The first stage of the new High Technology Technopark is slated for completion in the second quarter of 2013 in Penza, in Russia’s Volga area, a spokesperson for the Penza regional administration told Marchmont News last week. The technopark will reportedly cover an area of 46,000 square meters. Its resident companies will focus on information …
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In a bid to spruce up its ever-growing project portfolio, the Skolkovo Foundation has leaked to the press its plans to weed out ‘bad’ residents. In an exchange with the Russian business daily Vedomosti, Alexei Beltyukov, Skolkovo’s senior vice president for development and commercialization, said that the Foundation, which runs the state-sponsored Skolkovo innovation hub …
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Authorities in the Republic of Bashkortostan, in Russia’s mid-Volga area, have pooled their efforts with those of several companies and organizations in the region to set up a local radio electronics technology cluster, the news portal I-mash.ru reports. The new technology cluster is being established to promote collaboration among regional telecommunications equipment makers, radio electronics equipment manufacturers, and …
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A leading authority on global innovation who designed and built national technology programs for countries as diverse as Russia and Abu Dhabi, Steven Geiger recently made a guest lecture at Moscow’s New Economic School on the common mistakes countries make when attempting to create innovation cities, and how to best avoid them (see video). “I am concerned …
Deadline for applications for the 2013 Russian Tech Tour: February 22 – The 2013 Russian Tech Tour, which will be held in Moscow and Kazan on April 23-26, will pair the most promising early and later stage growth companies with representatives from leading cross-border venture capital and global corporate firms. The funds that will be …
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On January 25, the Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) and Intel Corporation unveiled an updated format for their joint research laboratory. Students and faculty from MSU’s Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics will collaborate with leading experts from Intel to design new training courses aimed at addressing the research challenges at the intersection of the natural and social sciences.
Since the beginning of 2013, the Microsoft Seed Fund has provided a total of $110,000 in grants to two startups from Russia’s regions. A $50,000 grant went to RealSpeaker, a startup from Kazan, Tatarstan, which offers a new approach to speech recognition. The company also recently received financing from Startobaza, a local seed-stage investment company, along with …
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St. Petersburg, Russia – Released by i-Free Innovations, a leading Russian mobile game and app publisher, on 24 January 2013, Mushroom Wars RTS rocketed to No. 4 of the best-selling iPad apps in the US and No. 5 in Germany in less than a week and #1 Strategy in the US and other countries. The mobile edition …
Ecwid, a leading provider of social commerce solutions based in Ulyanovsk, Russia, and US social commerce pioneer Payvment, have announced that Payvment will refer its 200,000 Facebook merchants to the Ecwid platform. The move comes as a consequence of the acquisition of Payvment by Intuit, a Silicon Valley software publisher. Intuit was essentially interested in …
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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 …
Startup from the Urals reinvents neighborhood communities Read More
Microsoft, Skolkovo, and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) are jointly organizing in St. Petersburg the final stage of ‘Imagine Cup 2013,’ this year’s international student technology contest. The event will occur in July in Russia’s former capital. Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is a leading international student technology competition. Approximately $340,000 in total prize money will …
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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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