The International PLUS Forum, one of the most popular events in the industry with 1,000+ professional participants, will hold its third edition on April 4th and 5th in Moscow. The main goal of the conference is to better understand the current state and prospects of the Russian and global retail industry. Projects by major market …
Uber has agreed to limit its service in Moscow to drivers with a transportation license, Bloomberg reported yesterday. The company said it will also share traffic data with city officials, as well as the number of drivers using the app each month. Moscow’s transportation department had previously planned to ask police and a judge to …
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Pioneers Moscow, the Russia branch of European entrepreneurship event series Pioneers Festival, will hold its first event in Russia on March 12, with the aim to “empower and connect the Russian and international entrepreneurial ecosystems towards a sustainable technological future.” The event will take place in Digital October in the center of the Russian capital. While other events …
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Meet Innovation Russia (MIR), a tech tour intended for French companies to connect with the Russian innovation ecosystem, is announcing its third edition from June 1 to 3, 2016. The tour will lead 20 French business executives to Moscow and to Kazan, the innovation-friendly capital of Tatarstan 800km east from Moscow. MIR aims to offer “an …
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E-commerce professionals and analysts, as well as company owners and investors, are invited to attend the “Online retail analytics and business processes” conference, which will be held on March 17 in Moscow. They will discuss and discover new data collection approaches as well as the most efficient ways to interpret and use large amounts of data. No less …
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On Moscow hotlines, a special program has been introduced to recognize the emotions of a caller, a Russian news site reported last month, referring to sources in the Moscow city IT department. The new software can analyze the emotions experienced by a caller, and also recognize obscene language. If such words are used, a specially-trained call center employee joins the …
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HSE Inc., the business incubator of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, a leading Russian university, has been listed number 14 in the world and number 7 in Europe by the UBI Global 2015 ranking. The results were announced in late November in London. HSE Inc. was the first start-up incubator in Russia when it opened back in 2006. …
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Ikea Russia calls for developers, programmers, business experts, retail specialists, designers and marketers to participate in its “Mega Accelerator.” The project — the first of its kind in Russia — aims to “search and realize innovative ideas to enhance customer experience in MEGA shopping malls and beyond,” the company stated. Owned, developed and managed by Ikea, MEGA is a leading chain of …
Russia’s Federal Security Service has seized 20 tons of black market smartphones at the Pulkovo Airport in St Petersburg — an amount retailers said represented up to 30 percent of the city’s total smartphone sales in December, the Vedomosti newspaper reported Friday. The cargo — including 15,000 Lenovo A560 phones and 35,000 of Apple’s iPhones …
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Headed by two American expats, Radius Group designs, builds, finances and operates warehouse and manufacturing real-estate in Russia. The company is responsible for some of the largest warehouse projects in the country, as exemplified by the deal signed with Leroy Merlin this past February to build a giant omnichannel distribution center on the outskirts of Moscow. …
The company that provides free wireless Internet on the Moscow metro has asked law-enforcement agencies to look into users’ complaints that they were being redirected to a page with threats of terror attacks in the Russian capital when trying to use the Wi-Fi service, the TASS news agency reported Tuesday. Some subway passengers trying to …
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This past summer payment operator QIWI and mobile taxi booking service Сitymobil invested $500,000 in Today Delivery, a crowdsourced e-commerce delivery company. The deal has just been revealed by Russian startup blog Firrma.ru. The startup was valued at several million US dollars, a Today Delivery representative told Firrma.ru, without disclosing further details. Today Delivery presents itself as analogue of UberRUSH: “The …
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