Social networks & apps

Moscow Seed Fund and Igor Ryabenkiy invest in social shopping advisor

November 19, 2014

SocialMart, a two-year-old Russian product recommendation service for social networks, raised an as yet unspecified amount of investment in late April from Moscow Seed Fund, Moscow City’s venture arm, and Igor Ryabenkiy, a serial Russian angel investor. Ryabenkiy already backed the Moscow-based startup last fall in SocialMart’s seed round. That investment helped the company further …

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Social media management service HootSuite now supports Russian language and Vkontakte

April 23, 2013

Last week social HootSuite launched a Russian version of its social media management service. Defining its product as a “dashboard to manage and measure your social networks,” the Vancouver, Canada-based company helps marketers manage multiple networks, schedule messages, track brand mentions, and analyze social media traffic.

Yandex develops gesture-based newswire app for connected TV

April 22, 2013

The California branch of the Russian Internet operator Yandex has developed a prototype software application that enables users to read news from social networks on their televisions. According to a company statement, users can manage the process by physically gesturing. Tatyana Komarova, a Yandex spokesperson, said that the experiment was a joint effort by Yandex Labs …

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New Vkontakte shareholder UCP offers peace to Durov and Mail.ru Group

April 22, 2013

In a controversial TV program aired yesterday, Ilya Shcherbovich, the president of the UCP fund which has just acquired a 48% stake in Vkontakte, brought some clarity to his strategy as a major shareholder of Russia’s first social network. Shcherbovich presented himself as a purely financial investor interested in an asset for which he sees bright prospects. …

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Vkontakte founder Pavel Durov said to be creating an alternative social network in the US

April 22, 2013

The Vkontakte drama saw new developments this weekend with TV Rain’s Leonid Parfenov – one of Russia’s most renowned journalists – asserting on his Sunday program that Pavel Durov, the co-founder and CEO of Russia’s leading social network, is currently in Buffalo, NY, “obviously with no intention of returning to Russia.” The journalist linked Durov’s …

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Facebook’s Codorniou: Russia’s mobile game advance “is virtually a tsunami”

November 19, 2014

Facebook has augmented its base of mobile game developers by a hearty 17 times over the past six months, and the social network spends “more time with app developers in Russia than in any other country,” said Julien Codorniou, the head of partnerships at Facebook EMEA (Emerging Markets in Europe and Asia). In an exchange …

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Drama at Vkontakte: UCP claims 48% stake, CEO is involved in police investigation

April 17, 2013

United Capital Partners (UCP), a major Russian fund operating in various industries, claims to have acquired a 48% stake in the country’s leading social network Vkontakte.ru, also known as VK.com. The transaction has been put at doubt, however, by the site’s co-founder and CEO Pavel Durov. “According to the company’s charter, existing shareholders have preferential acquisition rights, and we …

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Vkontakte.ru accused of collaborating with secret service to strangle anti-Putin user activity

November 19, 2014

Russia’s leading social network, Vkontakte.ru (also known as VK.com), has cooperated with the FSB – the post-Soviet successor to the KGB – in manipulating user trust and disregarding its own privacy rules, charged opposition-minded daily Novaya Gazeta. In a denunciation that has galvanized opinions in Russia’s digital domain for the last ten days, Novaya accused …

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Music copyright: Vkontakte refuses to pay

April 10, 2013

Russia’s largest social network, VKontakte – also known as VK.com – has appealed a court order to reimburse lost profits from a pop singer’s songs hosted on its website. This is one of many scandals involving VKontakte, which the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has accused of being one of the most important players in the audio piracy …

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RIA Novosti social media team: “We analyze news trends that might gain potential popularity in social media.”

April 9, 2013

With 9.7 million users from across the globe in February, the Internet audience of RIA Novosti exceeded those of Spiegel.de (8.62 million users), Lemonde.fr (8.49 million), Independent.co.uk (6.4 million), Aljazeera.net (2.26 million) and others, according to ComScore. The Russian news agency has developed a strong social media presence, with nearly 860,000 fans or followers on Facebook, 415,000 …

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Russian startup Surfingbird accused of patent violation by US giant Stumbleupon

December 29, 2016

Surfingbird.ru, the first mover on Russia’s nascent web content discovery market, could become a victim of its own success, having attracted the hostile attention of global leader Stumbleupon.com. So far things have gone relatively well for Surfingbird. Launched in June 2011, the startup secured a $2.5 million series A round just a few months later, …

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Russian programmer wins Facebook Hacker Cup – again

November 19, 2014

Petr Mitrichev, a Russian programmer with a clutch of major global IT competition wins already under his belt, came out on top earlier this week at Facebook’s 3rd annual Hacker Cup international programming contest, notching his second personal Cup win and making the competition’s first prize Russian-only for a third year running. Mitrichev, a 28 …

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