After launches in a range of European, Latin American and Asian countries, Airbnb.com, the famous US online alternative accommodation service, is coming to Russia. The embryonic Airbnb Russian team is headed by Eugen Miropolski, who formerly held senior executive positions at Fast Lane Ventures, KupiVip.ru, and Groupon Russia. In an interview with EWDN chief editor …
Skolkovo, the state-supported innovation hub under completion near Moscow, comes to the UK on Feb. 14 and 15. Organized by UK Trade & Investment and the UK Science and Innovation Network, the roadshow will provide “100 UK companies and organisations with an opportunity to discuss Russia’s ambitious future plans and funding opportunities for joint projects with …
Fiber-optic telecommunication provider Transtelecom (TTK) is preparing to launch cable TV services next spring in several Russian regions. “We don’t focus on one technology exclusively,” news agency RIA Novosti quoted TTK President Artem Kudryavtsev as saying. “Depending on the local situation in each region, we may use analog cable TV as well as the digital …
Russian Venture Company (RVC), the state-owned fund of funds dedicated to innovation, announced yesterday its cooperation with the Investment and Venture Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan (IVFRT) in the creation of a new international fund of funds. The new fund, named RVC IVFRT LP, will invest in international venture funds focusing on innovative companies.
No less than one hundred IT projects are at different stages of completion at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport. The projects have a budget totalling 2 billion rubles, or approximately $66 million, over two years, Domodedovo’s IT Director Viktor Ponomarenko announced yesterday.
The Russian Antimonopoly Service allowed Rostelecom, the national telecom operator, to acquire 100% of the shares of Enter, a provider of fixed broadband Internet access in Siberia owned by the Dutch company Consumer Enter B. V. Established in 2005, Enter serves 22,000 customers in Barnaul, Novokuznetsk and Tyumen, three major Siberian cities.
Skolkovo, the innovation hub under construction near Moscow, has set a goal of partnering with 50 additional Russia and foreign venture funds this year, said Skolkovo Investment Director Alexander Lupachev in an exchange last Friday with news agency RIA Novosti.
The Russian Anti Monopoly Service allowed MTS, a leading Russian operator, to acquire 100% of the shares of SkyNet, Russian business daily Vedomosti reported yesterday. The target of the acquisition provides Internet access as well as fixed line telephony services in St. Petersburg. MTS competes with other players such as mobile operator Megafon and telecom operator Rostelecom, …
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The IT cluster of Skolkovo, the state-supported innovation hub under completion near Moscow, is preparing a roadshow to France in June or July, involving a dozen of its resident companies. The series of Skolkovo roadshows in Western countries started in the fall of last year with visits to Vienna, Munich and the Silicon Valley.
Fourteen residents of the business incubator of Ingria, a major technopark in St. Peterburg, attracted a total of 378 million rubles, or approximately $12 million, in investments during 2011. The sum amounted to 3.7 times as much as the previous year’s total.
iiko, a major Russian HORECA software publisher, is holding discussions with investment funds in an effort to attract as much as $10 million, said Roman Abramov, the company’s general manager, in an exchange with Russian business daily RBC Daily. “We need financing to expand our activities in Asia and Central Europe as well as to …
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Skolkovo, the state-supported innovation hub under completion near Moscow, announced yesterday it has offered a grant of 1.35 million rubles, approximately $45,000, to its resident Intersoft Eurasia, a startup developing a dosimeter-radiometer that can be built into a smartphone or used as a separate, detachable unit (see video).
