On July 10-13 the city of Ekaterinburg (880 miles east of Moscow) held Innoprom, an international exhibition that gathered together technology entrepreneurs and state officials from 95 countries. Daria Kezina of Russia Beyond The Headlines attended the event and reports on five of the most interesting tech innovations she saw there: a rescue robot, a smart …
A Russian man has filed a lawsuit against search giant Google, accusing it of violating his privacy by showing him advertisements based on comments made in private e-mails. Anton Burkov, from Yekaterinburg, filed the suit in a Moscow court when advertisements for French hotels and visa services began appearing alongside Google search results — shortly after discussing a trip to Strasbourg with friends.
Action Media Group, a large Russian B2B-publishing house, has invested $200,000 in SaaS service Arnica.pro. This is already the third round of investment for the company. Arnica.pro is aimed at smaller beauty salons, who can use the software for client registration, staff work schedules, CRM, transactions, accounts and integration with external services. The company was founded …
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The Communications’ Ministry has announced that more than $60 million of federal money will be given to four Russian regions to fund the development of their technoparks up to the end of 2014. Moscow is to receive $10 million, while Sverdlovsk Oblast, which has Yekaterinburg as its capital, will get $22 million. Penza Oblast, in …
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E96.ru, an online retailer of consumer electronics and home appliances based in Ekaterinburg, claims that it generated no less that 1 billion rubles (approximately $33 million) in sales during the first quarter of 2013, up 206% from the same quarter of 2012. The future will determine how long the company will maintain this pace, but …
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For a long time, the Russian IT business had been most prominent in the country’s two capitals – Moscow and St. Petersburg. Lately, though, a surge of startup companies has been observed in a number of smaller cities, as well. One example is Yekaterinburg. The city is home to such projects as online accounting platform …
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Ekaterinburg’s Ural Federal University (UrFU) has announced it is developing a new RFID-based technology to safeguard and take stock of library books. Eighteen months from now, the system is expected to be in operation at the library of Lyceum #130 in Yekaterinburg, a long-standing UrFU partner. The non-contact radiofrequency scanning system will reportedly enable librarians …
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QRGL, a startup established in Russia’s third largest city Ekaterinburg in the Ural mountains, secured $1 million from Veles Capital, a Moscow asset management company, regional portal 66.ru reported last week. Veles Capital will receive a two-third stake in the company. Founded in April 2010 by Pavel Medvedev, QRGL has developed an anti-counterfeit technology that …
