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Beta Week: A beacon of networking between Russian and US tech entrepreneurs and investors

June 6, 2013

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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HSE Incubator presents the Iron Entrepreneurs

May 29, 2013

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. …

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HSE-backed startup Hiconversion lands $300,000 in funding

May 28, 2013

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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Gemalto supplies MTS Russia with UpTeq NFC SIM for mobile transport services

May 27, 2013

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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Cisco launches access point manufacture in Russia

May 22, 2013

Cisco Systems has launched manufacture of its 2600 series access point in Tver, a city 160 km from Moscow, Digit.ru reported last week. Production is being carried out by Jabil Circuit, a contract manufacturer whose plant in Tver has been used by Cisco since November 2011 to assemble IPTV set-top boxes.

Sizable electronics cluster announced in Kaliningrad

May 22, 2013

GS Group, a Russian holding company operating internationally, is expected to establish its Technopolis GS electronics cluster outside Kaliningrad in Northwest Russia by 2017, NanoNewsNet.ru reported. The Technopolis GS project is said to be based GS Group’s multi-sector production facilities in microelectronics and nanotechnology. These have been operating since 2008 in the town of Gusev, …

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U.S.’ NeoPhotonics builds on Rusnano investment and opens R&D center in Moscow

November 19, 2014

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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Skolkovo claims it reduces brain drain from Russia; announces new R&D center in Amsterdam

May 16, 2013

In his speech at a plenary session held in Skolkovo’s Hypercube building last month, Viktor Vekselberg, the tech hub’s president, identified the emigration of tech specialists as one of Russia’s most pressing issues. “It’s a shame to hear Russian speech everywhere when you go to Silicon Valley,” Vekselberg said. “Large [Russian] corporations need to be …

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$100 million technopark mapped out in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia

May 15, 2013

Authorities in the Krasnoyarsk region in Siberia have unveiled plans to build a 3 billion ruble (approximately $100 million) hi-tech industrial park in the region, the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS reported, citing a source in the regional Ministry of Investment and Innovation. According to the source, more than two thirds of the total amount is …

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Russian microelectronics maker unveils its own ultra-small RFID chip

November 19, 2014

Mikron, a 50-year-old Russian microelectronics maker located in Zelenograd just outside Moscow, announced earlier this week that it has developed its own subminiature RFID chip. The ISO 14443-2.3 standard chip, just 0.2 square millimeters in area, is purported to retain the functionality of a conventional chip while offering a more competitive price.

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