Bold enough to compete with the mapping services of Yandex and Google, 2GIS, a Novisibirsk, Siberia-based company, has raised $40 million from two major investment funds, Baring Vostok Capital Partners and Ru-Net. Launched in 1999 and now developing across three continents, 2GIS (pronounce “double giss”) is one of the least known but most remarkable Russian technological firms. The …
2GIS, a Russian developer of 3D maps with electronic directory guides for city inhabitants and travelers, is now available in Spanish for detailed city navigation in Santiago, the capital of Chile – the first South American site for the cartography company. The project is downloadable in both desktop (Windows) and mobile (iOS and Android) versions. …
Russian city map developer 2GIS adds Santiago de Chile to its 3D-covered cities Read More
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 …
Microsoft Seed Fund backs app development and genetic diagnostics Read More
Amsterdam – Gemalto (Euronext NL 0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, is supplying Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), Russia’s largest network operator with over 70 million subscribers, with its UpTeq NFC high-end SIM cards for a mobile phone-based public transport ticketing solution in the city of Novosibirsk. Produced and personalized at Gemalto’s Moscow service center, the …
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Novosibirsk scientists have developed a smartphone technology to let female users know the best time to conceive a baby. The solution, christened ‘Baby Cloud,’ includes a special sensor that women who want to get pregnant attach to their body. “The sensor measures body temperature and other parameters and sends a text message to the user’s phone …
Kima Ventures, the fund started by prominent French tech entrepreneurs Jérémie Berrebi and Xavier Niel, along with angel investors Fabrice Grinda, Jose Marin, and Alexander Aivazov, have teamed up to invest in Martmania, an online marketplace focused on trading “interesting and unusual things.” The details of the deal have not been disclosed, but a source …
This Monday, a group of select innovation experts and mentors is starting a six-week-long road show through 15 Russian cities – from Rostov-upon-Don, to Astrakhan, to Tomsk, to Vladivostok in the Far East – aiming to meet thousands of local startup entrepreneurs, innovators, and representatives of technoparks. In each city, the program consists of presentations, …
Government-sponsored startup tour to bring innovation expertise to 15 Russian cities Read More
Parallels, a global provider of desktop virtualization and cloud enabling solutions founded by a Russian team in 1999, and the Novosibirsk State University are working on a joint project to develop a scalable software platform to host cloud applications for small and medium-sized businesses. The company is expected to invest more than 300 million rubles (about $10 …
Parallels to invest $10 million in Russian cloud solution project Read More
The Novosibirsk region of Siberia will create its own electronic cluster, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported earlier this month. The planned facility will include significant production capacity for the manufacture of next gen electrical current sources based on a combination of supercapacitors and classical lithium-ion or other storage battery technologies. The facility will also reportedly manufacture products …
Flamp.ru, a consumer review website that appeared one year ago in the Siberian cities Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk, followed by a launch in Ekaterinburg in the Urals, announced last week it now covers the Russian capital. Not only do Flamp.ru users review local businesses like cafés, museums and theaters, they can also post comments about banks, …
Siberian local review service Flamp.ru now serves Moscow Read More
One of Russia’s leading business monitors, RBC daily, pooled efforts earlier this month with the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy in putting together a ranking of Russia’s regional innovation activity for the first two months of this year. The four leaders in this ranking are the Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk …
Siberia on its way to create its own analog of Silicon Valley Read More
Leading Russian WiMax provider Scartel operating under the Yota brand announced yesterday that its first LTE network was ready for commercial use in Novosibirsk, Siberia. A limited number of users will test the network until the official launch, which is planned for January 15. 63 base stations have been deployed in the city so far, …
