Social networks & apps

Salesforce Radian6 to cover Russia’s Vkontakte and China’s Weibo

July 19, 2013

Global brands will soon be able to listen to conversations and interact with the users of Sina Weibo and Vkontakte (VK.com) – the most popular Chinese and Russian social networks, respectively – using Salesforce’s Radian6, the US company announced last week. Radian6 will enable its clients to “identify sales leads, implement natural language processing, detect …

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Opposition leader Navalny subject of half a million VKontakte posts in one hour

July 18, 2013

Users of Russia’s leading social network Vkontakte.ru (VK.com) published half a million posts about Alexey Navalny in the hour following his conviction today on embezzlement charges. Navalny was mentioned approximately 480,000 times in the hour, with an average 134 posts per second.  The social network only registers such a high level of posts on New …

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International record labels to hold talks over music copyright with VKontakte

July 15, 2013

VKontakte, Russia’s biggest social network also known as VK.com, is keen on negotiating a way for its users to listen legally to the music from the world biggest record labels’ catalogues. Pavel Durov, CEO and founder of VKontakte, told Vedomosti that his company, together with Sony Music, Warner Music and Universal Music, is looking for …

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Popular Russian social network Odnoklassniki.ru now available in English

July 9, 2013

Last week, Russia’s second most popular social network, Odnoklassniki.ru (Russian for “Classmates”), owned by Mail.Ru Group, launched an English language version. This is the social network’s 10th language option in addition to Russian. At present, Odnoklassniki is translated into English, Moldavian, Georgian, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, Ukrainian, Armenian, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, and Tajik. In an official announcement, Odnoklassniki …

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RVC and Softline invest $1 million in social site builder BubbleGab

July 3, 2013

BubbleGab, a Russian startup developing a SaaS platform for building websites, has attracted $1 million in funding from RVC’s Seed Fund and Softline Venture Partners, the venture arm of the Softline Group. Founded in 2011, BubbleGab is working on a platform to allow users to create personal websites and social networks based on the information …

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Odnoklassniki announces its Tajik version, the last among CIS localizations

November 19, 2014

Late last week, Odnoklassniki, Russia’s second-largest social network, announced the prospective launch of its Tajik version. The language of this small Central Asian country is expected to become the last to join the family of the former Soviet Union languages Odnoklassniki speaks. In its brief message to users, the network said its mobile version was …

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Russia pushes anti-piracy legislation; VKontakte’s laxity once again in the limelight

February 28, 2017

As Russian media sources air reports about VKontakte (VK.com), Russia’s largest social network, getting rid of its illegal music content, VK.com itself denies any widespread purges, mollifying user protests with a ‘business as usual’ sort of message. “VKontakte, facing the imminent adoption of Russia’s anti-piracy law, is busy removing its illegal music content – perhaps,” …

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Russian children attracted by social networking, online shopping and pornography

June 6, 2013

Kaspersky Lab, a Russian IT security solution developer operating internationally, has released a report showing that 59.6% of the websites visited by Russian children are social networking sites, which is the highest percentage in the world. According to the data obtained from Kaspersky Lab’s “Parental Control” module, the second place in this rating goes to e-commerce websites, …

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Court upholds Gala Records damage claims against VKontakte over Russian pop singer tracks

November 19, 2014

The Court of Arbitration for Russia’s Northwest Federal District last week let stand all prior court decisions obligating VKontakte.ru (VK.com), Russia’s number one social network, to pay Gala Records, the first private record label in Russia, a total of 550,000 rubles (about $17,700) in damages for illicit displays of 11 tracks by MakSim, a Russian …

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Russian authorities to scan social networks and blogosphere for crime threats

November 19, 2014

In a bid to anticipate and curtail misdemeanors potentially originating from Russia’s social networks and blogosphere, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has launched an open tender for IT solutions that would enable investigators to do so. The Committee, responsible for investigations of particularly important cases of crimes against individuals, public safety, the national …

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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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