CEE-SECR is the premier software engineering conference in Russia. The 2013 edition of the conference will take place on October 23-25 at the Digital October Center in Moscow. Over 700 industry specialists, representing all IT areas, are expected to attend the event. The CEE-SECR 2013 Program Committee is launching a call for speakers, who should apply …
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The Apple website in Russia, now features an Apple Online Store, and Russian consumers will be able to purchase Apple devices directly from the company’s website. Any Apple device can be bought from the store, including the iPhone 5, which starts at 29,990 rubles ($909). Online customers can pay by bank card online or pay …
The Moscow Seed Fund, the City of Moscow’s venture arm, has poured 8 million rubles (about $240,000) into a startup named Probki Iz Okna (Russian for “traffic jams from the window”). The company has created a large network of webcams installed and controlled by users to monitor the road traffic situation in real time in the …
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FoodRock Menus, a B2B2C startup founded in Moscow by a British expat with a Russian partner, has just launched its first products, testing the waters of the SaaS market for Russia’s restaurant industry. Offered under a freemium model, the company’s “Live Menus” software enables restaurants to manage their online menus from a single place and …
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In cooperation with Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), VimpelCom – one of the world’s largest integrated telecommunications services operators – has launched LTE services in Moscow. VimpelCom LTE FDD services are now accessible within the central Sadovoye Ring area of the city, and are expected to be available throughout the Russian capital by the end of 2013.
Russian tech fund Softline Venture Partners and the Moscow Seed Fund announced last week that they have closed a funding deal with ITMan, a startup providing SMB companies with SaaS (software as a service) solutions to control IT assets. While neither the amount of the investment nor the stake the investors have acquired in ITMan have been …
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Last week, the Microsoft Russia Seed Fund announced it has disbursed another $160,000 to support Russian startups developing IT projects. A $60,000 grant went to Appercode from Siberia’s Novosibirsk. The Appercode team pushes a solution that would enable application developers and systems integrators to create .NET/C#-based cross-platform mobile apps. The product is believed to reduce …
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On June 22nd, a team of entrepreneurs from New York is bringing a one-of-a-kind invite-only tech conference to Moscow. The event that promises to become a beacon of networking between Russian and American founders will be attended by 100 hand-selected members of the Russian tech elite – noteworthy startups, investors and media representatives. Beta Week will …
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Russian citizens will soon be able to buy various goods using QR code-based shop-windows, the business daily Vedomosti reported last week. Russian Railways and the Moscow subway are said to be among the first agencies slated to install such windows on their premises. The former is also planning to put advertisements with QR codes into …
HSE Inc., the startup incubator of Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, has concluded the 2012-2013 season of its Iron Entrepreneur business game for aspiring entrepreneurs from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. In the finals, 91 participants had two days to develop business solutions based on Qmodule, a wireless technology that allows users to control different objects. …
Moscow-based social network advertising platform Hiconversion announced last week that it has received about 9.1 million rubles (almost $300,000) in seed funding from serial angel investor Igor Ryabenkiy and the Moscow Seed Fund, Moscow City’s venture investment arm. Ryabenkiy contributed some 3 million rubles, while the fund provided the other 6 million. The company’s total …
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Last week NeoPhotonics, a US-based developer of optoelectronics for high-speed communications networks, opened its R&D center and Russia/Eastern Europe sales office in Moscow, a year after it received a capital injection from Rusnano, Russia’s state-owned nanotech investment corporation. Tim Jenks, chairman and CEO of NeoPhotonics, told Rusnano that he hopes the move will help his …
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