forum, venture investors from Asia Pacific Region (APR) studied Russia’s potential in the field of innovation and discussed with their Russian colleagues specific lines of further cooperation, investment opportunities in high-tech projects as well as joint efforts to develop …
ttgLabs, a Russian software startup with a focus on development and optimization of HPC software, is announcing the pre-release version of the TTG Apptimizer toolkit. This software dramatically facilitates the optimization of computationally-demanding applications on graphics accelerators and heterogeneous HPC systems enabling the developers to easily work around the most tedious tasks of programming for …
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St. Petersburg – The short film created by i-Free, The Possibilities of NFC in the Modern World, won a prize in the corporate film section of the Cannes Film Festival: Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards. Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards is a high-profile corporate film festival – the biggest event of its kind …
On August 6th, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skolkovo Tech), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) kicked off a four-week intensive workshop called the SkTech/MIT Innovation Workshop 2012. The workshop is teaching participants how to bridge the gap between scientific and technological prowess and creating innovative solutions with broad impact. During the first …
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