Founders Bootcamp, a four day intensive training program for Russian startups, took place June 2–5 at the Moscow State University Science Park. More than 60 startup teams gathered to discuss their projects with business angels and venture capitalists from the US and Russia.
Russia’s state-own nanotechnology corporation Rusnano and US technology company Intel have opened a training school “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in High Technologies Sector” in Izhevsk, Republic of Udmurtia, Rusnano reports. The three-day training goal is to teach innovation entrepreneurship, project management and key aspects of creating scientific goods and services in demand to local specialists.
Leading Russian and international telecom group VimpelCom intends to build an innovation technical center in Yaroslavl region’s Novoselki industrial park, Interfax reports.
Microsoft is ready to invest some $10 million into 100 Russian startup companies over a 10-year period, the president of Microsoft Russia Nikolya Pryanishnikov told RBC, a Russian news agency yesterday. “Our experience is that investment into a single startup should total between $50,000 and $500,000 with an average of $100,000,” Pryanishnikov explained. According to …
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Tucked away in Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic some 1,400 km northeast of Moscow, Russian programming researcher Efim Bushmanov is getting a lot of attention. Having reverse engineered Skype protocols and then made his research available to the public via his blog just a few days ago on June 2, search queries bearing …
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30 year-old Efim Bushmanov from Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic some 1,400 km north-east of Moscow, a self described “free lance researcher,” claims he is on the way to completely reverse-engineer Skype’s proprietary protocol and encryption systems. “My aim is to make Skype open source and find friends who can spend many hours …
Moscow-based Sitronics, the LSE-traded, high-tech arm of the diversified Russian conglomerate Sistema, is ready to ink a pact with the second-largest Chinese telecom equipment maker, ZTE, to open a research and development center on the outskirts of Beijing, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on Wednesday, citing Sitronics’ vice president Irina Lanina.
Authorities in Vologda region intend to set up a technopark for small businesses carrying out innovation projects in the city of Cherepovets, news agency RIA Novosti reports.
Russian students won five medals in a total of twelve competitions at the Association of Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) held from May 27 -31 in Orlando, Florida this year. The student team from St. Petersburg State University, in particular, won the 4th place gold medal at the IBM-sponsored championship.
VimpelCom brand Beeline TV has made available six additional high definition television channels in its programming package for Moscow subscribers. VimpelCom is a leading Russian and international telecoms group.
Mobile discounter Tele2 Russia has announced a program to turn over 25% of its 450 mobile shops in Russia into fully-fledged retail outlets selling mobile services. Of Tele2’s existing 450 stores, 120 are to be transformed into ‘supermarkets’ by the end of 2011. Tele2 has been pilot-driving its ‘cellular supermarket’ concept since the end of …
Parallels Research, an international research center owned by Parallels, announced last week it has received a 150 million ruble grant ($5.3 million) from the Skolkovo Foundation for cloud computing research and development. The research center will get another 150 million rubles from its parent company Parallels.
